Charting Impact enables your organization to serve your community better. It sharpens your thinking about your work, and it creates a concise, standardized report about your plans and progress that you can share with people looking to invest their money, time, and attention.

What you need to know about social media

From the Foundation Center’s DC regional office – Twitter for Nonprofits: Getting Started

See also the following books available for free loan from the Onondaga County Nonprofit Resource Center collection

The social media survival guide for nonprofits and charitable organizations : how to build your base of support and fast-track your fundraising efforts using social media / Sherrie A Madia


Building strong nonprofits : new strategies for growth and sustainability / edited by John C. Olberding and Lisa Barnwell Williams


The networked nonprofit : connecting with social media to drive change / Beth Kanter, Allison Fine ; foreword by Randi Zuckerberg

The following podcasts on various social media topics are available through the Foundation Center's Grantspace.org website. Become a member today!

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.

Women Grants & Scholarships

Women Grants and Scholarships
Continually updated list of links to grants and scholarahips available to women and organizations supporting women, children and family causes.

Fundsnet Online Services

For more information about privately funded grants, check out Fundsnet Online Services, a privately owned website created for the purpose of providing nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities with information on financial resources available on the Internet.

New website for Volunteers

Google, Craigslist Foundation, YouTube, FanFeedr and UCLA have partnered to launch a new site called All for Good.

Designed to connect volunteers in their local communities with charitable organizations, All for Good helps people find ways to get involved in their community, from being a mentor to helping design a website for a nonprofit.

In partnership with All for Good, YouTube is launching "Video Volunteers," a platform aimed at connecting non-profit organizations with video needs and skilled video makers who can help communicate their causes via video.