The Know It, Prove It, Change It! A Rights Curriculum for Grassroots Groups series is created to help grassroots organizations in communities affected by HIV/AIDS to understand their basic rights, document rights abuses, and design and implement advocacy campaigns. The Chinese edition is now available for download at: https://www.asiacatalyst.org/news/kipici.html.
由亚洲促进会、东珍人权教育与实践中心、泰国艾滋病治疗行动小组合作编写”了解、证实、改变”系列中的《证实：记录人权侵害》中文版已经发布。
By Meg Davis
What’s your vision? Most organizations have a mission statement; the groups we work with in China generally write broad, vague, uninspiring statements in order to meet requirements for registration. These don’t give a sense of their vision to create social change.
By “vision statement”, different groups mean different things. We mean a one-sentence picture of the change your organization will create in the world in 20 or 30 years. This statement goes in the box all the way on the right in the logic model we use in strategic planning. It’s the first piece to create in this approach to strategic planning, and an important way to unify and focus everyone in the organization on a shared goal. Once the vision statement is set, it’s easier to break it down into medium-term goals and immediate actions.
By Meg Davis
There’s no getting around it – for most of us, creating a budget is a joyless task. But while it requires dusting off math skills some of us hoped we’d left behind in school, budgeting can also help you to develop useful and practical plans. This week’s blog post describes how to create a very basic program budget.
We recommend creating a budget that is relatively detailed from the beginning. You may or may not decide to send this detailed budget to donors when you apply for grants (more on this at the end), but you should still create one for internal use in your organization.
With the beginning of the new year, Asia Catalyst paved the ground for rapid growth of our capacity building program in China and Southeast Asia. This year in China, Asia Catalyst will begin short-term capacity-building partnerships of three to six months with seven new Chinese NGOs run by drug users, sex workers, and LGBT people — all communities directly affected by HIV/AIDS.
This year, an expanded technical assistance grant allowed us to issue a general call for applications from grassroots NGOs in China that want to strengthen their organizational management skills and build their future stability.
Asia Catalyst Update
December 2010
Here’s what we did with your help in the last quarter. Our work to help grassroots Asian AIDS groups to survive
and thrive scaled up, with new projects in China and Thailand. But we need your
help to help others. Please give: www.asiacatalyst.org/donate
