Capacity.org
A web-site dedicated to advancing the policy and practice of capacity building in international development cooperation.

Change Communications
A good resource for other community development related links.

COMM-ORG
On-line conference on community organizing and development. Links activist organizations to bridge the theory of practice. COMM-ORG has over 600 members representing over a dozen nations.

Community Development Support Collaborative
The Community Development Support Collaborative, a consortium of DC-based corporations and local and national private foundations and financial institutions, is the first major private community development funding effort of its kind in the District of Columbia.

Communities That Care, Channing Bete Company
Communities That Care is a community operating system that provides research-based tools to help communities promote the positive development of children and youth and prevent adolescent substance abuse, delinquency, school dropouts and violence.

Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO)
GBIO is a Boston-based group with the primary goal of developing local leadership in order "to develop the power of organized numbers to hold other holders of power accountable for their public responsibilities, as well as initiate action and programs of our own to solve community and economic problems."

Idealist.org: Action Without Borders
This organization was founded in 1995 as a network of neighborhood contact centers providing one-stop shopping for volunteer opportunities and nonprofit services in communities and around the world. Today, Idealist.org contains information on over 22,000 nonprofit and community organizations, volunteer opportunities within local communities and around the world, a Nonprofit Career Center with job and internship listings.

Learning-Org Dialog on Learning Organizations
A "Learning Organization" is one in which people at all levels, individually and collectively, are continually increasing their capacity to produce results they really care about. Includes a Learning Org Discussion Page updated daily.

Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy
The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy was established at the University of Massachusetts Boston through the initiative of Latino community activists and academicians in response to a need for improved understanding of Latino experiences and living conditions in Massachusetts. The task of the institute is to inform policy makers about issues vital to the Commonwealth's growing Latino community and to provide this community with information and analysis necessary for effective participation in public policy development.

Neighborhoods Online
Neighborhoods Online was created in 1995 by the Institute for the Study of Civic Values and Philadelphia's LibertyNet as an online resource center for people working to build strong communities throughout the United States.

American Statistical Association
Provides various brochures on implementing survey research.

InnoNet: Evaluation Resources
InnoNet is a key proponent of participatory evaluation. Resources include various resources including data collection tools, sample indicators, etc.

Institute for Social & Economic Development
ISED is a nonprofit organization that provides a variety of support services (e.g., consulting, research and evaluation) as well as direct services (e.g., microenterprise development, assets accumulation, job training, etc.) to assist disenfranchised individuals to enter the economic mainstream and create solid economic futures for themselves and others.

National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and local partners to further the development and use of neighborhood-level information systems in local policymaking and community building.

Non-Profit Research and Evaluation Services, Inc.
Provides links to evaluation related resources and information on the Web. Topics include checklists, models, guides, and tutorials for program evaluation; Web sites with a primary interest in evaluation or a very strong evaluation component; professional associations and organizations; statistics; qualitative analysis; software, information technology, and systems for evaluation and research; philanthropy, funding, and grants; demography, mapping, and GIS; and benchmarking, indicators, and standards for services.

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
Provides various links to methods such as surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, etc.

Taking Stock: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Your Own Programs
A manual completed by Horizon Research, Inc. (1997)


IMMIGRATION Cultural Competency Resource
As part of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management's Cultural Competency Initiative, the site provides a range of materials on cultural competence with the initial emphasis on race/ethnicity, that share valuable perspectives and approaches for your practice.

Center for Immigration Studies
The Center for Immigration Studies is a think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.

Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)

Maryland Office for New Americans (Department of Human Resources)
MONA provides support services to refugees to ease their transition into American society and serves as a resource to the Governor and the General Assembly on refugee and immigrant policy.

National Citizenship Network
The National Citizenship Network is a clearinghouse for the exchange of information, analysis and strategy on a wide range of issues affecting immigrants and refugees in the United States. The Network distributes event announcements, action alerts, sign-on letters and press stories among 170 advocacy, social service, public policy and legal organizations in 24 states.

The National Immigration Forum
The National Immigration Forum is one of the nation's foremost authorities on immigration. Employing an effective combination of advocacy, media work, targeted research, and public education, the Forum provides accurate, reliable data to our nation's policy-makers, the press, and the public about the invaluable contributions of newcomers to our diverse society.

RAND Center for Research on Immigration Policy
The Center for Research on Immigration Policy is an organization that conducts research, policy analysis and outreach to inform the development of effective immigration and immigrant policies on the local, state, federal, and international levels. The Center maintains an extensive bibliography of its own publications.


INTERGROUP RELATIONS

Applied Research Center
The Applied Research Center is a public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change.

California Tomorrow
California Tomorrow is a nonprofit organization dedicated to contributing the building of a strong and fair multiracial, multicultural, multilingual society that is equitable for everyone. California Tomorrow provides a variety of services, including technical assistance, facilitation, training and professional development.

Colorlines
Colorlines is a magazine on race, culture, and organizing published by the Applied Research Center.

Cyberhood
A virtual community devoted to issues of race,, central cities, and the urban metropolis.

Fisk University Race Relations Institute
The Race Relations Institute provides consultation services to educational, government, corporations, and faith communities around issues of race relations.

Mosaica (The Center for Nonprofit Development and Pluralism)
Mosaica is a values-based multicultural nonprofit consulting organization focusing on the development of effective community-based nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Its special commitment is to strengthen and support entities committed to serving and empower those whose voices are least likely to be heard when public policies are adopted and resources allocated.

National Conference for Community and Justice: Taking America's Pulse II
A comprehensive nationwide survey on interracial and intergroup relations.

Network of Alliances Bridging Race & Ethnicity
NABRE, an initiative of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, is a network of community-based organizations working across the country to bridge racial and ethnic divisions. NABRE enables organizations to communicate with each other in order to share ideas and experiences and to build mutual support.

The Television Race Initiative
The Television Race Initiative multi-year effort in which diverse, character-driven, high-profile television broadcast create a spine for sustained community dialogue and problem solving around the issue of race relations.

Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit organization that combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation. Its programs include Teaching Tolerance and the Intelligence Project, which incorporates Klanwatch and the Militia Task Force.

Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP)
SWOP is a nonprofit community organization that works to empower communities to realize racial and gender equality and social economic justice.

CAPACITY BUILDING TOOLS & OTHER RESOURCES

Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change: Cleveland Area Network on Data and Organizing (CAN DO)
Online database of neighborhood social indicators. CAN DO is an information sharing network providing a comprehensive collection of data describing Cleveland's neighborhoods and the suburban municipalities in Cuyahoga County. Selected data are also available for Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit counties. 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.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
NCHS is the Federal Government's principal vital and health statistics agency. Since 1960, when the National Office of Vital Statistics and the National Health Survey merged to form NCHS, the agency has provided a wide variety of data with which to monitor the Nation's health. NCHS data systems include data on events as well as information on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care.

Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership
The Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership is building a resource center with lots of great information for starting, running and funding an organization.

Charity Channel
Non-profit discussion forums

Community Development Society: Training Modules
Three training modules for empowering low income communities:

• Income Generation Principles
• Building a Credit Organization
• Training for Micro Enterprise

Community Toolbox
The Community provides practical guidance for improving community health and development. There over 3,000 downloadable pages of specific, skill-building information on over 150 topics.

The Decade of Behavior: FundSource
The Decade of Behavior initiative is hosting a searchable web site devoted to seeking behavioral and social science research funding opportunities. Searches can be tailored by organization name, discipline, or topic and categorized by funding source (e.g., foundation, federal agency, international organization.

The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center provides information about every foundation in the country. Most of this information is free, but some of it is for paying subscribers only.

Gentrification and West Oakland: Causes, Effects and Best Practices (paper)

Gilbert News
Michael Gilbert maintains a great site with daily news updates bridging the online and nonprofit worlds. You can read the news there, or you you can subscribe for weekly email updates.

Greater Boston Interfaith Organization: One on One Relational Meeting Protocol
A protocol for one on one interviews.

Guidestar
Guidestar lists financial information for 800,000 nonprofits. You can use Guidestar for research, and you can also update your organization's entry there.

Harvard-MIT Data Center: The Virtual Data Center Project
The Virtual Data Center (VDC) is an instrument to manage and share social science data easily for teaching and research purposes across institutions.

Idealist.org
Idealist.org has built the leading nonprofit job site in the country. In addition to jobs, you can also list events, volunteer opportunities and internships, and at http://www.idealist.org/consultants you can find the most comprehensive directory of nonprofit consultants on the Web.

Internet Nonprofit Center
This web site offers information for and about nonprofit organizations.

Justice Research and Statistics Association: Databases
The Database of State Activities and Research (DSAR) contains information on state Statistical Analysis Centers' (SACs) research, analyses, clearinghouse activities, and other projects, as well as SAC reports and publications.

National Issues Forums (NIF): Forum Starter Kit
By offering citizens a framework for deliberative forums, the NIF network helps the public take an active role in policy decision making. Forums are organized by civic, service, and religious organizations as well as by libraries, colleges and universities, and high schools, literacy and leadership programs, prisons, businesses, labor unions, and seniors' groups.

National People's Action
A searchable database of some affiliated community organizations

National Survey of America's Families (NSAF), Urban Institute
The NSAF Tabulator has data on 33,703 children. Variables include demographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, income, and family structure; health insurance and status; and children's and adults' behavior and attitudes. The Tabulator will generate national data, as well as state-specific data for Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Neighborhood Information Los Angeles: How to Create a Web Site Kit
A "how-to" kit to help answer questions from people who want to create a web site like NKLA, a web site dedicated to helping prevent housing and neighborhood conditions from deteriorating, in their city or community It contains information on both political and technical aspects of NKLA.

Network for Good
At Network for Good people can find volunteer opportunities, and they can also make donations to hundreds of thousands of nonprofits. Most importantly, you can use this site to add a free Donate button to your Web site.

Serviceleader.org
At Serviceleader.org you will find a huge site covering every aspect of volunteer management, from screening, matching, record-keeping and evaluation, to legal issues, risk management and virtual volunteering.

State of the Region Project, Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth at SUNY Buffalo
The State of the Region Report measures, monitors, and proposes goals and action steps for performance in the bi-national Buffalo-Niagara Region. Performance indicators are specified for the economy, environment, government, education, technology and information, health, public safety, human services, equity, planning and land use, and regional assets.

Sustainability
Offers tools, networking and training opportunities, resources, etc. for collaboration, resource development, volunteer and leadership development, and marketing and media.

Techsoup
Techsoup has built the leading resource center for all issues related to nonprofit technology. In addition, they offer steep discounts on software for nonprofits, sometimes up to 90% off the list price.

TrainSAT
The U.S. Department of Energy Carlsbad Area Office (DOE/CAO) is making a new training program self-evaluation tool (TrainSAT) available at no cost to businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, non-profits, consultants, students, and citizens. The primary purpose of TrainSAT is to provide training groups with a systematic method for self-identifying the strengths and weaknesses of their training programs. This information can then be used to systematically improve training efforts. TrainSAT is a complete, turnkey package consisting of an administrator's guide, survey form, and norming data.

Volunteer Match
At Volunteer Match people can find volunteer opportunities all over the country by ZIP code or area of interest.


OTHER

Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health
Working closely with people and organizations involved in collaboration, the Center conducts research studies, analyses, and joint learning activities that address key challenges associated with collaboration and translates the knowledge it obtains into practical tools and training programs.

Philanthropy

Independent Sector
Independent Sector is a national leadership forum, working to encourage philanthropy, volunteering, nonprofit initiatives and citizen action that help us better serve people and communities.

Youth