2006 Websites of the Week
December 31, 2006 - January 6, 2007
The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
The Amherst H. Wilder
Foundation is a nonprofit health and
human services organization that has served the greater Saint Paul,
Minnesota, area since 1906. The Foundation operates dozens of programs that
help children succeed in school, older adults remain independent, troubled
youth create healthy futures, and individuals and families maintain
long-term housing. Wilder is not a grant-making foundation. While the focus
of the Foundation is the St. Paul region, many of the resources available on
the site will be of use to a wider nonprofit audience, in particular the
research conducted in a number of critical issue areas. In June 2005, the
publishing and consulting programs of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
spun-off into a new, independent organization called Fieldstone Alliance. Go
to:
www.wilder.org
December 24 - 30, 2006
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
LISC helps resident-led,
community-based development organizations transform distressed communities
and neighborhoods into healthy ones – good places to live, do business, work
and raise families. By providing capital, technical expertise, training and
information, LISC supports the development of local leadership and the
creation of affordable housing, commercial, industrial and community
facilities, businesses and jobs. While the focus is community development,
the website has resources that will be of special interest to all
nonprofits, especially the
LISC Online Resource Library which provides easy access to
knowledge-building information on a wide range of topics including case
studies; tools and templates; summaries of successful practices and lessons
learned; archived Experts Online webcasts; past issues of the LISC
eNewsletter; and web links to other resources. Go to:
www.lisc.org.
December 17 - 23, 2006
BoardStar
BoardStar is a new program of the Milwaukee based
Nonprofit Management Fund. The Fund is a collaboration of foundations,
corporations, and United Ways, funding projects that build the capacity of
nonprofit organizations in the greater Milwaukee area. The
mission of BoardStar is to increase the involvement in and strengthen the
capability of the Boards of nonprofit organizations. BoardStar is a
membership organization that offers a galaxy of programs and services for
individual Board Directors, as well as for nonprofit Boards. While the focus
is the Greater Milwaukee region, BoardStar offers resources that will be of
use to nonprofit board leaders everywhere and the initiative itself can
serve as a model for other communities. Go to:
www.boardstar.org
December 10 - 16, 2006
The Center for What Works
The Center for What Works is
a vehicle for improving performance in the social sector. By translating
innovation and ideas into measurable outcomes, The Center seeks to build a
common language for social sector benchmarking and continuous improvement
for the sector at large. The Center is committed to providing research that
is useful, practical, and applicable through education and capacity
building. Go to:
www.whatworks.org
December 3 - 9, 2006
KnowledgeWorks Foundation
The mission of the
KnowledgeWorks Foundation it to increase the number and diversity of people
who value and access education, by creating and improving educational
opportunity at pre-kindergarten through high school and post-high school
institutions, and through community organizations. The KnowledgeWorks
Foundation offers an unconventional approach to education philanthropy. The
Foundation describes its method in three words: "Fund, Facilitate, and Do."
By funding initiatives, the Foundation seeks to strategically investing
resources, including time, money, and people, into priority areas. By
facilitating initiatives, it brings together people who might not
traditionally work collaboratively to discuss issues and uncover new
solutions. And by doing some of the work itself, the KnowledgeWorks
Foundation fills temporary gaps where there may not be an individual, team,
or community to take on a particular challenge. Go to:
www.kwfdn.org
November 26 - December 2, 2006
GrantSmart
GrantSmart is an operating
non-profit 501(c)3 foundation. Its purpose is to facilitate communication
between grantmakers and grantseekers by making public records filed by
grantmakers available for public view. Unlike individual or corporate tax
returns, Federal tax returns filed by non-profit organizations such as
private foundations and charitable trusts are public records. GrantSmart is
staffed by information technology professionals on a volunteer or
reduced-fee basis. Go to:
www.grantsmart.org
November 19 - 25, 2006
CreateAthon
CreateAthon is a 24-hour,
work-around the clock creative blitz during which local advertising agencies
generate advertising services for local nonprofits that have little or no
marketing budget. Since the program’s expansion from a single market to an
international effort in 2001, 40 agencies have joined the CreateAthon
network, holding CreateAthon events in their cities. This effort has
benefited 833 nonprofit organizations with 1,809 projects valued at $7
million. Go to:
www.createathon.org
November 12 - 18, 2006
Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies
The Center for Civil Society
Studies of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies is engaged in a
wide variety of research and capacity-building activities in the United
States and throughout the world, designed to improve understanding of the
role that philanthropy and nonprofit organizations play in modern society
and to strengthen the capacity of these organizations to carry out their
missions. Go to:
www.jhu.edu
November 5 - 11, 2006
Nonprofit Resource Library
The Nonprofit Resource
Library is a program of the Center for Nonprofit Management. The Center for
Nonprofit Management, in partnership with California Community Foundation
and Community Partners, opened the Nonprofit Resource Library in July 1998.
The Library contains resources on foundation giving to nonprofit
organizations. The library's focus is to help grantseekers identify and
research potential funding sources and develop effective proposals. The
Library collection includes information on funding research, nonprofit
management, philanthropy and career planning. While the Center for Nonprofit
Management focuses on nonprofits in the Los Angelis, the resources available
at the site will be useful to all nonprofits. Go to:
www.cnmsocal.org
October 29 - November 4, 2006
National Organization on Disability
The mission of the National
Organization on Disability (NOD) is to expand the participation and
contribution of America’s 54 million men, women and children with
disabilities in all aspects of life. By raising disability awareness through
programs and information, the organization is committed to closing the
participation gaps. The National Organization on Disability provides a wide
range of resources and information on increasing the participation of people
with disabilities in all aspects of life. Whether you are searching for
contact information, facts and figures, or a specific program, this website
is an excellent place to begin your search. Go to:
www.nod.org
October 22 - 28, 2006
FSG Social Impact Advisors
FSG Social Impact Advisors is
a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating social progress by
advancing the practice of philanthropy and corporate social responsibility
in three ways: consulting services on strategy, evaluation and operations to
help clients increase their impact; the creation and dissemination of
knowledge based on research and client work; and developments of new
initiatives designed to strengthen the field. Available at the website is
the firm’s publication "Leading Boldly". Co-authored by FSG's Mark Kramer
and John Kania, and CLA's Ron Heifetz, "Leading Boldly" describes cutting
edge leadership approaches to accelerate the pace of social change when
applied to both foundation capacity and to foundation grantees. Go to:
www.fsg-impact.org.
October 15 - 21, 2006
Voluntary Sector Knowledge Network
The Voluntary Sector Knowledge Network is a program of the Centre for Non
Profit Management in Victoria, B.C., Canada. The Network contains an
extensive collection of resources that offers answers to nonprofit
management problems, issues and concerns. The resources are organized into
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Leadership and governance of nonprofit organizations: planning,
board development, leadership skills, managing change; |
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Community and government relations: building partnerships, improving
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Fund raising: learning how to fund raise, getting grants and
donations, raising money through special events, campaigns, for-profit
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Financial Management: accounting, bookkeeping, budgeting and
financial reporting; |
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Accountability and evaluation for programs and organizational
performance: building accountability relationships, measuring outcomes; |
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Managing People: finding, keeping and getting the best from paid
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Information and Communications Technology: getting the best from
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Go to: http://vskn.ca
October 8 - 14, 2006
Capable Communities
Capable Communities is a
website created by Michigan State University’s Office of University Outreach
& Engagement. University Outreach & Engagement (UO&E) offers practical
support to local groups and organizations who are working to improve their
own communities and the lives of their residents through partnerships based
on a model, the Outcome-Asset Impact Model developed by the work of Brown
and Reed and elaborated by UO&E, to increase local capacity for building
positive change. This website is designed to improve the ability of anyone
working to achieve healthy, fundamental, and sustainable change for
individuals, families, groups, neighborhoods, and communities. Go to:
outreach.msu.edu/capablecommunities
October
1 - 7, 2006
Grantmakers in the Arts
Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA)
is a membership organization focusing on arts philanthropy. Founded in 1985,
GIA members include private, community, corporate, and family foundations,
as well as public sector grantmakers, regranting organizations whose primary
purpose is arts grantmaking, and individual donors who give through eligible
organizations. GIA programs include an annual conference, a major
periodical, research, and other convening and communication services. Of
great value to members and nonmembers alike is GIA's online library, a
searchable database of articles and information published by Grantmakers in
the Arts and other organizations. To date, there are more than 500
individual files available, and we continue to add material weekly. The
library includes material from the GIA Reader, the GIA Newsletter
(1988-1999), including reviews and brief abstracts of books, research
reports and publications form the GIA Reader Digest section. It also
includes transcriptions from presentations and panels at GIA's annual
conferences, book reviews, as well as articles and research from other
sources. Go to:
www.giarts.org
September 24 - 30, 2006
This site provides
information on a large variety of opportunities for tax-exempt organizations
to obtain products at low/no cost. A 3M corporate product donation in 1983
marked the beginning of Gifts In Kind International, a charitable
organization that today is the seventh largest charity in the
United States. Today, nearly half of the
Fortune 100 consumer and retail product corporations rely on Gifts In Kind
International to design and manage the donation process. Ranked as one of
the most cost-efficient charities in the world, Gifts In Kind International
operates at less than 0.5 percent of our annual donations. There is a
membership fee. Go to:
www.giftsinkind.org
September 17 - 23, 2006
The Sustainability Network
works with environmental non-profits to make them more effective and
efficient. By improving management and leadership skills and fostering
organizational development, the Network helps to strengthen the
environmental community. The Network is about sustaining the organizations
that work on sustainability.
This site contains
information on service providers that can help environmental nonprofits and
links to Internet based information on NGO management issues. Information is
also presented on a series of training workshops, forums and online courses,
direct management assistance, bursaries and other activities that help build
capacity in the environmental sector. Go to:
www.sustain.web.ca
September 10 - 16, 2006
The Institute on Governance
is a non-profit organization founded in 1990 to promote the concept of good
governance in Canada and abroad, and helps governments, the voluntary
sector, communities and the private sector put effective governance into
practice. The Institute concentrates its work around specific knowledge
areas, including: Aboriginal Governance, Accountability and Performance
Measurement, Board Governance, Building Policy Capacity, Technology and
Governance, Values, Ethics and Risk, and International Programming. The site
contains an extensive collection of resources and publications. Go to:
www.iog.ca
September 3 - 9,
2006
Volunteer Today is an
e-newsletter that bills itself as The Electronic Gazette for Volunteerism.
It is designed for those who manage the work of volunteers in nonprofit,
government or corporate programs. The site’s purpose is two-fold: 1) build
the capacity of individuals to organize effective volunteer programs; 2)
enhance the profession of volunteer management. Volunteer Today provides new
articles each month on topics that managers of volunteer programs deal with
every day. All of the information is free of charge. The site also includes
an online bookstore if you want to purchase books for your own library. Go
to:
www.volunteertoday.com
August 27 -
September 2, 2006
Changemakers is a national
public foundation that models and supports community-based social change
philanthropy. Changemakers works within the philanthropic sector to shift
where money is directed -- to address root causes of social and
environmental problems -- and how it is given, urging individual donors and
philanthropic organizations to become more accountable, strategic,
inclusive, collaborative, democratic, and creative. Go to:
www.changemakers.org
August 20 - 26, 2006
Emerging Practitioners of Philanthropy (EPIP)
is a national network of young people professional s and people involved in
the work of organized philanthropy. EPIP's mission is to support and
strengthen the next generation of grantmakers in order to advance social
justice philanthropy. Go to:
www.epip.org
August 13 - 19, 2006
Idealist is a project of Action
Without Borders. This site lists over 55,000 nonprofit and community
organizations in 165 countries, which you can search or browse by name,
location, or mission. If your organization is not yet listed here, you can
add it at no cost. The site also includes thousands of volunteer
opportunities in your community and around the world, a Nonprofit Career
Center with hundreds of job and internship listings and much more.
Organizations can post job openings, volunteer
opportunities, events, internships, campaigns, and resources.
Go to:
www.idealist.org
August 6 - 12, 2006
Nonprofit organizations
consistently build on an important body of written work that focuses on
understanding and solving societal problems. IssueLab was created to help
bring this body of work into focus. Launched in 2006, IssueLab is a
wide-ranging, searchable and browseable archive of critical publications. It
simplifies the process of locating and accessing research and policy
analysis materials, including reports, white papers, fact sheets, case
studies, data sets and more. IssueLab was created by New Media for
Nonprofits, a web design and development company that has served nonprofit
organizations exclusively since 1999. Go to:
www.issuelab.org
July 23 - August 5, 2006
The Public Conversations
Project (PCP) helps people with fundamental disagreements over divisive
issues develop the mutual understanding and trust essential for strong
communities and positive action. The Public Conversations Project
(PCP) began in 1989 when a group of family therapists from the Family
Institute of Cambridge started exploring whether their ways of working with
personal conflicts could be fruitfully applied to public disputes.
Part “think tank,” part service provider, and part
training center, major services include: convening, designing, and
facilitating dialogues, meetings, and conferences; training, both packaged
and customized; consulting to those who want to apply our methods and
resources; writing and speaking to a variety of professional and general
audiences. Go to:
www.publicconversations.org
July 16 - 22, 2006
The National Center for
Children in Poverty (NCCP) is the nation’s leading public policy center
dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of
America’s low-income families and children. Using research to inform policy
and practice, NCCP seeks to advance family-oriented solutions and the
strategic use of public resources at the state and national levels to ensure
positive outcomes for the next generation. Go to:
www.nccp.org
July 9
- 15, 2006
The National Child Welfare
Resource Center for Organizational Improvement is a part of the Edmund S.
Muskie School of Public Service, at the University of Southern Maine. The
Center supports organizations committed to the welfare of children, youth
and families through training, technical assistance, research and
evaluation. The Center is one of seven national resource centers (NRCs)
funded by the Children’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. All the NRCs provide free, on-site training and technical
assistance to State and Tribal child welfare agencies. The site contains a
broad array of technical assistance and training resources. Go to:
muskie.usm.maine.edu
July 2 - 8, 2006
The Nonprofit Coordinating
Committee of New York, Inc., (NPCC) is the voice and information source for
New York nonprofits. Established in 1984, NPCC informs and connects
nonprofit leaders, saves nonprofits money, and strengthens the nonprofit
sector’s relations with government. NPCC publishes a monthly newsletter, New
York Nonprofits, offers workshops and roundtables on management issues,
provides cost-saving vendor services, manages a Government Relations
Committee that works on sector-wide government and legislative issues, and
maintains a website loaded with information on operating a nonprofit. NPCC
has more than 1,400 dues-paying members in the New York City area. Access to
some resources require membership in NPCC though many resources are
available to all. Go to:
www.npccny.org
June
25 - July 1, 2006
The Center for Information
and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) promotes research on
the civic and political engagement of Americans between the ages of 15 and
25. Although CIRCLE conducts and funds research, not practice, the projects
that we support have practical implications for those who work to increase
young people's engagement in politics and civic life. CIRCLE is also a
clearinghouse for relevant information and scholarship. CIRCLE was founded
in 2001 with a generous grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts and is now also
funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
It is based in the University
of Maryland's
School
of Public Policy. Go to:
www.civicyouth.org
June
18 - 24, 2006
The Planning and Evaluation
Resource Center (PERC) is a project of the Innovation Center for Community
and Youth Development and the Institute for Applied Research in Youth
Development at Tufts University. This website is designed for people who
want to do self-evaluations of their youth development programs or who want
to understand evaluation better. Throughout this site you will find
tutorials and tools on program planning and evaluation. The Planning &
Evaluation Resource Center also has a calendar of training events and
lectures relevant to program planning and evaluation, and a nationwide
database of people involved in youth development. There is also a section
where you can learn more about the creators of this website. Go to:
www.evaluationtools.org
June
11 - 17, 2006
The Center for Nonprofit
Management fosters healthy neighborhoods and communities by improving the
performance of nonprofit organizations addressing critical issues and
serving underserved populations. Established in 1979 by the corporate and
foundation community, the Center for Nonprofit Management helps nonprofit
organizations more effectively fulfill their missions by:
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The Center’s Knowledge and
Information services are free and fees for other services are set on a
sliding scale to help make them accessible to organizations of all sizes. Go
to:
www.cnmsocal.org
June 4
- 10, 2006
Established in 2001, the
International Network on Strategic Philanthropy (INSP) is a joint initiative
of several major foundations which have decided to invest in the
infrastructure of the sector: The INSP bills itself as a decentralized think
tank that enables foundation leaders, staff, consultants and researchers as
well as representatives of support organizations to gather and disseminate
know-how, to place issues of philanthropy and foundation activities on the
national and global agenda and to design innovative implementation
mechanisms for new approaches in strategic philanthropy. Resource categories
include: foundations as investors for the public benefit, governance &
decision making, program management, new forms of philanthropy, and
evaluation. Also included is a collection INSP Papers on a range of related
topics. Go to:
www.insp.efc.be
May 28
- June 3, 2006
The site bills
itself as "the Knowledge Network for Business Thought Leaders". You can
create a personal knowledge network based on your interests. When you log
in, the site displays updates in the topical areas you have previously
selected. You can change your preferences whenever you want to. Manyworlds
also automatically generates a set of recommendations for new resources that
are judged to be useful to you based on your use of the website and your
identified interests. This list of recommendations is updated weekly. Go to:
www.manyworlds.com
May 21
- 27, 2006
Idealware provides candid
Consumer-Reports-style reviews and articles about software of interest to
nonprofits, centralized into a website. Through product comparisons,
recommendations, case studies, and software news, Idealware allows
nonprofits to make the software decisions that will help them be more
effective. Go to:
www.idealware.org
May 14
- 20, 2006
Businessballs is a free
learning and development resource for people and organizations, run by Alan
Chapman, in Leicester, England. The website's aims are to continue to
provide free and helpful resources for personal and organizational
development. The site includes an excellent selection of hundreds of
worksheets, games, exercises, tools and diagrams. Go to:
www.businessballs.com
May
7 - 13, 2006
The mission of the Nonprofits
Assistance Fund is to foster community development and vitality by building
financially healthy nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits Assistance Fund
provides loans and financial management training and technical assistance to
stabilize and strengthen the financial capacity of nonprofit organizations
in Minnesota. The Fund offers
a number of workshops in the Twin
Cities and
Minnesota. Toward its mission of strengthening
nonprofit organizations, Nonprofits Assistance Fund makes available a
variety of articles, publications, on nonprofit financial management that
will be very useful to any nonprofit. The website also has a number of
financial management tools and templates including: Audit Services Request
for Proposal, Business Plan for Nonprofits and Social Ventures, Cash Flow
Template, Financial Management Self-Assessment for Nonprofit Organizations,
Glossary of Financial Terms, and Red Flags of Financial Problems. Go to:
www.nonprofitsassistancefund.org
April
30 - May 6, 2006
The Catalog of Nonprofit
Literature is a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. It
incorporates the unique contents of the Foundation
Center's five libraries and contains
more than 24,900 full bibliographic citations, of which more than 17,000
have descriptive abstracts. It is updated daily. The Catalog was formerly
known as Literature of the Nonprofit Sector (LNPS). Go to:
foundationcenter.org
April
23 - 29, 2006
Non-Profit Nuts & Bolts
provides nonprofit professionals with management tips that will help build
better organizations. The Web site includes articles, reports, and resources
that pertain to nonprofit management. Go to:
www.nutsbolts.com
April
16 - 22, 2006
The
Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest (CLPI) promotes, supports and
protects 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy and lobbying in order to strengthen
participation the democratic process and advance charitable missions. CLPI’s
goals are to: Promote the participation of nonprofits in the public policy
process by acting as a catalyst for nonprofit advocacy and lobbying; Support
the participation of nonprofits in the public policy process by providing
tools, organizing networks to convey those tools, and building foundation
support for advocacy; and, Protect and expand nonprofit lobbying rights.
The Washington, D.C.-based organization focuses on several persistent
barriers that significantly undermine the essential public policy role of
nonprofits, including: limited financial resources, confusion regarding the
law, and limited staff or volunteer skills. CLPI works to remove these
barriers by expanding the advocacy capacity of nonprofit networks and
seeking to increase awareness of the important role of nonprofit advocacy.
Go to:
www.clpi.org
April
9 - 15, 2006
The Milano School MiX is a
field-wide effort to strengthen the management and human resources skills
and expertise of community development corporations (CDCs) and other CBOs.
It is the direct outcome of the partnership of a multi-disciplinary
university and a field-based intellectual community committed to developing
urban communities. Two of the main objectives of the project are to increase
the representation of the communities served within the leadership of
community development and to make easy-to-use management and human resource
tools accessible at the touch of a button. The MiX website was launched as
part of a larger initiative to help leaders of CBOs and CDCs thrive in the
face of new demands and changing markets. While there are other websites
that focus on community development and nonprofit management, there is no
single site dedicated to key management issues for CBOs and CDCs. Go to:
www.milanomix.org
April
2 - 8, 2006
The Nonprofit Virtual
Library, published by the Funding Center of the Main Library at Michigan
State Universities, offers an excellent collection of nonprofit directories
and other web sites providing advice or information about running
nonprofits. It includes links to databases of nonprofit resources, and
annotated links to additional resources. A directory of grants and related
resources is also available. Go to:
www.lib.msu.edu
March
26 - April 1, 2006
Pegasus Communications
publishes books and newsletters, and produces conferences and recordings on
systems thinking and organizational learning. The company sponsors the
annual Systems Thinking in Action® Conference and other events where leading
theorists and practitioners from around the world meet to share new concepts
about organizational change. Pegasus also offers a wide range of video tapes
and audio tapes of conference keynote and concurrent sessions. Pegasus has
also published several newsletters, books and publications. LEVERAGE POINTS
the free monthly e-newsletter, spotlights innovations in leadership,
management, and organizational development. While the site promotes products
for sale, there is an extensive collection of resources available at no
charge. Go to:
www.pegasuscom.com
March
19 - 25, 2006
The
Alliance
for Justice is a national association of environmental, civil rights, mental
health, women's, children's and consumer advocacy organizations. Since its
inception in 1979, the Alliance
has worked to advance the cause of justice for all Americans, strengthen the
public interest community's ability to influence public policy, and foster
the next generation of advocates. Go to:
www.afj.org
March
12 - 18, 2006
Capaciteria is a
comprehensive, searchable database directory of administrative resources
that help nonprofits leverage their own capacity. It promotes peer review
because “members’ can comment on and rate individual resource links as well
as add useful new links. Like Google, search requests return link results
weighted to rise based on ratings and popularity given to them by nonprofit
users. Members can use the 'Favorites' feature to personalize their list of
easily accessible links in Capaciteria. Go to:
capaciteria.org
March
5 - 11, 2006
The National Council on Crime
and Delinquency, founded in 1907, is a nonprofit organization which promotes
effective, humane, fair and economically sound solutions to family,
community and justice problems. NCCD conducts research, promotes reform
initiatives, and seeks to work with individuals, public and private
organizations and the media to prevent and reduce crime and delinquency. In
keeping with NCCD's traditional role as a national leader in research and
information, NCCD is working to generate targeted strategies that address
some of our nations' most pressing problems in the justice system. The three
current areas of focus are: Women and Justice, Juvenile Justice and Mental
Health, and Race and Justice. Go to:
www.nccd-crc.org
February
26 - March 4, 2006
The Imagine
Canada
- John Hodgson Library is Canada's
leading source of research and resources for the charitable and nonprofit
sector. With more than 6,000 catalogue titles, the Imagine Canada - John
Hodgson Library is Canada's
leading online library of information for the charitable and nonprofit
sector. The library collection includes the most current works on
philanthropy, civil society, corporate social responsibility, fundraising,
capacity building, public policy, voluntary action and nonprofit research.
Go to:
www.imaginecanada.ca
February
19 - 25, 2006
Information Renaissance is a nonprofit organization
founded in 1996
that promotes the use of the Internet to empower
citizens to participate more fully in the democratic decision-making
process. Our goal is to enable citizens
to participate more fully in the democratic process by improving access and
fostering meaningful, high-level, interactive exchanges between informed
members of the public and their government. To support this goal we seek to
provide appropriate and sustainable technology for underserved communities
nationwide. Go to:
www.info-ren.org
February
12 - 18, 2006
The Study Circles Resource
Center is dedicated to finding ways for all kinds of people to engage in
dialogue and problem solving on critical social and political issues. SCRC
helps communities by giving them the tools to organize productive dialogue,
recruit diverse participants, find solutions, and work for action and
change. The site has resources for study circles in the following issues
areas: education and achievement; neighborhoods and families; growth and
sprawl; youth issues; diversity; immigration; police-community relations;
criminal justice; and, civil liberties and security. Go to:
www.studycircles.org
February
5 - 11, 2006
The Coalition on Human Needs
(CHN) is an alliance of national organizations working together to promote
public policies which address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable
populations. The Coalition's members include civil rights, religious, labor
and professional organizations and those concerned with the well being of
children, women, the elderly and people with disabilities. The Coalition
tracks 14 major issue areas with a number of originally produced reports,
analyses, and publications. Also included are job listings with member
organizations of the Coalition on Human Needs. Go to:
www.chn.org
January
29 - February 4, 2006
VolunteerMatch is the
nonprofit, online service that helps interested volunteers get involved with
community service organizations throughout the United States. Volunteers
enter their ZIP code on the VolunteerMatch web site to quickly find local
volunteer opportunities matching individual interests and schedules. This
simple, effective service has already generated hundreds of thousands of
volunteer referrals nationwide. Nonprofit organizations can also
register/subscribe to post their volunteer needs. Go to:
www.volunteermatch.org
January
22 - 28, 2006
The William E. Smith
Institute for Association Research was created by SmithBucklin to underwrite
original, practice-based research that provides the latest, most useful
information and insights to volunteer and staff leaders on topics and issues
that help advance the growth of associations and enhance the value delivered
to the constituencies they serve. The research studies focus on trade,
business and professional volunteer-governed organizations. A recent study
is entitled “Generations and the Future of Association Participation”.
Free registration required to access reports. Go to:
www.smithbucklin.com
January
15 - 21, 2006
The Philanthropy Collections
include the historical records of the following: organizations and
individuals that have worked as advocates for the nonprofit sector, fund
raising firms that help nonprofit organizations raise money, foundations and
individual philanthropists, and nonprofit organizations that provide social
services, particularly in central Indiana. These collections also provide a
wide scope of research materials dealing with social, historical, political,
educational, and ethnic developments and changes in the United States during
the twentieth century. In conjunction with the Joseph and Matthew Payton
Philanthropic Studies Library, the Philanthropy collections represent a
great concentration of materials for intensive study in all realms of
philanthropy. Go to:
www.ulib.iupui.edu
January
8 - 14, 2006
The mission of the Population
Resource Center is to promote the use of accurate population data and sound,
objective analysis of these data in the making of public policy. Convinced
that demographic change is among a handful of basic factors that determine
social and economic progress, the Population Resource Center organizes a
variety of educational and informational programs that encourage
policymakers to incorporate the latest demographic research findings in the
development of public policy. Go to:
www.prcdc.org
January
1 - 7, 2006
Ivy Sea Online, recognized by Inc.com, Harvard Business
School, The CEO Refresher and other business portals as one of the best
sites on the internet for entrepreneurs, small-business owners and
organizational leaders. Of special interest is the Leadership Portal. This
part of the site is organized to guide leaders of all levels of skillfulness
directly to resources that will help build key traits and manage key issues.
Go to:
www.ivysea.com
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