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Literature of the Nonprofit Sector. Find articles, reports and books on philanthropy and fundraising. TIP: We may not have many of the materials but use Illiad to borrow them. It is also called Foundation Center Catalog of Nonprofit Literature.
Philanthropic Studies Index by IUPUI is a tool to locate information on voluntarism, nonprofit organizations, fundraising, and charitable giving. The bulk of citations currently indexed are from academic journals, dated 1940 to the present.
ABI/Inform Complete. Find magazines, scholarly, professional and newspapers articles on topics from the nonprofit or public sector. TIP: Use the classification code limit feature near the bottom of the page. Code 9540 (non-profit institutions) or 9550 (public sector) to get better results.
Public Administration Abstracts. Find scholarly articles or book chapters on nonprofit organizations or public sector back to 1956. To access the articles found, read "How to get an article."
Associations Unlimited by Thomson Gale provides directory information about 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.
Directory of Non-profits by Non-Profit Career Network. The small directory contains a list of nonprofit organizations, their addresses, phone, fax, and web addresses in alphabetical order.
Foundation Finder by the Foundation Center is a searchable directory of private foundations, community foundations, grantmaking public charities, and corporate giving programs. TIP: Full Foundation Directory is a fee service.
GuideStar Directory of Nonprofits has 1.7 million entries. TIP: Need to register to search.
Idealist.org directory of Nonprofit Organizations. Search for about 73,000 organizations internationally by subject or focus.
League of California Community Foundations is a California based was created in 1994 as a statewide partnership of community foundations. They also provide resources regionally and for disaster preparedness and general readings on foundations.
Yahoo Web Directories to Nonprofit Resources links to sites that contain directory information.
Association of Fundraising Professionals has links to policy issues, fundraising dictionary, diversity essays in fundraising, and research-statistical sources.
Idealist.org The Nonprofit FAQ provides leads to organizational issues, development, management and other sources like books, websites, etc.
National Center for Charitable Statistics by the Urban Institute has FAQs about the charitable sector including financing, giving, legal and employee wage information.
Nonprofit Good Practice Guide by Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership provides easily accessible and continuously updated information on virtually all aspects of managing a nonprofit organization.
Non-profits on the Web by the Internet Public Library provides links to non-profit web sources. Check out the Associations on the Net for more websites.
Nonprofit Policy and Advocacy provides publications on federal, state and lobbying rules. There is also a page of Nonprofit resource links.
Nonprofits: USA.gov by the federal government a collections of grants, loans, management and tax documents.
Research Guide to Nonprofits, Donors, Volunteers, and Grant Seekers by Newark NJ Public Library provides links to various types of sites.
Subject Guide to Nonprofits, Grants, and Fundraising by University of New Mexico has a range of websites, articles, books, and directories.
Subject Guide to Non-Profit/Social Entrepreneurship by Seattle University has a full range of web, article and statistical sources on nonprofits.
Foundation Center provides several statistical sources like Top 100 U.S. Foundations by Asset Size, Grantmakers Stats, and Grants Stats.
National Center for Charitable Statistics by the Urban Institute provides a wide array of tables on U.S. nonprofits including public charities, private foundations, business leagues, trade unions, and others. The State Profiles section offers a range of tables broken out by state.
Find Books, Magazines and Government Information:
Boardsource: White papers on topics dealing with effective nonprofit boards. TIP: some are reports are for members only.
National Center for Charitable Statistics by the Urban Institute provides several studies and statistical publications. More are at the Urban Institute's Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy.
Non-profit, Charitable Organizations by ABout.com provides a collection of newsletters on these subjects.
Non-profit Organizations Magazines by Internet Public Library provides a long list of links to online magazines and newsletters on nonprofits.
How to start a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization by GuideStar. Basics on setting up a 501(c)(3), managing and various IRS forms.
Federal Laws in the U.S. by Idealist.org provides a question and answer format to legal information.
Legal Information by the Council on Foundations provides legal issues in simple, easy-to-understand language.
Nonprofit Genie by CompassPoint Nonprofit service provides information in the technology age and examples of forms and sources.
