American Non-Profit Statistics
In a recent issues of the Board Cafe, they offered up the following stats:
• Nonprofits generate 6% of the US GDP (gross domestic product),
• NPO's employ 1 in every 14 American workers.
• Nonprofits mobilize the efforts of an army: 83.9 million adults who volunteer 15.5 BILLION hours each year for the community and public benefit.
• This is equivalent of 7.7 million full time staff. In comparison to this 7.7 million staff, the total active military personnel in all services (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force) is 1.4 million!
http://www.boardcafe.org
The Board Cafe. A monthly email for Board members offered by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services. Short enough to read over a cup of cafe latte, the Board Cafe offers a menu of ideas, opinion, news, and resources to help board members give and get the most out of board service. http://www.compasspoint.org
Another offering from Compass Point. Food for Thought, while focusing on the San Francisco area, always comes up with one helpful gem for everyone in each issue. Subscription is free to the bi-weekly email. To subscribe send a blank email to food4thought-on@lists.compasspoint.org. www.tsne.org
Third Sector New England. Offers services to New England Non-Profit Organizations. Publishes the Nonprofit Quarterly.
http://charitychannel.com
A nifty little daily update that focuses on the non-profit sector. Subscription is free. www.crm.org.uk
Cause Related Marketing. Marketing info for the internet.
www.charityvillage.com/research
A wonderful site for non-profit organizations.
www.independentsector.org
The name says it all. www.mapnp.org
Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits. Has a free management library. www.eureka-boston.org
An engaging site with a Learning Center that targets Executive Directors. Include literature reviews and links to a best practices site. www.geofunders.org
References and resources that grantmakers finf most useful in designing, implementing and evaluating organizatioal effectiveness programs, inlcudes unpublished materials. www.wilder.org
Wilder Foundation publication series for non-profits, includes strategic planning and marketing. http://lydiaramsey.com/lydiainthenews.html
A wealth of articles on etiquette. How is your bsusiness etiquette? Take a test at: http://lydiaramsey.com/busiquiz.html http://www.uwex.edu/li/learner/sites.htm
The Nonprofit Management Learner Center, provides a great wealth of website on 20 + topics pertinent to non-profit organizations. http://charitychannel.com/consultants
The Charity Channel has a matching service for non-profits seeking consultants and consultants looking for work. http://www.boardsource.org.
Web site for BoardSource, formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards, offers a bounty of board-related resources at your fingertips. The site has articles about board governance, books on boards available for purchase, and, what I like best, an "ask our consultants" section where you can view FAQs on board issues or ask for advice on that board question you've been trying to get an answer for. Access this resource through the Web site, at advise@boardsource.org or 800.883.6262.
http://charitychannel.com/newsletters/vmr
Website for the Volunteer Management Review, Volunteer Management Review is a weekly electronic newsletter focusing on all aspects of volunteer management. Creating and nurturing a strong volunteer program is one of the most strategically-valuable yet overlooked strategies of any nonprofit organization. We're helping to change that with the creation of Volunteer Management Review, CharityChannel's free eNewsletter dedicated to all aspects of creating and sustaining powerful volunteer programs for voluntary/nonprofit organizations anywhere in the world.
http://www.act-assn.dircon.co.uk/
ACT: Promoting good practice in management consultancy and training with arts housing and voluntary organisations in the UK. This site is a resource for consultants, and for those who wish to use consultants. Also includes information on the voluntary sector. www.nonprofitlearning.com
The ePhilanthropyFoundation, along with its "eLearning" partner, nonprofitlearning.com, have created a learning process that is methodical, coordinated, and shares the 'best practices' for cultivating and stewarding relationships and soliciting donations, and helping nonprofit organizations create and execute Internet-related evelopment projects with the best chance of success. http://www.techsoup.org/discountech/
DiscounTech is a new online technology store for nonprofits launched by the nonprofit technology Web site TechSoup. DiscounTech is offered in collaboration with leading technology companies that have agreed to donate or provide their products at a special discount. As a result, nonprofits will get hard-to-beat prices of up to 90% off retail. Partners include Akiva, B2PCommerce Corp, eTapestry, Intuit Inc., Lotus, Microsoft, NetIQ Corp., Ontero, SmartForce, and WebGecko. And don't forget to check out TechSoup's many other great tech offerings for nonprofits at http://www.techsoup.org. http://www.allianceforjustice.org/home.html
Advocact guidance for non-profits. The Alliance for Justice in Washington, DC, offers advocacy and lobbying information and services for nonprofits whose work brings them into the public policy and advocacy arena. They offer nationwide workshops as well as free or reasonably priced publications. One of the free guides you may want to check out is "Worry-Free Advocacy for Nonprofits." http://www.ebase.org
TechRocks is rolling out version 2.0 of eBase. This works with Filemaker and is a free software that features conact management for non-profits. The template is free but requires a copy of Filemaker 5 to customize its features. http://organizenow.net/odb.html
Organizer's Database - This new contact tool was developed by the Organizers' Collaborative, a national membership organization of social activists and technology professionals based in Boston. This free stand-alone package runs on the Windows platform and has a simple, compact interface. It's essentially an electronic rolodex with ability to track basic donation and membership information. http://www.muridae.com/nporegulation/
SO WHERE IS THAT LAW ANYWAY? Eric Mercer has a well-compiled list of links to many, many federal and state nonprofit regulations. It's not the kind of site you browse through for fun, but it's indispensable when looking up the law on something: http://www.charityvillage.com/guides/guide3.asp
Canadian website with a wealth of information for nonprofit organizations. This is the link for the fundraising resource section. http://philanthropy.com/
Chronicle of Philanthropy. This is the newspaper for fundraising and philanthropy issues. http://www.volunteermatch.org/
Matches volunteers and organizations that are looking for volunteers http://www.networkforgood.org/
Network for Good website links volunteers, gives you an opportunity to speak out and to make donations to non profit organizations. http://www.nptimes.com/
Nonprofit Times http://www.nonprofitbasics.org/
Nonprofit Good Practice Guide: They offer articles, standards of practice, resources, and glossaries. | 
