CSDi Nonprofit & International Development Training Site
Bootcamp Quality at 1/10 of the Cost
CSDi is the most efficient way to master the skills that
nonprofit & development organizations want & need.
100% online, part-time & self-paced.
Our cutting-edge training programs have been used by over
500 top organizations worldwide. Here are a few:
UNITED NATIONS
Rainforest
Alliance
World Vision
Save the Children
The Nature
Conservancy
unicef
American
Red Cross
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Explore our online courses & mentored training to find your perfect program.
PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS: 5,000+ professionals from 500+ organizations in 153 countries have used 300+ project ideas to impact 500K+ people.
How to work with your community’s families and civic leaders to design a climate action plan to prepare your community to be climate-ready. Identify climate solutions to solve your community’s climate challenges.
How to work with your tribal member’s families and businesses to design a climate action plan to prepare tribal members to be climate-ready. Learn how to write, fund and launch a tribal climate change action plan.
Embed impact into your action plan with a set of powerful donor presentation documents and management tools: Logframes, budgets, schedules and compelling fact sheets. We provide the templates you need.
What does a climate action plan mean to community members? Lead a workshop & share the climate solutions in your plan. This is an opportunity for them to learn to run solution activities on their own.
Climate Solutions presents positive weekly articles about hands-on, practical actions nonprofits, local governments, tribal nations & individuals can take to combat global warming. Good news for positive change!
Climate messages: tap into people’s personal interests, values, and what is most important in their lives. This is building bridges: People from two sides of an abyss meeting in a middle ground that benefits them all.
How you as an individual can create a personalized climate action plan to cut your carbon footprint by 50% in 8 steps NOW! Spoiler: This is the real deal! Step 1. Run a carbon footprint estimate on your household.
Step 1 for your Climate Action Plan is to perform a carbon footprint estimate on your household. I used this great Quick Carbon Footprint Calculator. In 15 min. I learned about my CO2 emissions & how to reduce them.
6 Months: You will develop a real fundraising plan. You will fine tune your donation webpages, determine what your target audience wants to learn about, and write new compelling newsletters.
3 Months: You will develop a real fundraising plan. You will fine tune your donation webpages, determine what your target audience wants to learn about, and write new compelling newsletters.
You will focus on one of your new nonprofit project concepts and design a project that will attract donor funding. You will also learn how to manage your nonprofit program for increased impact.
This mentored program will be customized for you & your NGO. You will focus on a new sustainable development project that you want to develop during the six-month training period.
Participate in this training program & learn how to address the needs & challenges of your community members. Learn project design & management. Get field experience: Run a nonprofit project in a real community.
Communicate to donors exactly what you are going to accomplish. Embed impact into your project with a powerful set of donor presentation documents & project management tools: Logframes, budgets, compelling fact sheets.
Lead a participatory community workshop to share information and to learn about community vulnerability, assets, needs and perceptions. Develop a community-based oversight committee—the team that you will partner with.
These projects are for the long-term. Plan project management so that the community is fully engaged in the process during project launch and are well prepared for project handover to the community at your grant’s completion.
How your nonprofit can launch a community food garden program for at-risk-families in your community. In 8 weeks, you will have facilitated a family nutrition workshop and planned, designed and planted a demonstration garden.
For Individuals & Families. How you can start a vegetable garden for your family. In this 8 week program you will learn how to grow nutritious, fresh vegetables. Site & seed choices, planting, care, harvest, cooking.
For Nonprofits. How your nonprofit can start a small space, urban vegetable garden program. Learn to teach at-risk inner city families to grow nutritious, fresh vegetables in 8 weeks. You will learn how to grow your own food in the process too!
For all Food Gardeners. Learn how to 1) care for the gardens planted in our courses, 2) how to increase family nutrition—including cooking balanced meals using delicious nutrition-packed recipes—and 3) how to plan for next season’s garden.
Learn project design & management & how to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Run a real sustainable development project working with local members of a real community.
Embed positive impact into your sustainable development project with a set of powerful donor presentation documents & project management tools: Logframes, budgets, schedules & compelling fact sheets.
Weekly Updates: Advance your career, raise funds & solve nonprofit challenges with our cutting-edge articles. Join 15,000 professionals from 212 countries who subscribe to our nonprofit newsletter.
For nonprofit staff new to raising online donations. Use these 30 in-depth, step-by-step guides over 10 weeks to set up a modern website, launch a donor newsletter program & accept online donations: Now!
This Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change course is for donor, non profit and NGO staff—and job-seekers wanting to successfully solve challenges caused by global warming.
Embed impact into your adaptation project design with a set of powerful donor presentation documents and management tools: Logframes, budgets, schedules and compelling fact sheets.
Learn what sustainable development & adaptation mean at the community level. Research practical tools for the community to use. Fully develop the community’s ownership in the project
Learn about the importance of the community’s role in project management. Develop skill set training workshops, management plans for community use—and then launch the project.
70% of all disasters are now related to climate change based extreme weather events. Learn how to design a community based disaster risk reduction program to protect agriculture, livelihoods and save lives.
Lead a workshop on participatory mapping of water resources & challenges. Develop a water management plan & organize a village Water Conservation & Management Committee. Then launch the project!
For International NGOs. Reduce Hunger & Malnutrition. Launch a program to start family vegetable gardens & community gardens for at-risk-families in your community. See first-hand how well growing nutritious food works.
You will identify the specific agricultural challenges faced by your community members, research activities designed to solve them, and lead a capacity building workshop for those activities.
Sea la Solución: Desarrollo Internacional. Adaptacion al Cambio Climatico. Diseño de Proyectos. Financiamiento de Proyectos. Proyectos Comunitarios. Proyectos Sostenibles. Marco Lógicos. Presupuestos
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Only CSDi has all the critical factors to deliver real results
Get real employable skills
Our quality curriculum is designed so you learn the high-impact skills that top organizations want.
Project-based, active learning
Learn by doing in real-world projects using hands-on activities and techniques that lead to real skills mastery.
Learn on your schedule
Self-paced learning – whenever and wherever you want. Graduate while learning part-time for 2 – 3 hrs/week.
The help you need, when you need it
Reach out to our mentors and have your questions answered quickly so you can keep learning.
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