Strategic Planning Resources

• Alliance for Nonprofit Management
  http://www.allianceonline.org/resources/
  Resource library for not-for-profit agencies.



• FastTrac Planning
  http://www.BlackerbyAssoc.com/FastTrac/
  FastTrac is the premiere business planning training program in the nation, with over 70,000 graduates in 43 states. It works great for not-for-profit organizations wanting to take a more business-like approach to strategic and tactical planning.

Efficiency Improvement in Not-for-Profit and Government Organizations

• NonProfit Resource Center
  http://not-for-profit.org/
  The Nonprofit Resource Center has been the Internet's premier information source for nonprofit organizations. With the most comprehensive list of links to websites of interest to nonprofits, you can find virtually everything you need to know about how to form, manage and maintain your nonprofit organization.



• National Campaign to Make Mauritius Muda-Free.
  http://ncb.intnet.mu/presid/speech/muda.htm
  "Let us pause for one moment and try to visualise what would happen if each of us takes the vow to remove Muda ["waste" in Japanese] in our everyday life. Mauritius would then become a better place to live in, a more attractive place for investors and an upper market tourist destination...Let us therefore all resolve to make Mauritius a Muda-free nation."
  --The Honorable President of the Republic of Mauritius, May 30, 2001.



• Muda-Free Mauritius
  http://www.kaizen-institute.com/news-e.htm
  "Mauritius, the first nation to proclaim MUDA elimination as one of the nation's ideals."



• Lean Office (coming soon!)

Technology Resources & Internet Strategies

• Network for Good
  http://www.networkforgood.org/npo/
  A nonprofit collaboration to help nonprofit organizations increase capacity, reach new audiences, and build Internet strategies.



• Groundspring.org
  https://www.groundspring.org/index_gs.cfm
  Growing nonprofits with internet tools and training.



• TechSoup
  http://www.techsoup.org/
  A comprehensive source of technology information just for nonprofit organizations. Help yourself to everything inside -- it's all served up by people who know: our nonprofit technology staff, experts in the field, and your own colleagues.



• Craigslist Foundation
  http://www.craigslistfoundation.org/
  The mission of the Craigslist Foundation is to bring visibility to small, grassroots nonprofits involved in local social change work, through craigslist.org websites, community events and special projects connecting nonprofits and new supporters.

Government Resources for Nonprofits

• FirstGov for NonProfits Gateway
  http://www.firstgov.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml
  Links to U.S. Government support for nonprofits, and to many other sites related to fundraising & outreach, grants & loans, laws & regulations, management & operations, online services, registration & licensing and tax information.

Research About Not-for-Profit Organizations

• Internet Nonprofit Center
  http://www.nonprofit-info.org/
  Weekly newsletter available. Lots of information and research about not-for-profit organizations. Resources include on-line fundraising and multi-state filing. Sponsored by the Evergreen State Society, Seattle.



• Organizers' Collaborative
  http://www.organizenow.net/
  A non-profit membership organization composed of activists and technically oriented people working to enhance grassroots organizing, research, and movement building by social change organizations.

Fund Raising Resources

• Grant-Writing Experience, Blackerby Associates
  http://www.BlackerbyAssoc.com/GrantsExp.html
  Blackerby Associates has extensive experience writing grants for human services programs, such as for people who are homeless and for treating people with chemical dependency.



• Foundations: Grants for Technology, Education and Economic Development
  http://www.BlackerbyAssoc.com/Foundations.html
  Lising of key national granting foundations and their web sites, focusing on technology, education and economic development.



• The Chronicle of Philanthropy; The Newspaper of the Nonprofit World
  http://philanthropy.com/
  Broad news coverage of not-for-profit sector. Gifts & grants; fund-raising. Lists of top donors. Searchable Nonprofit Handbook. Job openings. Includes premium (for fee) content.



• CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
  http://www.compasspoint.org/
  Software coaches, fundraising workshop, capital project planning and financing, technology training materials, nonprofit news and information e-mail newletter.



• Fundsnet
  http://www.fundsnetservices.com/
  A broad array of information about fundraising and grants.

Careers

• Nonprofit Career Resource Guide
  http://www.jobhero.com/nonprofit-career-guide/
  Lots of information about career management in the not-for-profit sector.