Resources


A "how to" style blog post to get you totally prepared and motivated to travel!!

Furthering Your Education (for free!)
A long but in no way extensive list of classes in a variety of topics. These are mostly MOOC (mass open online courses) and take a pretty high amount of self discipline and dedication. I did all seven classes with Philanthropy University to get my Social Sector Leadership Certificate and I have had "International Women's Health and Human Rights" on my list for a while. I'll take those when I find more time.

Philanthropy University
edX
Noved
Coursera
Stanford Lagunita
Program on Humanitarian Leadership 

Learn a Language
This is your gateway into other cultures. I did a GSI (guided self instruction) at graduate school - it was so hard! But totally worth it. Set aside time every week or even every day for studying. Make sure you a reading, writing, listening, and speaking! 

Open Culture - 48 languages available online and for free! 
Live Lingua Project - Includes Peace Corps's material too. 
An ka taa - For some "off the beaten path" languages in West Africa.

Find a Job 
If it were only that easy...
Microfinance Gateway (not just MF)

Monitoring and Evaluation (and Learning!)
Organizations never have a shortage of their own requirements and regulatoins when it comes to how they want things done. Here are a couple:

Result's Based Approach to Project/Program Management (International Committee of the Red Cross-ICRC)

Gender
It's so sad to me that this needs to be a category. There are tool kits on how to include "gender" into planning and evaluation. There are "gender specialist" in the field - aka people who remember that the world is overwhelmed by patriarchy and nothing effects women and men the same. Therefore this difference needs to be examined because more often than not - it disenfranchises and marginalizes the women even more. But anways... educate yourself here:
 
Creating 'Gender' Indicators (as per the OECD)
Gender-Responsive Evaluation Handbook (UN-Women)
Gender Manual (Department for International Development)
Gender Mainstreaming: A Training Manual (UNDP)

Random Resources for Non-Profits
Mango's Guide to Financial Management for NGOs

Random Resources for Even More Learning
Chris Blattman (International development, economics, politics, and policy blog)

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