Resources

Arts and Culture

Know Your Own Bone
Know Your Own Bone is a data-informed website about business-related best practices for visitor-serving organizations to aid in achieving both their mission-related and financial goals. It focuses on your audience and how they think and behave. Know Your Own Bone focuses on operations from the outside-in (i.e. audience centric) rather than the traditional inside-out way of approaching operations.

Board Development

Blue Avocado
A semi-monthly newsletter of American Nonprofits, a membership organization that provides practical financial information and support nonprofit organizations

Board Café
A column for and about nonprofit Boards. The column appears regularly in Blue Avocado

Boardsource
A national organization working to strengthen nonprofit Board leadership. They engage with and support individuals committed to creating positive change in their communities through effective Board service.

boardnetUSA
A national online service where organizations can network and advertise for new Board members and leaders.

Career Development

Learn How to Become: Making a Difference Through Volunteering and Nonprofit Careers
An online service for students and young professionals seeking careers in the nonprofit sector.

Capacity Building

Alliance for Nonprofit Management
A member organization of nonprofit leaders promoting quality in nonprofit capacity building

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
A neutral open forum that brings together researchers, scholars, and practitioners from around the world and works to strengthen the research community in the emerging field of nonprofit and philanthropic studies

Bridgespan
Collaborates with social sector leaders to help scale impact, build leadership, advance philanthropic effectiveness, and accelerate learning

Center for Excellence in Nonprofits
Provides the nonprofit community with leadership development and continuous improvement programs through its Learning Community model

Compass
Compass engages business professionals with their local nonprofits to support nonprofits’ most critical strategic challenges and provide entry into the nonprofit sector for business professionals looking to use their skills and experience to benefit the community.

CompassPoint
A nonprofit training, consulting, and research organization providing nonprofits with management tools, concepts, and strategies to increase their effectiveness and impact.

FAKEQUITY
Blog about racial equity and its nemesis Fakequity. Some of the posts may veer off towards equity's siblings and cousins diversity, inclusion, culture, community engagement, accountability, etc.

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
A community of 500 grantmakers working to reshape the way philanthropy operates. GEO promotes strategies and practices that contribute to grantee success

Nonprofit AF (formerly Nonprofit With Balls)
Humorous and irreverent blog about nonprofit management. Topics include Capacity Building, Board Relations, Cultural Competency, Fundraising and so much more.

Nonprofit Risk Management Center
A national organization that monitors, advocates, and educates on liability issues for nonprofits.

Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations
A Pennsylvania-based membership organization serving and advancing the charitable nonprofit sector through leadership, advocacy, education and services in order to improve the quality of life in the state

Evaluation

American Evaluation Association
An international professional conglomeration of evaluators devoted to the assessment and improvement of programs, policies, personnel, technology, products, and organizations in the nonprofit sector

Harvard Family Research Project
Organization dedicated to helping stakeholders develop strategies to promote the well-being of children, youth, families, and their communities

Innovation Network
National program evaluation service that provides program planning, management consulting, training, and web-based tools tailored to the client’s specific area of nonprofit specialization

The Urban Institute-The Outcome Indicators Project
The Outcome Indicators Project provides a framework for tracking the performance of organizations seeking to develop new outcome monitoring processes or improve their existing systems

Financial Management

Nonprofit Finance Fund
Provides a continuum of financing, consulting, and advocacy services to nonprofits and funders nationwide

Reinvestment Fund
We reimagine neighborhood revitalization by combining expertise, analysis, and creative approaches to investing with a social purpose. Our work is driven by increasing equity of access to resources that strengthen communities and create economic opportunity.

Fundraising

Asking Matters
Practical online Fundraising training

Association of Fundraising Professionals Resource Center
Internet transaction and fundraising information and legalities for nonprofits

Fired-Up Fundraising
Gail Perry works with boards to be an effective engine in your nonprofit

The Foundation Center
A national nonprofit service established in 1956 and supported by close to 550 foundations that are a part of an online, searchable, Foundation Directory

Future Fundraising Now
The future of fundraising is not about social media, online video, or SEM. It's not about any technology, medium, or technique. It's about donors. If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.

Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT)
Develops and strengthens the grassroots fundraising skills of people working for social justice

GuideStar
National database of U.S. charitable organizations featuring data on more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofits

Movie Mondays
Fun weekly videos to help nonprofits raise money, steward donors, and inspire board members

Network for Good
Organization that provides easy and affordable online fundraising services to other nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good
This blog provides valuable, easy to understand information, news and resources related to nonprofit technology, online communications and mobile and social fundraising.

Jobs

Idealist
A global directory of nonprofit-related information including organizations, consultants, products, services, publications, and events

Job Corner, Philanthropy News Digest (PND)
Features current full-time job openings at U.S. Foundations, grantmaking public charities, and other nonprofit organizations

Philanthropy Careers, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Provides a searchable list of current job openings in nonprofits along with related tools and resources for job seeking and career success in the nonprofit sector

Leadership Development

How to Build A Successful Leadership Development Program
Freethink is a new media publisher telling stories from the frontiers of our rapidly-changing world.

Legal

Nonprofit Issues
A national web newsletter of "Nonprofit Law You Need To Know." Written for nonprofit executives and their advisors, Nonprofit Issues provides clear, concise and comprehensive coverage of real issues that affect nonprofits every day

Technology

Beth Kanter
How connected nonprofits leverage networks and data for social change

MAP for Nonprofits: Building, Managing, and Promoting Your Site
Helpful information about computer systems, the internet, websites, and more

NPower
Network of independent, locally based nonprofits providing accessible technology solutions that strengthen the work of other nonprofits

TechAtlas
Online tool that helps online organizations assess, plan for, and manage the technology they need to make an even greater difference in their communities

TechSoup
Technology information tailored for nonprofits, including tech discussion, tutorials, free webinars, products and product comparisons, and links to external services

Verizon Foundation Resource Center
A set of online tools and training partnerships to help organizations use technology more effectively in the areas of planning, communications, fundraising, recruitment, and evaluation

Volunteers

Corporation for National and Community Service
Works with governor-appointed state commissions, nonprofits, faith-based groups, schools, and other civic organizations to provide community service opportunities

Energize, Inc.
A training, consulting, and publishing company that specializes in voluntarism

Service Leader
Information on all aspects of volunteer management, including screening, matching, record-keeping, evaluation, legal issues/risk management, volunteer/staff relations, online activism, and management software

Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN), Philadelphia Branch
Organizes social, professional development, and networking opportunities for young people involved in the Philadelphia area nonprofit community