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Aspen Institute
The mission of the Aspen Institute is to foster enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue. Through seminars, policy programs, conferences, and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry and an appreciation for timeless values.
www.aspeninst.org
Chronicle of Philanthropy
National newspaper of the nonprofit world. Subscribers to the Chronicle’s website can search more than five years of back issues. For an additional fee, users can search the Guide to Grants, an electronic database of all foundation and corporate grants listed in the Chronicle since 1995. The site also contains a wealth of free materials, including Internet resources, job opportunities updated every two weeks as well as forthcoming conferences, workshops, and deadlines for grants and awards.
www.philanthropy.com
GuideStar
Database developed by Philanthropic Research, offering descriptive and financial data on more than one million nonprofit organizations, drawn primarily from the organizations' informational tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service. The information includes a breakdown of each nonprofit’s assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenditures, including administrative and fundraising costs. The site also includes profiles of nonprofit organizations and links to articles about philanthropy and nonprofit management.
www.guidestar.org
Idealist
Database listing of over 40,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 165 countries. Idealist’s Nonprofit Career Center allows users to search for career opportunities, network with other nonprofit professionals, seek career advice, review salary surveys, learn about advanced degree programs, and review resume strategies. The website also offers searches for volunteer opportunities, services, publications, and events.
www.idealist.org
Independent Sector
A nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition of approximately 700 national organizations, foundations, and corporate philanthropy programs, collectively representing tens of thousands of charitable groups in every state across the nation. Independent Sector’s mission is to promote, strengthen, and advance the nonprofit and philanthropic community to foster private initiative for the public good.
www.independentsector.org
Innovation Network
Nonprofit evaluation organization offering online resources to share knowledge and build evaluation skills for other nonprofits and funders. Designed to help organizations incorporate ongoing learning into their operations, these resources include tools for effective program planning, including evaluation and budgeting.
www.innonet.org
Nonprofit Quarterly
Print magazine with the mission of increasing the knowledge, power and effectiveness of nonprofits by delivering information that is timely, relevant and useful. Each issue provides an in-depth analysis on a theme of critical importance to nonprofit managers and leaders as well as shorter articles addressing management concerns. The website contains issues going back to Fall 1998, free of charge.
www.nonprofitquarterly.org
The Nonprofit Times
Online version of the Nonprofit Times, leading business publication for nonprofit management. Features include special reports such as yearly salary surveys and the NPT Power and Influence Top 50. NPT’s issue library dates back to 2000 and contains select articles free of charge.
www.nptimes.com
Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF)
Development and implementation enterprise offering innovative approaches to critical social issues based on experience investing in a portfolio of nonprofit social purpose enterprises in the San Francisco Bay area.
www.redf.org
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Journal with the mission of sharing substantive insights and practical experiences that will help those who do the important work of improving society do it even better. SSIR’s contributors are a diverse group of faculty, thought-leaders, and executives. Its intended audience is comprised of professionals united in their desire to build enduring organizations and to promote innovative solutions to social problems. Select articles from the current issue are available on the website free of charge.
www.ssireview.org
The Urban Institute: National Center for Charitable Statistics
Statistical resource offering state and national breakdowns of the number and types of charities and their sources of revenue. The site also includes figures on private support, total expenses, and total assets for individual charities, as reported on the informational tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service.
www.nccs.urban.org
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