About.com: Nonprofit Charitable Organizations
Hosted by About.com (formerly the Mining Company), an Internet business that
provides links to World-Wide Web sites that are chosen and organized by
experts in various fields, this Web site provides news and information about
fund raising and non-profit management, a chat room for discussion of
non-profit topics, and links to other Internet resources of interest to
non-profit professionals. The information is compiled by Stan Hutton who has
served as a fund raiser, executive, consultant, and board member for charities
in San Francisco. http://nonprofit.about.com
Action Without Borders: Idealist
Run by Action Without Borders, a New York charity, this site offers a global
directory of more than 20,000 non-profit groups' Web sites, as well as an
interactive service that allows any organization, whether or not it has a Web
site, to post information on its mission, volunteer and job opportunities,
forthcoming events, and publications. The site also provides links to other
on-line resources of interest to non-profit groups. http://www.idealist.org
Charity Village
Maintained by the Hilborn Group, a Toronto, Ontario, publisher that
specializes in non-profit material, this site provides more than 3,000
computer "pages" of news, jobs, information, and resources for non-profit
professionals and volunteers in Canada. Includes links to non-profit
organizations, on-line resources, and government agencies around the world. http://www.charityvillage.com
Echoing Green Foundation: Resource Center
The Echoing Green Foundation, in New York, offers full-time fellowships to
individuals who are starting innovative social-change organizations. The
"Resource Center" section of the foundation's Web site features articles,
written by the foundation's fellows, on starting a charity, non-profit
management, fund raising, financial management, communications, and human
resources, as well as links to other Web sites that provide additional
information.
http://www.echoinggreen.org/resource/index.html
The Foundation Center
This site provides links to the home pages of nearly 900 grant makers,
including private foundations, corporate grant makers, community foundations,
and grant-making charities. The center's data base of information on more than
10,000 foundations is available for a monthly subscription fee. In addition,
the site also lists the top grant makers, by both assets and total giving.
The "Online Library" section of the site provides information about the
grant-seeking process, corporate philanthropy, non-profit management, and
non-profit resources. Users who have additional questions can send e-mail to
the "Online Librarian" and receive an answer within three to four business
days. The reference section also includes annotated links to other Web sites
of interest to non-profit organizations. http://fdncenter.org
HandsNet
Developed by HandsNet, a San Jose, Cal., organization that provides technology
help to other non-profit groups, this Web site provides links to news and
information for social-services groups. The site also includes the WebClipper
service, which searches more than 500 Web sites that provide information for
social-services groups and sends members a daily e-mail message with new
information in their fields of interest. It also allows members to conduct
Internet searches on social-services topics, publish reports on line, and
contact other members. A one-year subscription to WebClipper costs $99, and a
30-day trial membership is available. http://www.handsnet.org
W.K. Kellogg Foundation: "E-Philanthropy, Volunteerism, and Social
Changemaking: A New Landscape of Resources, Issues, and Opportunities"
This report, published by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, provides summaries of
and links to more than 140 Web sites of interest to non-profit organizations.
The sites are organized into eight categories. Four of the categories involve
online fund raising: shopping sites that allow consumers to donate a portion
of their purchases to charity, sites that allow visitors to make charitable
contributions online, sites that offer information for donors, and online
fund-raising events. The other four types of sites included are those that
focus on non-profit news, volunteerism, and advocacy, as well as sites that
provide multiple services.
http://www.wkkf.org/Documents/PhilVol/e-phil.pdf
Internet Nonprofit Center: The Nonprofit FAQ
Hosted by the Evergreen State Society, a Seattle charity that promotes civic
involvement, this site answers the most frequent questions asked via the
soc.org.nonprofit newsgroup, an on-line discussion about the non-profit world.
The questions are arranged by category, including fund raising, management,
regulations, and non-profit resources. This site was formerly known as
Soc.Org.Nonprofit FAQ File. http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq
Milano Nonprofit Management Knowledge Hub
The Milano Nonprofit Management Knowledge Hub provides annotated links to Web
sites of interest to the nonprofit world. The site includes links to research
reports on nonprofit topics, Web sites that provide advice on fund raising and
management, online calendars of nonprofit events, e-mail discussion lists,
online publications, and more. The site is a project of the Nonprofit
Management Program of the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and
Urban Policy of the New School University.
http://www.newschool.edu/milano/hub
NonProfit Pathfinder
Developed by Independent Sector and the University of Maryland's Civil Society
Initiative, this site features annotated links to Web sites run by academic
research centers and associations that study philanthropy, non-profit
organizations and commissions that promote civil society, think tanks,
foundations, and periodicals that report on non-profit activities. The site
also describes and provides links to Web sites that offer information on
evaluating non-profit programs. A section of the site, entitled "Innovations,"
profiles creative local programs in areas such as arts and culture, economic
development, housing, and technology.
http://www.independentsector.org/pathfinder
The Nonprofit Resource Center
Sponsored by Nonprofits Incorporators, a law firm that provides incorporation
and tax-exemption services to California organizations, this Web site provides
links to other Web sites that contain information for non-profit groups.
Categories of links include legal information, fund raising, financial
managment, governance, consultants, advocacy, publications, and research on
the non-profit world. http://www.not-for-profit.org
PhilanthropySearch.com
Created by the Wentworth Group, a Dallas public-relations company,
PhilanthropySearch.com is a search engine that lists Web sites run by
non-profit organizations as well as Web sites that provide information or sell
products to non-profit organizations -- for example, sites that provide
management advice or sell fund-raising software. Visitors to the site can
conduct searches of the listings or browse through set categories, such as
"Managing Non-Profits" or "Children and Youth." http://www.philanthropysearch.com
United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Utica: Internet Resources for Nonprofits
Maintained by the United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Utica (N.Y.), this Web site
provides annotated links to Web sites that provide information for non-profit
organizations. The site features links to topics of interest to all charities,
such as grant seeking, fund raising, management, evaluation, and volunteerism,
as well as more specialized categories such as children and families,
education, and public policy. Each month the site publishes an article about a
featured Web site.
http://www.ucp-utica.org/uwlinks/directory.html
Web Sites Related to Philanthropy and Voluntarism
Designed to accompany professor of public policy studies Joel L. Fleishman's
class "The Idea of the Voluntary Society" at the Center for the Study of
Philanthropy and Voluntarism at Duke University, this Web site includes links
to Internet Resources on general non-profit information, academic centers that
study philanthropy, foundations, volunteerism, and government resources.
http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/courses/pps280s/index.html
