Actors Fund - A nonprofit, national human services organization that helps entertainment and performing arts professionals in theater, film, music, opera, television and dance through a broad spectrum of social, health, employment, and housing programs that address their essential and critical needs.
Alliance for Nonprofit Management - Professional association of individuals and organizations devoted to improving the management and governance capacity of nonprofits.
Aspiration - Assesses the viability, mission impact, distribution potential and sustainability of technology projects aimed at the non-profit market.
Center for Lobbying - Working to dispel the myths that lobbying by charities is unimportant, inappropriate, or illegal by providing information on the important role of lobbying in achieving an organization's mission.
Charities & Non-Profits - Provided by the Internal Revenue Service. The major classifications of organizations that might qualify to be recognized by the IRS as exempt from Federal income tax.
Chrysalis - A nonprofit organization dedicated to helping economically disadvantaged and homeless individuals become self-sufficient through employment opportunities. It currently helps more than 2,000 individuals a year change their lives through jobs.
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services - A consulting, research, and training organization providing nonprofits with management tools, strategies, and resources to lead change in their communities. Works with community-based nonprofits in executive transition, planning, boards of directors, finance systems and business planning, fundraising, and technology.
Easter Seals - Easter Seals provides services to help children and adults with disabilities gain greater independence so they can achieve their goals.
Foundation Center, The - A source of information on philanthropy in the US and the world. Provides an access to data and analytical reports as well as information on learning opportunities in philanthropy.
GiveForChange.com - Find nonprofit groups working for social change.
Google for Non-profits - Learn how to use free Google tools to promote your work, raise money, and operate more efficiently.
GuideStar - Searchable database of hundreds of thousands of nonprofit organizations in the U.S.
HandsNet - Information exchange and collaboration among nonprofits.
Idealist.org - Information and advice about nonprofits.
Indepedent Sector - National leadership forum fostering private intiative for the public good.
Klein and Roth Consulting - Helps organizations build strong fundraising programs that are mission-driven. Provides practical, hands-on advice, grounded in social justice values.
National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA)- Helps state associations of nonprofits to increase the impact, influence, and effectiveness of local nonprofits by providing information, training and leadership. It also advocates for state associations and the nonprofit sector by providing information to-and negotiating with-national policymakers and the business community.
Network for Good - Tools and resources for helping your nonprofit make the most of the Internet.
Nonprofit Accounting Basics - Portal for nonprofits answers questions on accounting practices and compliance requirements.
Nonprofit Advocacy Project - Works to strengthen the voice of the nonprofit sector in important public policy debates by giving tax-exempt organizations a better understanding of the laws that govern their participation in the policy process.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly - Provides cutting-edge research, discussion, and analysis of the field and leads its readers to understanding the impact the nonprofit sector has on society.
Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) - NFF serves both nonprofits and their funders, offering an integrated package of financial and advisory services, including facilities and working capital loans and lines of credit; asset-building programs; intensive workshops; nonprofit business analyses, and other consultations to help nonprofit management understand the impact on their finances of management and program decisions.
NP Action - Assists nonprofits, their staffs, and supporting entities interested in increasing their participation in the policy and advocacy process. Its goal is to make nonprofits aware that they can advocate and to educate nonprofits on advocacy activities that are permissible.
OMB Watch - OMB Watch was formed in 1983 to lift the veil of secrecy shrouding the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which oversees regulation, the budget, information collection and dissemination, proposed legislation, testimony by agencies, and much more. OMB Watch concentrates on five main areas: Budget and government performance issues; Regulatory and government accountability; Information for democracy and community; Nonprofit advocacy and other cross-cutting nonprofit issues; and Nonprofit policy and technology.
Partners in Health (PIH) - PIH uses all means at its disposal to make people well—from pressuring drug manufacturers, to lobbying policy makers, to providing medical care and social services.
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PNNOnline - Nonprofit news and information resource.
Self-Help - A community development financial institution (CDFI), one of the largest in the United States. Since its founding in 1980, Self-Help has provided $4.5 billion in financing to 45,000 homeowners small business owners, and other nonprofits, nationwide. Self-Help also operates three full-service credit unions to provide consumer loan products and services to mostly rural manufacturing communities. Provides financing, technical support and advocacy for those left out of the economic mainstream.
USA.gov for Nonprofits - Provides information on a government-industry relations and regulations. Contains links to resources on grants, loans, management, operations, and tax information in the non-profit sector.
Will Rogers Institute - A national charitable organization dedicated to the support of lung research and developing new treatments and cures for pulmonary diseases and disorders.
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