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211 really practical toolkits, templates and guides for nonprofit and NGO leaders, and the consultants and funders who support them. A mix of the classics and newer methods.
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Advocacy toolkit
A Tearfund Roots guide for community groups, churches and NGOs who want to speak up on issues that affect poor communities. It has 8 sections: what advocacy is, why it matters, the advocacy cycle, issue identification, research and analysis, planning, taking action, and monitoring and learning. Each section holds teaching notes in question-and-answer form, tools that work as handouts, and training exercises with facilitation instructions.
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Advocacy in restricted spaces
A toolkit from Lifeline, a consortium of 7 NGOs, for civil society groups that want to do advocacy where civic space is closed or shrinking. It uses case studies and concrete examples to show ways of advocating while keeping risk to staff and partners low. CSOs, and the funders and consultants who support them, use it to plan advocacy that weighs safety alongside impact.
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Communications Toolkit
A toolkit by R. Christine Hershey of Cause Communications for nonprofit staff who run communications with limited resources. It draws on national audits of nonprofit communications needs. It explains how to write a communications plan and set a budget, and gives tools for raising awareness and funds. The print edition has 71 pages, an index and 9 loose worksheets. Teams use it to build or review a basic communications plan.
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