Teach A Man To Fish Resources

Beyond Fees: A Guide to Income Generation in Schools
This TeachAManToFish publication is a practical guide designed to take you through the process of identifying and implementing income generating strategies at your school.
- Beyond Fees: A Guide to Income Generation in Schools (English) (Español)

NEW!! BUSINESS START-UP GUIDES: Series of Summary 'How To' School Enterprise Guides - from Brick Making to Solar Cooking!
This series of 2 page guides aims to provide schools looking to start up their own enterprises with some alternative ideas for business activities to consider. Each guide provides some basic facts about the product, what you need to get started, costs, and potential for income generation - along with links to websites where you can get more detailed information if need.
- SCHOOL BUSINESS START-UP Guide Series

Teach A Man To Fish brochure
Background material on TAMTF, our approach to education, our network and the services we offer.
- Teach A Man To Fish brochure (English) (Español)

Research on Entrepreneurship in Schools

School Enterprises: Combining Vocational Learning with Production (1998) Madhu Singh
This study reviews the work of institutions across the world which in addition to providing educational services also produce other goods and services for sale in the market. A number of case studies are presented from Algeria, Botswana, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, and Papua New Guinea. The findings are summarized, and conclusions and guidelines are developed.
- School Enterprises: Combining Vocational Learning with Production

Entrepreneurship Education Resources

UNESCO Entrepreneurship Training Packages
Developed by curriculum experts from Sub-Saharan Africa these packages consist of practical guides which aim to provide young people with an entrepreneurial mindset and the knowledge to use their technical skills to start a small business.

Non-formal learners:
Facilitator’s guide
Participant’s workbook

Secondary students:
Facilitator’s guide
Participant’s workbook

Project Resources & Capacity Building

CIVICUS Toolkits
Based on requests from members, CIVICUS has produced a range of toolkits to enable organisations to improve their capacity in a number of keyareas related to project planning, budgeting and monitoring & evaluation.

• Planning Overview     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Action planning     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Monitoring and Evaluation     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Strategic Planning     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Developing a Financing Strategy     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Financial Controls and Accountability     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Writing a Funding Proposal     (Word) or (PDF)
  
• Budgeting (in two parts): Part 1     (Word) or (PDF)
  and Part 2     (Word) or (PDF)

The above toolkits as well as many more on a range of related topics are available from the CIVICUS website - here

NORAD handbook on gender and empowerment assessment
Produced by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, this handbook presents a method for Gender Empowerment Assessment (GEA) which records how development projects and programmes affect women and men. (Word) 

Income Generating Schools

San Francisco Agricultural High School, Paraguay
Run by the Fundacion Paraguaya this organic farm school is aiming at 100% financial self-sufficiency, and is already covering over half of costs through income generating activities.
- San Francisco Agricultural High School
- Short video on the San Francisco Agricultural High School

Songhai Centre, Benin
The Songhai Centre runs six schools across Benin and one in Nigeria and aims at full financial independence achieved through marketing of school products & services.
- Songhai Centre website
- Short video on the Songhai Center

Baraka Agricultural College, Kenya
In support of its mission to promote Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development, Baraka maintains four income generating units which complement its educational work in a number of ways.
- Baraka Agricultural College

Eden Campus / Karatara Trust, South Africa
A 'Business College for the Poor', Eden Campus is a new and innovative tertiary education institution in South Africa supported in part by student-run business ranging from organic horticulture, to bicycle hire and refurbished second hand clothing.
- Eden Campus website

Green School
Delivering a generation of global citizens who are knowledgeable about and inspired to take responsibility for the sustainability of the world.
- Green School website.

Agriculture

Agricultural News

• New Agriculturist on-line magazine
• The Organic Farmer - The magazine for sustainable agriculture in Kenya.

Agricultural Research

• Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
• Grow Biointensive - Organic Farming Methodology & Network HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
• E-agriculture.org - Case studies and information about agriculture - especially using mobile telephony and Public Private Partnerships.
• HDRA - Organic Farming Research for Tropical Regions
• Instituto Interamericano de Cooperacion para la Agricultura - (Spanish) Inter-American Institution for Agricultural Cooperation.
• Organic Exchange - Resources on organic agriculture, especially relating to cotton and other textiles.
• Rodale Institute - Organic farming research for practical training to thousands of farmers in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
• Southeast Asian Regional Center for Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)

Agricultural Support Organizations

• The Growing Connection - An FAO program promoting sustainable small scale food production
• Urban Agriculture
• NEW!! USAID Agriculture - voluntary technical assistance to farmers, farm groups and agribusinesses in developing / transitional countries to promote sustainable improvements in food security and agricultural processing, production, and marketing.

Agricultural Sectors

Agroforestry
• World Agroforestry Center - News & research on agroforestry from around the world

Beekeeping
• Apimondia - Comprehensive site on beekeeping globally
Fish-farming
• The Fish Site - Huge amount of free news, information & research on fish-farming
• World Fish Center - Aquaculture for poverty reduction: news, reseach etc.

Special Interest
• Vetiver Network - The Vetiver System is low cost and extremely effective system for soil and water conservation, infrastructure stabilization, pollution control, waste water treatment, mitigation and prevention of storm damage and many other applications. You never knew vetiver grass could have so many uses!

Education

Educational Materials & Resources

• AEShareNet - Free and licenced teaching materials
• Commonwealth of Learning - Range of resources with heavy focus on open / distance learning
• Connecting Classrooms - Collaborative projects for learners, professional development for practitioners.
  
• I Need A Pencil - US site providing online teaching and testing for older pupils hoping to enter college.
• I School - Resources for primary, secondary, college and university education in Zambia.
• Next Vista - Free online library of video resources for learners everywhere
• Open Learning Platform - UNESCO site with large number of education resources RECOMMENDED!
• Open Learning Platform - (Spanish) Grupo de Fortalecimiento de la Educacion Agricola Latinoamericana
• Rafi.Ki - Resources for educational projects and partner finding and communication (audio conferencing, email, instant messaging and forums)
• Schools United - Teaching aids - like multimedia files, sheet music, ideas for trips, artistic work.
• Teaching Packages at Work - A starting point to help vocational education and training practitioners.
• World Virtual School - the highest quality online courses, at the lowest cost possible.

Educational Networks

• Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)
• School Net Africa
• British Association for International and Comparative Education - Promoting teaching, research, policy and development in all aspects of international and comparative education.

Education Support Organizations & Initiatives

• Education for Rural People - FAO initiative
• UNEVOC - UN International Center for Vocational Education & Training.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

• Achievers International - join over 30,000 students in a practical introduction to international trading. Students and their teacher form a company, and import and export goods with a partner school overseas.
• Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa - Resources to help small-scale farmers across Africa improve farming productivity.
• Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education - A useful source of teaching materials and resources for entrepreneurship education.
• Donor Committee for Enterprise Development - Resources on market demand, project design, implementation, impact assessment and final documentation.
• Entrepreneur Oasis - Information, resources, and social networking for the global entrepreneurship community.
• Entrepreneurship toolkit - a toolkit for Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs.
• EnvisionGood TV - featuring social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, and globally responsible businesses.
• Grassroots Business Fund - Training, capital and mentorship to enable individuals to develop and launch viable and sustainable enterprises.
• HKCSS-HSBC Social Enterprise Business Centre - Promoting social entrepreneurship.
• MBAs Without Borders - empowering entrepreneurs by matching them with talented MBAs to build poverty alleviating business solutions.
• Ohio State University - Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship (PACE) - Knowledge and resources to start and manage a business.
• Next Billion - Discussion forum, networking space and knowledge base for individuals and organizations about development and enterprise.
• Social Enterprise Alliance - Resources on earned income strategies for social benefit.
• Social Innovations Conversations - free podcasts on social entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, responsible investing, and more.
• Unleashing ideas about entrepreneurship and innovation.

• Timbuktu Chronicles - A veritable goldmine of articles on entrepreneurship and small-scale technology with a social edge.

Fundraising

Fundraising online

• Give Meaning - Build your own online fundraising community to support your project. This easy-to-use site offers a chance for NGOs based in developing countries to fundraise internationally online for their development initiatives.
• The Latin America Donor Index - information about giving to projectgs in Latin America and the Caribbean in one place.
• The Stars Impact Awards - an annual award of $100,000 - plus consultancy support - for organisations showing excellence in services to disadvantaged children.

Foundations which accept applications direct from local NGOs

• The Emerging Markets Foundation - US Foundation supporting local NGOs in select developing countries (see their list) working in education and several other areas
• The Global Fund for Children - Makes small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth.

Grant Giving Bodies

• The Cottonwood Foundation - This foundation focuses its funding on grass roots organizations - in over 50 countries - relying strongly on volunteers and where support will make a significant difference.

NGO Management & Capacity Building

Finance & Accounting

• Mango - Management Accounting for NGOs (Mango) is a UK NGO whose website contains a wealth of material on good financial management for small to medium sized NGOs in developing countries - including a free simple to use Excel based accounting system. See their resources & publications sections for more info.

International Development

International Development

• Ananda Foundation - grants of 500 USD to 5,000 USD for projects affecting women and childrenn, and orphans, street children, child labourers, rural communities, slum communities, persons with disabilities and persons affected by HIV.
• Barefoot Guide - a DIY guide - free to download - for leaders / facilitators to help organisations to function in more healthy, human and effective ways and contribute to a more humane society
• Capaciteria - A large database of NGO resources from Accounting to Volunteer Management
• Development Gateway - huge online community for the international development community with vast database of resources & range of newsletters
• Eldis - download free more than 26,000 summarised documents from over 7,500 development organisations, on development, inc. resources (toolkits, guides etc.) & research.
• Idealist.org - Links to useful resources for non profits neatly categorized (fundraising, technology etc.)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• One World Trust - promoting good practice through codes of conduct, certification schemes, reporting frameworks, directories and awards.
• United Nations Development Programme - Good development and policy practices on issues of poverty among developing countries.

Networks & Newsletters

• Global Links Initiative - An network of social actors seeking to inspire each other
• Social Edge - Informative & entertaining newsletter informing and connecting social entrepreneurs

Blogs on International Development

• All African Bazaar - Blog featuring short articles on charitable organizations with ongoing projects in Africa or impacting the African Diaspora

Miscellaneous

UK Networks supported by TeachAManToFish

• BOND - British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND) is the UK's broadest network of voluntary organisations working in international development. It aims to improve the UK's contribution to international development by promoting the exchange of experience, ideas and information.
• Trade Justice Movement - The Trade Justice Movement unites over 80 member organisations with more than 9 million members campaigning for fundamental change to the unjust rules and institutions governing international trade, so that trade is made to work for all.

• Charity Facts - General information about UK charities
• Go Self-Sufficient - Resources about low-cost energy, growing food, etc.
• GSBI Video blog - Nik Kafka on revolutionizing rural education through school businesses - both to teach critical productive skills to students and also to produce income for schools to become self-sustaining.
• Institute of Fundraising (UK) - Information about fundraising from the UK's professional body for fundraising.
• Kyoto Energy - working to make solar energy the most cost effective form of energy as it is already by far the most benign and plentiful
• Non-profit hub - Resources on topics like advocacy, development, fundraising and so on.
• Travolution - a global portal enabling local communities anywhere in the world to market their services to travellers. Travolution reinvests 90% of its profits into the local communities it works with.
• Voluntourism - supports the well-being and progression toward self-reliance of families and children in the US / Mexico Border Region of Northern Baja.

TeachAManToFish Members

Members' Websites

• Escuela Agrotécnica Nª 52 'Manuel Bernard' - Blog de la Escuela Agrotecnica Na 52 en Argentina (Spanish)

• Escuela Agrotécnica Nª 52 'Manuel Bernard' - Blog de la Escuela Agrotecnica Na 52 en Argentina (Spanish)