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The Foundation Center.
The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse established in 1956. The Center's mission is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related
subjects.
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Charity
Navigator.
Charity
Navigator, America’s premiere independent
charity evaluator, works to advance a more
efficient and responsive philanthropic
marketplace by evaluating the financial
health of America’s largest charities.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Target audience is the non-profit community, but often there are articles here which are suitable for a broader audience.
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The
Nonprofit FAQ.
The Nonprofit FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions) is based on questions and
answers about nonprofit organizations exchanged on the
Internet since 1994.
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Council on Foundations.
The Council on Foundations works to support
foundations by promoting knowledge, growth and action in
philanthropy. Of note is their
Community Foundation Locator,
providing a searchable,
regional list of community foundations throughout the
United States, Canada, and selected other countries.
The California
Community Foundation
is one such community
foundation operating in the Los Angeles area.
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Association
of Fundraising Professionals.
Effective
January 1, 2001, the National Society of Fundraising
Executives became the Association of Fundraising
Professionals (AFP). The AFP's stated goal is
"to advance philanthropy through advocacy,
research, education, and certification programs."
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Search for Charities. Publication 78, Cumulative
List of Organizations described in Section 170(c) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, is a list of organizations eligible
to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions. |
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Northern
California Grantmakers' Resources. |
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Life Cycle of a Public Charity. During its existence,
a public charity has numerous interactions with the IRS – from
filing an application for recognition of tax-exempt status, to
filing the required annual information returns, to making changes in
its mission and purpose. The IRS provides information, explanations,
guides, forms and publications on all of these subjects – they are
available through this IRS Web site. |
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Life Cycle of a Private Foundation. During its existence,
a private foundation has numerous interactions with the IRS - from
filing an application for recognition of tax-exempt status, to filing
required annual information returns, to making changes in its mission
and purpose. The IRS provides information, explanations, guides, forms,
and publications on all of these subjects - they are available through
this IRS Web site. |
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Nonprofit Lookup.
Look up nonprofit organizations by
ZIP CODE or NAME.
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Community Partners.
Community
Partners operates an incubator that supports capable leaders in
translating their ideas for community change into action. |
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The Center for Nonprofit
Management. The Center for Nonprofit Management helps
nonprofit organizations more effectively fulfill their missions by:
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Guiding
Nonprofits to Critical Information |
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Developing
Nonprofit Leadership and Management Skills |
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Counseling
Organizations Through Change |
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Building Human
Capital: Finding and Keeping the Right People |
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Promoting
Collaboration and Communication |
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California Management Assistance Partnership
"Nonprofit Genie." Information and resources for the nonprofit
community. |
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CompassPoint Nonprofit Services.
The mission of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services is to increase the
effectiveness and impact of people working and volunteering in the nonprofit
sector. |
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California
Attorney General's Charity Database.
Find financial information on organizations required to
file with the California Attorney General. (Most
California charities must register and file annual
financial reports with the Attorney General's Registry
of Charitable Trusts.) We have also collected some
of the more-often needed forms
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The BBB Wise Giving
Alliance was formed in 2001 with the merger of the National
Charities Information Bureau and the Council of Better
Business Bureaus Foundation and its Philanthropic Advisory
Service. The BBB Wise Giving Alliance is a 501(c)(3)
charitable organization, affiliated with the
Council of Better Business
Bureaus.
The BBB Wise Giving
Alliance collects and distributes information on hundreds of
nonprofit organizations that solicit nationally or have
national or international program services. It routinely
asks such organizations for information about their
programs, governance, fund raising practices, and finances
when the charities have been the subject of inquiries.
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PG
Calc's Planned Giving Resources.
There are other charitable giving resources to be found
under "basic estate planning";
PG Calc's business is "software for planned gift
marketing, calculations and administration.
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The Planned Giving
Design Center. The Planned Giving Design Center helps charitable organizations create
strategic alliances with legal, tax, and financial services professionals
in their communities who have the capacity to influence philanthropy.
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The
National Committee on Planned Giving.
The
National Committee on Planned Giving was formed in 1988
as a federation of planned giving councils to
facilitate, coordinate and encourage the education and
training of the planned giving community, and to
facilitate effective communication among the many
different professionals in the community.
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Guidestar.
GuideStar is a database of more than 640,000 nonprofit organizations in the United States. It's the world's most comprehensive source of information about American nonprofit organizations.
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Philanthropy Journal.
This is a publication of the
A.
J. Fletcher Foundation
in Raleigh, N.C.; it is an
online newspaper that reports on philanthropy and the
nonprofit world.
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Giving Capital Online.
This online resource provides nonprofit organizations with the ability to
run online fundraising campaigns and membership drives. There is also
an online donor advised fund here.
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Non-Profit Issues.
A "grab bag" of recent authority affecting non-profit
organizations and philanthropy.
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