Links: Other Helpful Sites on the Web
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Books
The Art of Hiring Leaders: A Guide for Nonprofit Organizations, by Barbara J. Gilvar. The book is designed as a comprehensive resource for nonprofits and provides detailed information on the steps which lead to a successful search. The major theme of The Art of Hiring Leaders is that a search is an opportunity, and the goal of the book is to provide the information needed to take maximum advantage of that opportunity. Ordering information can be found at http://www.theartofhiringleaders.net/
Nonprofit News, Information, Research & Advocacy
AFJ has produced several publications that help foundation leaders understand the tax code and legal issues related to nonprofit advocacy and provide tools for funding and evaluating advocacy and organizing.
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Investing in Change: A Funder’s Guide to Supporting Advocacy.
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Build Your Advocacy Grantmaking: Advocacy Evaluation Tool & Advocacy Capacity Assessment Tool.
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Advocacy e-newsletter
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Resources for Evaluating Community Organizing (RECO), an online compendium, here.
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Web-based state law resources on campaign finance and ballot measures, lobbying, and voter registration issues for each state, available for free to nonprofit organizations, here.
In 2008, The
Atlantic Philanthropies issued a report, Investing
in Change: Why Supporting Advocacy Makes Sense
for Foundations. It is available for
download here, where
there are links to other advocacy resources and
a list of foundations that support
advocacy.
This nonpartisan research organizationand policy insttute conducts research and analyzes government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.
Weekly updates while Congress is in session on public policy affecting low-income people.
CLASP is a national non-profit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting the poor. Through education, policy research and advocacy, CLASP seeks to improve the economic security of low-income families with children and secure access for low-income persons to our civil justice system.
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Economic Policy Institute
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Inequality.org
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KnowledgePlex
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National Low-Income Housing Coalition
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National Priorities Project
The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.
Inequality.org is a network of journalists, writers and researchers trying to look beyond conventional economics and its notions of prosperity and progress. It is a nonprofit organization which does not advocate any particular policy or set of policies, and whose aim is to circulate information and ideas that are not widely covered in the media.
Comprehensive and interactive resource for the affordable housing and community development field.
Weekly updates while Congress is in session on public policy affecting low-income people, with an emphasis on housing policy.
The National Priorities Project (NPP) offers citizen and community groups tools and resources to shape federal budget and policy priorities which promote social and economic justice. Since 1983, the National Priorities Project (NPP) has been the only group in the country that focuses on the impacts of federal tax and spending policies at the community level. We link political analysis to action by serving as a bridge between policy organizations and grassroots groups. We translate policy information into everyday language and assist national and grassroots groups in their efforts on such issues as public schools, renewable energy, fair taxes and military spending.
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Shelterforce
Shelterforce
is the nation’s oldest continually-published
housing and community development magazine. For
over two decades, Shelterforce has been a
primary forum for organizers, activists, and
advocates in the affordable housing and
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http://www.workforceusa.net/
www.workforceusa.net is a virtual library of resources for workforce development practitioners of all kinds, providing access to over 2100 of the best tools and materials available from hundreds of organizations. It is organized into 11 major workforce development functions and topics and subtopics within each function. Each function area houses different kinds of resources for a broad spectrum of uses (data, analysis, examples, tools, websites, etc.) If you register on the site you can indicate your interests and receive updates based on those choices. Additionally, once registered the site allows you to create your own favorites section, storing resources for future reference. Registrants can rate the resources on the site and provide information critiquing the resource or describing its usefulness in their work. This site has been funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Government
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NonProfit Gateway
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A network of links to Federal government information and services.
Link to all federal agencies, bills in Congress, and more.
Foundations/Philanthropy
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Council on Foundations
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The Foundation Center
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Funders Concerned about AIDS
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GrantCraft: Practical Wisdom for Grantmakers
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Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
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National Center for Charitable Statistics
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National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
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National Network of Grantmakers
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Philanthropy Journal Online
The newspaper of the non-profit world.
The Council on Foundations works to support foundations by promoting knowledge, growth and action in philanthropy.
The mission of the Foundation Center is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects.
Funders Concerned About AIDS mobilizes philanthropic leadership and resources, domestically and internationally, to eradicate the HIV/AIDS pandemic and to address its social and economic consequences.
A new web site from the Ford Foundation offers resources from grant makers for grant makers on the tools and techniques of effective grant making. Among the tools available are guides, videos, and case studies that present the practitioners view of philanthropy. These newly developed materials incorporate insights from grant makers working at a range of foundations of different sizes and fields of interest.
GCIR is a national network of more than 175 foundation staff and trustees representing 115 foundations with diverse grantmaking interests and geographic areas of focus. GCIR was established in 1990 with two primary goals: to promote awareness and understanding among grantmakers about national and international migration trends and public policies and other issues affecting immigrants and refugees; and to increase financial support for projects and activities benefiting immigrant and refugee communities.
The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) is the national repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States.
Working to make philanthropy more responsive to people with the least wealth and opportunity, more relevant to critical public needs, and more open and accountable to all, in order to create a more just and democratic society
The National Network of Grantmakers (NNG) is a membership association of funders committed to supporting progressive social change.