Need to some assistance to evaluate your organisational capacity?  The Venture Philanthropy Partners - a philanthropic investment organisation - developed this tool to help support nonprofits become more sustainable and achieve better capacity to assist the communities they work in.  Includes great case studies and a self-diagnosis tool.

Marketing can be a difficult concept for early entrepreneurs and charities alike and social media has thrown up a whole gamut of new complexities.  Welcome to RunMarketing, an array of tools, resources and helpful guidance to finding your feet and voice and best of all – its free.  RunMarketing is owned by Planet Content.

Written by the US Non Profit Root Causes, this book is recommended to all social enterprises and charities looking to develop business ideas that maximise social impact. It’s a great step-by-step and practical business guidebook with insights, examples and worksheets from start to finish.

Details on the Solution Shedd's charity-centric business plans or so-called 'Value Propositions', which focus on what a cherty does best to create mission-related trading solutions and achieve sustainability.

The Solution Shedd's Innovation & Strategy Workshops are aimed at organisations looking to find new ways forward, or cement what it is already doing and solidify the way forward..

Back in November 2007, The Solution Shedd started on a journey with the Museum of London to revitalise their retail and catering assets.  Read all about our experience in our Case Study published in 2009.

The Solution Shedd's Project Management Lite course is aimed at staff from charities, social enterprises, museums and other small organisations looking to manage their projects more effectively.

REDF is the founder of SROI and a venture philanthropist who is focused on homelessness and poverty in the US.  It has long been at the forethought of performance thinking and offers many free tools and diverse thought leadership papers to foster learning for charities and social enterprises.

For anyone serious about innovation, but unsure where to begin and how to do it successfully, the book "The Innovator's Toolkit' by Silverstein, Samuel and DeCarlo is invaluable.  Don't have time for the book?  Then jump directly to its tools by registering on their site.

Provided by the Improvement and Development Agency

This multi-level toolkit provides a whole gamut of project management best practice - which although was created for Local Authorities and the Public Sector - would be helpful to any organisation looking tor project management insight and tools.

Created by McKinsey & Co.

An great collection of insights and perspectives from the trenches of social impact.  See its 'Tools and Resources for Assessing Social Impact (TRASI)' for an outline of over 150 tools.

Produced by TED (Sept 2008) This video is courtesy of TED - a small charity devoted to 'Ideas Worth Spreading'.  While it may be focused on Venture Capital, the basic ideas, structure and approach is the same for charities, social enterprises or small business when trying to pitch an idea to potential investors, grant makers, funders.

NCVO's website has a multitude of useful resources - some of which must be paid for - as well as best practice case studies on charities who have succeeded in income diversification through trading (see under 'strategy' for examples).

Marketing is something that many organisations struggle with.  Alongside his many published books on the subject, Seth Godin provides a constant stream of interesting insights and perspectives.