ACOSA -- Links

The Leadership Learning Community includes members who fund, research, run, and provide services to leadership development programs.
http://www.leadershiplearning.org/pools/evaluation/html/lead_assess_tool.htm

The National Network for Social Work Managers wants you to become a Certified Social Work Manager (CSWM). Find out about Leadership and Management Practice Standards.
http://www.socialworkmanager.org/

Public Health Management & Policy: Online Textbook. This site has good resources on organizational theory, strategic planning, etc. and features policy issues community health issues.
http://www.cwru.edu/med/epidbio/mphp439/

The Free Management Library is a complete, highly integrated library of 72 popular categories of resources for nonprofit AND for-profit businesses. Just some of these are group skills, ethics, planning, supervision, checklists to evaluate boards, employee performance, project management, financial management, and leadership development.
http://www.managementhelp.org/

"TQM and Organizational Change and Development", by Thomas Packard, DSW. From Total Quality Management in the Social Services: Theory and Practice. Burton Gummer and Philip McCallion, Eds., Albany, NY: Rockefeller College Press, (1995).
http://www.improve.org/tqm.html

The Learning Organization questionnaire identifies different leadership skills.
http://www.trainingplace.com/source/research/learningorientations.htm

Ten Concepts from Hasenfeld's Human Services as Complex Organizations by Jonathan Singer.
http://www.socialworksearch.com/research/researchjs5.shtml

The Innovation Center promotes effective tools and strategies for engaging youth and adults as partners in creating positive community change in diverse contexts. The site contains several excellent reports on youth development and decision-making, youth as partners in program evaluation, and organizational development.
http://www.theinnovationcenter.org/default.asp

Tracking Legislation on the Web. Find out about new legislation, changing legislation and proposed legislation. Track their progress, and the many alterations made by legislators on both sides of the aisle, by using the methods below.
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/legislation.html

The Casey Foundation web page provides excellent resources for advocates.
http://www.caseygrants.org/

NPAction is a web site with the goals of making nonprofits aware that they can advocate, to educate nonprofits on the range of advocacy activities that are permissible, and to help gain competence and greater confidence in initiating and participating strategically in policy participation.
www.npaction.org

Friends Committee on National Legislation is a Quaker lobby in the public interest. The FCNL web page provides information, voter registration, and action alerts on peaceful prevention of deadly conflict, civil liberties, social justice, and human budget priorities. The Society of Friends has a tradition of friendship with and concern for Native Americans. The rights and needs of tribes are among FCNL's top legislative advocacy priorities.
http://www.fcnl.org

Economic Success Clearinghouse connects you to resources about effective policies, programs and financing strategies that help low-income and working poor families.
http://www.financeproject.org/irc/win.asp

Changemakers.net for social entrepreneurship worldwide has an excellent library on microenterprise and income generation.
http://www.changemakers.net/library/collections/microenterprise.cfm

The Virtual Library on Microcredit is a repository of information on alternative, non-conventional financial systems and microfinance/microcredit issues.
http://www.gdrc.org/icm/

The Microcredit Summit Campaign is working to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005.
http://www.microcreditsummit.org/

The Center for Social Policy and Assets at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University works to broaden wealth, reduce inequality, and improve the social and economic well-being of American households by fostering the adoption of an asset policy framework through research, analysis, education, and public engagement.
http://www.assetinstitute.org/index.html

Evaluating Asset-Based Community Development: Measuring the Success of IDA, Microlending and Affordable Housing Programs.
http://www.vserp.ca/pub/evalABasedCommDevt.pdf

The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) invites you to download free publications on the philosophy and practice of social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy and the ever-changing nonprofit sector. Additional papers are also available on the many challenges of nonprofit-run social purpose enterprises and investing in social change organizations.
http://redf.org/

Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning & Dissemination (FIELD) identifies and disseminates best practices on microenterprise as a poverty reduction strategy. Check out the many downloadable publications.
http://www.fieldus.org/publications/index.html

A Credit Union Handbook is available from the Sheffield Credit Union Development Agency.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/oip/scu/hbook.html#help

Community Wealth Ventures, Inc. was founded in 1997, as a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength, one of the nation's leading anti-hunger and anti-poverty organizations. CWV helps nonprofit organizations become more self-sustaining through social enterprise-generating revenues through business ventures and corporate partnerships.
http://www.communitywealth.org/

The Center for Social Development (CSD) is the leading academic center of theory and research on asset building, i.e., strategies that promote saving and investment (in contrast to income and consumption) for the poor. CSD's work has focused on designing and testing matched savings in the form of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). The site includes working papers and evaluation reports.
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/csd/

The Time Dollar Institute's mission is to develop, test, and assist experiments with a new medium of exchange, Time Dollars (also known as service credits or time banking). Time Dollars reward altruism, turn strangers into extended family, rebuild community and empower persons discarded as useless to define themselves as contributors helping to meet critical social needs.
http://www.timedollar.org/

The Virtual Library on Microcredit is a library, journal and think tank rolled into one. It contains practical tools, case studies and best practices, articles, and organizational and operational information on current policies and programs.
http://www.gdrc.org/icm/

The Aspen Institute is an international non-profit organization dedicated to informed dialogue and inquiry on issues of global concern. Their Policy Programs page links you to current initiatives in the areas of comprehensive community initiatives for children and families, social innovation through business, microenterprise, etc.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org

Civic Practices Network (CPN) is a collaborative and nonpartisan project within the Civic Renewal Movement. This site includes essays on civic renewal (Ernesto Cortes, Jr.), contemporary theory (Harry Boyte), and classic democratic papers (Thomas Jefferson, Alex de Tocqueville). Topics include community, environment, youth & education, health, civic communication, religion, families, gender & children, work & empowerment.
http://www.cpn.org/

The Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey maps the relative strengths and areas for improvement of communities' civic behavior in national sample of 3,000 respondents and representative samples in 40 communities nationwide (across 29 states).
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/saguaro/communitysurvey/results.html

Building Social and Economic Support Networks with Time Dollars (Hartford, Portland & San Diego). This is a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation on Time Dollars.
http://www.aecf.org/initiatives/mc/readingroom/documents/PM_BuildSupport_TD.pdf

Peer Match Reports result from bringing together colleagues from different locales or jurisdictions to exchange practical knowledge and produce solutions to shared challenges. The Annie E. Casey Foundation believes that the people best able to provide hands-on help are the “doers” themselves -- people from states and communities who have successfully addressed a problem or created a strategy that works.
http://www.aecf.org/initiatives/mc/readingroom/

The Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health at The New York Academy of Medicine helps partnerships, funders, and policy makers realize the full potential of collaboration to solve complex problems related to health or any other area. Check out their Web-Based Partnership Self-Assessment Tool.
http://www.cacsh.org/

Join Together Online is a project of the Boston University School of Public Health that is a national resource for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence. The site provides valuable reports, newsletters, community action toolkits, an efficient funding finder and coalition building information packets. Especially helpful is a searchable archive of over 20,000 articles on substance abuse related subjects.
http://www.jointogether.org/home/

Meet other local Social Workers. Both those who currently work in the field and those who are thinking about and/or pursuing a career in Social Work are welcome.
http://socialwork.meetup.com

The Chandler Center for Community Leadership is concerned with the practical application of research, proven success, and action to solve community problems. This site contains an excellent guide and framework for community based collaboration.
http://crs.uvm.edu/nnco/collab/

The Association For Community Networking (AFCN) is an educational nonprofit corporation dedicated to fostering and supporting the community-based creation & provision of appropriate technology services (computers, etc.) designed to enhance community and enrich lives. Resources for community networking through technology
http://www.afcn.org/resources/related.html

The Communitarian Network organizes moral dialogues, develops position papers, conducts public meetings, and advises legislatures and community groups regarding issues of moral and social issues of import for the well being of society.
http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/

Perspectives on City Activism and Civic Life is an excellent resource for papers on various Chicago communities--including ethnographic, participatory research by students in collaboration with community partners.
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/ccuc/perspectives_intro.htm

The Center for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC) at The Field Museum uses problem-solving anthropological research to identify and catalyze strengths and assets of communities in Chicago and beyond.
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/ccuc/

Communities in Motion in Southeast Chicago and Northeast Indiana. This urban ethnography investigates diversity, revitalization and local activism in an industrial and ecologically pristine environment. Explore the region through GIS maps, photos and videos!
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/calumet/

The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods is a major, interdisciplinary study aimed at deepening society's understanding of the causes and pathways of juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse, and violence. By looking at individuals and their communitiesand individuals in their communitiesas both change over time, the Project seeks to unravel the complex influences of community, family, and individual factors on human development.
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/chase/projects/chicago/about/index.html

Chicago's Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community (EZ/EC) web page.
http://www.chiperms.com/NewHome/About.asp

The City of Chicago's Zoning Department is committed to providing accurate and timely information to the citizens of Chicago. This interactive mapping website allows users to determine the zoning classification for any area of the City. Users are allowed to search by specific address, intersection or by ward. The map provides information from a variety of City agencies and is presented in a format that is easy to navigate.
http://w28.cityofchicago.org/website/zoning/

Citizen ICAM allows the public to query the Chicago Police Department's database of reported crime. The information on this web page is also accessible through the Chicago Police Department's Records Division.
http://12.17.79.6/

The Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University includes working papers on important topics.
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/

The IPLAN website offers a data system containing 102 health indicators, which are available at the county-level. Thirty-nine of these indicators are available at the community-level. Illinois data is included on all county-level and community-level reports. Data can be charted, sorted and saved by using the data manipulation tool.
http://app.idph.state.il.us/

The DePaul University library has a special section on Chicago. There are excellent links to history, newspapers, the Chicago Fact Book, etc. Click on the “Picturing Chicago” link for hundreds of black and white photographs of all Chicago community areas and most micro-neighborhoods.
http://www.lib.depaul.edu/eresource/subject_search_infotype.asp?SubjectID=13&TopicID=83

The Cook County Assessor’s Office provides information about residential property. This includes location, age, class description, land square footage, and assessment information. View a picture of the property, take down the Property Index Number (PIN) and go to the Cook County Treasurer’s website and view the property taxes.
http://www.cookcountyassessor.com/

A practical guide to building rural self-help groups from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/T1965E/t1965e00.HTM#Contents

CivicSpace provides supporters within a community a framework for organizing and engaging its members in action. It enables a community to join a network of other communities to share ideas, knowledge, relationships, and organizational information.
http://www.civicspacelabs.org

Knowing in Community: 10 Critical Success Factors in Building Communities of Practice
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/knowing.shtml

Community Building & Community Organizing by Sandy O'Donnell and Ellen Schumer.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/85/combuild.html

The Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs) was established in 1992 as a forum in which people engaged in the field of comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs). CCIs are neighborhood-based efforts that operate on the principles that community building -- that is, strengthening institutional capacity at the neighborhood level, enhancing social capital and personal networks, and developing leadership
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/Programt3.asp?i=83

Neighborhoods Online National is an online resource center for America's neighborhood builders-people who work through grassroots organizations, as volunteers, and in government to build strong neighborhoods and communities throughout the country. Sections include links to email lists, building community, neighborhood resources, and advocates and Congress.
http://neighborhoodsonline.net/

The National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives conducts ongoing research into a broad range of community-based institutions, models and innovations that enhance the quality of life today while pointing toward larger possibilities for strengthening democracy, producing equality and sustaining community in the future.
http://www.ncesa.org/html/modelsinnov.html

The National Rural Funders Collaborative is a philanthropic initiative designed to leverage $100 million over ten years to support rural communities and families facing persistent poverty.
http://www.nrfc.org/portal/alias__rainbow/lang__en-US/tabID__1/DesktopDefault.aspx

SenseofCommunity.com is an international meeting place for people with a scientific or professional interest in the study or application of a sense of community.
http://www.SenseofCommunity.com/

The Council of State Community Development Agencies (COSCDA) is the premier national association advocating and enhancing the leadership role of states in community development through innovative policy development and implementation, customer-driven technical assistance, education, and collaborative efforts.
http://www.coscda.org/

The first part of "Empowerment and Community Planning" presents a theory of empowerment. The second part of the book develops a practice of empowering community planning.
http://www.mpow.org/

New Designs for Youth Development is a quarterly publication dedicated to voicing progressive, humane, and caring approaches to the development of youth and community. It is the only periodical whose focus is Community Youth Development (CYD).
http://www.cydjournal.org/NewDesigns/archives/archives.html

The Milano MiX Initative is dedicated to energizing leaders in community development and developing their management expertise. For community-based organizations (CBOs) to be effective and sustainable agents of change, their staffs and organizations require attention, support and development, just as the communities they serve do.
http://www.milanomix.org/

The Enterprise Foundation works with partners to provide low-income people with affordable housing, safer streets and access to jobs and child care through loans, grants and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations. The Foundation works with a national network of 2,400 nonprofit organizations, public housing authorities and Native American Tribes that are building and revitalizing local neighborhoods in 860 locations.
http://www.enterprisefoundation.org/

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) helps resident-led, community-based development organizations transform distressed communities and neighborhoods into healthy ones-- good places to live, do business, work and raise families. By providing capital, technical expertise, training and information, LISC supports the development of local leadership and the creation of affordable housing, commercial, industrial and community facilities, businesses and jobs.
http://www.lisc.org/

The Connecticut Assets Network (CAN) is a grassroots nonprofit network of citizens that promotes the integration and successful use of asset-based strategies to community development. Environments wherein citizen development and contribution are practiced are the foundation for sustained solutions to problems, and as such are widely recognized as a key to developing healthy youth and communities.
http://www.ctassets.org/

The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to expand economic opportunity. CFED combines think-tank innovation with practitioner insight to identify promising ideas; test and refine them in communities; craft policies and products to help good ideas reach scale; and foster new markets to achieve greater impact. CFED works at the national, regional, state and local levels in collaboration with diverse partners.
http://www.cfed.org/

Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD). Based on the work of John Kretzmann and John L. McKnight, The ABCD Institute spreads its findings on capacity-building community development in two ways: (1) through extensive and substantial interactions with community builders, and (2) by producing practical resources and tools for community builders to identify, nurture, and mobilize neighborhood assets.
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/abcd.html

Change Communications is all about community development. There are links to data sources, jobs, listservs, and specialty areas of economic development and sustainable development. A unique feature of the site is its links to case studies and best practices, basically stories about organizations, initiatives, and methods.
http://www.change.org/

Community Economic Development on the Internet lists more than 40 Internet sites pertaining to community and economic development, as well as rural development. This list has a U.S. and California emphasis. It includes annotated bibliographies, links to university-community partnerships, and links to networks and organizations.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/commdev.html

New Community Corporation is the nation's largest and most comprehensive community development corporation. The array of community-based services and programs includes housing, early childhood education, transitional housing for the homeless, job training, education, health care, community arts, youth programs and a host of social services for children, families and senior citizens.
http://www.newcommunity.org/main.htm

The Ford Foundation's Building Assets for Empowerment and Sustainable Development. Sustainable Solutions: 14 initiatives that illustrate the growth of a global movement for social equity, environmental justice, and sustainable development.
http://www.fordfound.org/publications/recent_articles/sustainable_solutions.cfm

The international Community Development Society (CDS), founded in 1969, is a professional association for community development practitioners and citizen leaders around the world. CDS members represent a variety of fields: education, health care, social services, government, utilities, economic development practitioners, citizen groups, and more.
http://www.comm-dev.org/

The National Congress for Community Economic Development (NCCED) represents more than 3,600 organizations dedicated to the revitalization of distressed communities. Each year, its Community Development Internship Program and Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) help students and recent graduates learn more about community economic development (CED).
http://www.ncced.org/index.html

A Way of Thinking about the History of Community Organizing.
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/tcn/valocchi.htm

ACORN: Association of Community Organization for Reform Now is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate income families, with over 150,000 member families organized in 700 neighborhood chapters in 51 cities across the country.
http://www.acorn.org

COMM-ORG's mission is to link academics and activists, and theory and practice, toward the goal of improving community organizing and its related crafts.
http://comm-org.wisc.edu/

National Training and Information Center (NTIC) is a grassroots leadership organization that strengthens neighborhoods through issue-based community organizing. Read NTIC's Online Disclosure: The National Newspaper of Neighborhoods
http://www.ntic-us.org/

The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has about 3,500 local unions and affiliates in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Become and AFSCME organizer-job opportunities, training, and participation in advocacy campaigns.
http://www.afscme.org/

The Citizen's Handbook is an excellent resource for community organizing and community building. The site contains a complete grassroots organizing guide for community building activities such as community gardens, block cleanup, intergenerational activities, and environmental activities. There are many full-text articles on key topics, including Industrial Areas Foundation organizing, Study Circles, Cyber Organizing, etc.
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/welcome.html

U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) encourages you to "Become a community organizer!" Check out government job links for economic development and other useful information on neighborhood networks, volunteer opportunities, historic preservation, etc.
http://www.hud.gov/organizing/

National Organizer's Alliance's (NOA) mission is to advance progressive organizing for social, economic and environmental justice and to sustain, support and nurture the people of all ages who do it. This site features a state-by-state job bank.
http://www.noacentral.org/

The Education Center for Community Organizing (ECCO) site features papers on innovative teaching models and resources for women organizers. Download their annotated bibliography on feminist organizing, diversity and international issues related to activism and organizing.
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/ecco/

Michigan Public Policy Initiative's Guide to Getting Good Media Coverage. This guide is designed for nonprofit leaders with little time for PR, each section gives the key information needed to get media coverage of nonprofit issues, projects and other activities. For those who are new to media work the guide provides the basics for getting started. For those who are more media savvy the guide serves as a checklist for ongoing media campaigns.
http://www.mnaonline.org/pdf/MediaGuide3.pdf

A position paper to update the reader on the communication for social change work, and to report the findings of a Rockefeller Foundation sponsored conference on the subject held in Cape Town, South Africa in October 1998.
http://www.devmedia.org/documents/Position%20paper.htm

Day, D.C. (2001). Church-based community organizing: Philadelphia perspectives. Working Paper Series, COMM-ORG: The On-line Conference on Community Organizing and Development.
http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/papers98/warren/faith/day.html

Faith-based Community Economic Development Initiative website provides news, information, and trends about faith-based strategies that encourage cooperation and interdependency as expressions of religious or spiritual ministry, calling or beliefs.
http://www.ncced.org/fbi/

HUD's Center for Neighborhood and Faith-Based Community Partnerships.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/fbci/index.cfm

The Hartford Institute for Religion Research offers quite a few articles and research summaries on the questions of Charitable Choice and the collaboration of faith-based groups with the government in delivering social services.
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/research_charitable_choice.html

Warren, M.R., & Wood, R.L. (2001). Faith-based community organizing: The state of the field. Jericho, NY: Interfaith Funders. Presented on COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development.
http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/papers2001/faith/faith.htm

The Benton Foundation's links include reports and toolkits on media and the use of technology for benefiting disadvantaged groups.
http://www.benton.org/publibrary/index.html

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation provides grants in the areas of civil society, the environment, pathways out of poverty, and special projects. The Foundation hopes that its collective work in any program area could lead toward systematic change.
http://www.mott.org/index.asp

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is helping rebuild distressed communities. Working with neighborhoods and state and local governments, the Foundation will provide significant grants to strengthen the support services, social networks, physical infrastructure, employment, self-determination, and economic vitality of distressed communities.
http://www.aecf.org/initiatives/

Marguerite Casey Foundation's goal is to strengthen communities across the United States through strategic grantmaking, helping families become more resilient and less dependent on public systems. The foundation supports community-based leadership and promotes grassroots activism among families, parents, caregivers and youth. The site features 40 downloadable formative studies and evaluation reports.
http://www.caseygrants.org/pages/resources/resources_reportsandpubs.asp

W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to apply knowledge to solve the problems of people. Since its beginning the Foundation has continuously focused on building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to solve their own problems. This site has excellent resources, including the Logic Model Development Guide.
http://www.wkkf.org/

The Surdna Foundation fosters catalytic, entrepreneurial programs, which offer viable solutions to difficult systemic problems. Programs include the environment, community revitalization, effective citizenry, nonprofit sector support initiatives, and organizational capacity building.
http://www.surdna.org/index.html

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation has been developing a new approach to grantmaking called Institution and Field Building, or IFB. Read about EMC's new approach and the process it follows from identifying organizations to evaluating results of its youth development initiatives.
http://www.emcf.org/

The Ford Foundation makes grants or loans that build knowledge and strengthen organizations and networks worldwide. Program areas include asset building and community development, peace and social justice, and knowledge, creativity and freedom.
http://www.fordfound.org/

Lots of fundraising ideas and tips for fundraisers including free stylish fundraising thermometers to add to your webpage.
http://www.fundraiserinsight.org/

GrantCraft, a project of the Ford Foundation, makes available a series of publications and videos designed to prompt discussions among foundation practitioners about strategic and tactical lessons in philanthropy. Visit GrantCraft to view the resources currently available and learn about more in the works.
http://www.grantcraft.org/

GRANTS, ETC enables novice and advanced grantseekers & funders and fundraisers & donors to access relevant information throughout the Internet.
http://www.ssw.umich.edu/resources/index2.html?collection=grants

The University of Wisconsin's Grants Information Center provides links to all aspects of proposal writing.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Memorial/grants/proposal.htm

The Foundation Center helps grantseekers find information about grantmakers and their funding interests. Look for information on foundations and learn about the grantseeking process
http://fdncenter.org/

U.S. Department of Labor's Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Find out about government funding opportunities at
http://www.dol.gov/cfbci/funding.htm

Job-Hunt provides tips for job search and links you to job openings online.
http://www.job-hunt.org/

Job-Search-Engine is not a Job Board, but rather a meta job search engine dedicated to employment. It searches the most popular American and Canadian job boards in parallel and in real time.
http://www.job-search-engine.com/

Social Work and Social Services Jobs Online is sponsored by the Career Services Office, George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Do you have a job opening in the area of social work or the social services? List it for free on Social Work and Social Services Jobs Online!
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/jobs/index.html

SocialService.Com is the place to start looking for a social service or social work job, whether in mental health, substance abuse, children and youth, medical social work, criminal justice, domestic violence, counseling, community organizing and outreach, homelessness or a variety of other human service areas.
http://www.socialservice.com/

The Community Career Center is an on-line gathering place where not-for-profit employers and management personnel can meet one another.
http://www.nonprofitjobs.org/

THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER ONLINE includes information for social workers worldwide on social work careers, jobs, and practice. The most popular sections include a message board, jobs page, and free online newsletter.
http://www.socialworker.com/

Welcome to OpportunityKnocks.org, the Internet's leading source of nonprofit jobs and career opportunities. To find your perfect job, do a quick keyword search or use our Advanced Search to see job listings by city, state, organization or position type.
http://www.opportunitynocs.org/index.jsp

The Michigan Nonprofit Association works to enhance the effectiveness of the Michigan nonprofit sector in serving society.
http://www.mnaonline.org

Blurred Boundaries and Muddled Motives - A World of Shifting Social Responsibilities (Battle Creek, MI: W. K. Kellogg Foundation). This report outlines preliminary observations of the issues raised by the blurring of traditional boundaries between the nonprofit and private business sectors, with attention to changes in the roles and responsibilities of non-profits, businesses, and governments (33 pages, PDF).
http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/PhilVol/SectorBlurReport_00251_03774.pdf

The Internet Nonprofit Center, a program of The Evergreen State Society, provides information for and about nonprofits. Nonprofit FAQ will show you scores of items of information and advice about nonprofits that come from discussions on email lists, in UseNet and other sources.
http://www.nonprofits.org/

The Inter-University Consortium for International Social Development (IUCISD) is an organization of practitioners, scholars and students in the human services. IUCISD serves as a clearinghouse for information on international social development. IUCISD is a well-established and widely recognized international catalyst for sharing ideas among many nations and across many cultures.
http://www.iucisd.org/

GuideStar, the national database of U.S. charitable organizations, gathers and distributes data on more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofits. Look up a local nonprofit organization and review their financial and organizational information.
http://www.guidestar.com/

ARNOVA: Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations is an international, interdisciplinary membership organization that fosters the creation, application and dissemination of research on voluntary action, nonprofit organizations, philanthropy and civil society.
http://www.arnova.org/

The Center for What Works provides a glossary of terms for nonprofit management and organizational assessment.
http://www.whatworks.org/

The Nonprofit Center links to resources on nonprofit management, board development, grantwriting, marketing, and strategic planning.
http://www.lasallenonprofitcenter.org/info_serv/useful_links.htm#1

Charitynet website brings together the websites of non-profit organizations and their service providers. Search their comprehensive directory of over 2,000 charities and non-profit organizations across the world.
http://www.charitynet.org/

The Nonprofit Financial Center's "Basic Guide to Forming a Nonprofit Organization.
http://www.nonprofitfinancial.org/main/info/guides_forming.htm

Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes by Andrew Goodman. Goodman shares the seven most important Print Ad Principles that all nonprofits and foundations should keep in mind when creating public interest print ads. This downloadable book is available from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation.
http://www.emcf.org/pdf/badadshappenforgoodcause.pdf

FirstGov for Nonprofits provides government information for nonprofit organizations, including federal forms, grant resources, tax information, and registration and licensing information.
http://www.firstgov.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml

Hanson & Company's website includes an excellent guide to forming a nonprofit organization.
http://www.hanson.com/

The Chronicle of Philanthropy is the newspaper of the nonprofit world. The site contains job links, nonprofit news, and timely articles on nonprofit giving.
http://philanthropy.com/

The National Center for Charitable Statistics now offers access to financial disclosure forms filed by charities with the Internal Revenue Service. These filings-known as Forms 990-provide specific information on a charity's revenues, expenses, executive salaries, board members, programs and activities.
http://nccs.urban.org/990/

SOVERNET has links selected from public radio and TV and reputable newspapers. The "Giving Back" section shows how a percentage of online purchases can be donated to nonprofit organizations.
http://corp.sover.net/start/links.shtml#giveback

How are nonprofit organizations using the Web? Find excellent links at:
http://www.sover.net/~paulven/npo.html

The Online Nonprofit Information Center's (TONIC) "Top 20" sites of interest to nonprofit organizations.
http://www.socialworker.com/nonprofit/nplinks.htm

The publication, Women's Health & Urban Life: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, addresses a wide range of topics that directly or indirectly affect both the physical and mental health of girls, teenage and adult women living in urban or urbanizing pockets of the world.
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci/sever/journal/about.html

The Journal of Extension (JOE) is the official refereed journal of the U.S. Cooperative Extension System. It seeks to expand and update the research and knowledge base for Extension professionals and other adult educators to improve their effectiveness. Along with new issues of JOE, back issues to 1963 are available online. JOE is an electronic journal, available only on the World Wide Web.
http://www.joe.org

The Center for the Study of Social Policy strives to help states and localities implement creative and effective strategies that strengthen disadvantaged communities and families and ensure that children grow up healthy, safe, successful in school, and ready for productive adulthood.
http://www.cssp.org/

ISUMA: The Canadian Journal of Policy Research is an on-line journal dedicated to policy-relevant research and issues that are cross-disciplinary and multi-dimensional. "Isuma" is Inuktitut for "idea" or "thought" and encompasses a sense of responsibility toward the community. Recent issues focus on Sustainable Development, Social Capital, and Volunteering.
http://www.isuma.net/index_e.shtml

The National Center of Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization. The NCPA's goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. Topics include reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security, welfare, criminal justice, education and environmental regulation.
http://www.ncpa.org/

Vote Smart! Thousands of candidates and officials, five areas of information. What would you like to know? Project Vote Smart (PVS) is a citizen's organization dedicated to serving all Americans with accurate and unbiased information for electoral decision-making.
http://www.vote-smart.org/

Welfare Information Network: Resources for Decisions features online databases, face-to-face meetings on the web, and links to policy web sites.
http://www.welfareinfo.org/sussmanmarch.htm

The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's EdPolicy site is designed to help users access education policy and teacher quality information at the national, regional, or state level.
http://www.edpolicy.org/

The Moving Ideas Network posts the best ideas and resources from leading progressive research and advocacy institutions. It also draws from the research of a network of more than 100 member organizations, and provides timely information and leading ideas about the policies and politics that drive the nation's agenda.
http://movingideas.org/

Influencing State Policy (ISP) assists social work faculty and students in learning to effectively influence the formation, implementation, and evaluation of state-level policy and legislation. Link to state policy resources, become a member, and learn about the annual ISP contest which challenges students and faculty to influence state policy.
http://www.statepolicy.org/

The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is a public policy research organization dedicated to public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families. IWPR focuses on poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, the economic and social aspects of health care and domestic violence, and women's civic and political participation.
http://www.iwpr.org/

The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nations. Find excellent policy papers on housing, immigration, Social Security, welfare reform, community re-entry programs for prisoners, and many others.
http://www.urban.org/

The Future of Children promotes effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research. All issues of the journal are available on line.
http://www.futureofchildren.org/

HomeBase is California's public policy law firm on homelessness. Our purpose is to end homelessness, prevent its recurrence, and decrease its effect on communities. This website includes extensive policy links on homelessness and housing.
http://www.homebaseccc.org/

The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to ending America's affordable housing crisis.
http://www.nlihc.org/index.htm

The Alliance for Children and Families is an international membership association representing more than 350 private, nonprofit child- and family-serving organizations. Its mission includes advocacy for children, families, and communities. Find up-to-date policy information, including legislative tracking, fact sheets and issue briefs, and position statements, and policy updates
http://www.alliance1.org/

The Research Forum encourages collaborative research and informed policy on welfare reform, child and family well-being, and community/neighborhood issues. This web site features a searchable database of summaries of large- and small-scale research projects, key topics pages, resources pages, and lists of recent publications related to these issues.
http://www.researchforum.org/

The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies is an interdisciplinary, multinational research and training program devoted to comparative work on international migration and refugee movements. CCIS seeks to illuminate the U.S. immigration experience through systematic comparison with other countries of immigration, particularly in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/index.htm

Free resources in evaluation and social research methods, links to free on line books, manuals, articles on how to do evaluation and social research, including surveys, interviews, observations and more. Also links to research about research methods, free software, and sites on how to present data. This site also has a review of free statistical resources.
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods

The Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change seeks to address the problems of persistent and concentrated urban poverty and is dedicated to understanding how social and economic changes affect low-income communities and their residents. The site includes working papers, evaluation reports, and a listing of national organizations conducting research at the neighborhood level.
http://povertycenter.cwru.edu/

The Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago is a research and development center focusing on policies, practices, and programs affecting children and the families and communities in which they live. Access downloadable publications in the areas of children services, youth development, community building, and international work.
http://www.chapinhall.org/home_new.asp

The Global Development Research Center is a virtual organization that carries out initiatives in education, research and practices, in the spheres of environment, urban, community and information, and at scales that are effective.
http://www.gdrc.org/

In the Harvard Family Research Project's quarterly evaluation periodical, The Evaluation Exchange, authors consider the "best of the worst" evaluator practices, changes in university-based evaluation training, and the development of evaluation as a discipline.
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/eval/archives.html

The Pew Partnership is a civic research organization dedicated to identifying and documenting promising solutions and strategies crucial to strong communities. The website summarizes solution-focused research in five broad areas: thriving neighborhoods, living wage jobs, viable economies, health families and children, and collaborative partnerships.
http://www.pew-partnership.org/

"Good Practices in Social Services Delivery in South Eastern Europe" by Elaine Fultz & Martin B. Tracy. A description of recent efforts to strengthen and expand social services provided at the community level in the countries of South Eastern Europe and a guide for training to give these efforts greater reach and impact. It is a product of the ILO project, Strengthening Social Protection in South Eastern Europe, which is being undertaken within the framework of the Social Cohesion Initiative of the European Union’s Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/eurpro/budapest/download/socserv_delivery.pdf

International Agencies and Information on the Web: University of Michigan Documents Center
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intl.html#ilo

PRAXIS provides access to a vast array of archival resources on international and comparative social development. The intellectual commitment of PRAXIS is to the promotion of positive social change through informed action.
http://caster.ssw.upenn.edu/~restes/praxis.html

SWAN (Social Work Action Network) is the site of choice for professionals, educators, and students searching the web for resources related to social work. This website sponsored by the University of South Carolina College of Social Work includes links to websites of many of your favorite organizations.
http://www.sc.edu/swan/index.html

The Social Work and Social Services website includes an A to Z listing of hundreds of web links to topics related to social work and social services.
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/websites.html

Information for Practice (IP) features a monthly archive that is designed to help social service professionals throughout the world conveniently maintain an awareness of news and emerging scholarship regarding the profession.
http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/ip

GradSchools features links to graduate schools of social work.
http://www.gradschools.com/listings/menus/social_work_menu.html

The Carter Center offers unique and diverse opportunities for undergraduate juniors and seniors, recent graduates, and graduate/professional students who are interested in contemporary international and domestic issues.
http://www.cartercenter.org/

Belbin Team Roles describe a pattern of behavior that characterizes one person's behavior in relationship to another in facilitating the progress of a team.
http://www.belbin.com/belbin-team-roles.htm

Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, Inc. (AASWG) is a membership organization that supports group work in social work education. This webpage includes syllabi for teaching group work.
http://www.aaswg.org/

VoNet is focused on theoretical and empirical research related to Virtual Organizations, Virtual Teams, Network Organization and Electronic Commerce. The Journal of Organizational Virtualness is among the first academic journals distributed exclusively on the Internet.
http://www.virtual-organization.net/

Teaching Tips Index from the University of Hawaii.
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm

Foundations of Social Work Practice II: Groups, Organizations, and Communities by Cal Streeter.
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/streeter/s15-5037.04/s15-5037_04.html

TechSoup.org offers nonprofits a one-stop resource for technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support.
http://www.techsoup.org

Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) is a strategic approach to community health improvement. This tool helps communities improve health and quality of life through community-wide strategic planning.
http://mapp.naccho.org/MappModel.asp

Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies’ (CAPT) Western Center provides a step-by-step resource for planning and best practices. The web site includes instructions on how to use a logic model for evaluation.
http://casat.unr.edu/bestpractices/

Community How to Guides. The 9 books in this tool kit include: Needs Assessment & Strategic Planning; Evaluation; Prevention and education; Enforcement; Public Policy; Media Relations; Self Sufficiency; and Resources.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/alcohol/
Community%20Guides%20HTML/Guides_index.html

Collaboration/Coalition Self-Assessment Tool from the guidebook "Strategic Partnerships: How to Create and Maintain Interorganizational Collaborations and Coalitions" by Beth Rosenthal and Terry Mizrahi.
http://www.acosa.org/assessment01.pdf

The Community Toolbox is an Internet-based support system for building healthier communities. The Community Tool Box has over 200 sections of practical and detailed information about how to do the work of community building, including strategic planning, advocacy, coalition building, and many others.
http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/

The Nonprofit Management Education Center has a 9 part Organizational Assessment tool.
http://www.uwex.edu/li/learner/assessment.htm

Free Complete Toolkit for Boards.
http://www.mapnp.org/library/boards/boards.htm

The Cultural Competency Assessment Tool is a comprehensive tool intended to assist community based agencies of all sizes in becoming more culturally competent.
http://www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/publications/cultural_competency/
assessment_tool/tool_index1.htm

Civic Renewal Movement provides excellent resources, including manuals, guides, syllabi, and bibliographies.
http://www.cpn.org/tools/index.html

Cleveland Area Network on Data and Organizing (CAN DO) is designed to be used by nonprofit, community-based organizations, government entities, universities, scholars, and students, and others concerned with poverty and neighborhood conditions. CAN DO can assist community organizations in their planning and program development.
http://povertycenter.cwru.edu/urban_poverty/dev/cando/overview.asp

The City of Calgary website includes a comprehensive guide to community assessment, including locality development, social planning, and social action models.
http://www.calgary.ca/cweb/gateway/gateway.asp
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Assessing your collaboration: A self evaluation tool by Lynn M. Borden, University Extension Journal (1999), Vol. 37(2)
http://www.joe.org/joe/1999april/tt1.html

Local Initiative Support Corporation. Higgins, L.R. (2001, September). Gathering and presenting information about your neighborhood. Information about a neighborhood can be used to gain a better understanding of its problems and potential, but is often difficult to obtain. This paper provides a detailed description of where to find data for small areas; how to access and analyze the data; and how to use them for presentations - whether to market one's neighborhood, show what a community's problems are, or just to gain a better understanding of where one lives. Go to
http://www.knowledgeplex.org then put these two words in the Search menu: Gathering Presenting

Computer Use in Social Services Network. Visit Dick Schoech's website for excellent links to computer use in social services. Includes CDROM for Training Kids about HIV and AIDS. Also download shareware, freeware and demos for fund raising, accounting, self-help, etc.
http://www2.uta.edu/cussn/

Evaluating Web Resources, by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate. This website provides materials to assist in teaching how to evaluate the informational content of Web resources. Includes a bibliography of materials on applying critical thinking techniques to Web resources, a PowerPoint presentation and other online resources.
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm

Self-Help Resources for Community Groups, including Decision-making Toolkit, Force Field Analysis, and a Step-by-Step Approach to Facilitating Groups
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/communities/tools.html

The Connect for Kids website features the "Citizen's Tool Kit on the Federal Budget and Tax Cuts." Understand the budget process so you can urge your representatives to make the best use of tax dollars for children and families.
http://www.connectforkids.org/benton_topics1544/
benton_topics_show.htm?doc_id=159840

The Social Work History Project provides a timeline of important events and biographies of early social workers.
http://www.idbsu.edu/socwork/dhuff/history/central/core.htm

North Central Regional Educational Institute (NCREL) features "Putting the Pieces Together: Comprehensive School-Linked Strategies for Children and Families." Chapter 2 is a guide for "Conducting a Community Assessment."
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/css/ppt/putting.htm

Socialserve.com is a database of affordable housing for landlords, prospective tenants, social workers, etc. Landlords and housing authorities post properties to the site. This easy-to-use web makes it easier to find affordable housing and the program information that pertains to the affordable housing continuum.
http://www.socialserve.com/

The Center for Civic Partnerships features Top Tips, and Online Resources and Tools for a variety of methods of work with communities, including collaboration, community organizing, conflict resolution, cultural competency, and so on. Original source documents are referenced and hyperlinked for suggested reading.
http://www.civicpartnerships.org/default.asp?id=69

Office of University Partnerships is part of the Office of Policy Education and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Office of University Partnerships (OUP) oversees the Community Outreach Partnership Center, Historic Black College and University, Community Development Work Study and several doctoral research grant programs. The OUP website provides a wealth of information on university-community partnerships and links to all COPC, HBCU, and other partnership programs at colleges and universities across the country and maintains an extensive archive on key publications related to university-community partnership and civic engagement.
http://www.oup.org

The Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago features links for a variety methods used in university-community. These include academic and planning organizations, foundations, government and private organizations, service learning, student service, and university-community partnerships.
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/uicni/links/

Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 900 colleges and university presidents committed to the civic purposes of higher education. To support this mission, Campus Compact promotes community service that develops student citizenship skills and values, encourages partnerships between campuses and communities, and assist faculty who see to integrate public and community engagement into their teaching and research. Their website features over 200 syllabi as well as exemplary models of civic engagement.
http://www.compact.org
Also, check this link for mapping civic engagement in higher education.
http://www.compact.org/civic/

Outreach Scholarship provides an annual conference (October) that offers a wide range of learning opportunities designed to broaden and deepen understanding of community-university engagement and that promotes a rich informal exchange between community-university partners. Outreach Scholarship is a collaboration of Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Wisconsin.
http://www.outreachscholarship.org

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Founded in 1996, we are a growing network of over 1000 communities and campuses. CCPH has members throughout the United States and increasingly the world who are collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based research, community service and other partnership strategies. These partnerships are powerful tools for improving health professional education, civic responsibility and the overall health of communities.
http://www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html

The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement publishes a lot from the papers and sessions of the Outreach Scholarship Conference and is based at the University of Georgia's Institute of Higher Education.
http://www.uga.edu/jheoe/

G. Jay Christenson's web page: "Presentations Provide Golden Opportunities." This web page provides a step-by-step process making excellent presentations.
http://www.csun.edu/~vcecn006/hintspre.html

G. Jay Christenson's web page: "Executive Summaries Complete the Report." This web page provides a step-by-step process to writing executive summaries.
http://www.csun.edu/~vcecn006/summary.html#Executive%20Summaries

The American Psychological Association's web page shows how to cite electronic resources from the 5th Edition of its Publication Manual
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html