The Nonprofit FAQ

National Alliance for Nonprofit Management

National Association for Fiscal And Administrative Excellence

National Association of College and University Business Officers

National Association of Socially Responsible Organizations

National Center for Charitable Statistics

National Center for Family Philanthropy

"The National Center for Family Philanthropy was founded to encourage families and individuals to create and sustain their philanthropic missions. The National Center, a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization, was established in 1997 by a group of family philanthropists. It is the only national resource center that focuses solely on matters of importance to families engaged in philanthropy and their effective giving." (From the website 1/13/04)

National Center for Nonprofit Boards

National Center for Social Entrepreneurs

National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

"NCRP's mission is to make philanthropy more responsive to people with the least wealth and opportunity, more relevant to critical public needs, and more open and accountable to all, in order to create a more just and democratic society."

National Council of Nonprofits

National Federation of Nonprofits

National Network of Fiscal Sponsors

National Society of Fund Raising Executives

Nonprofit Centers Network

"The NonprofitCenters Network is a community of Multi-tenant Nonprofit Centers and their philanthropic, government, academic and real estate partners. Through conferences, peer networking, mentoring and the internet, The Network provides education and resources for the creation and operation of quality nonprofit office and program space." (from the website, 5/4/05)

Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-Sustainability Team

Nonprofit Management Association

Nonprofit Management Development Center

Nonprofit Risk Management Center

Publishes a wide variety of useful guides on handling and reducing risks
in nonprofit administration. The list includes discussions of liability
for Directors and Officers, other volunteers, and program
administrators.

Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network

Open Philanthropy Exchange

A membership organization including both vendors of fundraising software and nonprofit organizations with the goal of "defining accessible and open data-transfer methods for the non-profit sector."

Philanthropy Roundtable

"The Philanthropy Roundtable is a national association of more than 600 individual donors, corporate giving representatives, foundation staff and trustees, and trust and estate officers. Its Associates include donors who are involved in philanthropy on a professional basis, as well as individual donors for whom giving is a serious avocation. The Roundtable is 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 generating the wealth that makes philanthropy possible. Its work is motivated by the belief that philanthropy is most likely to succeed when it focuses not on grand social designs, but on individual achievement, and where it rewards not dependence, but personal initiative, self-reliance, and private enterprise -- in other words, where it seeks to expand, rather than restrict human liberty and opportunity." (From the website 8/4/04)

Points of Light Foundation

Progressive Pubs

"ProgressivePubs Inc. is committed to providing the books, papers, videos, databases, and other resources necessary to strengthen and spread the progressive movement in the United States. We seek to support those struggling for economic justice, social equality, ecological sustainability, demilitarization, democratic participation, and community empowerment. Currently ProgressivePubs Inc. is helping nonprofits to sell publications and other materials on its web site." (From the website, 1/12/02)

Resource Center for Social Workers

WWWRSW is jointly sponsored by New York University's Ehrenkranz School of Social Work
and the Division of Social Work and Behavioral Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
This site a search engine for 58,819 links. Contact: Dr. Gary Holden

Society for Nonprofit Organizations

A national membership organization for nonprofits. Publishes Nonprofit World and the Nonprofit Funding Alert. offers online 'Learning Institutes,' and employment classifieds. Based in Michigan.

The Study Circles Resource Center

Helps people, organizations and communities create study circles – small-group, democratic, peer-led discussions – and thus provide a simple way to involve community members in dialogue and action on important social and political issues.

Support Centers of America

Technology Resource Consortium

The Urban Institute

U.S. Public Service Academy

Aupporting the establishment of a national educational institution — "the West Point for public service."

Minor revisions 7/26/98; 6/11/01; additions and corrections 1/12, 1/13/02; 2/29/04; 8/4/04; 5/26/05; NCFY added 6/13/06; Public Service Academy added 4/5/07; NCNB updated to refer to BoardSource 1/17/08; National Network of Fiscal Sponsors added; name of NCNA updated to National Council of Nonprofits 1/7/09, 2/16/09; ref. to Internet Public Library removed (no longer available), 2/16/09 -- PB