Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, November 6, 2000

Selected Sources for
Internet-Based Fundraising Information

• Chronicle of Philanthropy - http://philanthropy.com

• National Society of Fund Raising Executives -- http://www.nsfre.org/
  
  
• American Prospect Research Association Home Page -- http://www.lambresearch.com/
  
  
• The Foundation Center -- http://www.fdncenter.org/
  • Corporate Grantmakers Database --
    http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/gws_corp/corp.html
  • Private Foundations on the Internet Database --
    http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/gws_priv/priv.html
    
    
    
• Guidestar -- searchable database of 650,000 charities and foundations -- http://www.guidestar.org
  (If you're a 501(c)(3), you're here) see also helping.org
  
  
• Craver, Mathews, Smith & Co. -- fund-raising consultants with content-rich site -- http://www.craveronline.com
  (Home of the study of socially-committed Internet users)

• InnoNet's online fundraisers' workstation -- http://www.innonet.org/ Walks you through the horrors of grant-writing -- proposals, budgets, evaluations, focus groups, interviews, etc. A lifesaver for the infrequent grant writer!
  
  
• Charity Shopping Portals
  Allison Schwein's compilation and overview
  http://www.internet-fundraising.com/charitymalls/home.html
  (Allison was making it her mission to track all these philanthrocommerce sites but is no longer able to update this site)

• BONUS: Jakob Nielsen's Web Site -- http://www.useit.com
  Here's someone who has been doing quantitative and qualitative analysis of interface
  usability from the infancy of the Internet. This is good stuff.

• BONUS: The Cluetrain Manifesto -- http://www.cluetrain.com/ A useful perspective
  on the nature of the web

• For general searching, consider Google (http://www.google.com/) and Northern Light (http://www.northernlight.com)
  
  
• Non-Profit Gateway -- http://www.nonprofits.org
  • See their bulletin on fundraising online,
    http://www.nonprofits.org/bulletins/990805.html
    and their list of resources for fundraising online,
    http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/misc/990804olfr.html
    
    

• United Kingdom Fundraising -- http://www.fundraising.co.uk

• Charity Village (Canadian Charities) -- http://www.charityvillage.com

• Internet Prospector Newsletter -- http://www.internet-prospector.org/

• Directory of over 16,000 charity web sites -- http://www.idealist.org/

• Non-Profit Times -- http://www.nptimes.com/

• New England Non-Profit Quarterly -- http://www.newenglandnonprofit.org/
  
  
• Dialog -- service including the Foundation Directory and Grants Index --
  http://www.dialog.com (fee based service)
  

• The Independent Sector -- http://independentsector.org/

• Prospect Research Online (fee based service) -- http://www.rpbooks.com
  
  

• DonorData -- fee-based service with various foundation and corporate
  grantmaker databases -- http://www.donordata.com/
  
  

• Center for the Study of Philanthropy http://www.philanthorpy.org/

• Resources for Fundraisers -- listing of vendors for online giving products and services -- http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/misc/990804olfr.html