The Drum Beat Network: Shared Revenue Generation

Associates are featured in a block on The CI home pages. All Jobs and other classifieds submissions appear in the Classifieds theme site and in The Drum Beat Classifieds. And all submissions flow through The CI Facebook pageand Twitter account.

As a partnership driven space for social networking, knowledge sharing and peer-support, we seek to support your efforts to improve your effectiveness related to your development priorities. Feedback through network reviews indicates significant effectiveness and potential.

Ensuring that The CI is freely available and equitable for all to share, access, converse and engage each other is vitally important. If your organisation is not a CI Partner and you feel that you gain value from The CI/Drum Beat process, please do consider the options above and below.

With many thanks - Warren

It would be excellent if you and/or your organisation could join theAssociates programme. This provides the opportunity for many organisations to make small contributions that complement the larger investments by a small group of Partner agencies. 

If you and/or your organisation wish to join the Associates programme, which provides the opportunity for small contributions from many organisations, that would be excellent. The suggested costs follow, along with examples of present Associates. To join and pay online, please click here or contact Victoria Martin  with your proposed payment or any questions you may have - e.g., how many people from my organisation are involved?

Suggested Associates Contribution Levels:

US$5,000 per office - For Country, Regional, and HQ offices of major international development organisations

US$2,500 per office - For Country, Regional, and HQ offices of medium-sized international non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

US$2,000 per department - University Departments - OECD countries

US$750 per department - University Departments - All other countries

US$100 - Small, local NGOs/community-based organisations (CBOs)

US$100 to 200 - Individual

Do feel free to enter your own payment levels - ones you are comfortable with.

Thank you for considering this. The more we can share the financial load of The CI/Drum Beat process across a larger number of organisations and offices using this process, the greater our chance of maintaining and growing - in all sorts of exciting ways - this open-to-all, 24-hour-per-day, comprehensive sharing and engagement process.

High-quality staffing is essential for all local, national, and international development issues. The CI provides agencies with the opportunity to reach highly relevant, potential staff across all development issues in all countries. And as The CI network has such a large percentage of communicators, the initial, direct reach is amplified by people in the network further communicating to their networks, staff groups, and students.  

There are two main vehicles for the Job Vacancies service and opportunity through The CI: The Job Classifieds siteand a bi-weekly Classifieds newsletter to the network. 

You can submit your job vacancies here or contact Victoria Martin  to submit the vacancies and/or raise any questions or issues.

The prices are as follows:   

Individual Job Ad - US$125
Pack of 3 Job Ads - US$300
Pack of 5 Job Ads - US$450
Pack of 13 Job Ads - US$1,000

Many organisations - perhaps yours is one - conduct fee-based training courses, conferences, roundtables, and other kinds of meetings. To be successful, these experiences require relevant people to be aware of them and hopefully to attend and participate. Such events often provide much needed revenue for the organisations hosting and organising them.

The CI provides a venue to advertise and promote these training courses and other events. As this is a network with a significant percentage of communicators and media people, there is good additional coverage as those folks communicate to their networks and staff teams. 

You can submit your training courses and other events here or contact Victoria Martin  to submit your information, ask questions, or raise any issues. The costs are as follows:

Individual Ad - US$200

Pack of 5 Ads - US$875

Pack of 10 Ads - US$1,500

Pack of 20 Ads - US$2,000

Consultants and consulting organisations provide a valuable role in local, national, and international development - with often required specialised skills and always important external perspectives to add to the primary sources of local knowledge and analysis.

The CI provides a venue to highlight, advertise, and promote the qualities and services of consultants and consulting organisations. As this is a network with a significant percentage of communicators and media people, there is good additional coverage as those folks communicate to their networks and staff teams. 

There are four main CI activities to highlight consultancy services: a Consultants theme site; the main Classifiedssite; inclusion in the bi-weekly Classifieds e-magazine to the network; and a block that highlights consultants across much of The CI site - click here for an example

You can submit your consultancy services outlines here or contact Victoria Martin  to submit your information, ask questions, or raise any issues. The costs are as follows:

Developed-country-based Consultants 3-Month Listing - US$200

Developed-country-based Consultants 1-Year Listing - US$500

Developed-country-based Consultants 2-Year Listing - US$750

Knowledge is essential for improved development action. If you and/or your organisation produce for sale books, training manuals, videos, booklets, or other publications, please consider marketing these through The CI's books and other publications process.

The CI network provides a venue to ensure that people engaged in international development are aware of your publications and will consider purchasing them. As The CI is a network with a significant percentage of communicators and media people, there is good additional coverage as those folks communicate to their networks and staff teams. 

There are three main CI activities to highlight consultancy services: a Books and other Publications theme site; the main Classifieds site; and inclusion in the bi-weekly Classifieds e-magazine to the network.

You can submit your books and other publications here or contact Victoria Martin  to submit your information, ask questions, or raise any issues. The costs are as follows:

2-Month Listing - US$200
6-Month Listing - US$400

Organisations issuing RFPs are seeking a broad but relevant group of organisations that will review and respond to their request. In particular, there is increasing pressure and requirement to broaden the base of organisations that are responding to RFPs.   

With many thanks for your support. Please do let me know if you have any questions or queries. Just reply to this email.

Much strength for your very important work

Warren

Warren Feek
Executive Director
The Communication Initiative
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