Internet Prospector

NON-PROFIT INFO LINKS

Last Update: July 27, 1997

United States Resources

CONTENTS: Charity Village; Contact Center Network; Council of Foundations; Council of Michigan Foundations; Foundation Center; Foundations On-line; FundsNet Online Services; Guidestar; Hispanic Assoc. on Corp. Responsibility; Meta-Non-Profit Index; Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation; Non-Profit Times; Paladin Group; Philanthropy Journal

CHARITY VILLAGE
Internet Prospector, November '96
Hilborn, a Canadian provider of resources for nonprofits, established this site. Visit the library to read articles about campaign strategy, major gifts, ethics, international initiatives and just about everything else a researcher needs to know about fundraising. There is a book review section, a list of resources (including free stuff!) and more. The In-Kind Exchange offers you a chance to pass on something you don't need anymore to a nonprofit needier than yours.
http://www.charityvillage.com/cvhome.html

THE CONTACT CENTER NETWORK
Internet Prospector, December '95
The Contact Directory to Nonprofits on the Web is located at this site. Resources are arranged by country (with the U.S. arranged by state) and by community, educational or political issue. A good place for exploring! Its directory of 8,500 nonprofit Web sites is now searchable.
http://www.cof.org/

COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS
Internet Prospector, April '97
A great site for foundations from a grantmaker's perspective from an organization that includes the country's leading foundations. Site features: links to member websites, links and information on regional association of grantmakers, position papers on philanthropic issues and news. http://www.cof.org/

COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS
Internet Prospector, March '96
The Council is an association of more than 360 foundations and corporations making grants for charitable purposes. Find information about the group, programs and publications here. Get a copy of the foundation's annual report which includes a list of members.
http://www.novagate.com /~cmf/index.html

FOUNDATION CENTER
Internet Prospector, September '95
Visit this dynamic site for links to foundations and the Philanthropy News Digest online.
http://fdncenter.org This site as of June '96 includes links to 42 private foundations and 34 corporate grantmakers. The entire Web site is now searchable!

FOUNDATIONS ON-LINE
Internet Prospector, February '96
The Northern California Community Foundation, Inc., established this site of hot links to foundation sites on the Net. Browse the directory to find grantmakers. The site features links to fund raising software, a fund raising events directory, consultants and fund raising products on the Net. Find The Sega Foundation, Sun Microsystems Community Grants and more here.
http://www.foundations.org/index.html

FUNDSNET ONLINE SERVICES
Internet Prospector, July '97
Fundsnet has pulled together a wealth of resources for many constituencies. With numerous links in each, its sections include: Nonprofit, Latino, Education, Employment, Local Links, Scholarships, Search Engines (25) and Government resources. After looking at the subsection Foundations
Online, I tend to believe its claim of being the most comprehensive directory of foundations on the Internet.
http://www.fundsnetservices.com/

GUIDESTAR
Internet Prospector, January '97
Guidestar from Philanthropic Research Inc. reports on 40,000 501C(3) nonprofit organizations with annual revenues of over $250,000 (taken from IRS 990s). It also offers "essays about effective philanthropy and the work of nonprofits" as well as hotlinks. To access the free reports, you must register. Report content includes, basic data (EIN#, phone, fiscal year, classification), program description, revenue and expenses with net gain/loss, and a chart of expenditures with a financial analysis. The search engine offers a variety of ways in which to search the database from keyword to category. A search using the keyword "art" in the fields Arts, Culture, Humanities yielded 688 results. http://www.guidestar.org

HISPANIC ASSOCIATION ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
Internet Prospector, February '96
This website has links to corporations supporting Hispanic hiring initiatives. There are hot links to publications, philanthropic opportunities and the organization's corporate partners. The site is under construction, so look for more in the future. This should be a good stop one day.
http://www.hacr.org/

META-INDEX OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ON THE WEB
Internet Prospector, December '95
An overwhelming array of links to foundations, corporate and government sites related to nonprofits. The Foundations link includes only those that give grants while the Non-profits category includes those seeking funds. Both groupings cross national boundaries.
http://www.duke.edu/~ptavern/Pete.Philanthropic.html

THE MID ATLANTIC ARTS FOUNDATION
Internet Prospector, April '96
With the Arts so beleaguered these days and funding hard to come by, it's welcome to find an arts foundation on the Net that supports visual to performing arts and also spans such a large geographical area. The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation serves the following states:

Delaware
District of Columbia
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
U.S. Virgin Islands
Virginia
West Virginia

The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation came into being in 1979 and maintains connections with the National Endowment for the Arts. It aims to increase "access to quality art programs". Their interests include the aforementioned visual and performing arts as well as jazz and folk arts.

Visit this site at:
http://www.charm.net/%7Emidarts/

NON-PROFIT TIMES
(Cecilia Hogan, Internet Prospector, September '95)
Read about current events and issues affecting the nonprofit industry in this leading trade journal.
http://www.nptimes.com

THE PALADIN GROUP GRANT SEARCH & INFORMATION;
Internet Prospector, March '96
The Paladin Group provides hot links to how to write a proposal, the Grant Getters Guide to the Internet, the Rice Grant gopher and government funding sites here.
http://www.silcom.co m/~paladin/grants.html

PHILANTHROPY JOURNAL
Internet Prospector, October '96 Update
The nonprofit Philanthropy Journal launched its revamped publication in September 1996. But already this spinoff from the Raleigh, North Carolina, News and Observer is getting close to 1,000 hits a day, according to journal officials. See the Corporate Giving section for current articles on corporate philanthropy and links to other similar sites. Check the Journal's table of contents for: Nonprofit jobs, Fundraising, Foundations, Technology, etc. (A private email subscription to Philanthropy Journal Alert is available)

[Note: the Philanthropy Journal domain name was purchased -- though the URL is still active it now goes to an unrelated, commercial site. We have removed the link. -IP, 4/02]

Philanthropy Journal
Internet Prospector, May '95
With more and more community and regional computer networks going on the Internet, local nonprofit and fund raising issues will get discussed online. This seems to have happened with The Philanthropy Journal, a web page maintained by a newspaper publisher--the News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Philanthropy Journal is a slick web publication that offers news abstracts somewhat similar to the Foundation Center's Philanthropy Digest and the Chronicle of Higher Education's and the Chronicle of Philanthropy's online or e-mail digests.

[Note: the Philanthropy Journal domain name was purchased -- though the URL is still active it now goes to an unrelated, commercial site. We have removed the link. -IP, 4/02]

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