December 30, 2007 -
January 5, 2008
MicroEnterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness,
Learning and Dissemination
FIELD's mission is to
identify, develop and disseminate best practices in the microenterprise
field, and to educate funders, policy makers and others about
microenterprise as an anti-poverty strategy. FIELD is a project of the
Economic Opportunities Program (EOP), which is a policy program housed at
the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C. EOP focuses on advancing strategies
that connect the poor and underemployed to the mainstream economy. FIELD was
created in 1998 to build on the momentum generated by the Self-Employment
Learning Project (SELP), an evaluation and public education program that was
the leading information resource on microenterprise in the U.S. at that
time. Given those origins, many of SELP's senior staff and consultants
played critical roles in the creation of FIELD, and remain in key positions
today. Go to:
fieldus.org
December 23 - 29,
2007
MarketingPower.com
The American Marketing Association, one of the largest professional
associations for marketers, has 38,000 members worldwide in every area of
marketing. For over six decades the AMA has been a leading source for
information, knowledge sharing and development in the marketing profession.
The AMA's website, MarketingPower.com, supplies marketing professionals and
AMA members with the information, products and services required to succeed
in their jobs and careers. The site offers a comprehensive collection of
articles, reports, webcasts and a newsletter focused on marketing, public
relations, advertising, trends and industry news. While some of the
resources are available to members of the AMA only, many resources can be
accessed through a no cost registration on the website. Go to:
www.marketingpower.com
December 16 - 22,
2007
Child Welfare Information Gateway
A service of the Children's
Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, the Gateway provides access to print and electronic
publications, websites, and online databases covering a wide range of topics
from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and
neglect, adoption, and search and reunion. Go to:
www.childwelfare.gov
December 9 - 15,
2007
The NonprofitCenters Network
The NonprofitCenters Network is a community of Multi-tenant Nonprofit
Centers and their philanthropic, government, academic and real estate
partners. Through conferences, peer networking, mentoring and the internet,
The Network provides education and resources for the creation and operation
of quality nonprofit office and program space. Go to:
www.nonprofitcenters.org
December 2 - 8,
2007
Centre for Non Profit Management
The Centre for Non Profit
Management (CNPM) builds leadership and management capacity in the
non-profit sector. CNPM offers support to executive directors, boards and
staff through, training, research, and preparing resources and materials.
CNPM’s ultimate goal is a creative and well run non profit sector that
engages in open dialogue with governments as funders and authors of public
policies affecting non-profits. The Centre hosts the Voluntary Sector
Knowledge Network (VSKN), a website designed to help leaders build the
capacity of non-profit organizations. It is of specific interest to smaller
organizations, especially those that are volunteer led and those in rural
and remote areas. Go to:
www.vskn.ca
November 25 - December 1,
2007
National Youth Development Information Center
The National Youth
Development Information Center (NYDIC) is a one-stop website for youth
workers with interest in any and all of the following areas: funding,
programming, research, policy, job and training opportunities. NYDIC also
provides current news to the youth development field and has one of the
largest online libraries, providing practice-related information at low-cost
or no cost. NYDIC provides constant opportunities for practitioners to share
knowledge and experience, enabling them to build the best practice in the
field of youth development. NYDIC is an initiative of the National
Collaboration for Youth. Go to:
www.nydic.org
November 18 - 24,
2007
Youth Service America
Youth Service
America (YSA) is a resource center that partners with thousands of
organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer
opportunities for young people, ages 5-25, to serve locally, nationally, and
globally. Founded in 1986, YSA’s mission is to expand the impact of the
youth service movement with communities, schools, corporations, and
governments. YSA envisions a global culture of engaged youth who are
committed to a lifetime of service, learning, leadership and achievement and
works toward that mission through four core strategies:
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Go to:
ysa.org
November 11 - 17, 2007
Texas Commission on the Arts Tools for Results Tool-kit
The Texas
Commission on the Arts (TCA) is the state agency charged with the
development of a receptive climate for the arts in Texas. For more than 30
years, the Texas Commission on the Arts has accomplished its mission by
providing grants, information, and technical assistance to artists, arts
organizations, and the general public.
The TCA Tools for Results
Tool-kit was developed as a resource for non-profit arts and cultural
organizations in Texas and beyond. TCA uses in-text citations throughout the
Tool-kit in acknowledging those sources. The Tool-kit covers six topic
areas: Fundraising & Development, Programs & Exhibitions, Cultural Tourism,
Marketing, Advocacy, and Nonprofit Basics. Each section covers the basics,
relevant concepts, best practices, things to consider, ideas for
implementing change, common mistakes, ways to get started, do’s and don’ts,
and how-to’s on a variety of topics. The “tools” are the sample forms,
letters, documents, checklists, templates, and other resources. The
intention is for nonprofits to take these “tools” and adapt them for their
own purposes. Go to:
www.arts.state.tx
November 4 - 10,
2007
David Lamb's Prospect Research Page
Lamb, a former development
officer at the University of Washington and Santa Clara University, has
developed a collection of truly useful Internet sites for researching
corporations, foundations, and individual donors. David Lamb's Prospect
Research Page includes links to directories of doctors, judges, lawyers, and
airplane owners; online news sources; and corporate and public records
databases. What's nice about the Prospect Research Page is that Lamb has
distilled the vast number of potential sources of information on the
Internet into a relatively small selection of annotated sites. Go to:
www.lambresearch.com
October 28 - November 3, 2007
RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service
The mission of the RGK Center
for Philanthropy and Community Service, located at the Lyndon B. Johnson
School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin, is to build
knowledge about nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and volunteerism, and
to prepare students and practitioners to make effective contributions to
their communities and countries. The RGK Center supports the nonprofit
sector with education, research and outreach by expanding the academic base
for the growing study of policies and practices affecting nonprofits, and by
contributing to national and international debates about the future of the
sector. RGK Center initiatives emphasize collaborative approaches and
international perspectives in order to foster research and dialogue across
fields and across borders. Among its many projects is
ServiceLeader.org, which provides
information on all aspects of volunteerism, in particular virtual
volunteering. Go to:
www.utexas.edu
October 21 - 27, 2007
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
The mission of the Institute
for Women's Policy Research is to conduct rigorous research and disseminate
its findings to address the needs of women, promote public dialogue, and
strengthen families, communities, and societies. IWPR focuses on issues of
poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, health
and safety, and women's civic and political participation. The Institute
works with policymakers, scholars, and public interest groups around the
country to design, execute, and disseminate research that illuminates
economics and social policy issues affecting women and families, and to
build a network of individuals and organizations that conduct and use
women-oriented policy research. IWPR, an independent, non-profit, research
organization also works in affiliation with the graduate programs in public
policy and women's studies at The George Washington University. Go to:
www.iwpr.org
October 14 - 20, 2007
Latino Issues Forum
Latino Issues Forum (LIF) is
a non-profit public policy and advocacy institute dedicated to advancing new
and innovative public policy solutions for a better, more equitable and
prosperous society. Established in 1987, LIF's primary focus is on the
broader issues of education, health care, the environment,
telecommunications, and civic participation. LIF also serves as a
clearinghouse to assist and provide the news media with accurate information
and sources in Latino community for fair and effective coverage of issues.
LIF addresses public policy issues from the perspective of how they will
affect the social and economic future of the Latino community. Go to:
www.lif.org
October 7 - 13, 2007
Rural Assistance Center
The Rural Assistance Center (RAC)
serves as a rural health and human services information portal which helps
rural communities and other rural stakeholders access the full range of
available programs, funding, and research that can enable them to provide
quality health and human services to rural residents. Services provided
include RAC's web site, electronic mailing lists, and customized assistance.
RAC's website includes funding opportunities, topic-specific information
guides, news and events, publications and maps, experts and organizations,
an online clearinghouse and a success stories database. Go to:
www.raconline.org
September 30 - October 6, 2007
Capaciteria:
Administrative Resources Database
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. Learn about Capaciteria's unique
features and 90 categories of information, go to
www.capaciteria.org.
September 23 - 29, 2007
Governance Matters
Governance Matters provides
nonprofit leaders with the governance resources they need to build more
effective boards. Through advocacy, peer learning roundtables and workshops,
and educational resources such as this Web site, Governance Matters fosters
an open exchange of ideas throughout the nonprofit sector. Though the focus
of the organization is New York, the website is rich with resource that will
be of great use to all nonprofits. All are free unless otherwise noted. The
links are organized in the following categories: advocacy, board
development, ethics, financial oversight, foundation boards, general
governance resources, human resources, legal oversight, mission definition
and strategic planning, and resource development/fundraising. Go to:
www.governancematters.org
September 16 - 22, 2007
AllianceStrategy.com
AllianceStrategy.com offers
resources and readings on alliance strategy and management. The site is
maintained by Ben Gomes-Casseres, author of The Alliance Revolution and
co-author of Mastering Alliance Strategy, a professor at Brandeis
University, and the principal of Alliance Strategy Consulting. Most of the
information on this site is provided free of charge. Go to:
www.alliancestrategy.com.
September 9 - 15, 2007
Asset-Based Community Development Institute
The Asset-Based Community
Development Institute (ABCD) is co-directed by
John L. McKnight, director of community studies at Northwestern
University's Institute for Policy Research, and his long-time collaborator
in community research,
John P. Kretzmann , an Institute for Policy Research, senior research
associate. Challenging the traditional approach to solving urban problems,
which focuses service providers and funding agencies on the needs and
deficiencies of neighborhoods, Kretzmann and McKnight have demonstrated that
community assets are key building blocks in sustainable urban and rural
community revitalization efforts. Expanding from the hundreds of talks given
by McKnight and Kretzmann at a wide range of domestic and international
institutions, the ABCD Institute has developed a North American ABCD
Faculty. This adjunct faculty group has 32 highly skilled
practitioner/trainers who have worked as consultants, workshop leaders, and
speakers for the many and diverse constituencies interested in ABCD ideas.
The Institute also shares its findings in the ABCD Workbooks series and in
various related publications . The workbooks provide practical resources and
tools for community builders to identify, nurture, and mobilize neighborhood
assets. Go to:
www.northwestern.edu
September 2 - 8, 2007
Nonprofits Assistance Fund
The Nonprofits Assistance
Fund (NAF) is a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)
that fosters community development and vitality by building financially
healthy nonprofits. NAF provides financing for working capital, cash flow,
equipment and facility projects with a focus on strengthening the operation
and mission of nonprofits. The organization also offers financial
management workshops and advice that improve nonprofits’ capacity to carry
out their mission. While the focus of the organization is on nonprofits in
Minnesota, most of the resources will be of great use to other nonprofits.
Go to:
www.nonprofitsassistancefund.org
August 26 - September 1, 2007
Americans for the Arts
Americans for the Arts is the
nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America.
With 45 years of service, the organization is dedicated to representing and
serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to
participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Americans for the Arts
maintains the National Arts Policy Database, a comprehensive
research/resource tool containing approximately 9,000 items documenting
information on the arts and culture in the United States. Go to:
www.americansforthearts.org
August 19 - 25, 2007
Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance Risk Retention Group
The Alliance of Nonprofits
for Insurance, Risk Retention Group (ANI-RRG) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt
nonprofit insurance company whose mission is to be a stable source of
reasonably priced liability insurance for 501(c)(3) nonprofits. ANI-RRG and
an affiliated reinsurance captive company, have been capitalized with $10
million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the David and
Lucile Packard Foundation. Modeled after the Nonprofits' Insurance Alliance
of California (NIAC), which was founded in 1989 and which has brought
stability in price and coverage to thousands of nonprofits in California,
ANI-RRG is also governed by its nonprofit organization members. ANI-RRG also
assists nonprofit organizations to develop and implement effective loss
control and risk management programs. ANI-RRG is currently writing coverage
for 501(c)(3) nonprofits in Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of
Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri,
Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont,
Virginia and Washington.
www.ani-rrg.org
August 12 - 18, 2007
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities is one of the nation’s premier policy organizations
working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs
that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals. The Center
conducts research and develops policy options to inform public debates over
proposed budget and tax policies and to help ensure that the needs of
low-income families and individuals are considered in these debates. Over
the past two decades, the Center has gained a reputation for producing
materials that are balanced, authoritative, accessible to non-specialists,
and responsive to issues currently before the country. The Center’s
materials are used by policymakers and non-profit organizations across the
political spectrum, as well as by journalists from a variety of media
outlets. Go to:
www.cbpp.org
July 29 - August 11, 2007
American Evaluation Association
The American Evaluation
Association (AEA) is an international professional association of evaluators
who assess the effectiveness of programs, policies, personnel, technology
products, and organizations. The AEA Web site has a variety of
evaluation-related resources, including information about the association's
annual conference and other related events, topical interest groups,
published books and journals, the full-text of key documents for evaluators,
a list of job postings and training institutions in the field, links to
other sites of interest, a listing of ongoing degree programs of relevance
to evaluation, and the EVALTALK Listserv, an open discussion list devoted to
issues in the field of evaluation. The AEA member newsletter, first
published in the winter of 2001, is also available on the Web site. Go to:
www.eval.org
July 22 - 28, 2007
KnowledgePlex
KnowledgePlex is designed to support practitioners, grantors, policy
makers, scholars, investors, and others involved in affordable housing and
community development. Goals of KnowledgePlex include:
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The site includes case
studies, best practices, news, discussion forums, and a calendar.
www.knowledgeplex.org
July 15 - 21, 2007
onPhilanthropy
onPhilanthropy.com is a
global resource for non-profit and philanthropy professionals. It is free of
charge and features several industry-leading e-mail newsletters.
onPhilanthropy.com is published by Changing Our World, Inc., a leading U.S.
fundraising and philanthropic services company. onPhilanthropy.com began
publishing in 1999 with a monthly e-newsletter and has now grown to five
different newsletters and RSS feeds. More than 100,000 non-profit and
philanthropy professionals use the website, blogs, and newsletters each
month. Go to:
www.onphilanthropy.com
July 8 - 14, 2007
NPAction
NPAction is an online
resource for nonprofit advocacy launched by OMB Watch. NPAction was
developed as a vibrant central advocacy hub to provide nonprofits access to
information about rules governing policy participation, examples of
successful and unsuccessful efforts, and identification of key resources.
The goal is to increase the awareness of groups already engaged in public
policy participation, and to, thereby, enhance opportunities for building
communities of interest among new and emerging and existing public policy
participators. Committed to continuously improve the site’s offerings,
nonprofits are encouraged to actively explore what's available, suggest
their own ideas for resources to add, and provide comments on the work to
date. Go to:
www.npaction.org
July 1 - 7, 2007
The Communications Network
The Communications Network is
an association of foundations that provides training and resources in public
relations and strategic communications. While the focus of the site is
philanthropy much of the information will be useful to all nonprofits. The
public resources section of the website includes information organized in
the following categories: Job Bank Tools, Tips, and How-To's,
Opinions, Reports, Research, and Sharing Ideas and Practice. Go to:
www.comnetwork.org
June 24 - 30, 2007
Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
The Innovation Center for
Community and Youth Development is an intermediary organization that
unleashes the potential of youth, adults, organizations, and communities to
engage together in creating a just and equitable society. In 1996, the
Innovation Center was launched as a division of National 4-H Council as an
“idea incubator” for new theory and practice in youth development. As its
work with communities across the United States grew, the Innovation Center
became an independent organization, and obtained 501c3 status in 2003. The
Center seeks to strengthen the work of hundreds of organizations, impacting
thousands of young people in communities across the country by providing
capacity building assistance, making connections between grassroots
organization and new resources, and bringing new knowledge and ideas from
the community level into the field. The website offers a variety or
resources, many of them available at no charge. Go to:
www.theinnovationcenter.org
June 17 - 23, 2007
Clearinghouse for Volunteer Accounting Services
The Clearinghouse for
Volunteer Accounting Services provides accounting services to nonprofit
organizations nationwide by matching accountants with organizations in need
of accounting services. All accountants work on a volunteer basis, and offer
their services free of charge to eligible nonprofits. The Web site includes
information on how to find an accountant, as well as the accounting services
they provide. Go to:
www.cvas-usa.org
June 10 - 16, 2007
Catalog of Nonprofit Literature
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 25,000 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:
lnps.fdncenter.org
June 3 - 9, 2007
Resources for Retention Website
The Corporation for National
and Community Service has developed the "Resources for Retention" website
that includes information that will help you recruit and retain volunteers
for your program. The 2007 Volunteering in America report by the Corporation
for National and Community Service found that 1 out of 3 volunteers who
volunteered in 2005 did not in 2006, the highest dropout rate of the last
four years. Sound recruitment and retention strategies are an important part
of any well-designed and well-managed program. The site includes an
extensive collection of resources organized into two main categories: the
first category, Volunteer Management Practices includes recruiting,
screening and matching volunteers, training and volunteer development; and
recognizing volunteers. The second category, Effective Organizational
Practices includes organizational culture and resource management. Go to:
www.nationalserviceresources.org
May 27 - June 2, 2007
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
The Center on Philanthropy’s
mission is to increase the understanding of philanthropy, to improve its
practice, and to enhance participation in philanthropy. Research is at the
core of all three. Through basic and applied research, the Center creates
new knowledge that increases understanding of philanthropy and the nonprofit
sector. Its credibility and methodological rigor set the standard for the
field. Cutting-edge information developed by the Center’s in-house research
staff and peer-reviewed faculty studies identifies emerging trends,
challenges conventional wisdom, and provides invaluable insights into
philanthropic organizations and practices. Leading national and regional
organizations also contract with the Center to analyze the dynamics of
changes taking place in philanthropy, assess the philanthropic landscape,
and evaluate their programs. The Center shares knowledge widely, with
nonprofit professionals around the world and with the general public,
through a variety of means, including: training, academic and practitioner
publications, electronic communications, and the mainstream news media. Go
to:
www.philanthropy.iupui.edu
May 20 - 26, 2007
Civic Ventures
Civic Ventures is a think
tank and an incubator, generating ideas and inventing programs to help
society achieve the greatest return on experience. Founded in the late 1990s
by social entrepreneurs John Gardner and Marc Freedman, Civic Ventures is
reframing the debate about aging in America and redefining the second half
of life as a source of social and individual renewal. Through research,
publishing, conferences, and media outreach, Civic Ventures reports on the
growth of the experience movement. Through programs and consulting, Civic
Ventures brings together older adults with a passion for service and helps
stimulate opportunities for using their talents to advance the greater good.
Go to:
www.civicventures.org
May 13 - 19, 2007
Balanced Scorecard Institute
The Balanced Scorecard
Institute provides training and consulting services to commercial,
government, and non-profit organizations in applying best practices in
balanced scorecard, strategic performance management and measurement, and
transformation and change management. The Institute provides public and
on-site courses, facilitation services, consulting, and information and
tools to executives, managers and analysts as they use strategic management
concepts to transform their organizations into "performance excellence"
organizations. Their website serves as a resource to obtain information,
ideas and lessons learned in building strategic management and performance
measurement systems using the award-winning Nine Steps to Success® balanced
scorecard methodology. Go to:
www.balancedscorecard.org
May 6 - 12, 2007
Outcome Indicators Project
Go to:
www.urban.org
April 29 - May 5, 2007
University of Southern California Nonprofit Studies
Center
The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy promotes more effective
philanthropy and strengthens the nonprofit sector through research that
informs philanthropic decision making and public policy to advance public
problem solving. The Center acts as a catalyst for understanding and action
at the intersection of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors by
providing information and analysis that is of value to decision makers in
the three sectors. The Center does this in two ways. First, by conducting
research on philanthropy, volunteerism, and the nonprofit sector. And
second, by communicating the findings and their implications as well as
surface emerging issues by convening key decision makers in forums,
roundtables, and a distinguished speakers series. The website includes links
to many resources organized in the following categories: databases and
charitable statistics, nonprofit management and leadership, academic
journals, nonprofit news and publications, professional associations and
networks, and, research and education centers. Go to:
www.usc.edu
April 22 - 28, 2007
PeriStats
Developed by the March of
Dimes Perinatal Data Center, the PeriStats Web site provides free access to
US, state, county, and city maternal & infant health data. Over 60,000
graphs, maps and tables available. You can select a region to get a complete
list for the US or your state. This site allows users to easily access and
use statistics related to infant and maternal health, such as preterm and
low birthweight status, prenatal care and maternal health factors, infant
mortality, and health insurance coverage. Peristats integrates data
from over twelve government sources (e.g., Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Health Resources Services Administration) and offers data at the
national, state, county, and city level across several years. Peristats
provides the ability to quickly create graphs, maps, and tables by
selecting a topic and a location. Users can print, copy and paste, or
download PowerPoint slides of these figures to supplement their own reports.
The website also offers the option to download selected data into an Excel
file.
Peristats
offers additional information about data
definitions and methods of calculating data. In addition, users can receive
updates on data and website changes by signing up for the Peristat
Newsletter. Go to:
www.marchofdimes.com
April 15 - 21, 2007
Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
The Forum of Regional
Associations of Grantmakers is a national network of local leaders and
organizations across the United States that support effective charitable
giving. The Forum’s network focuses on the philanthropy of the city, state,
and multi-state areas of the U.S. and encompasses 32 regional associations
of grantmakers. These regional associations collectively represent more than
4,000 grantmakers and others interested in philanthropy. The website
Knowledge Center includes resources that describe, support, and increase
giving by foundations, corporations, and individuals. The site also includes
a number of publications, many of them free, as well as e-newsletters. Go
to:
www.givingforum.org
April 8 - 14,
2007
The Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center
National Network
The Points of Light
Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network engages and mobilizes
millions of volunteers who are helping to solve serious social problems in
thousands of communities. Through a variety of programs and services, the
Foundation encourages people from all walks of life — businesses,
nonprofits, faith-based organizations, low-income communities, families,
youth, and older adults — to volunteer. Based in Washington, D.C., the
Foundation advocates community service through a partnership with the
Volunteer Center National Network. Together, they reach millions of people
in thousands of communities to help mobilize people and resources, which
deliver solutions that address community problems. Go to:
www.pointsoflight.org
April 1 - 7,
2007
Young Nonprofit Professionals Network
The Young Nonprofit
Professionals Network (YNPN) promotes an efficient, viable, and inclusive
nonprofit sector that supports the growth, learning, and development of
young professionals. YNPN seeks to engage and support future nonprofit and
community leaders through professional development, networking and social
opportunities designed for young people involved in the nonprofit
community. Now with 10,000 members in over a dozen cities, the Young
Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) strategy is to serve as a powerful,
organic vehicle for retaining and strengthening the nonprofit sector’s next
generation of leaders -- led by and directly responsive to the needs of
early career nonprofit professionals. From its beginnings in 1997 as a
small, informal gathering of peers in San Francisco, YNPN has grown to
become one of the nation’s largest associations of nonprofit practitioners.
Go to:
www.ynpn.org
March 25 - 31,
2007
William E. Smith Institute for Association Research
The William E. Smith
Institute for Association Research was created by SmithBucklin to underwrite
original, practice-based research that will provide 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 will focus on trade,
business and professional volunteer-governed organizations.
The Mission of the Bill Smith
Institute is to provide the latest, most useful information and insights to
volunteer and staff leaders on topics, issues and trends that help advance
the growth of associations and enhance the value delivered to the
constituencies they serve. Go to:
www.smithbucklin.com
March 18 - 24,
2007
The Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group
The Nonprofit Professionals
Advisory Group is dedicated to building the capacity of nonprofit
organizations, associations, institutions of higher education, the public
sector and the professionals who make them run smoothly. The group also
offers services for people nationwide who seek employment in the nonprofit
sector -- resume writing, cover letter editing and job search consulting --
and for nonprofits themselves -- strategic hiring, search, training,
planning, and communications counsel. The website also includes links to
resources for nonprofit employers, search committees and human resource
managers. Go to:
www.nonprofitprofessionals.com
March 11 - 17,
2007
Social Edge
Social Edge, a program of the
Skoll Foundation, is a site where social entrepreneurs, nonprofit
professionals, philanthropists, and other practitioners of the social sector
connect to network, learn, inspire, and share resources. Social Edge
launched in June 2003 with the mission to: connect social entrepreneurs,
their partners and allies to discuss cutting-edge issues shaping the field;
foster frank dialogue, mutual respect and a sense of community among all in
the sector; and promote learning from the best, promising and disastrous
practices. The site attempts to strike a balance between the visionary and
the practical, with discussions, blogs, many resource links, and online
workshops and features. Social Edge has an audience of tens of thousands of
social entrepreneurs around the world; it is particularly targeted at social
entrepreneurs with limited access to other local resources and practitioners
due to the nature of their work (e.g., international development) or their
location (e.g., developing countries or in rural areas). Go to:
www.socialedge.org
March 4 - 10,
2007
Not-for-profit Board Governance Institute
The Grant Thornton Board
Governance Institute is designed to be a one-stop e-resource to keep board
members and executive management of nonprofit organizations abreast of
current and emerging issues such as accounting, tax, regulatory, governance
and operational issues. The site includes board governance resources,
nonprofit publications, thought leadership articles, regulatory alerts, the
ForwardThinking newsletter, the Board Governance Institute Education Forum,
and more. Go to:
www.gt.com
February 25 - March 3,
2007
Bureau of Justice Evaluation Website
While this website was
designed to provide criminal justice planners, researchers and evaluators,
as well as local practitioners with a variety of resources for evaluating
criminal justice programs, it will be useful to others in the nonprofit
sector. The site includes: an electronic roadmap for evaluation, which
provides instructional materials to assist in planning, designing, and
conducting evaluations of criminal justice programs; a glossary of
evaluation terminology; evaluation resources, which
includes a bibliography of evaluation materials organized by specific
evaluation topics; evaluation reports on assessment, evaluation, and
research; and useful links directs you to other evaluation sites and
materials that will be useful to you as you develop and enhance your
evaluation capabilities. Go to:
permanent.access.gpo.gov
February 18 - 24,
2007
USF International Nonprofit Management Teaching Resource
Center
The USF
International Nonprofit Management Teaching Resource Center (TRC) is a
comprehensive source of nonprofit management teaching cases, course syllabi
that are available for use by teachers, trainers, consultants,
practitioners, and students to enhance the development of nonprofit
management education. You may browse and search the educational materials of
the TRC. Once you find a teaching case or course syllabus that you would
like to use, you may download it, for free, as a PDF. Go to:
www.inom-trc.org
February 11 - 17,
2007
Arts Education Partnership
The Arts Education
Partnership (AEP) is a national coalition of arts, education, business,
philanthropic and government organizations that demonstrate and promote the
essential role of the arts in the learning and development of every child
and in the improvement of America's schools. The Partnership includes over
140 organizations that are national in scope and impact. It also includes
state and local partnerships focused on influencing educational policies and
practices to promote quality arts education. Go to:
www.aep-arts.org
February 4 - 10,
2007
HR Council for the Voluntary/Non-profit Sector
The HR Council for the
Voluntary/Non-profit Sector is a national, non-profit organization committed
to the enhancement and development of a highly skilled workforce that is
focused on building better communities and improving the lives of Canadians.
Through partnerships with a range of stakeholders, the HR Council aims to
contribute to the development of a sustainable, vibrant and confident
voluntary/non-profit sector by providing leadership, knowledge and
opportunities for collaboration on issues related to paid employment. The
Council website is the new home of HRVS, a collection of practical tools and
information on human resources management for non-profit organizations
including, sample documents, tools and templates, HR policies, guidance on
training and education of employees, and more. Go to:
www.hrcouncil.ca
January 28 - February 3,
2007
The Future of Philanthropy
The Future of Philanthropy web site is built around a
report that explores the ways in which the future of U.S. foundations and
giving are being shaped and transformed by long-term trends. This website is
designed for individuals who want to do a better job of using their own
resources (money, time, expertise) and for those who are employed as
philanthropy professionals or advisors. It is primarily constructed to help
improve the practice of philanthropy. But it also contains material for
those who are working to change philanthropy. Go to:
www.futureofphilanthropy.org
January 21 - 27, 2007
The Aspen Institute
The mission of the Aspen
Institute is to foster enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue.
Through seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development
initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote
nonpartisan inquiry and an appreciation for timeless values. The Aspen
Institute’s Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program (NSPP) will be of
special interest to nonprofits. The NSPP seeks to improve the operation of
the nonprofit sector and philanthropy through research, leadership
education, and communication initiatives focused on critical nonprofit
issues. The program’s major projects are: Nonprofit Sector Research Fund;
Aspen Philanthropy Letter; Kellogg-Kauffman Seminar Series for Mid-America
Foundation CEOs; State of America’s Nonprofit Sector Project; Fast-Growth,
High-Impact Nonprofit; Community Giving Resource, and the Nonprofit Sector
Strategy Group. Go to:
www.aspeninstitute.org
January 14 - 20, 2007
Philanthropy Journal
The vision of the Philanthropy Journal is to help
people understand, support and work in the nonprofit and philanthropic
world, and help them recognize and solve social problems. Philanthropy
Journal delivers daily online news to help people better understand, support
and work in the nonprofit sector. In addition to news, Philanthropy Journal
features job openings, events calendars and announcements about grants/gifts
and people working in the nonprofit sector. Philanthropy Journal also offers
free weekly and biweekly newsletters. The Philanthropy Journal is a
publication of the A.J. Fletcher Foundation in Raleigh, N.C., that supports
the Foundation’s mission and grantees. Go to:
www.philanthropyjournal.org
January
7 - 13, 2007
The Grantsmanship Center
The Grantsmanship Center was
founded in 1972 by Norton J. Kiritz to offer grantsmanship training to
nonprofit and government agencies. Today The Grantsmanship Center (TGCI) conducts some 150 workshops
annually in grantsmanship training, as well as earned income strategies for
nonprofits. Over 100,000 people have received training thought Grantsmanship
Center programs. Graduates of The Grantsmanship Training Program also
receive a membership package that includes discounts on future trainings for
themselves and colleagues, discounts on publications, access to an exclusive
online databases of Government, Foundation and Corporate funding sources,
and annual proposal reviews by TGCI trainers. There are also numerous
resources for grantseekers available at no cost on the website. These
include daily grant announcements from the Federal Register, archives of The
Grantsmanship Center Magazine, indexes of funding sources at the local,
federal and international levels, and more. Go to:
www.tgci.com
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
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