Bank of America Philanthropic Management
https://www.bankofamerica.com/philanthropic/fn_search.action
Site that provides detailed information about the grantmaking focus of approximately 70 foundations, including their missions, application procedures, proposal deadlines, and contact information. Currently (2008), the site is an introductory portal for foundations distributing charitable grants in: Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island.
Benevon Model of Fundraising
http://www.benevon.com/resources/model_overview-1
Founded by Terry Axelrod,
Benevon trains and coaches nonprofit organizations to implement a mission-based system for raising sustainable funding from individual donors. A free overview of their model is available here.
Contributions
Magazine Archive Library
http://www.contributionsmagazine.com/feature.html
Archived articles on all
aspects of fundraising and other related issues from this bimonthly
print publication.
Developing Volunteer Projects Toolkit
http://www.behandson.org/wiki/developing-volunteer-projects-toolkit
The Developing Volunteer Projects Toolkit offers simple, practical advice for planning group volunteer projects, ready-to-use worksheets and forms, and strategies for engaging volunteers in service. Especially pertinent for corporate volunteers since the site was created for the employees of Home Depot to work with Hands On Network.
The Foundation
Center FAQs
http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/faqs/full_list.html
The venerable Foundation
Center site has lots of information for grantseekers, and this FAQ
list is great, especialy for beginners.
Greenability
http://www.greenability.org/
Canadian fundraising expert
Ken Wyman offers several free articles and guides to grassroots
fundraising and special events.
"A Guide to Investing
in Volunteer Resources Management: Improve Your Philanthropic Portfolio"
http://www.community.ups.com/downloads/pdfs/guide.pdf
Part of AVA's "Positioning
the Profession" project, this unique 21-page guide can be used anywhere
to educate funders about the value of supporting volunteer efforts.
ICVolunteers
http://www.icvolunteers.org/
Unique international program offering the management of volunteers for nonprofit conferences and events, at no charge except expenses. For eligibility details and a summary of their work, see:
http://www.icvolunteers.org/index.php?what=ser&id=6
Institute of Fundraising
(UK)
http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/
Has developed a series
of codes of practice in fundraising for the UK. See especially
their 2005 release, "Volunteer
Fundraising Code."
Network for Good Learning Center
www.fundraising123.org
Provides online fundraising services and training to nonprofit organizations through fundraising tools, e-newsletter communications, free teleconferences presented by industry leaders and its Learning Center (www.fundraising123.org). In 2008 it acquired ePhilanthropy.org.
The NonProfit Times Grant Search
http://www.nptgrantsearch.com/
Free, searchable database of more than 4,000 $1 million+ corporate donations, including the category of “philanthropy/voluntarism.”
Philanthropic
Capacity Building Resource Database
http://www.humaninteract.org/reports/pcbrdatabase.asp
Human Interaction Resource
Institute offers snapshots of foundation funding for "capacity
building." Page also gives Web site links to other sites
concerned with nonprofit support.
PlanetFriendly.net
http://www.planetfriendly.net/promote.html
"How to Organize & Promote
an Event or Meeting"
portal and guide for activists.
PTO Today
"Focus on Fundraising"
http://www.ptotoday.com/fundraising
Archived articles on all
sorts of fundraising ideas for leaders of parent/teacher groups
but applicable to any organization.
SixDegrees.org
http://www.sixdegrees.org/
Any one person is connected to any other person through six or fewer relationships, because it's a small world. SixDegrees.org (founded by Kevin Bacon and Network for Good) is about using this idea to accomplish something good (social networking with a social conscience). Support favorite charities by donating or creating fundraising “badges” — as well as check out the favorite causes of other people, including celebrities.
Volunteer Spot
http://www.volunteerspot.com
Free site designed to enable anyone to quickly mobilize, coordinate , and schedule volunteers in their community, congregation and social network to accomplish projects more easily.