Where are useful nonprofit & fundraising resources on the net?

Summary:

An annotated list of resources of interest or use to nonprofits.

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.
Fundraising Internet Links & Resources of Interest to Nonprofits.
Searching Sites (further subdivided) at http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/06/02.html

http://www.nonprofits.org/

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).

http://www.charityvillage.com

Charity Village, a Canadian site with Canadian focused, as well as general resources for nonprofits.

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.

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).

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.

http://www.dsk.de/dsklinks.htm

DSK, a German organization's site with many nonprofit links in Europe, USA and elsewhere.

http://www.handsnet.org/

Handsnet, includes action alerts, news articles & analysis, links to their forum information - generally for members only.

http://www.igc.org/igc/

Institute for Global Communications, an activist organization, links to members, information on their networks, articles.

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.

http://www.philanthropy-journal.org

Philanthropy Journal, (formerly Peter Tavernise' and, before that, Ellen Spertus') site with links to nonprofits and pages of interest to nonprofits.

http://www.clark.net/pub/pwalker/

Philip Walker's page with fundraising ideas & information, accounting, administrative, jobs, social service, technology, nonprofit information relevant to specific services and much other information and many leads of interest. Apparently last updated in May, 1997.

http://www.idealist.org/npofaq/0/1547.html

Early discussions in the Nonprofit FAQ 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.

http://fdncenter.org/

The Foundation Center which links to foundation and corporate sites of interest to fund raisers, general information on foundations and giving.

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.

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.

http://www.pch.gc.ca/cp-pc/partners.htm

Heritage Canada's Community Partnerships Program offers several useful books on fundraising as online publications.

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.

Other discussions of fundraising resources that can be found on the Internet:

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.

Jean Saffell 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 a 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 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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