"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 Ec...