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The Charitable Partnerships Organization
The Charitable Partnerships Organization was founded in 1999 to serve the three principal components of the American philanthropic community. Specifically, contributors, not-for-profit organizations and businesses. Each year 40,000 new NFPs join the 1.5 million current organizations actively engaged in gathering and distributing nearly a billion dollars a month. Charitable Partnerships serves this vital community through a nationwide network of over 500 fund raisers, financial advisers, attorneys and other professionals.
The Charity Channel
Charity Channel is the world's largest online community of the best and brightest non-profit-sector professionals. Charity Channel offers more than 50 non-profit-related discussion forums, with topics including grants and foundations, advocacy, annual funds, boards, e-philanthropy, sponsorship and technology.
The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center's mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed. The Foundations Center collects, organizes, and communicates information on U.S. philanthropy; conducts and facilitate research on trends in the field; provides education and training on the grantseeking process; ensures public access to information and services through their World Wide Web site, print and electronic publications, five library/learning centers, and a national network of cooperating collections.
The Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
800-424-9836
Fundraising for Dummies
This book can help you find out how much money a foundation or corporate entity is awarding in grants each year.
Gifts In Kind International
Driven by a mission of providing an effective conduit for the donation of products, goods and services from the private sector to the charitable sector, Gifts In Kind International is the recognized leader in the field of product philanthropy. Today's top manufacturers and retailers, including 40 percent of the Fortune 500 companies, rely on Gifts In Kind International to design and manage the donation process.
333 N. Fairfax St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
Groundspring.org
Groundspring.org is a nonprofit organization that provides simple, affordable, and integrated services for small to medium-sized nonprofit organizations to help them become effective users of internet technology in their fundraising and management of donors and supporters.
GUIDESTAR.ORG
The GuideStar Web site is produced by Philanthropic Research, Inc., a public charity founded in 1994. GuideStar's mission is to revolutionize philanthropy and nonprofit practice with information about the operations and finances of nonprofit organizations, help donors seek out and compare charities, monitor charities' performances, help charities gain more effective operating practices and accountability, and enjoy lower fund-raising costs. The GuideStar Web site is now part of the Smithsonian’s Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology.
Kintera
Kintera understands the challenges nonprofit organizations face to reach their goals, both in time and money. As the leading Internet marketing provider for the nonprofit sector, Kintera’s innovative and practical Internet solutions meld with traditional fundraising to help cost-effectively recruit, cultivate and steward donors and volunteers.See how Kintera can help you find your next generation of donors online. Take a quick tour!
National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise
Resources, grant, and technical assistance for youth anti-drug programs, economic development, and neighborhood revitalization. The organization works with both faith-based and non-faith-based groups. It offers both private and public grant direction.
The Neighborhood Funders Group
The Neighborhood Funders Group is a membership association of grantmaking institutions. The group's fundamental commitment is to economic and social justice for people in low and moderate income communities both urban and rural throughout the United States. Contains a long list of member groups and their web site links.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Pew Charitable Trusts support nonprofit activities in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and religion. Based in Philadelphia, the Trusts make strategic investments that encourage and support citizen participation in addressing critical issues and effecting social change. The Trusts consist of seven individual charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by two sons and two daughters of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew. Though the Trusts are separate legal entities, their grantmaking activities are managed collectively and guided by a single set of programmatic priorities. The foundation also sponsors the Pew Partnership - Civic Entrepreneur Initiative (go to www.pew-partnership.org/pcei/pcei.html to learn more).
The Pew Charitable Trusts
2005 Market Street, Suite 1700
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7077
Telephone: 215-575-9050
Fax: 215-575-4939
E-mail: info@pewtrusts.com
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