Where are useful nonprofit & fundraising resources on the net?
Summary:
An annotated list of resources of interest or use to nonprofits.
Answer:
Nonprofit Connections -- General and Fundraising Links
Welcome to Nonprofit Connections, a basic Internet web link resource for the
use of nonprofit entities done as part of the Information for Nonprofits FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions). It is not our intent to create a
comprehensive nonprofit resource compendium on this page but rather to
simply link pages which do contain many such general resources and links of
interest to nonprofits and choice searching sites which can lead to such
information. Comments, suggestions and constructive criticisms are welcome.
There are three sections to Nonprofit Connections:
General
Internet Links & Resources of Interest to Nonprofits:
http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/
The Nonprofit FAQ, of which this page is part, contains many other items of
nonprofit interest and is part of The Internet Nonprofit Center (http://www.nonprofits.org). (0603)
http://www.charityvillage.com
Charity Village, a Canadian site with Canadian focused, as well as general
resources for nonprofits. (1099)
http://www.fastennetwork.org
Faith and Service Technical Education Network assists faith-based nonprofits and foundations work better together and with governments to improve lives in the communities they serve. (0704)
http://www.idealist.org
Action Without Borders maintains this site with information about nonprofits worldwide. It can be searched in many ways for organizations of interest. There are also sections with topical information on government, support organizations, finance, consultants, jobs, management, personnel, public relations and other issues of interest to nonprofits (including the Nonprofit FAQ). (0405)
http://www.capaciteria.org
The Capaciteria is an interesting experiment in collecting user feedback about online resources designed to help nonprofits. Any visitor can use the extensive lists of useful links to other websites. The links are arranged in categories to facilitate navigation. Registration is required to suggest new links and contribute to the ratings. (0506)
http://www.dsk.de/dsklinks.htm
DSK, a German organization's site with many nonprofit links in Europe, USA
and elsewhere. (1099)
http://www.handsnet.org/
Handsnet, includes action alerts, news articles & analysis, links to their
forum information - generally for members only. (1099)
http://www.igc.org/igc/
Institute for Global Communications, an activist organization, links to
members, information on their networks, articles. (1099)
http://www.ucp-utica.org/uwlinks/directory.html
Internet Resources for Nonprofits is a current listing of annotated resource links particularly useful to nonprofit agencies and their staff, volunteers and community leadership. It is non-commercial (no advertising, no sponsors) and maintained by a volunteer editor whose regular employment is for a major regional nonprofit and who gathers sites of possible interest to the profession.
http://shortguides.com/nonprofit
Sarah
Nesbeitt and Richard Truxall's many links to nonprofit web sites, lists and
resources. Last updated in 1996. (1099)
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Fundraising
Internet Links & Resources of Interest to Nonprofits:
http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/misc/990804olfr.html
This FAQ's long list
of websites that offer fundraising support and services of various kinds --
charity malls, donations processors, special event and membership
processing, etc., etc. There's also list of other websites with discussions
and analysis of this rapidly growing category of resources.
http://www.cof.org
Council on Foundations with links to many foundations and general
information on foundations and giving. (1099)
http://fdncenter.org/
The Foundation Center which links to foundation and corporate sites of
interest to fund raisers, general information on foundations and giving.
(1099)
http://www.tgci.com/
The Grantsmanship Center which links to foundation and corporate sites of
interest to fund raisers, and has general information on fund raising.
(1099)
http://www.jointogether.org/sa/resources/funding/
Join Together Online publishes a running list of recent large grants and other news of interest in the funding arena. (0601)
http://www.pch.gc.ca/cp-pc/partners.htm
Heritage Canada's Community Partnerships Program offers several useful books
on fundraising as online publications. (0699)
http://www.fundraising.co.uk/
UK Fundraising by Howard Lake, a United Kingdom focussed fundraising site
with some information, ideas and resources of more general note. (1099)
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Other discussions of fundraising resources that can be found on the Internet:
There's a long list of online resources that support fundraising activities of various sorts -- charity malls, donation processors, special event and membership processing support, etc., etc. -- at
http://www.npoprofits.org/npofaq/misc/990804olfr.html. That resource page also includes an introduction with some pointers to other discussions and analysis of the rapidly growing number of websites that propose to help nonprofits raise money through the Internet. ó PB (5/9/00)
In January 1996 David Wehr Suggested: "Check out Fund-raising.com on the WWW at:
http://www.fund-raising.com/
See the Idea bank and Resources pages for great fundraising ideas."
From Gene Weinbeck (gene@fundraiser-software.com)
, President, Professional Support Software, and author of the FundRaiser family of donor management software (
http://www.fundraiser-software.com):
Edited digests of previous discussion topics of the FundClass discussion group, including: Special Events, Direct Mail, "the Annual Fund", and "a Discussion of the Primary Fundraising Methods", plus information on how to subscribe to the free FundClass list can be found at:
http://www.fundraiser-software.com/fundclass.html
If you have suggestions for other topics, and/or suggestions for "experts" (including email address, if possible) that we might contact, please let us know.
For those of you who participated in the discussion, your contributionhas been attributed at the bottom of the page. If you prefer to have your name and email address removed, please contact me directly.
Jean Saffell (mtplanr@psnw.com)
wrote:
I have been following the posts re: raising money for the girl scouts. If your group wants to sell stuff to fundraise, I found an interesting fundraising site at:
http://www.fundsraiser.com/index.html
There are some nifty ideas here. Some of which I have forwarded to other lists and people I know. I emailed for the custom board game (Christmas in July) and was impressed by the free sample sent. Now I have to see if any of the small towns I work with would be interested.
Just as a disclaimer- I have no connection to the site in any way shape or form. I just mention it because it might have some ideas you would want to explore with various groups.
Rod Payne wrote:
Is there Site on the net that has an "Action Plan" or TIPS for setting up a successful fundraiser? Or are their any great books that you could recommend?
Doug Jamieson (jamieson@inforamp.net)
replied:
Check the Fundraising Management and Fundraising Marketing sections in The Library at CharityVillage:
http://www.charityvillage.com/charityvillage/research/research.html. Should be something useful there.
Plus, for general discussions of Internet resources of interest to nonprofits, look through the section on that subject at this website -- "The Nonprofit FAQ at Idealist.org" -- at
http://www.idealist.org/en/faqcat/41-78
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Dates shown as (0297) indicate the last month and year a particular site
was checked.
This page was last updated on October 10, 1999; Join Together added 6/01. The contents of an earlier page (npofaq/08/18.html) were incorporated here 11/1/02; further small changes 6/26/03, 7/28/04, 4/18/05, 6/24/05. -- PB.
