Newsletter Directory
The Center for Sustainable Development's monthly newsletters give practical information on developing sustainable, impact-oriented development projects that provide solutions to community need. Issues cover leading community workshops, participatory needs assessments, project design & management, funding, logframes, impact evaluation, reporting, and organizational strengthening.

	July 2010: How Serious are We About Long-Term Impact? Yesterday a friend who works for a US nonprofit wrote me and asked me to recommend a few exceptional “highly impactful international nonprofit organizations” that are community-centered and focus on sustainability.
	June 2010: New Online CSDi Development Community. The CSDi Development Community invites people active in development or interested in learning, to share resources & collaborate with each other online in developing sustainable, impact-oriented tools and solutions for development challenges.
	May 2010 Vision, Expertise, Performance & Impact. Executive Directors are dealing with projects, boards & employees, run like crazy to keep up & don’t have time. They need solutions that don’t take much time to implement, are inexpensive, and will work the first time. They need silver bullets.
	April 2010. Nutrition, Food Security, & Home Gardens. For many people living in the cycle of poverty the idea of starting a kitchen garden might seem overwhelming. This month investigate best practices in Home Gardens, and show how to lead a community workshop in home gardens for nutrition.
	March 2010. Theories of Change. What’s your theory of a solution to community identified need? Developing a theory of how we plan to address the community problems discovered last month with the Ten Seed Technique.
	February 2010. Giving Communities Voice. It's important to make sure communities have ownership of projects. One of the best ways to do this is to ask the community what they need. There are several techniques for facilitating a participatory needs assessments, but my favorite is the Ten Seed Technique
	October 2009. Capturing Compelling Photos. Almost any field shot will be interesting for the non-travelling reader, but children and adults performing intriguing tasks rank at the top. Quality graphic images of active enthusiastic people will resonate with your audience and connect them to project potential.
	September 2009. Capturing Compelling Stories from the Field. For our development purposes, a compelling story is an anecdote that paints a picture and makes the reader feel ‘I was there’. They can capture the essence of donor mission in your reports and help maintain your partnership.
	August 2009. Project Start-up—A Checklist: Getting organized.It has been a year since you designed the project and now is the time to review it and refresh your memory about the details. The narrative proposal, the logframe, the schedule, and the budget each provide their own unique level of information.
	July 2009. Project Architecture: Logframes Budgets & Schedules. Logframes are a powerful tool for project planning, budgeting, scheduling, management, & M&E planning for assessing impact. Logframes will communicate to donors and stakeholders exactly what you are trying to accomplish.
	June 2009. Engage with Donors and Forge Partnerships. Engage donors early in developing projects and create project ownership, sustainability, impact, and compelling proposals. Learn how donor/NGO partnerships can lever their programs into achieving greater impact.
	April 2009. Increasing Project Impact: What Works in Development? Development urgently needs to shift from output-based to outcome and impact-based development. Impact: the sustainable change in the conditions of people that structurally reduce poverty and improve human well-being.

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