We’re glad you’re here. Our mission is to make critical knowledge available and accessible to people working in voluntary family planning and related reproductive health (FP/RH) programs. We strive to connect FP/RH professionals to news, resources, and opportunities that are relevant and timely to their work—without jargon or overly complex, technical language.
Are you an organization or project looking to submit posts, resources or events? Keep reading!
We look for submissions that are relevant, attractive, easy, and timely. We’ll break down what we mean:
While we accept posts on any technical topic related to voluntary family planning and reproductive health care, the following technical areas are priorities:
Please email our Managing Editor, Shannon Davis, attaching your completed draft to the form as a Word doc (preferred) or Google doc format.
All guest contributors will have a profile. If this is your first piece for Knowledge SUCCESS, please include the following:
All submissions are reviewed regularly by our team. We’ll notify you as soon as possible; if Shannon doesn’t get back to you within a month, please feel free to reach out again.
Each published post goes through a review process to make sure the article is a good fit for the Knowledge SUCCESS platform.
Within a few business days of sending your submission, you will receive a receipt confirmation email. The Knowledge SUCCESS team reviews submissions at least biweekly and within the following week, the author is notified by email of the team’s decision.
Absolutely. You and your colleagues are welcome to submit a joint piece.
Yes, please! Include at least 2-3 photos or images that illustrate your post. Only use images for which you have permission or which are in the public domain (and be sure to credit your source).
Tell us anyway—we’d still love to share it! We are happy to republish relevant pieces, provided the original publisher gives their permission. Sharing great content from others working in the FP/RH field is one of our favorite things.
Knowledge SUCCESS promotes all posts to our 19,000+ Twitter followers. Posts are also emailed weekly to our subscribers.
You can help your post get maximum exposure, too:
Glad you asked! While we hope our website content has broad appeal, our primary audiences are:
As you can see, these are specialized groups, but they all have one thing in common: They work together to make FP/RH programs as strong as possible, and they need accessible, high-quality information to make it happen. That’s where we come in, and we hope you do too.
Sound like yourself. Be human. Aim for these characteristics:
Avoid clichés, technical jargon, and the alphabet soup of acronyms. Be that interesting person you’d want to learn something from, whether you’re at a conference or cocktail party. Web Writing for Beginners is a great resource, no matter your level of experience.
Did you already read Web Writing for Beginners? Great start! Be sure your piece features at least one aha moment. Leave readers thinking something like this:
Here are some ways to do that:
If you write a post with one or more of these characteristics:
Not quite. We see a lot of great ideas being shared across various networks. When someone from our team reaches out to see if you want to submit a post, this means we love your work and your take on things. However, it’s your approach that makes all the difference, so we can’t decide until we see a full draft.
We appreciate you taking the time to learn more about Knowledge SUCCESS. Still have additional questions? Feel free to contact us.