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This course provides a simple way to learn the basic elements of modern project management concepts that are required by international development organizations dedicated to assistance and humanitarian relief. The course is divided in 5 modules: Each module presents ideas and concepts with the aid of charts and graphics to help increase your understanding. After each module you will have an opportunity to review the main topics with a short test. The course has been designed for no more that 120 minutes. You can take the course and its modules at your own pace, the menu and index can help you move around the course and take each module and each lesson independently. To help you increase your knowledge, many modules include links to documents that you can open and read at your own time. These documents are in Adobe PDF format. Module 1 - Introduction to project management Module 2 - The Project Management Cycle Module 3 - The project Management processes Module 4 - Project Management Organzation Structure Module 5 - Roles, Responsabilities and Skills of Project Managers

Online project management tools enhance productivity and transparency. Project management can easily become chaotic and not very efficient whether you are part of a team or of an organization. If you were planning to enhance remote collaboration, an Intranet or document management system was so far a good choice. Online project management tools go beyond that and allow decentralized collaboration between co-workers, thus project planning and implementation get more transparent and productive.

NGOs (non-governmental organizations) sometimes see management as belonging in the corporate world, with little relevance to their organizations, be they citizens' groups, peace groups, environmental organizations or other interest groups. However, management is not about expensive consultants, buzzwords or the latest in corporate management chic. It is about making best use of resources, creating a good working environment and being the most effective NGO that you can. Most of it is just common sense.

The Alliance for Nonprofit Management is the professional association of individuals and organizations devoted to improving the management and governance capacity of nonprofits - to assist nonprofits in fulfilling their mission. Good resource regarding governance issues.

Decentralization in many African countries means that local governments have more responsibility for managing resources. But how can we best teach the practical work-based skills needed for this? Successful distance learning programmes must be designed for sustainable development, particularly using computers and the Internet. Research from the Open University and Swansea University in the UK looks at the particular management skills African local governments need to meet new demands for cheap, environmentally friendly and economically sustainable services. Electronic distance learning (EDT) can address these new responsibilities.

We give Citizen Philanthropists the ability to choose their project, leverage their social networks, and communicate directly with their partner community. We are also providing our field partners the tools they need to actively manage their projects so they can seamlessly share information with Citizen Philanthropists and directly report on the impact projects are having on the ground. Citizen Philanthropists are powerful community builders. They help their partners across the world build more self-reliant and sustainable communities. But they also build stronger communities here at home by bringing people together for a common cause and promoting civic engagement. We believe giving and community building should be a central part of everyone's life, not something left to weekends or annual drives.

Not sure if and how organizations can submit projects. I sent them an email regarding this issue, so hopefully I will have an update asap.

Just got an email back from Dan Morrison the CEO and Founder of Citizen Effect (quite impressed at the response time - 11 minutes). He says, "Hey Justin, we vet all of our partners so to post a project, you have to go through the due diligence and vetting process first. If you have a great group in mind, please let us know and put them on touch with us"

This Community Radio Handbook aims to show that ordinary people, even non-technical rural folk, can plan, set up, manage and produce radio programmes by themselves with a minimum of dependence on outside help, whether for technical advice and training or for funds and equipment.