Useful Sites for Nonprofits

• Non-Profit Gateway -- http://www.nonprofits.org
  • See their bulletin on fundraising online, http://www.nonprofits.org/bulletins/990805.html and their list of resources for fundraising online, http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/misc/990804olfr.html

• United Kingdom Fundraising -- http://www.fundraising.co.uk

• Charity Village (Canadian Charities) -- http://www.charityvillage.com

• Internet Prospector Newsletter -- http://w3.uwyo.edu/~prospect/

• Internet Prospector Guide to State Charity Databases on the Web -- http://w2.uwyo.edu/~prospect/secstate.html#Charity

• Directory of over 16,000 charity web sites -- http://www.idealist.org/

• Chronicle of Philanthropy - http://philanthropy.com

• National Society of Fund Raising Executives -- http://www.nsfre.org/

• Non-Profit Times -- http://www.nptimes.com/

• New England Non-Profit Quarterly -- http://www.newenglandnonprofit.org/

• APRA Home Page -- http://staff.washington.edu/dlamb/

• Dialog -- service including the Foundation Directory and Grants Index -- http://www.dialog.com (fee based service)

• The Foundation Center -- http://www.fdncenter.org/
  • Corporate Grantmakers Database -- http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/gws_corp/corp.html
  • Private Foundations on the Internet Database -- http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/gws_priv/priv.html

• Lillian Brazin's Cyberography -- http://blue.temple.edu/~tums/departments/clinical/Library/grant_res.html

• Delaware Valley Grantmakers -- http://www.libertynet.org/dvg/

• The Independent Sector -- http://independentsector.org/

• Prospect Research Online (fee based service) -- http://www.rpbooks.com

• Guidestar -- searchable database of 650,000 charities and foundations -- http://www.guidestar.org
  (If you're a 501(c)(3), you're here)

• DonorData -- fee-based service with various foundation and corporate grantmaker databases -- http://www.donordata.com/

• Center for the Study of Philanthropy http://www.philanthorpy.org/

• Craver, Mathews, Smith & Co. -- fund-raising consultants with content-rich site -- http://www.craveronline.com
  (Home of the study of socially-committed Internet users)

• InnoNet's online fundraisers' workstation -- http://www.innonet.org/ Walks you through the horrors of grant-writing -- proposals, budgets, evaluations, focus groups, interviews, etc. A lifesaver for the occasional grant writer!

• Resources for Fundraisers -- listing of vendors for online giving products and services -- http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/misc/990804olfr.html

• Charity Shopping Portals -- Allison Schwein's compilation and overview -- http://www.inhervisions.com/charitymall.htm
  {Allison is making it her mission to track all these philanthrocommerce sites)

• Jakob Nielsen's Web Site -- http://www.useit.com
  Here's someone who has been doing quantitative and qualitative analysis of interface usability from the infancy of the Internet. This is good stuff.

• The Cluetrain Manifesto -- http://www.cluetrain.com/ A useful perspective on the nature of the web