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- Ad Council - Organization that produces and distributes public-service announcements for nonprofit groups. Banners are available at the site for anyone who wants to display them. Offers a Gallery of Historic Campaigns
- Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) - "Focuses on health, education, culture, rural development, institution-building and the promotion of economic development. It is dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or gender."
- Alliance for Justice - National association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer advocacy organizations. Has links to Member Organizations and other Advocacy Organizations.
- American Cancer Society
- American Heart Association
- American Red Cross - Provides information on disaster services. See also the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) which has a Directory.
- AmeriCares
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- AScribe - Provides journalists and the public with access to news from U.S. academic institutions, research centers, foundations, public-policy groups and other nonprofit organizations. Offers LiveNewswire with news releases that have been issued during the last 7 days. For more about AScribe, see Matt Richtel's article, A News Service Caters to Nonprofit Groups in the August 7, 2000 New York Times (free registration).
- Aspen Institute
- Association Central
- Association for Progressive Communications (APC) - "World-wide platform of host-organizations with members and partners in more than 75 countries with more than 35.000 organizations from the social movement active on the domains of environment,development co-operation, labour, human rights, fugitive, peace, health, and women"; based in the Netherlands.
- Association of Charitable Foundations - UK
- Benton Foundation
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Has a 30 billion dollar endowment.
- Books
- The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World (2007)
- By Joel Fleishman
- Brookings Institution - Private, independent, nonprofit research organization, Brookings seeks to improve the performance of American institutions, the effectiveness of government programs, and the quality of U.S. public policies; Washington, DC
- Capital Research Center - Studies patterns of donations by corporations and foundations and how they affect public policy
- CARE - International relief agency
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Carter Center - Emory University, Atlanta
- Catholic Relief Services
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance - Also accessible via Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
- Center for Effective Philanthropy
- Center for What Works - "Designed to research, catalogue and disseminate information about successful social programs around the country and around the world."
- Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- Charity Navigator - Independent charity evaluator evaluates "the financial health of over 5,300 of America's largest charities".
- Codes of Ethics Online - A Project undertaken by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology to put online their collection of over 850 codes of ethics. Codes are organized by category and are searchable.
- Council on Foundations
- Directory of Development Organizations - Lists 29,500 contacts of organizations ("international organizations, governments, private sector institutions, development agencies, universities, research and training institutes, NGOs/PDOs, grantmakers, banks, microfinance institutions and development consulting firms").
- Disaster Relief Website - A cooperative effort between the American Red Cross, CNN Interactive and IBM, the site's mission is to "help disaster victims and the disaster relief community worldwide by facilitating the exchange of information on the Internet."
- Doctors Without Borders | Médecins Sans Frontières - Site offers news, information on projects, publications, photographs and links to other resources. Alternate address
- Dress for Success - National not-for-profit
organization which distributes interview-appropriate clothing to low-income women seeking employment.
- Elton John AIDS Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Foundation Center - Although many of the resources are for subscribers only, there is a free Foundation Finder in which you can "search by name for basic information about foundations within the universe of more than 70,000 private and community foundations in the U.S." See also their Site Map. Another valuable free resource is the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature, 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." A search for environment retrieved over 200 citations. Also provided are lists of periodicals and New Acquisitions, "books, articles, and other resources recently added to the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature."
- Give.org - Offers a useful Charity Reports Index which provides specific information on individual charities, including programs, governance and finances.
- GiveWell - Organization founded by Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld. "Real change for your dollar."
- Global Fund for Children
- Goodwill Industries International
- Grant resources on the Web - By Dawn Ventress Kight and Emma Bradford Perry in the July/August 1999 College & Research Libraries News.
- Grantseeker's Guide to the Internet - By Andrew Grant and Suzy Sonenberg
- Grantsmanship Center
- GrantsNet - U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- GrantStation - Locate sources of grant money for nonprofits.
- GuideStar: National Database of Nonprofit Organizations - Database of more than 850,000 U.S. nonprofit organizations.
- Habitat for Humanity International
- Henry Luce Foundation
- Hole in the Wall Gang Camp - Nonprofit residential summer camp, founded by Paul Newman in 1988, for children with cancer or life-threatening blood diseases.
- IdeaList - A project of Action Without Borders, the site offers a directory of 22,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 150 countries, searchable and browsable by name, location or mission.
- Impact Online - With VolunteerMatch you can search thousands of volunteer opportunities by zip code, category, and date.
- Independent Charities of America (ICA) - You can search by name or browse by name and category.
- Independent Sector - "Information, advocacy and service for philanthropy, charities and voluntarism."
- Institute for Global Communications - Includes PeaceNet, EcoNet,
LaborNet, ConflictNet, and WomensNet - gateways to articles, headlines, features, and links on progressive issues.
- InterAction: American Council for Voluntary International Action - "Coalition of more than 150 non-profit organizations working worldwide."
- International Center for Not-for-Profit Law - "Mission is to facilitate and support the development of civil society on a global basis by assisting the creation and improvement of laws and regulatory systems that permit, encourage, and regulate the not-for-profit sector in countries around the world." The Library is a "searchable directory of legal documents, court cases, reports, and other civil society resources from countries around the world."
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Internet NonProfit Center - Interactive 'nonprofit locator' searches over a million tax-exempt groups in the United States; enter keywords and a state and get back a detailed list of groups that match your specifications.
- Internet Prospector Reference Desk - The Prospector is published by a network of volunteers across America who mine the Internet for prospect research nuggets. Our audience is primarily the non-profit fundraiser. But any information miner seeking tools for accessing corporate, foundation, biographical, international and online news sources will find our HOME on the Range worth exploring."
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - Includes links to MacArthur grantees.
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - With List of Fellows from 1992 to present.
- Joseph and Matthew Payton Philanthropic Studies Library - Affiliated with the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, the library has a searchable Philanthropic Studies Index and a comprehensive
Subject Links.
- MacDowell Colony - Oldest and largest artist colony in the United States located in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
- March Of Dimes
- MercyCorps - International coalition of humanitarian agencies.
- National Center for Charitable Statistics - National repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. Has a number of statistical Databases.
- National Center for Family Philanthropy
- National Council of Nonprofit Associations
- National Endowment for the Arts - Includes a
site map, News and Grant Awards.
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Federation for the Blind
- National Society of Fund-Raising Executives
- NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks - Over 250 links from the National Institute for Research Advancement in Japan.
- New York Regional Association of Grantmakers - With Member Directory
- Nobel Foundation
- Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC) - Has a monthly Newsletter.
- NonProfit Gateway - "A network of links to Federal government information and services" put together by the White House interagency task force on the Net
- Non-Profit Organizations - Organizations included are from the NonProfit Times 100 list, as well as the HBS Green List, the Foundation Directory Top 100 Foundations Ranked by Assets list and/or the HBS Field Studies in Social Enterprise list.. Addresses, phone numbers and home page links are also provided. (Baker Library, Harvard Business School.)
- Nonprofit Quarterly
- Nonprofit Sector Research Fund - The Aspen Institute
- OpportunityNOCs - Non-profit jobs listed by city, state, organization or position type.
- Oxfam America
- Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management - With full-text article list and an Innovation Discovery Site which allows you to search for examples in your field.
- Pew Charitable Trusts
- PhilanthropySearch - Search engine serving the nonprofit and philanthropic sector.
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Points of Light Foundation
- Portico: Web Resources for Advancement Professionals
- Rand - "Assisting public policymakers at all levels, private-sector leaders in many industries, and the public at large in efforts to strengthen the nation's economy, maintain its security, and improve its quality of life."
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Rotary International
- Salvation Army
- Save the Children
- SchoolGrants - Information to help K-12 teachers write successful grant proposals.
- Sierra Club
- Tactical Philanthropy - Sean Stannard-Stockton writes a monthly column called On Philanthropy for the Financial Times.
- TechSoup - Technology for Nonprofits
- UK Fundraising
- United Way
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund
- World Vision
- YWCA of the USA