This searchable database contains technical and program-related materials, including U.S. Government forms, to support organizational development and institutional strengthening.
The Media Sustainability Essentials guide helps media managers identify and choose the most relevant business models and practices that fit with their missions and operating conditions.
You have received funding for a new project, designed your project’s logical framework, and developed a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan.
How will you measure your project’s success? This free online course will help you answer this question by introducing the basics of monitoring and evaluation (M&E).
This resource focuses on the role of local philanthropy as a means to contribute to Financing Self Reliance, a key pillar of USAID's Journey to Self Reliance initiative.
The paper introduces the community philanthropy idea and other associated concepts that can help funders deliberately discuss and apply what we are calling a “community philanthropy approach” or “l
The review draws together information from existing reports, studies and organizational websites in order to provide an overview of the current state of organized community philanthropy around the
Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on how to tell success stories to demonstate your impact.
Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on developing a marketing communication plan.
Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on connecting with prospective partners and funders.
This Guide was developed to help program designers who work in any sector to envision and implement with CSO partners the CD support that will strengthen local systems and help CSOs achieve their missions. Program designers from both implementing partner and donor organizations who are working to build the capacity of CSOs can use this Guide to better distinguish among CD approaches, the processes involved in each, and potential impact of a chosen approach. By identifying organizational characteristics and areas of potential capacity growth, this Guide will enable program designers to better select the intervention necessary to achieve their desired goal. Although this Guide is designed to benefit CSOs, the approaches outlined can also be applied to community based organizations (CBOs) or local for-profit organizations. The approaches included in this Guide are designed to increase capacity regardless of the actual knowledge or skill targeted.