The Nonprofit FAQ

http://www.nonprofits.org/

The Nonprofit FAQ, of which this page is part, contains many other items of nonprofit interest and is part of The Internet Nonprofit Center (http://www.nonprofits.org).

http://www.charityvillage.com

Charity Village, a Canadian site with Canadian focused, as well as general resources for nonprofits.

http://www.fastennetwork.org

Faith and Service Technical Education Network assists faith-based nonprofits and foundations work better together and with governments to improve lives in the communities they serve.

http://www.idealist.org

Action Without Borders maintains this site with information about nonprofits worldwide. It can be searched in many ways for organizations of interest. There are also sections with topical information on government, support organizations, finance, consultants, jobs, management, personnel, public relations and other issues of interest to nonprofits (including the Nonprofit FAQ).

http://www.capaciteria.org

The Capaciteria is an interesting experiment in collecting user feedback about online resources designed to help nonprofits. Any visitor can use the extensive lists of useful links to other websites. The links are arranged in categories to facilitate navigation. Registration is required to suggest new links and contribute to the ratings.

http://www.dsk.de/dsklinks.htm

DSK, a German organization's site with many nonprofit links in Europe, USA and elsewhere.

http://www.handsnet.org/

Handsnet, includes action alerts, news articles & analysis, links to their forum information - generally for members only.

http://www.cof.org

Council on Foundations with links to many foundations and general information on foundations and giving.

http://fdncenter.org/

The Foundation Center which links to foundation and corporate sites of interest to fund raisers, general information on foundations and giving.

http://www.tgci.com/

The Grantsmanship Center which links to foundation and corporate sites of interest to fund raisers, and has general information on fund raising.

http://www.jointogether.org/news/funding/

Join Together Online publishes a running list of recent large grants and other news of interest in the funding arena.

http://www.fundraiser-ideas.net/

A blog listing short ideas for fundraising activities, special events, etc.

http://www.fundraising.co.uk/

UK Fundraising by Howard Lake, a United Kingdom focussed fundraising site with some information, ideas and resources of more general note.

http://www.idealist.org/npofaq/0/1547.html

Early discussions in the Nonprofit FAQ of websites that offer fundraising support and services of various kinds --
charity malls, donations processors, special event and membership processing, etc., etc. There's also list of other websites with discussions and analysis of this rapidly growing category of resources.

Other discussions of fundraising resources that can be found on the Internet:

In January 1996 David Wehr Suggested: "Check out Fund-raising.com on the WWW at: http://www.fund-raising.com/ See the Idea bank and Resources pages for great fundraising ideas."

Jean Saffell wrote:

I have been following the posts re: raising money for the girl scouts. If your group wants to sell stuff to fundraise, I found an interesting fundraising site at: http://www.fundsraiser.com/index.html

There are some nifty ideas here. Some of which I have forwarded to other lists and people I know. I emailed for the custom board game (Christmas in July) and was impressed by the free sample sent. Now I have to see if any of the small towns I work with would be interested.

Just as a disclaimer- I have no connection to the site in any way shape or form. I just mention it because it might have some ideas you would want to explore with various groups.

Rod Payne wrote:

Is there a site on the net that has an "Action Plan" or TIPS for setting up a successful fundraiser? Or are their any great books that you could recommend?

Doug Jamieson replied:

Check the Fundraising Management and Fundraising Marketing sections in The Library at CharityVillage: http://www.charityvillage.com/cv/charityvillage/ires.asp. Should be something useful there.

Plus, for general discussions of Internet resources of interest to nonprofits, look through the section on that subject at this website -- "The Nonprofit FAQ at Idealist.org" -- at http://www.idealist.org/en/faqcat/41-78

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