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News &
Periodicals
Chronicle
of Philanthropy
http://philanthropy.com
The electronic
version of this biweekly journal offers full-text access to each new
issue, while subscribers can search an archive of articles published
since 1997; website also includes other member resources such as The Nonprofit
Handbook, a database of over 1,000 books, periodicals, software,
websites, and other nonprint media for charity managers and fund
raisers, and The Chronicle Guide to Grants, a database of all
corporate and foundation grants listed in The Chronicle of
Philanthropy since 1995..
Council on
Foundation's Newsroom
http://www.cof.org/newsroom
The Council's
Newsroom provides access to back issues of Council Columns,
Family Matters, FN&C Now and International
Dateline, as well as philanthropy facts & figures, a members
press release database, and a "great grants"
archives.
Foundation News
& Commentary
http://www.foundationnews.org
Subscribers to the
Council on Foundation's bimonthly periodical can access current contents
as well as back issues at this website.
subject
index: http://int1.cof.org/fnc/fncindex/subject.html
author
index: http://int1.cof.org/fnc/fncindex/author.html
Nonprofit &
Voluntary Sector Quarterly Abstracts
http://wilbur.ucs.indiana.edu/arnova/Scripts/article_search.asp
This site allows
users to search a database that includes abstracts of the Nonprofit
& Voluntary Sector Quarterly, the journal of the Association for
Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), as
well as ARNOVA's yearly conference proceedings.
Nonprofit
Times
http://www.nptimes.com
The online version
of the biweekly periodical on nonprofit management provides a contents
listing of back issues - with some articles in full text - as well as
web links to nonprofit resources.
Nonprofit
Quarterly
http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org
Website of the
former New England Nonprofit Quarterly provides contents listings
of back issues dating to 1998 with some articles in full text.
Nonprofit
World
http://danenet.wicip.org/snpo/NPWIndex/NPWindex.htm
Article index to the
Society for Nonprofit Organizations' monthly magazine on nonprofit
leadership, management, and governance.
Philanthropy
Magazine
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org
Full-text access to
current and past issues of the Philanthropy Roundtable's bimonthly
journal is available on their website.
Philanthropy
Matters
http://www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/philmat.htm
Current edition of
Philanthropy Matters - the semiannual journal published by the
Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University - is available here along
with recent back issues.
Philanthropy
News Digest
http://fdncenter.org/pnd
Philanthropy News
Digest (PND), a weekly news service of the Foundation Center, is a
compendium, in digest form, of philanthropy-related articles and
features culled from print and electronic media outlets nationwide; each
PND abstract summarizes the content of, or from, an original article,
press or news release, or grantmaker website and many abstracts also
include "FC notes," which provide basic fiscal information from the
Foundation Center's database regarding a grantmaker or grantmakers
mentioned in the original news source.
Philanthropy
News Network Online
http://pnnonline.org
This daily online
news service provides reports and information of value to the nonprofit
world. Along with the daily updated stories, this site also provides
free subscription to the PNN
Alert, a semi-weekly electronic
newsletter.
Philosophy
& Public Policy Archives
http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/reports.html
Public access to the
back issues of the quarterly journal published by the University of
Maryland's Institute for Philosophy and Public
Policy.
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Statistics & Research
Chronicle Guide
to Grants
http://philanthropy.com/grants
The Chronicle of
Philanthropy provides a searchable database of all corporate and
foundation grants listed in The Chronicle since 1995; restricted
access for subscribers only.
Foundation
Center
http://www.fdncenter.org
The Foundation
Center is an information clearinghouse on foundations and grantmaking
that seeks to foster public understanding of the field of philanthropy
by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on
philanthropic institutions and corporate giving; site includes an online
library, searchable databases, grant application forms, and links to
"cooperating nationwide, as well as access to these ready
resources:
FC Search*
[*CD-ROM available for
searching at some Cooperating Collections = http://fdncenter.org/collections]
This CD-ROM database
provides grant and grantmaker information on 65,000 foundations and
corporate givers; includes an associated grants file more than 202,000
grants linked to the largest U.S. funders; features a searchable index
of more than 285,000 trustees, officers, and donors; includes program
descriptions and application guidelines for the largest U.S. funders;
and allows users to create customized prospect lists by selecting from
among 21 search fields.
FC Stats
http://fdncenter.org/fc_stats
Comprehensive set
of statistical data on over 50,000 active independent, corporate,
community, and grantmaking operating foundations in the United States.
Literature of the
Nonprofit Sector
http://lnps.fdncenter.org
LNPS
Online, a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy
that incorporates the collective contents of the Foundation Center's
five libraries, contains over 20,600 full bibliographic citations -
13,400 of which have descriptive abstracts; database updated on a
regular basis.
Search
Zone
http://fdncenter.org/searchzone
This collection of
tools includes a search engine that trawls the websites of over 2,000
grantmakers, plus two searchable databases - Philanthropy News
Digest (1995-present) and Literature of the Nonprofit
Sector - as well as annotated grantmaker links and a "private
foundation tax return" search engine.
National Center
for Charitable Statistics
http://nccs.urban.org
Visitors to this
site - a project of the Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy at the
Urban Institute - can download microdata on nonprofit organizations,
view or download database documentation and data dictionaries, and
download blank IRS forms from which most of the data is
collected.
Nonprofit
Handbook
http://philanthropy.com/handbook
This database of
over 1,000 books, periodicals, software, websites, and other nonprint
media for charity managers and fund raisers is available to subscribers
of The Chronicle of Philanthropy on their website.
Philanthropic
Studies Library
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/special/ppsl.html
The website of the
Joseph & Matthew Payton Philanthropic Studies Library at IUPUI
includes the Philanthropic Studies Index - a reference tool to
popular and scholarly literature on voluntarism, nonprofit
organizations, and charitable giving - as well as a Glossary of Philanthropic Acronyms &
Terms.
Nonprofit & Philanthropy Academic
Centers
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Associations &
Networks
Association for
Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
(ARNOVA)
http://www.arnova.org
ARNOVA is an
international, interdisciplinary association of scholars and nonprofit
leaders committed to strengthening the research community in the
emerging field of nonprofit and philanthropic studies; website includes
an Abstracts Database Search system that provides access
to abstracts published in the annual ARNOVA Conference Research
Abstracts (1991, 1992 and 1994-98 editions) and in the Nonprofit
and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (from 1972-1999).
BBB Wise Giving
Alliance
http://www.give.org/
Formed in 2001 with
the merger of the National Charities Information Bureau and the Council
of Better Business Bureaus Foundation and its Philanthropic Advisory
Service, the BBB Wise Giving Alliance collects and distributes
information on hundreds of nonprofit organizations with respect to their
programs, governance, fund raising practices, and finances when the
charities have been the subject of inquiries.
CharityChannel
http://www.charitychannel.com
American
Philanthropy Review's website gives users access to nonprofit arena
CharityChannel Discussion Forums, where one can join more than
100,000 colleagues in discussions on such topics as grants and
foundations, the law of tax-exempt organizations, college and university
advancement, health care philanthropy, arts and social organization fund
raising, international fund raising, and
mentoring.
Center for
Effective Philanthropy
http://www.effectivephilanthropy.com
Through research,
strategy consulting and educational programs, the Center for Effective
Philanthropy is dedicated to measuring the performance and increasing
the impact of philanthropic giving. This site provides access to the
Center's research projects, as well as publications and Internet
resources
Community
Foundation Locator
http://www.communityfoundationlocator.com/
This search tool,
produced by the Council on Foundations, allows users to click a U.S. map
in order to locate contact and website information on community
foundations nationwide.
Consortium of
Foundation Libraries
http://www.foundationlibraries.org
An affinity group of
the Council on Foundations, the Consortium works to enhance learning and
share resources and best practices for management of information
services in foundations and other nonprofit
organizations.
Council on
Foundations
http://www.cof.org
A nonprofit
membership association of grantmaking foundations and corporations, the
Council on Foundations provides a variety of online informational
resources organized into such categories as Starting a
Foundation; Resources for Foundations; Legal &
Government Affairs; and Links & Networking.
Forum of
Regional Associations of Grantmakers
http://www.rag.org
The Forum, a
membership association of 28 of the nation's largest Regional
Associations of Grantmakers (RAGs), was formed to help RAGs improve
their efficiency, increase capacity, and enhance their mission; website
includes tools and resources - such as The Giving
Guide, a "public policy toolkit," and an assets
calculator - plus information on new ventures in philanthropy.
Handsnet
http://www.handsnet.org
HandsNet seeks to
empower nonprofit and social service organizations by allowing them to
integrate effective online communications strategies to strengthen their
programs and policies; this site offers access to the HandsNet "web
clipper," a fee service which tracks user-specified issues and sends
updates and related information directly via e-mail. HandsNet also
provides access to a broad community of advocacy and human service
organizations through online forums and discussion
groups.
Independent
Sector
http://www.independentsector.org
The Independent
Sector is a coalition of leading nonprofits, foundations, and
corporations whose primary focus is "strengthening not-for-profit
initiative, philanthropy, and citizen action." This website has links
toresearch on Giving & Volunteering and Charity Lobbying in Public Interest, as well as a
searchable listing of publications.
InnoNet
http://www.innonet.org
Innovation Network's
website, InnoNet, features "The
Workstation" - a set of tools that guides nonprofits and public
agencies through a program planning and evaluation
process.
Learning
Institute for Non Profit Organizations
http://www.uwex.edu/li
Sponsored in part by
the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the United Way, the Learning Institute
assists nonprofit organizations by offering educational resources that
address administrative and management issues; website includes links to
topical online articles and related sites.
National Center
for Family Philanthropy
http://www.ncfp.org
NCFP serves to
increase the understanding of the field of family philanthropy, and
their website includes a selected bibliography for "donors, families,
and those who work with them," as well a Making
Connections section that contains resources to help other
organizations - nonprofits, associations, donors, philanthropic
institutions and their grantees - connect and engage in mutually
beneficial work.
National
Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
http://www.ncrp.org
NCRP is committed
"to making philanthropy more responsive to socially, economically and
politically disenfranchised people, and to the dynamic needs of
increasingly diverse communities nationwide." In addition to information
about the Committee's projects and publications, the NCRP Web site
offers a selection of articles from their newsletter, Responsive
Philanthropy, synopses of their publications, and information about
their advocacy programs.
Society for Non
Profit Organizations
http://danenet.wicip.org/snpo
The Society
publishes Nonprofit World, a publication for the nonprofit
sector. This site includes an index of Nonprofit World articles
published since 1983 that is organized by category, author, volume, and
issue number.
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Funding & Grant Tools
Council on Foundations: Resources for Foundations
http://www.cof.org/resources/index.htm
The Council's
resource corner includes links to professional development resources,
web search tools, documents, publications, and Council
research.
Foundation
Center Cooperating Collections Index
http://fdncenter.org/collections
Here you will find a
state-by-state location listing for Foundation Center Cooperating
Collections in libraries nationwide.
Foundation
Center's Links to Nonprofit Resources:
http://fdncenter.org/research/npr_links/index.html
Web links organized
by such categories as Philanthropy Resources; Fundraising Resources;
Nonprofit Management; Nonprofit Sector Information & News; Nonprofit
Resources, by Program Area; International Resources; and Government
Resources.
Fundsnet
http://www.fundsnetservices.com
Fundsnet Online
Services was created in 1996 for the purpose of assisting nonprofit
organizations, colleges, universities and grant writers find financial
resources on the Internet.
Grantsmanship
Center
http://www.tgci.com
TGCI, founded in
1972 to offer grantsmanship training and low-cost publications to
nonprofit organizations and government agencies, today conducts some 200
workshops annually in grantsmanship and proposal writing; website
includes links to funding sources organized by Federal Govenment; State
Government; Community Foundations; and International
Funding.
GrantSmart.org
http://www.grantsmart.org
An information
warehouse on nonprofit organizations, GrantSmart provides a
searchable database of information pertaining to Section 527 of the
Internal Revenue Code which governs the taxation of political
organizations and was recently enacted for organizations to disclose
their political activities and finance, including details about
contributors, expenditures and annual returns.
NonProfit
Gateway
http://www.nonprofit.gov
The Nonprofit
Gateway, a network of links to federal government information and
services, contains information about grants, regulations, taxes, and
other services of interest to nonprofit organizations.
Nonprofit
Resource Center
http://not-for-profit.org
The Nonprofit
Resource Center provides links to resources on a wide range of issues of
importance to nonprofit organizations, including grantwriting,
fundraising, financial and accounting services, support organizations,
legal issues, and information for boards.
Outcome
Measurement Resource Network
http://national.unitedway.org/omrn/library
The United Way of
America provides, as part of its website, an online resource library
that contains excerpts from its manual, Measuring Program Outcomes: A
Practical Approach, the full text of selected papers and newsletter
articles, and links to other resources on the Internet subdivided by
category.
Quality
990
http://www.qual990.org
Quality 990 is a
collaborative effort aimed at improving the quality of IRS Form 990
reporting by nonprofit organizations; website includes instructional
guides to the 990 - such as the Form 990
Project Kit - along with links to other resources sites that help
clarify the form.
Women's Funding
Network
http://www.wfnet.org
The Women's Funding
Network is an "international partnership of women and girls' foundation,
donors, and allies that work to strengthen funds and is committed to
social justice"; website includes recent grant listings, donor
opportunities, and various resources for WFN
members.
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About This Resource
Despite the need for
foundations and nonprofits to track research efforts in the field of
philanthropy, there is a clear and noticeable gap in this particular niche
of the social science literature. Even with philanthropy's explosive
growth within the last ten years, researchers will find very few dedicated
databases available in the leading literature abstract vendors, such as
DIALOG, FirstSearch, and Lexis-Nexis. Consequently, foundations and
nonprofits - particularly within their library and research departments -
are forced to turn elsewhere for informational resources that inform the
field of philanthropy. At present, the overwhelming majority of the more
content-rich resources are scattered throughout the Internet.
This search tool -
Web Resources on Philanthropy, Nonprofits & Grantmaking - has
been created to inform the grantmaking community exactly where to turn for
information, given the lack of representation in the more traditional
literature databases. The Annie E. Casey Foundation recommends these
websites simply as additional sources for information; we cannot, however,
verify the accuracy of information, nor do we necessarily agree with the
opinions expressed at these websites. Access to these websites may change
unexpectedly or without warning. Web Resources on Philanthropy,
Nonprofits & Grantmaking and its contents will be updated on a
regular basis - contact library staff to receive a copy of the latest
version.
This annotated
webography is a product of the
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Library
701 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
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http://www.aecf.org/
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