Catalog of Nonprofit Literature

Did you know you can request articles from the Foundation Center's Catalog of Nonprofit Literature?

The Catalog on Nonprofit Literature is a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy that incorporates the unique contents of the Center's five libraries and contains more than 24,500 bibliographic citations.

Contact Peg Elliott, Supervisor of the Nonprofit Resource Center at the Onondaga County Public Library. Call 315-435-1900 or email your request to her attention at reference@onlib.org.

Articles can be sent to your location via e-mail, mail, or fax.

Funding Resources for K-12 Education on the Web

The Foundation Center's Foundations for Education Excellence, a web portal created with support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, reports on the funding interests of the most important private foundations and the federal government's programs and features grant maps, research studies, and news in the field.

Other websites of interest ..
DonorsChoose - public school teachers post online proposals to fund classroom activities; donors review each proposal and donations are tracked as the project is funded.
Adopt-A-Classroom - a fundraising portal that connects public school classrooms across the country with potential individual donors.

Also use the Foundation Directory Online database to discover other K-12 resources. Use field of interest terms such as "Elementary/secondary education" or "Elementary/secondary school reform" to find prospective funders. Find those same terms in the Search Grants database's recipient type and grant subject indexes.

The Networked Nonprofit

The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change
by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine
Help for nonprofit leaders in navigating the transition from top-down organizations to a networked approach enabled by technology. Specific strategies and how-to exercises for implementation, secrets to success from nonprofits who have used new social media tools effectively themselves, and interviews with nonprofit managers who have learned how to jump into the social media fray and thrived because of it.

Small Change

Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World
by Michael Edwards

Discusses the concept of 'philanthrocapitalism' and explores the conflicts between business thinking & market mechanisms and civil society thinking & social transformation.

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