Center for Enterprise Development
To ensure that every person can participate in, contribute to and benefit from the economy by bringing together community practice, public policy and private markets in new and effective ways. Publishes the annual Development Report Card of the States.
Center for Housing Policy
The Center for Housing Policy is the research affiliate of the National Housing Conference. The Center works to broaden understanding of America’s affordable housing challenges and examines the impact of policies and programs developed to address these needs.
Center for Law and Social Policy
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is a national non-profit that works to improve the lives of low-income people. CLASP’s mission is to improve the economic security, educational and workforce prospects, and family stability of low-income parents, children, and youth and to secure equal justice for all.
Center for the Study of Social Policy
The Center for the Study of Social Policy was established in 1979 with the goal of providing public policy analysis and technical assistance to states and localities, in a way that blended high academic standards with direct responsiveness to the needs of policymakers and practitioners.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
A national policy organization working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals.
ChildStats.gov
This web site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
Coalition on Human Needs
The Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) is an alliance of national organizations working together to promote public policies which address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable populations.
Community - Wealth.Org
Our goal is to provide you with the web’s most comprehensive and up-to-date information resource on state-of-the-art strategies for democratic, community-based economic development.
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services is a nonprofit training, consulting and research organization with offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Through a broad range of services, we provide nonprofits with the management tools, concepts and strategies necessary to shape change in their communities.
Corporation for National & Community Service
For more than a decade, the Corporation for National and Community Service—through its Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America programs—has mobilized a new generation of engaged citizens.
Economic Policy Institute
A nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy. Publishes the annual State of Working America Report.
Family Support America
Family Support America is the national resource organization for the theory, policy, and practice of family support.
Fannie Mae Foundation
At Fannie Mae, we are in the American Dream business. Our Mission is to tear down barriers, lower costs, and increase the opportunities for homeownership and affordable rental housing for all Americans. Because having a safe place to call home strengthens families, communities, and our nation as a whole.
Federal Grants Catalog
Find Federal grant opportunities suitable for faith-based and community organizations in our grants catalog called "Federal Funds for Organizations That Help Those in Need".
Federal OCS Asset Building Website
Asset building is an anti-poverty strategy that helps low-income people move toward greater self-sufficiency by accumulating savings and purchasing long-term assets. The theory behind this approach is that helping people purchase an asset, as opposed to simply increasing their income, provides stability that may allow them to escape the cycle of poverty permanently. Examples of long-term assets include a home, higher education and training, and a business.
Good Start, Grow Smart: The Bush Administration's Early Childhood Initiative
President Bush believes that all children must begin school with an equal chance at achievement so that no child is left behind. The Bush Administration has proposed a new early childhood initiative Good Start, Grow Smart to help States and local communities strengthen early learning for young children. This will ensure that young children are equipped with the skills they will need to start school ready to learn.
Grants.Gov
Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. The US Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that will have an unparalleled impact on the grant community.
Independent Sector
Independent Sector is committed to strengthening, empowering, and partnering with nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in their work on behalf of the public good.
Innovation Network
Innovation Network is a nonprofit organization that provides evaluation consulting, training, and online tools. Our organization and our website are dedicated to developing and sharing evaluation tools and know-how with nonprofits and funders, so you can do your work more effectively.
Insights on Southern Poverty
Insights on Southern Poverty is a quarterly newsletter produced by the UKCPR. The objective of the newsletter is to summarize current research on issues salient to poverty in the South in a nontechnical format.
Institute for Research on Poverty
IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. As one of three Area Poverty Research Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it has a particular interest in poverty and family welfare in the Midwest.
Institute on Race and Poverty
The Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School aims to share the latest and most relevant information on issues confronting communities facing the combined challenges of race and poverty.
Joint Center for Policy Research
A national and interdisciplinary academic research center that seeks to advance our understanding of what it means to be poor in America.
Kids Count
KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.
LaPiana Associates, Inc.
La Piana Associates, Inc. is a management consulting firm focused on helping nonprofit organizations and philanthropic foundations effectively address the strategic issues they face.
Leader to Leader Institute
The Leader to Leader Institute furthers its mission "to strengthen the leadership of the social sector" by providing educational opportunities and resources to leaders.
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
For more than 35 years, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., has been known for its high-quality, objective research to support decisions about our nation's most pressing social policy problems.
MDRC
MDRC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization. We are dedicated to learning what works to improve the well-being of low-income people. Through our research and the active communication of our findings, we seek to enhance the effectiveness of policies and programs.
National Association of Counties
NACo, the only national organization that represents county governments in the United States, continues to follow the traditions established by those early county officials.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
The goal of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy by one-third between 1996 and 2005. This website also contains national and state statistics on teen pregnancy. A number of research reports can also be found here.
National Center for Children in Poverty
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization at Columbia University. Our mission is to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and families.
National Center on Poverty Law
The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, a national resource, champions law and policy promoting equal opportunity and support for low-income individuals, families, and communities so that they can escape poverty permanently.
National Coalition for the Homeless
Our mission is to end homelessness. We focus our work in the following four areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil and voting rights. Our approaches are: grassroots organizing, public education, policy advocacy, technical assistance, and partnerships.
National Low Income Housing Coalition
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to ending America’s affordable housing crisis. We believe that this is achievable, that the affordable housing crisis is a problem that Americans are capable of solving. While we are concerned about the housing circumstances of all low income people, we focus our advocacy on those with the most serious housing problems, the lowest income households.
National Poverty Center
The National Poverty Center is charged with promoting high-quality research on the causes and consequences of poverty, evaluating and analyzing policies to alleviate poverty, and training the next generation of poverty researchers.
National Student Partnership
NSP’s mission is to direct the energy and innovation of young people toward ensuring that all community members have access to the services, opportunities, and attention that they need to pursue employment, self-sufficiency, and personal success.
Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network
N-TEN aspires to a world where all nonprofits can skillfully and confidently use technology to meet community needs for responsive and humane social services, social equity and opportunity, a healthy natural environment, or the challenge and illumination of art.
NPAction
NPAction.org is an online resource hosted by OMB Watch to support capacity building for nonprofit advocacy.
Poverty and Race Research Council
Supporting Progressive Solutions to Problems of Racism and Poverty PRRAC is a non-partisan, national, not-for-profit organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties and anti-poverty groups. Our purpose is to link social science research to advocacy work in order to address problems at the intersection of race and poverty.
President Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiative Overview
Our country is blessed with a long tradition of and honorable commitment to assisting individuals, families, and communities who have not fully shared in America's prosperity. But despite efforts by the Federal and State governments to battle social distress, too many of our neighbors still suffer from poverty and despair.
REDF
REDF provides guidance, leadership and investment to a portfolio of nonprofit social enterprises, changing the lives of people who face poverty, homelessness, mental illness and other barriers to employment.
Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship
The Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) is a research project at Columbia Business School whose mission is to study and disseminate knowledge about the markets, metrics and management of for-profit and nonprofit social enterprise and social venturing.
Social Impact Assessment
Social impact assessment (SIA) is a sub-field of the social sciences that is developing a knowledge base to provide a systematic appraisal in advance of the impacts on the day-to-day quality of life of persons and communities whose environment is affected by a proposed project, plan or policy change.
The American Community Survey (ACS)
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a new nationwide survey designed to provide communities a fresh look at how they are changing. It will replace the long form in future censuses and is a critical element in the Census Bureau’s reengineered 2010 census plan.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
The Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution, one of Washington's oldest think tanks, is an independent, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, and public education with an emphasis on economics, foreign policy, governance, and metropolitan policy.
The Evaluation Exchange
Harvard Family Research Project's evaluation periodical, The Evaluation Exchange, addresses current issues facing program evaluators of all levels, with articles written by the most prominent evaluators in the field. Designed as an ongoing discussion among evaluators, program practitioners, funders, and policymakers, The Evaluation Exchange highlights innovative methods and approaches to evaluation, emerging trends in evaluation practice, and practical applications of evaluation theory.
The Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation strives to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement.
The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center's mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about U.S. philanthropy.
The Grantsmanship Center
For more than 30 years, TGCI has been the world's leading source of grantsmanship training and grant information.
The Harvard Family Research Project
The HFRP examines and encourages policies and programs that support families, communities and children. The homepage includes results-based accountability documents published by the HFRP.
The National Community Action Management Academy
The National Community Action Management Academy is a distinct training experience designed specifically for the top management teams of community action agencies. Increasingly, the federal funding sources are mandating accountability, as both a part of program performance and training and technical assistance. To set the standard for accountability for the agency as a whole, the top management team must understand all of the principles of managing the agency as a whole.
The Nonprofit Management Education Center
The Learner Resource Center provides you with a number of resources on the web that could provide you with assistance in a variety of nonprofit management and leadership issues. In the "nonprofit web sites" section you will find a number of useful annotated resources organized by topic.....everything from "How to start a nonprofit organization" to "volunteer management."
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change.
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world.
The Welfare Information Network
A project of The Finance Project, WIN is a clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance related to welfare, workforce development, and other human and community services.
The White House
This site puts you in touch with the Whitehouse, complete with current news briefings and easy access to sending e-mail to the President, Vice-President or their wives.
TransitionGuides
TransitionGuides is a collaboration of consultants with extensive track records in working with nonprofit organizations and leadership transitions. We are dedicated to sustaining and strengthening nonprofits through well-managed leadership transitions.
UK Center for Poverty Research
The UK Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) was established in October, 2002 as one of three federally designated Area Poverty Research Centers with core funding from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The UKCPR is a nonprofit and nonpartisan academic research center housed in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky.
United Way
United Way of America is the national organization dedicated to leading the United Way movement in making a measurable impact in every community in America. The United Way movement includes approximately 1,400 community-based United Way organizations. Each is independent, separately incorporated and governed by local volunteers.
VirtualCAP.org
This site is designed to give you an in-depth look at successful programs and projects developed by Community Action Agencies around the United States.
VisionLink
VisionLink works in the education, social service, and workforce sectors--providing consulting, training, content development, and web-based management systems. We specialize in the technology, training, and consulting that creates and sustains community partnerships.
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