Resources

Spreadsheet of Past & Upcoming Funding Opportunities (continuously updated) - this is not an exhaustive list, but will hopefully give you some good leads on grant opportunities relevant to your interests.

English Language Writing Training (University of Sheffield, UK) - free online English writing training

NonProfitReady Website - free simple grant writing training

FundsforNGOs Website - free resource for tracking funding opportunities

Tearfund Project cycle management Roots guide - an excellent resource on project planning and management

Change The Game Academy - free, localised resources on resourcing.

USAID "How to Work with USAID" Training Modules

USAID Partner Directory - register your organization if you are interested in working with USAID and want to connect with potential partners

DEVEX - International Development news site with a searchable section on funding opportunities

How to Build Community podcast - a monthly podcast from Arukah Network and TearFund with inspiring stories of community development projects

INDIKIT - interactive site designed to help humanitarian and development workers identify and use well-formulated project indicators.

BetterEvaluation - excellent knowledge sharing platform, sharing lots of great ideas and tools for effective monitoring and evaluation.

Humentum Financial management essentials: Handbook for NGOs (also known as the Mango Handbook for NGOs) - excellent free resource on budgeting and financial management.

RBM Handbook on Developing Results Chains - a helpful resource from the Canadian International Development Agency. In particular see pages 34-134 which list examples of completed RBM plans. Warning - these are not all set out exactly as we laid out in the training, and the resource is from 2000, but still provide some helpful examples.

10 Tips for writing better project proposals - a good summary of lots of the key points we've covered during our training and a helpful reminder of things to be thinking about when writing future proposals.