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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.

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	January 2012. New for 2012 • Garden Recipe Book Contest • Final Winter Course Call • New CSDi Memberships • 2011 Project Summary
	December 2011. Field Projects Special Issue • Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change News • Forests and Climate Change News • Water and Climate Change News • Islands and Climate Change News • Call for CBA Projects: New Earthscan/Routledge
	November 2011. CBA Climate Change News • 300 Hands-On Field Activities for CBA Projects • Is CC Affecting Farmers in Your Country? • Participatory Mapping. Will It Help Mauritian Farmers Adapt? • CC Risk & Vulnerability in a Remote Tanzanian Village • Indigenous knowledge incorporated into CBA projects
	November 2011. Last Call: Fall Academy | Kenya | Uganda • Tragedies: HIV/AIDS & Malaria • Family-Planning • Tropical Food • CBA for Horn of Africa Food Crisis • Survey 60 Student Projects
	September 2011. Soil Restoration | Food Sovereignty | Tanzania | Mainstreaming Adaptation. Frequently people in developing countries are living in areas with depleted soil. We recommend beginning a restoration project for the soil by adding organic material, thus begin rebuilding a soil structure which guides & holds water, supports microorganisms, retains soil nutrients.
	August 2011. Special Nutrition and Home Gardening Issue. Tonight, over one billion people will go to bed hungry—up from 800 million in 2009.Home vegetable gardens have shown evidence of significantly reducing the number of malnourished children in impoverished communities; Improved nutrition boosts the body's immune system protecting children against infection.
	June-July 2011. CSDi Summer Academy 2011: Join us in July for an intensive series of courses with other students from all over the world. 500 Join Our Development Community in First Year.  Be sure to visit CSDi’s Development Community and share resources and collaborate online.New Online Diploma Program off to a good start: Over 100 enrolled in Diploma Courses in May.
	May 2011: Free Courses | CC Injustice | Diploma.  Free 'Online Lite' Courses Off to a Good Start: 1,000 People/week get installments. Diploma program of online field courses integrates community-based adaptation to climate change, disaster risk reduction & rural development. Climate Change Study in Injustice-10 Million More African Children Malnourished by 2050.
	April 2011: The Center Passes 100! Plus: ¡Cursos Nuevos en Español! 100 countries—100,000 beneficiaries. In our online program’s first 15 months, people from 103 countries and 225 organizations enrolled on our online courses and have developed projects impacting 100,000 people. Their projects include over 150 different kinds of interventions.
	March 2011. Project Sustainability: Put the Community in Charge. Explore the next step of empowering communities: creating a community based project management team where they will learn leadership, decision-making skills, management, & gain a sound understanding of the development project.
	February 2011: How to Kindle Community Ownership: Lessons from a Nobel Laureate. For the past 10 years community-based development has been the cutting-edge philosophy of modern development work—and it impressed me immensely that Wangari Maathai discovered it in the 70s.
	January 2011: 300 Hands-On Field Activities for Community Based Adaptation Projects. CSDi presents a compilation of Community Based Adaptation Field Activities—complete with links to source materials and technical information.
	December 2010: 5 hands-on ways to help us this December. We have seen rapid growth in 2010. And we could not have done it without your continued support. Here are 5 ways that you can help us expand the reach of sustainable development.
	November 2010 Survey: CSDi Partner Projects. Development professionals from 81 countries and 150 organizations have developed projects in our online courses in 2010. We selected 88 of the best projects from 42 different countries—and that impact 70,000 community members.
	September 2010. Introduction to Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change. What exactly is community-based adaptation to climate change, and what are communities adapting to? What are some simple examples of adaptation activities that we could incorporate into projects?
	August 2010. Hunger: Not enough food, the wrong food, or climate change? Two thirds of student projects relate to water, or food—however, many of these seem to be suspiciously linked to climate change.
	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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The 170 countries:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa , Antigua, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoro Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Darfur, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Dubai, El Salvador, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinée Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithunia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands , Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico , Moldavia, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Soloman Islands, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Swaziland, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad & Tobago W.I., Tristan da Cunha, Tunisia, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, US, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.