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Governmental Accounting Sites
Federal Sites:
State Sites:
Additional Useful
Websites for Nonprofit
Organizations:
Connect to
Richmond is a local site that provides articles
and links to other helpful sites.
There are articles on the following topics: legal
information, partnerships and collaborations, and
social entrepreneurship. The website provides
links to topics on: advocacy, civil
action and government contacts, evaluations,
fundraising and development, technology, social
entrepreneurship, and volunteers. The
site also contains links to websites that contain
information on nonprofits jobs both locally and
nationally.
Non-profit
Resource Center is a database of websites and
services. It is an excellent resource
that provides websites listed under categories and
is uncomplicated to use. The
categories listed are: legal services, nonprofit
law, taxation, politics and policy,
accountability, publications, sector
organizations, regional organizations, management
organizations, consultants, and for/about
directors.
The Guidestar
website provides many services such as articles,
grant center, online giving and collaboration
program, classifies, links, and a conference
database. There are articles on IRS
990, fundraising, legal issues, marketing, and web
development. The classified section
contains volunteer and job opportunities, in-kind
gifts, donations, and
internships. The grants center
provides information on conferences, articles,
resources, FAQ, partners, and links to other
sites. Guidestar also provides a
search engine for nonprofit organizations by name,
keyword, state, type, income range, and zip code.
Charity Channel
is a website that contains a resource
guide. This service provides a career
online search, a classified ad system, and
consulting for nonprofits by
professionals. The site also includes
forums to discuss issues concerning
nonprofits. The site provides numerous
e-newsletters dealing with concerns and issues
affecting nonprofit organizations.
Actions without
Borders has numerous resources
available. The first is a nonprofit
career center that has postings for internships
and job opportunities. It also
provides a list of professional associations to
join and a resume-writing tutorial.
There is a calendar of career fairs sponsored by
Action without Borders. This site also
provides databases for events, resources,
campaigns, services, programs, and organizations
concerning nonprofits. The last
resource is the links, which include the following
categories: news and information sites for
not-profits, supporting organizations by country,
technology for nonprofits, recruiting and managing
volunteers, and starting, running, and funding a
nonprofit.
The Independent
Sector website contains nonprofit information in
the following areas: government funding, public
policy, tax issues, oversight and accountability,
and nonprofit lobbying and advocacy.
This website provides four different toolkits for
nonprofits in the areas of trust, giving, messages
and the media, and volunteering. There
is a list of conferences and publications for
nonprofit organizations. The final
service this website provides is articles on the
concerns of nonprofits in the following areas:
corporate and nonprofit partnerships, tax policy,
giving and volunteering, civil society education,
charity lobbing, faith based organizations in
nonprofits, emerging leadership, accountability,
and e-philanthropy.
The BBB Wise
Giving Alliance supplies information about
charities through a number of
resources. The first is the charity
report index, which contains all the charity
organizations on file with them. There
is a section that allows users to make an inquire
about any charity or file a complaint on an
organization. This site contains a
page with tips and information, which helps donors
make decision about charities and
giving. The links this site provides
contains information sources, publication sites,
charitable organization websites, and government
regulatory agencies websites.
Non-profit
Sector Research Fund is a website that contains
the latest updates and research on nonprofit
issues. It contains a database of
research on nonprofit issues. There are numerous
categories that the research is classified under,
such as, accountability, advocacy, arts and
culture, civil engagements and volunteerism,
collaboration, dimensions of the nonprofit
sectors, education and research, fundraising and
financing, health, housing and community
development, human service and food assistance,
international, intersectoral relations,
management, religion/faith based organizations,
philanthropy, and nonprofits, business, and the
market. There are links to other sites
under the categories of nonprofit information,
policy and research centers, and grant making and
philanthropy.
IKNOW is a
database of links to other nonprofit
sites. The links are categories under
the following: education, financial
management, fundraising, human resource, legal
issues, service providers, tax issues, technology,
vision and strategy, and volunteering.
This site also contains information portals, which
are links to other nonprofit search
engines. The final thing this site
offers is articles and information on the topic of
weathering uncertainty.
The Community
Foundation serving Richmond and Central Virginia
is a local website. It contains articles
about general news, publications, and recent
grants. It provides a section about being a
donor, which includes information on reasons to
give, establishing a fund, ways to give, types of
funds, tips on giving wisely, investment
programs. There are donor resources that
cover a range of topics including tax tips and
issues, national insights, volunteering, and
giving strategies. There are also resources
for the advisors that encompass such issues as
donor options, private foundations, starting a
fund, free services, and advantages to being a
donor.
Additional Nonprofit
Links of Interest
1. At http://www.foundationcenter.org/the
Foundation Center provides information about every
foundation in the country. Much of this
information is free, but some of it is for paying
subscribers only.
2. At http://news.gilbert.org/Michael
Gilbert maintains a great site with daily news
updates bridging the online and nonprofit worlds.
You can read the news there, or you can subscribe
for weekly email updates.
3. At http://www.nonprofitbasics.org/the
Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership
is building a resource center with lots of great
information for starting, running and funding an
organization.
4. At http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaqPutnam
Barber maintains the Nonprofit FAQ an older
resource center that is special because it is
based on actual questions and answers posted by
nonprofit managers over the years.
5. At http://www.networkforgood.org/people
can find volunteer opportunities, and they can
also make donations to hundreds of thousands of
nonprofits. Most importantly, you can use this
site to add a free Donate button to your Web site.
6. At http://www.serviceleader.org/you
will find a huge site covering every aspect of
volunteer management, from screening, matching,
record-keeping and evaluation, to legal issues,
risk management and virtual volunteering.
7. At http://www.techsoup.org/Techsoup
has built the leading resource center for all
issues related to nonprofit technology. In
addition, they offer steep discounts on software
for nonprofits, sometimes up to 90% off the list
price.
8. At http://www.volunteermatch.org/people
can find volunteer opportunities all over the
country by ZIP code or area of interest.
Lastly, in addition to
these 10 online resources, we recommend that
people check out
http://www.ncna.org/states.htmfor
the nonprofit state association closest to them.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
Some of the
links in this area allow you to leave the
Governmental and Nonprofit Assistance Center
(GNAC) Web Site. Linked sites are not under the
control of the GNAC and the GNAC is not
responsible for the contents of any linked site.
The links are provided for convenience only.
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