Links

We have an extensive collection of nonprofit resources.

• General Nonprofit Management Information

  • MAP for nonprofits
    A complete library of free information on all areas of nonprofit management.
  • CompassPoint
    Information and frequently asked questions on all nonprofit issues
  • Nonprofit Finance Fund
    Technical assistance and loans to nonprofit organizations undertaking capital projects and facility improvements. Short-term financing up to $500,000 is available at below market rates.
  • BBB Wise Giving Standards for Charity Accountability
  • Nonprofit Good Practice Guide
  • New York State Better Business Bureau
    (Metropolitan New York, Long Island and the mid-Hudson region)
  • Free Management Library
    Does your nonprofit need an advisory council? For the answer to this and other nonprofit management questions, check out this online library for nonprofits and for-profits.

• Board of Directors

  • Nonprofit Risk Management Center
  • Bridgestar, part of The Bridgespan Group
  • BoardSource
  • Board Café
  • Governance Matters
  • boardnetUSA
    An online service that matches organizations seeking board members with individuals who wish to serve on boards.
  • How To Read the New IRS Form 990
    Thanks to the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCCNY) for letting us use this report.

• Executive Compensation

  • How Much to Pay the Executive Director?
    A precise, interesting and info-filled discussion of this topic at Blue Avocado.
  • Professionals for Nonprofits Salary Survey

• Marketing and Communication

  • AdCouncil
    Produces, distributes and promotes public service campaigns on behalf of nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits can apply to be an AdCouncil campaign.
  • The Benton Foundation
    Terrific toolkit
  • Cause Communications
    Excellent free resources on communication.
  • The Center for Plain Language
    Plain language matters.  The center is an advocate for clear communication and plain language—information you can find, understand and use.
  • The Goodman Center
    Many useful resources to improve communications.
  • NYFA
    Excellent resource for marketing the arts.
  • SPIN
    Communications and marketing resources (focus on social justice).

• Technology for Nonprofits

  • The Gilbert Center
    Research, incubator and publisher, emphasizing online communication.
  • Idealware
    Candid reviews and information about nonprofit software.
  • Npower New York
    Ensuring all nonprofits can use technology to better serve their communities.
  • N-TEN
    A membership organization that connects people using technology.
  • Tech Soup
    An all-purpose technology site for nonprofits.
  • We Are Media
    A social media toolkit to help nonprofits navigate the world of social media.

• Starting a Nonprofit Organization

  • Office of the NY State Attorney General’s Office
  • NYS Department of State
  • The U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • Nonprofit Coordinating Committee
  • Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy

• Grantwriting and Fundraising

  • Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP)
    The Long Island Chapter of the AFP offers monthly seminars as well as an array of skills trainings, including a mentoring program. Additionally, at National Philanthropy Day, mid-November, AFP hosts a full-day program of workshops.
    p – 631.249.5008
    f – 631.249.5010
  • The Foundation Center
    79 Fifth Avenue
    2nd Floor
    New York, NY 10003-3076
    p – 212.620.4230 or 800.424.9836
    The Foundation Center produces a database of funding resources accessible on Long Island at three libraries. The libraries house this database along with the Cooperating Collections, providing a core collection of Foundation Center publications and a variety of supplementary materials and services. Each of the libraries has a librarian who is familiar with the database and collection and can offer assistance.
  • FundraisingINFO.com
    Combines the best in fundraising expertise and technology to provide innovative fundraising support to nonprofit organizations.
  • Grants.gov
    Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies. The site is the single access point for more than 1,000 grant programs offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies.
  • The Grantsmanship Center
    Regularly providing intensive training in the New York metropolitan area, the Grantsmanship Center also provides a great deal of helpful information on their website.
    p – 213.482.9863
  • Groundspring
    Helps nonprofit organizations use the Internet effectively for fundraising. Offers tips on how to improve your email outreach.
  • Huntington Public Library
    338 Main St.
    Huntington, NY 11743
    p – 631.427.5165
  • Karma411
    An online source for fundraising and social networking. Karma411 provides you with the tools to organize your friends and colleagues in a group and take action, start a campaign to raise money and awareness for your organization and network with like-minded individuals. 
  • Levittown Public Library
    1 Bluegrass Lane
    Levittown, NY 11756
    p – 516.731.5728
  • Network for Good
    Great fundraising resource. Visitors are able to donate to their organizations online.
  • The Riverhead Free Library
    330 Court St.
    Riverhead, NY 11901
    p – 631.727.3228
  • Publications with online access:
    • Grassroots Fundraising Journal
      Excellent resource for fundraising basics
    • Chronicle of Philanthropy
    • Philanthropy Journal

• Donor Resources

  As a nonprofit organization, it is to your advantage to see what sites donors and potential donors visit.

  • Guidestar
    See what your organization’s 990 looks like online. Check out other nonprofits. Consider the marketing potential of the 990.
  • Charity Navigator
    See what donors see when they compare charities and find ones that they can trust.
  • New York Charites.org
    Manage online contributions and go where donors go.

• Funders on Long Island

  Be sure to review carefully the funding guidelines for foundations and make sure that your organization and/or program fits with what the foundations fund.

  • Bridgehampton National Bank
  • Newsday
  • Bethpage Federal Credit Union
  • JPMorgan Chase Foundation
  • Verizon Foundation
  • Citigroup Foundation
  • National Grid Foundation
  • The Allstate Foundation
  • Horace Hagedorn Foundation
  • The Rauch Foundation
  • Long Island Community Foundation

• Insurance

  • Aon
    Provides insurance coverage for nonprofits of all types and sizes.
  • Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Group
    Helps to provide stable, reasonably priced liability insurance for 501(c)(3) nonprofits.

• Legal Issues and Advocacy

  Are your organization’s human resources documents up to date? Check out our new comprehensive Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement template (PDF 496MB).

  • Adler & Colvin
    Specializing in the nonprofit law, SAC is a California law firm that serves the U.S. and abroad. The website provides a frequently asked questions page for nonprofits on legal issues.
  • Alliance For Justice
  • Advocacy Information from Alliance for Justice
  • Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest
    CLPI works to promote, support and protect nonprofit advocacy and lobbying.
  • Community and Economic Development Clinic
    Focus is grassroots, nonprofit organizations working for social justice
  • Independent Sector
  • Lawyers Alliance of New York
    p – 212.219.1800
  • Pro Bono Partnership
    White Plains, NY
    p – 914.328.0674

• Resources

  • Good360
    Product philanthropy. Links resources to organizations, people and communities in need.

• Data Gathering/Evaluation

  • Innovation Network
    Innovation Network is a nonprofit evaluation, research and consulting firm. They provide knowledge and expertise to help nonprofits and funders learn from their work to improve their results.
  • The Center for Evaluation Innovation
    The Center works with other organizations to develop and then share new ideas and solutions to evaluation challenges.
  • Grantmakers for Effective Organizations 
    GEO is a powerful coalition of 350 grantmaking organizations committed to building strong and effective nonprofit organizations.
  • National Center for Charitable Statistics
    The National Center for Charitable Statistics is the national clearinghouse of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States.

• Nonprofit Ethics

  • The Standards of Excellence Institute
    A national institute to promote the  highest standards of ethics and accountability in nonprofits.
  • The Giving Institute
    The Giving Institute educates and engages members in the ethical delivery of counsel and related services to nonprofits through research, advocacy, and best practices.
  • Center for Ethical Leadership
    The Center for Ethical Leadership cultivates leadership and builds capacity for change, helping communities tap collective wisdom in service of the common good.
  • The Ethics Resource Center
    The Ethics Resource Center (ERC) is a private, nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and the advancement of high ethical standards and practices in public and private institutions.

• Policy and Research

  • ARNOVA
    International membership organization to foster research on the nonprofit sector.
  • Independent Sector
    Membership organization to advance the common good. Research, advocacy, public policy.

• Workshops

  In addition to the workshops offered at the Center for Nonprofit Leadership, other organizations offer ongoing workshops on various capacity-building topics.

  • Long Island
    • Bethpage Federal Credit Union has an Executive Leadership Series in partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Association of Fundraising Professionals, Long Island Chapter.
    • Citibank has a workshop series.
    • Continuing Education, School of Social Work
      Adelphi University: Summer Institute during July features nonprofit workshops
  • New York City
    • Support Center for Nonprofit Management
      p – 212.924.6744
    • The Nonprofit Coordinating Committee
      A membership organization
      p – 212.502.4191
    • Lawyers Alliance
      p – 212.219.1800
    • Nonprofit Connection
      p – 212.383.1433
    • The Foundation Center
      p – 800.424.9836

• Publications

  • Stanford Social Innovation Review
    An excellent quarterly publication. Visit their website to read some articles.
  • Nonprofit Quarterly
    High quality articles on nonprofit issues.
  • Nonprofit Times
  • New York Nonprofit Press

• Blogs

  A number of blogs dedicated to nonprofit issues are proliferating.

  • Gift Hub
    Philip Cubeta created a blog that focuses on philanthropy, but the discussions also include governance and other issues.
  • Trent Stamp’s Take
    This blog’s commentaries come from Stamp, the CEO of Charity Navigator, and talk about what’s right and wrong in philanthropy.
  • White Courtesy Telephone
    From Albert Ruesga, a foundation exec, this blog contains discussion about governance, nonprofit leadership and the public’s trust in nonprofits.
  • Robert Egger
    The founder and president of DC Central Kitchen and award-winning author maintains a blog about the nonprofit sector and legislation that affects it.
  • Give and Take 
    The Chronicle of Philanthropy features nonprofit-related blogs and their current subjects.
  • Andrewwolk.com
    Founder and CEO of Root Cause writes about how all three sectors of society—public, private and nonprofit—can work together to advance social innovation.
  • Philanthropy 2173
    Named a Philanthropy Game Changer by Huffington Post, this blog speaks to the future of philanthropy.
  • PhilanTopic
  • Nonprofit Blog Exchange
    This social bookmarking blog links to new posts from other nonprofit-related blogs.
    A blog of opinion and commentary from Philanthropy News Digest.