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Resources for Non-Profit Financial Management
Posted by: Omprakash
Date Added: February 22, 2013
A great resource from the Wallace Foundation
How to Make a Budget
Posted by: Antonia Morzenti
Date Added: February 18, 2013
See the simplicity and importance of creating a budget for your trip abroad. Fast, easy and incredibly useful before, during and after your volunteer experience. Learn spreadsheet shortcuts and how to budget like a pro!
Container building
Posted by: Atelier Favela Nicaragua
Date Added: January 31, 2013
Atelier Favela is a place where Nicaraguanyouth from low-income backgrounds get thechance to develop through Arts, Music, Dance,Capoeira, Theatre and Circus.By relocating the project in containers we can make the project selfsufficient. So that the next generation, the Nicaraguan students, can continue the project in our footsteps. This way their children and future generations can also have the benefit of a better future through art education.
Creative Activism
Posted by: Barclay Martin
Date Added: January 23, 2013
A great idea-starter, this presentation takes you through a structured process to help you clarify your goals and outline the steps to achieving them!
Participatory Video Tool-Kit from InsightShare
Posted by: Barclay Martin
Date Added: January 23, 2013
InsightShare offers their expertise and advice, outlining the process of enacting a successful Participatory Video project.
Establish a Community-Wide Recycling Center
Posted by: Jordan Garfinkle
Date Added: December 07, 2012
A general how-to resource on establishing a lasting community-wide recycling center.
Good Ingredients in Volunteering.
Posted by: naume aligo
Date Added: October 10, 2012
This attached Document encourages People to Volunteer and Benefits Drived from Volunteering, so Omprakash will need to publish it to all volunteers.
Thinking Like a Journalist: Documentary Resources and Ethics
Posted by: Sara BernardTheme: Other;Area-Specific History and Culture;Photography
Age Group: pre-k Date Added: August 26, 2012
Tips and resources about journalism, ethics, and documentary skills in photography, writing, and video.
Child Development and Teaching (in Spanish)
Posted by: Katherine Olden
Date Added: August 23, 2012
Presentation to Honduran teachers to provide deeper understanding of children's development and alternative teaching strategies
What We Learned
Posted by: Anoop Jain
Date Added: August 01, 2012
This document highlights major lessons from our most recent trip to Deep Jyoti
The Bottle School Manual
Posted by: Heenal Rajani
Date Added: July 22, 2012
A step-by-step guide to building a "bottle school" using plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic trash
Cooperative Constitution
Posted by: Michael Hromadka
Date Added: July 11, 2012
The cooperative constitution is the central document of microcredit lending. Microcredit lenders rely on clients personally guaranteeing each other's loans as their only form of collateral. When all of the clients have read and agreed to the terms of the cooperative contract, they execute it. The execution formalizes the legal document and the client's promise to repay the loan and pay for any members who might default. The cooperative constitution also contains sections dedicated to group-generated bylaws and lender's rights.
Progress Out of Poverty Index (PPI)
Posted by: Michael Hromadka
Date Added: July 10, 2012
The Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) is a country-specific survey that seeks to measure the economic status of a potential microcredit loan credit. Developed by the Grameen Bank as a way to quantitatively separate economic classes, the survey awards more points, and thus a higher score, to potential clients from higher economic classes. Therefore, the poorest potential clients will have a score closest to zero. This Ghana PPI is used by Lumana to target low-scoring potential clients, since one of Lumana's core beliefs is that the people at the lowest rungs of the socio-economic ladder have the least access to formal financial products and should accordingly be served before wealthier people. MFIs can modify the PPI questions and scoring rubric to create their own survey applicable to their mission and context.
Microcredit Success Story - Client Florence Ankrah - A Portrait of Microcredit Success
Posted by: Michael Hromadka
Date Added: July 06, 2012
A narrative of a client who successfully used her access to microcredit to build up her business. Template can be used for marketing, fundraising or blog purposes for any MFI.
Grassroots Mapping
Posted by: Jason L'Ecuyer
Date Added: July 02, 2012
This is a fun and cheap way to create areal images. These images may be used to create maps of local areas in order to get a better and more complete picture of natural and man made landscapes.
Getting the Word Out
Posted by: Katherine Olden
Date Added: June 16, 2012
You can feel completely stymied sometimes by the world's apathy to your goals. Here's what to do.
Malicious Microfinance - The Dark Side of MFIs
Posted by: Michael Hromadka
Date Added: May 27, 2012
An introduction to the major ways microfinance can hurt clients. Topics include lack of personal finance classes, poor savings account services and for-profit MFIs.
How to Fund Your Trip Abroad
Posted by: Amara Stuehling
Date Added: May 20, 2012
This will be an ongoing resource with websites and organizations that give grants to people who want to volunteer abroad. If you know of other organizations or places that volunteers should know about, please contact me.
One Million Lights
Posted by: Fountain of Mercy
Date Added: April 26, 2012
A US-based information that provides "clean and healthy" solar lights to underserved populations.
Microfinance For Your Average Joe - An Introduction to Microfinance
Posted by: Michael Hromadka
Date Added: April 24, 2012
This document serves to introduce volunteers who are interested in microfinance to the basic principles and terminology of microfinance. An example of microfinance in action is used to show the impact financial services can have on the local economy from both a micro and macro perspective.
How to start a Window Garden in a classroom or at home
Posted by: Garden City Collegiate
Date Added: April 01, 2012
Building a window garden with 2L plastic bottles.
Celebrating Volunteerism
Posted by: George Kayange
Date Added: March 14, 2012
George Kayange, with experience in volunteerism for over ten years, shares important tips on the art and concept of volunteerism
How to Log Volunteer Work Hours
Posted by: Robin Lattimer
Date Added: February 29, 2012
An Excel Spreadsheet that will allow volunteers to keep track of the hours they have worked, their expenditures, their completed tasks and future steps.
Qualitative study about teenagers program at CEPIA
Posted by: Asociacion CEPIA
Date Added: February 10, 2012
The company UNIMER realized an independent qualitative research of the teenagers' program of CEPIA. the results give you a clear view of the work we do here. the teenagers' words reach our hearts and soul.
Efficient Nutrition: How to build a sack garden
Posted by: Ciara Corbeil
Date Added: January 27, 2012
Sack gardening is an easy, efficient, cheap, and highly productive system of agriculture. These individual gardens are great for urban environments.
How to Write a Sustainability Grant Proposal
Posted by: Prescriptions for Peace
Date Added: November 29, 2011
The Prescriptions for Peace initiative seeks to provide affordable healthcare and health information to the residents of Los Nogeles in Cusco, Peru. The attached proposal is a sample for writing a sustainability grant proposal. We are still looking for funding for this initiative.
How to Write a Grant Proposal for a Social Enterprise
Posted by: Laura Morley
Date Added: November 17, 2011
The grant proposal seeks to identify the need for funding to setup a retail shop that will increase the sales and income for the Sewing School at LHA by increasing the number of individual and business customers. The project will allow the suitable scaling up of the program to allow the project to be self funding; thus become sustainable without the need for reliance on donations from external sources.
Rights Awareness through Talent of the Malawian Child
Posted by: George Kayange
Date Added: November 09, 2011
To raise awareness on issues affecting children/youth through music. To train orphans in music production skills... composing, recording, playing instruments.
Setting the Standard - A Common Approach to Child Protection for International NGO's
Posted by: SKIP - Supporting Kids In Peru
Date Added: October 31, 2011
A 'must read' for any NGO working with children. Clear, comprehensive guidance in developing a Child Protection framework.
Deep Jyoti Expense Report and Attendance Sheet
Posted by: Anoop Jain
Date Added: October 24, 2011
A replicable form to track expense and program attendance
How to Prepare your Volunteers
Posted by: Alexandra Carelli
Date Added: October 17, 2011
Attached document demonstrates how to make sure your volunteers are informed and prepared to maximize their contribution to your project.
How to Seek Funding for your Organization
Posted by: Alexandra Carelli
Date Added: October 17, 2011
Attached documents include: an overview Fundraising Plan, a sample Letter of Inquiry, and a sample Grant Proposal.
How to get your organization in the media!
Posted by: Alexandra Carelli
Date Added: October 17, 2011
Advice for getting publicity for your project
How to make your project more eco-friendly
Posted by: Alexandra Carelli
Date Added: October 17, 2011
This resource includes instructions for reducing plastic waste and also starting a garden that can reduce economic and ecological costs of food. Check it out!
How to start a Women's Group
Posted by: Alexandra Carelli
Date Added: October 17, 2011
Here are the intial steps we have taken to create a Women's Empowerment Group in Playa Potero, Costa Rica to facilitate self-esteem building and consciousness-raising in community women.
How to build modular homes
Posted by: Pisco Sin Fronteras
Date Added: October 17, 2011
Here's how to build modular homes, PSF-style
How to make biodiesel!
Posted by: Pisco Sin Fronteras
Date Added: October 17, 2011
Making bio-diesel for the PSF truck has helped reduce operating costs and could become a source of revenue for the organization. Check it out!
Tips for Volunteers Helping to Administrate Partner Projects
Posted by: Bryan Condon
Date Added: October 17, 2011
Hi All,The attached is a guide for those looking to start up or round off the administrative side of their volunteer organization. An admin team has a unique role to play within a group, this guide provides a few ideas, stories and images that provide suggestion on how to 'run the ship'.
Plans for building a kitchen / nutrition center
Posted by: Anoop Jain
Date Added: October 17, 2011
Plans for building a community kitchen and nutrition center at LHA
How to build toilets
Posted by: Anoop Jain
Date Added: October 16, 2011
Diagrams of toilet installation project
How to Fundraise!
Posted by: Anoop Jain
Date Added: October 16, 2011
Guide to help the Omprakash community with fundraising projects
How to Manage Site Assessments and Ensuing Projects
Posted by: Shannon Ng
Date Added: October 16, 2011
This is an overview of how Pisco Sin Fronteras reviews applications and then adopts and supervises disaster relief projects.
Basic Guide for How To Make a Promotional Magazine for a Children Based NGO
Posted by: Laura Avram
Date Added: October 15, 2011
Here is a simple and short guide about how to make a magazine in order to attract future volunteers and donors and to allow children to express themselves !
How to build a solar charger
Posted by: Alternative Energy Sources A
Date Added: September 15, 2011
High school students in California explain how they built a portable solar charger unit and delivered it to Omprakash Partners.
Tips for Volunteers Helping to Administrate Non-Profit Projects
Posted by: Pisco Sin Fronteras
Date Added: September 05, 2011
Every successful organization is made up of individuals working together towards a common goal, yet within the group there are different roles to be played.
How to make a sack garden
Posted by: Anoop Jain
Date Added: September 05, 2011
Below is the all the information you need to create your own sack gardens. With the produce from these planters, you and your family will become healthier, stronger, and more energetic. For support, contact Deep Jyoti. Happy growing!