Approaching Foundations (From Research to Practice) (available online only)
Are you ready to seek funding from a foundation? Check out our tips and guidance for identifying potential funders, selecting an appropriate request amount, and establishing the terms of your request. Part of Advocates’ collection of materials aimed at organizational development.

Building an Effective Board of Directors: Selected Annotated Bibliography (From Research to Practice) (available online only)
This document provides a selected list of sources and materials to help nonprofit organizations build effective boards of directors, including organizations and websites. newsletters, and print materials.

Building Leadership for an Effective Organization: Selected Annotated Bibliography (From Research to Practice) (available online only)
This document provides a selected list of sources and materials to help nonprofit organizations build leaders, including organizations and websites, newsletters, and print materials.

Building Local Coalitions to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (From Research to Practice) (available online only)
This is a selected list of sources and materials to help in building local coalitions to prevent teen pregnancy, including organizations and websites, newsletters, and print materials.

Creating and Using a Memorandum of Agreement (Strategies for Organizational Success) (available online only)
A memorandum of agreement (MOA) is a written document describing a cooperative relationship between two parties wishing to work together on a project or to meet an agreed upon objective. This document includes the essentials of writing an MOA and a sample MOA.

Creating Successful Public Education Campaigns to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and HIV (From Research to Practice) (available online only)
This is a selected list of sources and materials to help nonprofit organizations, coalitions, and councils create successful public education campaigns to prevent pregnancy, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections among youth, including organizations and websites, newsletters, and print materials.

Cultivating Individual Donors (From Research to Practice) (available online only)
Is your organization ready to establish an individual donors program for fundraising? Part of Advocates’ collection of materials on organizational development, this document provides a step-by-step guideline for cultivating individual donors.

Curriculum Controversy: Lessons from the Field (Strategies for Organizational Success)  (available online only)
Controversy over sex education curricula can be intense due to diverse and conflicting views about adolescent sexuality, yet, such controversy can work to build community consensus. This document offers “Do’s and Don’ts” to help your teen pregnancy prevention organization 1) effectively advocate for comprehensive sex education and 2) successfully navigate potential controversy.

Ensuring Financial Sustainability: Selected Annotated Bibliography (From Research to Practice) (available online only)
This document provides a selected list of sources and materials to help nonprofit organizations ensure their financial stability, including organizations and websites, newsletters, and print materials.

Ensuring Organizational Sustainability: A Guide for State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Organizations (Strategies for Organizational Success) (available online only)
A state teen pregnancy prevention organization is most likely to sustain its efforts to promote science-based approaches when: 1) its programs are continuously funded, 2) key stakeholders and funders are willing to invest in the growth and development of the organization itself, and 3) leaders and staff of the organization have a strong, multi-level commitment to internal and external organizational sophistication. This document explains the stages and hallmarks of achieving organizational stability, and provides a guide for assessing your organization’s stability status.

Fund-Raising Tips for Local Organizations (From Research to Practice) (available online only)
Part of Advocates’ series on organizational development, these tips on topics from utilizing consultants to reporting on progress can help your organization raise funds and heighten community awareness.

Hot Potatoes: Keeping Cool in the Midst of Controversy (Strategies for Organizational Success) (available online only)
As teen pregnancy prevention program planners, administrators, and advocates, you often find yourself in the midst of conflict and controversy. Wisdom, preparation, and practice can help handle difficult situations appropriately. Being thoughtful and intentional can enable you to respond effectively to challenging questions and situations. This document offers a number of suggestions and provides commonly-asked questions to help prepare for the ‘hot potatoes’ of controversy.

Institutionalizing and Sustaining Support for Science-Based Approaches (Strategies for Organizational Success) (available online only)
State teen pregnancy prevention organizations will be most effective in sustaining their efforts to promote science-based approaches among local programs when they themselves institutionalize a commitment to science and research. This requires state organizations to 1) build an organizational infrastructure that reflects the state organization’s commitment to science-based approaches and 2) ensure that local partner organizations have the resources, knowledge, and staff capacity to incorporate science-based approaches in their own teen pregnancy prevention efforts. This document provides guidance and direction on how state organizations can achieve these two goals.

Managing Controversy in Pressure Cooker Situations (Strategies for Organizational Success) (available online only)
Most teen pregnancy prevention organizations, sex education teachers, and reproductive health advocates face controversy and conflict at some point in time. During such controversy, we and our organizations may be closely scrutinized and questioned, put on the defensive, challenged, or attacked. To address conflict effectively, we need to anticipate and strategize. This handout identifies some common ‘pressure cooker situations’ and offers suggestions from the field on how to approach them.

Powerful Partnerships: Linking IEC and Services for Adolescent Sexual Health  (available online only)
Well-planned collaboration between implementors of information, education, and communication (IEC) projects and clinic service providers is essential to the success of any efforts to improve young people's reproductive and sexual health. Youth reached by IEC programs deserve access to services so that those who are sexually active can protect themselves from pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Too often, IEC programs successfully increase youth's motivation to seek services but service providers are left out of the process and are unprepared to meet adolescents' needs. This paper examines the challenges in connecting IEC projects and clinic services and provides guidelines on successful partnerships between the two.

Science-Based Practices in Teen Pregnancy and HIV/STI Prevention: Selected Annotated Bibliography (Science and Success) (available online only)
This bibliography provides a selected list of publications and other resources around science-based practices in preventing teen pregnancy, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). All selected publications and resources are available free online.

Science-Based Practices: A Guide for State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Organizations (From Research to Practice) (Order publication - $1.00)
This document provides an overview of science-based practices (SBP)—what they are, why they are important, and how they relate to the work of state teen pregnancy prevention organizations. It also addresses benefits and challenges to incorporating SBP into the mission and work of each organization and offers helpful suggestions.

The Heart of Fund-Raising (From Research to Practice) (available online only)
Ten things you can do to become an effective fundraiser for your organization.

The Seven Components of Organizational Sustainability (Strategies for Organizational Success) (available online only)
State teen pregnancy prevention organizations, like all non-profit organizations, are living, breathing entities that need intentional care and feeding. Sustaining an organization takes time, planning and cultivation. For an organization to achieve sustainability, its Board of Directors and senior management must institutionalize systems that help the organization to think long-term as well as to manage its day-to-day operations. These two tasks must be interlinked and symbiotic. There are seven components necessary to ensure a sustainable organization. This document provides guidance and direction on each of these components.

Tips and Strategies for Creating Inclusive Programs (From Research to Practice) (available online only)
Whether or not you know of any GLBTQ youth in your program, it is essential to create a safe space for young people who are, who believe that they might be, or who have friends or family members who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning. This document provides guidance for creating programs that are inclusive of GLBTQ people and sensitive to GLBTQ issues.

Youth Involvement in Prevention Programming (Issues at a Glance) (available online only)
Research also suggests that programs for youth which are developed through a partnership of youth and adults may be highly effective in building young people's skills and reducing their sexual risk-taking behaviors. Such programs benefit the youth who help to develop them and also have a greater impact on the young people served. This paper outlines the benefits of youth involvement and provides guidelines for effectively involving youth in programs.