Chapter Fourteen of the Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers provides advice for people who are thinking about starting their own nonprofit organization. Here are some supplementary resources to those included in the chapter. Please note: These resources are primarily geared toward readers interested in starting a nonprofit organization in the United States.
Starting your own nonprofit
The Nonprofit FAQ is one of the most comprehensive resources for any topics related to nonprofits, including starting one. The Nonprofit FAQ is the work of Put Barber, a contributor to The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers (and the author of Chapter Fourteen). In particular, the Start-up section of Idealist's Nonprofit FAQ has many more items discussing various aspects of this topic. See www.idealist.org/if/i/en/faqcat/21-74.
Free Management Library has many articles about the process of starting a nonprofit, covering topics from assessment to avoiding Founder's Syndrome as the organization matures, at www.managementhelp.org/strt_org/strt_np/strt_np.htm.
The Society for Nonprofit Organizations' list of frequently asked questions about starting a nonprofit is available at www.snpo.org/resources/startup.php.
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