www.afpnet.org - For more than 40 years, Association of Fundraising Professionals, has been the standard-bearer for professionalism in fundraising.

www.smallfoundations.org - Foundations with few or no staff provide half of the total foundation funding in the U.S., giving essential financial support to hospitals, libraries, youth programs, senior programs, education, historic preservation, the arts social services, and other important activities in thousands of communities across the country. The Association of Small Foundations (ASF) was formed to assist foundations. ASF’s mission is to provide information and assistance related to quality philanthropy to those offices having five or fewer persons.

www.philanthropy.iupui.edu - The Center on Philanthropy increases the understanding of philanthropy and improves its practice through programs in research, teaching, public service, and public affairs.

www.cof.org - The Council on Foundations is a membership organization that serves the public good by promoting and enhancing responsible and effective philanthropy. Vision Statement: In an environment of unprecedented change and potential, the council on Foundations in the twenty-first century supports philanthropy worldwide by serving as a trusted leader, and effective advocate, a values resource, and a respectful partner.

www.philanthropy.com - The Chronicle of Philanthropy is the newspaper of the nonprofit world. It is the No. 1 news source, in print and online, for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved the the philanthropic enterprise.

www.fdn.center.org - The Foundation Center’s mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed. Founded in 1956, the Center is the nations’s leading authority on institutional philanthropy and is dedicated to serving grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policy makers, the media, and the general public.

www.Washingtongrantmakers.org - At the national level, the Forum of Washington Grantmakers helps individual RAG staff, volunteer leaders and member grantmakers work together across regions for effectively, and to join forces with national colleague organizations interested in protecting and advancing the field of philanthropy.

www.giftsinkind.org - Driven by a mission of providing an effective conduit for the donation of products, goods and servides form the private sector to the charitable sector, Gifts In Kind International is the recognized leader in the field of product philanthropy.

www.tgci.com - The Grantsmanship Center - TGCI was founded in 1972 to offer grantsmanship training and low-cost publications to nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

www.grantstar.org - Grantstar offers essential information and resources to track down federal government funding including community foundation, national foundation, or corporate foundation.

www.onphilanthropy.com/fundraising - Internet-Fundraising.com serves as a resource for non-profit technology and interactive media into non-profit fundraising. In the modern world incorporating technology and interactive media into non-profit fundraising is imperative.

www.nonprofitresearch.org - The Nonprofit Sector Research Fund awards research grants and organizes convening to expand knowledge of the nonprofit sector and philanthropy, improve non-profit practices, and inform public policy related to nonprofits.

www.philanthropyroundtable.org - The Philanthropy Roundtable is a national association of more than 650 individual donors, corporate giving representatives, foundation staff and trustees, and trust and estate officers. Its Associates include donors who are involved in philanthropy on a professional basis, as well as individual donors for whom giving is a serious avocation. The Roundtable is founded on the principle that voluntary private action offers the best means of addressing many of society’s needs, and that a vibrant private sector is critical to generating the wealth that makes philanthropy possible. Its work is motivated by the belief that philanthropy is most likely to succeed hen it focuses not on grand social designs, but on individual achievement, and where it rewards not dependence, but personal initiative, self-reliance, and private enterprise-in other words, where it seeks to expand, rather than restrict human liberty and opportunity.

www.pnnonline.org - Philanthropy News Network offers nonprofit news and resources on education, volunteering, fundraising, foundations, technology, giving, etc.

www.tgcigrantproposals.com - Winning Grant Proposals Online is a brand new resource designed to help nonprofit organizations and government agencies write better grant proposals and develop better programs.