Board development
Information on nonprofits and foundations
Services to grantmakers
International organizations
Financial institutions and consulting firms
Affinity groups
Technology organizations
Resources for Grantmakers – Reference Materials

BOARD DEVELOPMENT
BoardSource
Established in 1988 by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and Independent Sector, BoardSource (formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards) provides resources, programs, and services to the nonprofit community and publishes material on nonprofit governance, offering more than 100 booklets, books, videos, and audiotapes. BoardSource's Web site offers Board Information Center, a free information clearinghouse on board-related topics, and Board Member Online, an abridged version of Board Member, the organization's members-only periodical. BoardSource provides education, publications, and consulting services to enable nonprofit boards to be as effective as possible.

Board Café
Board Café, a collaborative project of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and BoardSource, is the electronic newsletter for members of nonprofit boards of directors. "Short enough to read over a cup of coffee," Board Café presents ideas, information, opinions, news, and resources to help board members give and get the most out of board service.

INFORMATION ON NONPROFITS AND FOUNDATIONS
Alliance for Justice
The Foundation Advocacy Initiative provides training & technical assistance
to funders on the rules for supporting nonprofit advocacy and public
policy.

BBB Wise Giving Alliance
The BBB Wise Giving Alliance collects and distributes information about the programs, governance, fundraising practices, and finances of hundreds of nationally soliciting charitable organizations that are the subject of donor inquiries. The Alliance website offers an interactive form that can be used to request information on charities that are not included among its current evaluation reports.

Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator helps charitable givers make intelligent giving decisions. They are the only free on-line charity evaluator providing in-depth, objective ratings and analysis of the financial health of America's largest charities. Use Charity Navigator's simple searchable database to find a charity you can trust and support.

GuideStar—The Donor's Guide to Charities and Nonprofits
GuideStar is an information service of Philanthropic Research, Inc., a grant-funded nonprofit organization. Its mission is to help transform the culture of philanthropy by making information about the nation's more than 600,000 charities available to the public.

Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability
Comprised of charitable, religious, missionary, social, and educational organizations, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability serves as a "Christian Better Business Bureau" by making appropriate public disclosure of its more than 900 members' financial practices and accomplishments.

Foundation Center
The Center fosters public understanding of the foundation field. This site includes the "Foundation Finder," a listing of phone numbers and addresses for thousands of foundations, as well as an orientation to grantseeking, an introduction to proposal writing, links to foundations websites, and more.

Internet Nonprofit Center
The Center's Nonprofit Locator helps donors find any charity in the U.S. Other features include essays on effective giving, the "Donor Defense Kit," information on how to evaluate nonprofits, and standards in philanthropy.

IRS Database
This searchable database includes all nonprofits that are registered as a charity with the IRS.

Joseph and Matthew Payton Philanthropic Studies Library
The mission of the philanthropic studies collection is to support the educational and research programs of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, including the Fund Raising School. The philanthropic studies collection has mirrored the growth of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy and the development of the Master in Public Administration, Nonprofit Management concentration and the Master of Arts in Philanthropic Studies programs at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

Philanthropy News Digest
This is a free service of the Foundation Center. Philanthropy News Digest provides abstracts of news, surveys and reports, and other items related to the changing world of philanthropy. Other features available online include the RFP Bulletin, a searchable job corner, the NPO Spotlight, book and website reviews, a conference calendar, and connections; a frequently updated guide to websites, publications, and other resources.

Grantsmanship Center
The Grantsmanship Center provides fundraising training and information for the nonprofit sector. It offers seminars throughout the country and publishes a wide range of publications, including a free magazine on grant-related issues.

Network For Good
Network for Good (formerly Helping.org) is a nonprofit website that makes it easier and more convenient for people to learn about causes and take action to help, whether by signing up to volunteer or by making a donation directly online.

Independent Sector
This national association of nonprofit organizations encourages philanthropy, volunteering, not-for-profit initiatives, and citizen actions that will help to better serve people and communities.

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
NCRP promotes philanthropy that addresses the unmet needs of disadvantaged populations through action research, technical assistance, and policy advocacy. NCRP's target audiences include foundations, corporations, individual donors, and workplace fundraising. In addition to information about the committee's projects and publications, the NCRP website offers the current issue of Responsive Philanthropy, the organization's newsletter.

National Center for Charitable Statistics
NCCS is the repository for data and statistics on the nonprofit sector. It works with the IRS, state government agencies, and other organizations to build compatible national, state, and regional databases and to ensure uniform reporting for all nonprofits. NCCS is a project of the Urban Institute's Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy.

New Tithing Group
New Tithing Group is a philanthropic research organization committed to increasing charitable giving, personal fulfillment, and the productivity of donations to the world's charitable sectors. Founded in 1998 by Claude Rosenberg, the group is a California corporation fully subsidized by its founder. Any and all profits are donated annually to charity. 

Council on Foundations
The council is the national association of foundations and corporate giving programs. Its mission is to promote responsible and effective philanthropy. The council's services include conference, workshops, publications, a newsletter, and Foundation News & Commentary Magazine.

GrantCraft
A new website from the Ford Foundation offers resources from grantmakers for grantmakers on the tools and techniques of effective grantmaking. Among the tools available are guides, videos, and case studies that present the practitioners' view of philanthropy. These newly developed materials incorporate insights from grantmakers working at a range of foundations of different sizes and fields of interest.

Minnesota Toolkit for Giving
The Minnesota Toolkit describes basic options for giving, and presents inspirational stories of donors and families. The site also includes a list of helpful resources, both printed and online.

MyGivingCoach.com
MyGivingCoach.com is designed to help philanthropists increase their giving satisfaction. Donors can develop a detailed personalized giving strategy for a fee. Free content on the site includes the "Giving in Action" section, featuring news, links, and analysis of nonprofit sector trends.

National Center for Family Philanthropy
NCFP encourages families and individuals to become philanthropic. The center conducts research, produces educational materials and programs, and provides management, governance, and grantmaking assistance to family and individual givers. The center publishes a journal series on topics such as resources for family philanthropy, investment issues, donor legacy, and faith and family philanthropy. It also has a Trustee Orientation Guide and a Guide to Starting Your Family Foundation.

Philanthropy Roundtable
The Philanthropy Roundtable is an association of grantmakers founded on the principle that voluntary private action offers the best means of addressing many of society's needs and that a vibrant private sector is critical to creating the wealth that makes philanthropy possible. The organization's website features synopses of articles from issues of Philanthropy, a journal that covers relevant topics in the field, and information about the roundtable's publications and conferences.

Resource Generation
Resource Generation works with young people with financial wealth who are supporting and challenging each other to effect progressive social change through the creative, responsible and strategic use of financial and other resources.

Social Venture Partners
Paul Brainerd and a group of like-minded colleagues in the Seattle area founded the first Social Venture Partners network to create a forum where busy professionals could come together to invest their time, skills, and resources in the local community. The founders' vision was to build a philanthropic organization using a venture capital model, where partners actively nurtured their financial investments with hands-on guidance and management support for the organizations they partner with.

• Bringing together the not-for-profit sector and its professional advisors through topical roundtables, workshops, seminars, courses and other media;
• Exploring major gift fundraising and know-your-donor strategies; and
• Incorporating European cross-border and North American perspectives in its programs.

EAPG's interactive roundtables, conferences and courses are augmented by a bi-monthly newsletter, Give a Thought, the EAPG Bulletin and the EAPG Monograph Series on specific not-for-profit and charity-related topics.

Grantmakers Without Borders
Grantmakers Without Borders is a collaborative project of the International Donors' Dialogue and the International Working Group of the National Network of Grantmakers. A network of trustees and staff of public and private foundations as well as individual donors, its members share a desire to expand and enrich progressive international philanthropy. GWB provides free advice, alternative sources of information, and links to community-based projects and organizations around the world.

Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support
WINGS is a network of over 40 grantmaker support organizations around the world. WINGS activities principally serve the needs of associations serving grantmakers and general-purpose organizations serving philanthropy. They have joined together to create opportunities to learn from and support one another, develop modes of communication and collaboration, and contribute to the strengthening of philanthropy worldwide. The WINGS project has five components: information and communications; organizational development; convening international meetings; program development, and strategic visioning. 

• Clarifying your giving focus, interest, and needs;
• Helping with the legal and tax implications of a new or existing charitable foundation;
• Customized reporting and confidential stewardship of records; and
• Assistance with all aspects of the grant making process including proposal analysis, budgets, grant terms and conditions, and outcome measurement.

National Philanthropic Trust (NPT)
The National Philanthropic Trust offers philanthropic services to donors. As a national nonprofit organization specializing in donor-advised funds, it helps donors support charities nationally and internationally. It accepts unusual assets and offers donors a way to transform a large gift of stock, real estate, art, or insurance into many smaller cash gifts to charities.

The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI)
TPI helps donors increase their impact through the development of innovative and strategic approaches to philanthropy. TPI's consulting services for families, foundations, corporations, individuals, and advisory institutions include strategic planning, facilitation, and training of trustees and staff; research on a range of social issues; and development, implementation, and evaluation of grant programs. In addition to these services, TPI strives to increase the amount and impact of philanthropic resources through donor education and research. TPI has helped hundreds of donors develop effective strategies to address the social issues of greatest concern to them. 

Art of Charitable Planning
Designed to provide the professional advisor with a sampling of the palette (planning ideas and scenarios);colors that when blended with estate, tax and financial planning objectives will help create a values-based, comprehensive planning picture.  - Joel M. Breitstein, Esq.

Foundation Strategy Group (www.foundationstrategy.com)
FSG is a professional international consulting firm exclusively dedicated to helping private, corporate, community, and family foundations increase their effectiveness.

AFFINITY GROUPS
Affinity groups and specific-interest grantmaking associations represent a variety of different causes, issues, and population groups. Although many are volunteer-managed, a growing number are formally organized, have obtained 501(c)(3) status, and have paid staff. Both informal networks and formal organizations provide information for grantmakers on specific funding areas. Some offer technical assistance, publish newsletters and other publications, and conduct workshops and conferences.   Please see below for a list of national affinity groups.

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Africa Grantmakers
The Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (AGAG) is a network of grantmakers working in, or interested in working in Africa. The group has its roots in the Southern Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (SAGAG), which was designed to encourage greater foundation interest in South Africa, promote better grantmaking in the country, and assist nonprofit organizations fighting apartheid.

Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
AAPIP is a national membership association dedicated to the two-fold mission of increasing the participation and leadership of Asian Pacific Americans in philanthropy and increasing philanthropic resources to those communities. AAPIP's members include foundations, the staff and trustees of grantmaking institutions, and representatives of nonprofit organizations.

Consortium of Foundation Libraries
The Consortium of Foundation Libraries is dedicated to enhancing learning, sharing resources, and coordinating information services among foundation libraries and archives. The Consortium comprises libraries and information centers associated with public and private foundations, private operating foundations, and nonprofit organizations whose function is to perform services for foundations or collecting and disseminating information relating to the foundations' fields of interest, and other nonprofit organizations whose aims and operations are deemed by the membership to be similar to the above organizations.

Environmental Grantmakers Association
The Environmental Grantmakers Association, a voluntary association of foundations and giving programs concerned with the protection of the natural environment, works to increase awareness of the relationships between environmental grantmaking and other areas of grantmaking and to encourage all types of philanthropic programs to support environmentally related activities. In addition, EGA provides the means by which members can improve their effectiveness as grantmakers and works to increase the resources available to address environmental concerns.

Funders Concerned About AIDS
Funders Concerned About AIDS assists philanthropy in being more aggressive and strategic in HIV/AIDS and related grantmaking areas by helping funders to broaden their strategic understanding and appreciation of HIV/AIDS issues and increase their creativity in designing and sustaining effective grantmaking strategies around the world.

Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues
Founded in 1982 as the Working Group on Funding Lesbian and Gay Issues, FLGI works to increase the visibility of and funding for lesbian and gay issues in the philanthropic community.

Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities is a resource for foundations, nonprofit organizations, and other partners working to solve the environmental, social, and economic problems created by suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. The Network informs funders of critical policy and grassroots developments; enables program staff to share effective strategies and tools; builds the capacity of key constituencies to promote smart growth and livable communities; and raises awareness about the interdisciplinary nature of these issues and the need for sustained engagement by a diverse coalition of funders.

Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service
The Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service, an affinity group of grantmakers representing the whole spectrum of philanthropy, including private foundations, individual donors, corporate foundations and community foundations, is organized around the belief that service-giving of oneself for purposes greater than oneself-is a fundamental value of American democracy as well as a value that should be supported and celebrated.

Grantmakers Concerned with Care at the End of Life
GCCEL works to heighten awareness of these issues among philanthropic, government, and healthcare institutions, and also helps to educate funders about what they can do to aid in the development and research of new systems of care, governmental and institutional policies, and public and professional education programs.

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
GCIR promotes awareness and understanding among grantmakers about national and international migration trends and public policies and other issues affecting immigrants and refugees, and works to increase financial support for projects and activities benefiting immigrant and refugee communities.

Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families
GCYF is a membership association of grantmaking institutions established to increase the ability of organized philanthropy to improve the well being of children, youth and families. GCYF serves as a forum to review and analyze grantmaking strategies, exchange information about effective programs, examine public policy developments, and maintain ongoing discussions with national leaders.

Grantmakers for Education
GFE is a membership organization for private and public grantmakers that support education from early childhood through K-12 and beyond.

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
GEO is dedicated to promoting learning and encouraging dialogue among funders committed to the field of organizational effectiveness.

Grantmakers in Aging
This is an educational nonprofit membership organization for staff and trustees of foundations and corporations active in the field of aging.

Grantmakers in the Arts
This is a nonprofit membership organization comprised of private foundations, family foundations, community foundations, corporate foundations, corporate giving programs, and nonprofit organizations that make arts grants. Grantmakers in the Arts also welcomes public sector grantmakers as affiliate members.

Grantmakers In Health
GIH is an educational organization that helps foundations and corporate giving programs improve the nation's health. It fosters communication and collaboration among grantmakers and others and strengthens the grantmaking community's knowledge, skills, and effectiveness in dealing with health-related issues.

Grants Managers Network
GMN is an association of foundation professionals responsible for grants management. It provides a forum in which grants managers can exchange information about grants management and its role in grantmaking.

Hispanics in Philanthropy
HIP is an association of more than 450 U.S. and Latin American grantmakers and nonprofit leaders committed to increasing philanthropic support of Latino communities and to promoting greater participation by Latinos within organized philanthropy.

International Funders for Indigenous Peoples
IFIP is a venue for communications and resource sharing. It provides a forum that cuts across grantmaking disciplines to build an understanding of indigenous peoples.

Jewish Funders Network
JFN brings together Jews who believe that their funding decisions must be philosophically and strategically sound and who understand that their philanthropy goes much deeper than the mere act of writing checks.

National Network of Grantmakers
NNG is an organization of 400 individual donors, foundation staff and board members, and grantmaking committee members involved in funding social and economic justice by supporting organizations working for change.

Neighborhood Funders Group
NFG is a membership association of grantmaking institutions dedicated to strengthening the capacity of organized philanthropy to understand and support community-based efforts to organize and improve the economic and social fabric of low-income urban neighborhoods and rural communities.

Women & Philanthropy
This association of grantmakers—women and men—is dedicated to mobilizing the resources of the philanthropic community to achieve equity for women and girls by increasing funding for programs that achieve equity for women and girls.

Women's Funding Network
WFN is an association of women's funds that increases resources for programs benefiting women and girls. By fostering strategic alliances among women, donors, communities, and institutions, WFN promotes the development and growth of women's funds with the aim of strengthening the women's funding movement and promoting women's leadership in philanthropy. 

• Defining and advocating for policies that support the public interest services and capacities of the new media;
• Helping nonprofit organizations enhance the impact of their work; through strategic use of communications technologies and digital media; and
• Creating Internet-based knowledge networks that are trusted sources of information, links to action and test beds for new forms of advocacy, journalism and education.

Blackbaud Software
Blackbaud is the leading provider of accounting and fundraising software to nonprofit organizations.  More than 13,000 nonprofit organizations use Blackbaud software solutions to achieve success in fundraising, fund accounting, volunteer management, event management, membership managementand school administration.

HandsNet Online -- HandsNet Links the Human Service Community Online
For more than a decade, HandsNet has worked to make online collaboration and information sharing a reality for the human services community. We empower organizations to effectively integrate new online strategies, strengthening their program and policy work on behalf of people in need.

NPower
NPower Indiana is a Non-Profit organization that serves as a trusted and affordable technology advisor, facilitator and service provider to Non-Profits in Marion and Hamilton counties. NPower Indiana helps other Non-Profits achieve self-sustaining technology solutions so they may better serve our communities.

Stargazer
Stargazer invests in organizations, endeavors, and people that embody the entrepreneurism. Stargazer creates collaborative environments, in real space and in cyberspace, for people and organizations to support and learn from one another.

Technology Affinity Group
TAG advances technology best practices in philanthropy through a network of technical and non-technical foundation staff. TAG helps its members to spread understanding of how technology can best serve philanthropic goals, foster partnerships with program and communications staff, explore future technologies, and identify resources for technical knowledge and expertise.

TechSoup
Powered by CompuMentor, one of the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit technology assistance agencies, TechSoup.org offers nonprofits one-stop shopping for their technology needs. While TechSoup is aimed at the 650,000 small to midsize nonprofits, staff from larger nonprofits will find useful information here as well. TechSoup lists nonprofit discounts on hardware and software and technology assistance agencies.

Partial text reprinted with permission from theForum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers.

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