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- The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University - An interdisciplinery academic center headquartered at Indiana University that seeks to increase the understanding of philanthropy and improve its practice through research, teaching, and public service.
- Center for the Study of Philanthropy - Follows trends in international, multicultural and women's philanthropy, features electronic conference information, research tools, programs, and publications.
- How Philanthropy Works - Article explaining the various ways in which you can support charitable organizations, how to make sure a charity is legitimate, how philanthropies work, and links to resources.
- The Foundation Incubator - Membership organization of family, public, company, and community foundations, supporting organizations, giving circles, individual donors, and philanthropy education groups. Describes resources, training, and networking opportunities.
- Philanthropy Roundtable - Association of nonprofit professionals and private donors. Features organization profile, history, email newsletter, the magazine "Philanthropy", online store, and meetings information.
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy - News source for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and others involved in philanthropic enterprises.
- Institute for Philanthropy - Aims to promote philanthropy via research, debate, publications and by encouraging the philanthropic sector in Britain. Includes research and study opportunities, areas of activity, newsletter, and contact information.
- National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy - Committed to making organized philanthropy more responsive to socially, economically and politically disenfranchised people. Features publications, current projects, and membership information.
- The Philanthropic Initiative - Non-profit organization promotes growth of strategic philanthropy through research, educational programming, and consulting services. Provides profile of services, philanthropy articles, forum, email list, and events calendar.
- The Philanthropy Workshop West (TPW West) - Provides a small group of individuals quarterly workshops to work with prominent figures from the fields of philanthropy, policy, and public management to develop a deep understanding of the nonprofit sector and strategies for maximizing his or her effectiveness as individual philanthropists.
Wikipedia Articles
- National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy - The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), established in 1976 and based in Washington, DC, is a privately-funded non-profit organization that conducts research on and advocates for greater accountability, transparency and a focus on social justice in the philanthropic sector. NCRP is unique in that it is the only existing national progessive watchdog of philanthropy in the United States.
- Philanthropy - Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, time, or effort to support a charitable cause, usually over an extended period of time and in regard to a defined objective. In a more fundamental sense, philanthropy may encompass any altruistic activity which is intended to promote good or improve human quality of life.
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy is a biweekly newspaper that covers the nonprofit world. Based in Washington, DC, it is the top news source for charity leaders, foundation executives, fund raisers, and other people involved in philanthropy.
- American Institute of Philanthropy - The American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP) was created by Daniel Borochoff in 1992to address the continuing need for thoughtful information regarding the financial efficiency, accountability, governance and fundraising] practices of [[Charitable organization|charities. Charity financial reporting can be inconsistent, unclear, and occasionally unethical or fraudulent.
- Venture philanthropy - Venture philanthropy takes concepts and techniques from Venture Capital finance and high technology business management and applies them to achieving philanthropic goals.