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Philanthropy
Resources on the Web
Publishers
and Publications | Membership
Organizations | Service Providers
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Policy | Research | Other
Resources
Publishers
and Publications
Aspen
Publishers, Inc.
Chardon Press.
Chronicle of Philanthropy
is the national resource for grantmakers and grantseekers.
The site includes sections on gifts and giving, managing nonprofit
groups, fundraising, and donors and board members.
Foundation News & Commentary
. The quarterly magazine of the Council on Foundations.
NonProfit Times .
PhilanthrophyJournal
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Membership
Organizations
Council
on Foundations is a national resource for private, corporate,
family, and community foundations.
National Council of Nonprofit Associations
provides links to state and regional nonprofit associations.
National Center for Family Philanthropy
, a nonprofit organization supported by family foundations,
assists families and individuals in implementing their philanthropic
goals. The site provides access to a full range of center publications.
Forum of Regional Associations of
Grantmakers is supported by the Council on Foundations and
offers useful links to its 26 members' regional grantmaking organizations
as well as to regional associations of nonprofits.
Independent Sector is a
national organization that encourages philanthropy via research
and policy with links to hundreds of nonprofit member organizations
as well as associations of nonprofits.
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Service
Providers
BBB
Wise Giving Alliance provides financial analyses, programs,
and fundraising information on nonprofit organizations based on
BBB standards and on previous background requests.
Foundation Center is supported
by major national foundations to provide information and publications
about all types of foundations.
Guidestar includes a searchable
database of the more than 650,000 organizations that are recognized
as nonprofit by the Internal Revenue Service. Information is included
on organizations' programs, geographic service areas, assets, income,
and types of funding. The site also includes articles on philanthropy
and charitable giving.
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Government and
Public Policy
Internal
Revenue Service offers a searchable database of all types of
organizations that the IRS has granted tax exemptions.
U.S.
Dept. of the Treasury Through their office of Frozen Asset
Control regularly updates its list of charitable organizations and
individuals that support terrorism. This is a direct link to that
directory of suspected organizations.
National Network of Grantmakers
provides information from a network of grantmakers that support
economic and social justice.
Philanthropy Roundtable
encourages voluntary private solutions to public problems and
provides information on charitable giving to inform corporate and
individual donors.
CharityLaw
offers online forums that discuss legal issues facing tax-exempt
organizations.
Board Source
dedicated to building stronger nonprofit boards of directors.
Non-Profit Issues
is a national newsletter of "Nonprofit Law You Need To Know." Written
for nonprofit executives and their advisors.
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Research
American
Association of Fund-Raising Counsel provides an overview of
charitable giving in the United States, based on the AAFRC's annual
report, Giving USA.
Independent Charities
of America organizes links to and information on selected national
and international charitable organizations by specific interest
areas.
Internet Nonprofit Center
assists in locating the names and locations of nonprofits recognized
by the Internal Revenue Service. The site also offers essays and
analyses of the nonprofit field.
National Center for Charitable
Statistics organizes information by county about nonprofit
organizations based on data presented to the Internal Revenue Service.
Philanthropic Initiative is a
non-profit organization formed to help donors increase their impact
through the development of innovative and strategic approaches to
philanthropy. TPI has helped hundreds of donors develop effective
strategies to address the social issues of greatest concern to them.
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Other
Resources
CharityChannel
is perhaps best known for its non-profit arena on-line professional
community that easily exceeds 50,000 nonprofit-sector professionals.
Also offers over 50 nonprofit-sector discussion forums.
Newtithing Group , founded
by philanthropist Claude Rosenberg, encourages charitable giving
and includes a calculating tool to determine how much an individual
can comfortably donate to charity.
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