"Working toward viability, community media need to create good operational and management models." This handbook offers guidelines and examples of best practices for community media viability, highlighting the experiences of eight community media outlets in Ecuador with varied structures and financing sources. These media outlets helped define the processes and develop the tools outlined in this publication so that they, as well as community media elsewhere, can use them to become more viable. The handbook is based on a collaborative project that took place between 2016 and 2019 with the Ecuadorian media network - The Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios, Populares y Educativos de Ecuador (CORAPE) - and Deutsche Welle (DW) Akademie. CORAPE works to strengthen the network of community, popular, and educational radio stations in Ecuador in their efforts to provide access to information to vulnerable populations, especially in indigenous languages. One central line of this project was the financial sustainability or viability of community media, which has historically been one of the greatest problems for this sector.