Nevada Nonprofit Forum

[http://nbsn.ecosq.com/phpBB2/index.php?c=11 Click Here to Discuss Nonprofit-related Issues with Your Peers]

Welcome to the Nevada Nonprofit Forum, an online knowledge collaboration environment supporting public education, information sharing, partnership building and learning among the individuals and organizations, aka community of practice, involved in nonprofit agencies within Nevada.

The link above will connect you to the discussion forum where you can post questions, discuss experiences, share ideas and generally stay in touch with your peers in Nevada's nonprofit sector. If you would like to participate as a contributor to this site, please click here to email us.

The Technology Behind This Forum

The Nevada Nonprofit Forum is built on a foundation of world-class collaborative technology that makes it possible for stakeholders to openly network, contribute and create flexible and effective partnerships. The foundation of this site is the open source TWiki enterprise collaboration platform. It provides the ability to create a project development space, document management system, knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an Intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser, and users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins.

Hosting and technology support for this site is provided by SQI, Inc., developers of "On-Demand Customer Support Infrastructure.

Enjoy and I hope you will join in making this your 'first stop' for staying in touch with the nonprofit community in Nevada.

Best regards,<br> Gary Lyon<br> Creator and Moderator

Resources for Nonprofits

The following is a list of online resources for nonprofit organizations. %GREEN% *Please click here to email any resources you feel are of value to Nevada's nonprofit community.* %ENDCOLOR%

Why Running a Nonprofit is the Hardest Job in Business - An Article from the Harvard Business School Publication "Working Knowledge"

Social Entrepreneurism

• [http://www.nextbillion.net/[NextBillion.net - Development through Enterprise]]

• [http://www.schwabfound.org/whatis.htm[What is a "Social Entrepreneur"?]]

• [http://hbswk.hbs.edu/topic.jhtml?t=nonprofit[Social Enterprise at Harvard Business School]]

• [http://sohodojo.com/sohodojo-social-entrepreneurism-links.pdf[Sohodojo's Favorite Social Entrepreneurism Web Links]]

• [http://www.redf.org/links-se-resources.htm[General Resources for Social Entrepreneurs from www.redf.org]]

• [http://www.se-alliance.org/[Social Enterprise Alliance]]

• [http://www.svn.org/[Social Venture Network]]

• [http://www.craigslist.org/[Craig's List - San Francisco-based but very useful source of info]]

• [http://craigslistfoundation.org/[Craig's List Foundation - be sure to check out the resource center...excellent!!]]

Education Resources

• [http://extendedstudies.unr.edu/pdfs/S06PDFs/Nonprofit%20Mgmt%2706%20.pdf[Excellence in Nonprofit Management Institute - University of Nevada (Reno)]]

• [[http://www.learn.colostate.edu/certificates/community.asp ][Community-Based Development Certificate (online) - Colorado State University]]

• [http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/programs/profed/online/[Online Certificate in Nonprofit Management - Univeristy of Chicago]]

Legal Resources

• [http://nonprofit.about.com/od/legalresources/[Legal Resources for Nonprofits at about.com]]

Financial Resources

• [http://www.mapnp.org/library/finance/np_fnce/np_fnce.htm[Basic Guide To Non-Profit Financial Management]]

• [http://www.mapfornonprofits.org/[Management Assistance Program (MAP) for Nonprofits]]

• [http://www.iknow.org/Main.cfm?Main=14[IKnow Non-Profit Financial Management Resources]]

• [http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4063925024.html[Open Source Financial Applications]]

Risk Management

• [http://www.mapnp.org/library/risk_mng/risk_mng.htm[Risk Management - Online Management Library]]

---+++General Resources

• [http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/yourturf/civactnet.htm[The Civic Action Free Univeristy]]

• [http://nationalserviceresources.org/[Resource Center - a one-stop shop for online tools and training resources to strengthen your volunteer or service program.]]

• [http://www.wkkf.org/Toolkits/Default.aspx[Kellog Foundation Toolkit for Nonprofits]]

• [http://www.stargazernet.org/[Stargazer - Stargazer is located at the crossroads of entrepreneurship and technology, of philanthropy and the venture capital-backed New Economy.]]

• [https://supplier2.intel.com/BusinessResourceCenter/community_business_resources.htm#Nonprofit%20Development%20Agencies[Intel Corporation Business (and nonprofit )Resource Center]]

• [http://www.firstgov.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml#vgn-grants-loans-and-other-assistance-vgn[FirstGov for Nonprofits]]

• [http://www.compasspoint.org/index.html[Compasspoint - tons of good stuff for Nonprofits]]

• [http://www.compasspoint.org/resources/weblinks/index.html[Nonprofit web links at Compasspoint]]

• [http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/FAQ/index.php?category=31[National Center for Charitable Statistics]]

• [http://www.nonprofits.org/[Internet Nonprofit Center]]

• [http://www.genie.org/index.html[Nonprofit GENIE]]

• [http://www.guidestar.org/[Guidestar - The National Nonprofit Database]]

• [http://nonprofitresearch.org/[Nonprofit Sector Research Fund]]

• [http://www.managementhelp.org/[Free Online Management Library for Private (For-Profit) and Social (Nonprofit) Enterprises]]

• [http://danenet.wicip.org/snpo/[Society for Nonprofit Organizations]]

• [http://nationalserviceresources.org/resources/index.php[National and Community Service Resources]]

• [http://www.maro.org/Nonprofitresources.html[Nonprofit Resources]]

• [http://www.apc.org/english/capacity/index.shtml[Association for Progressive Communications]]

• [http://charitychannel.com/[Charity Channel]]

• [http://www.whatkidscando.org/Index.asp[What Kids Can Do]]

Technology Resources

---++++Nevada-based Resources

• [http://www.computercorps.org/[ComputerCorps]]

• [http://disabilityresourcesonline.org/[Disability Resources]]

---++++National Resources

• [http://techatlas.org/tools/[Free Technology Assessment Tool - TechAtlas]]

• [http://www.drms.dla.mil/[Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service ]]

• [http://www.nten.org/ntresources[Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network]]

• [http://www.osnv.org/bin/view/Nonprofit/ApplicationWatchForNonprofits[Free Open Source Office Productivity, Financial and Groupware Applications - Open Source Nevada Initiative]]

• [http://www.osnv.org/bin/view/Nonprofit/WebHome[Non-Profit Web of the Open Source Nevada (OSNV) Initiative]]

• [http://www.techsoup.org/[TechSoup - The Technology Place For Non-Profits]]

• [http://www.osnv.org/bin/view/Nonprofit/ResearchWorksheet[Nonprofits section of the Open Source Nevada initiative]]

• [http://www.nosi.net/[Nonprofit Open Source Initiative]]

---+++Grant Writing

• [http://www.npguides.org[Nonprofit Guides - Grant-writing tools for nonprofits]]

---+++Program Development, Management and Evaluation

• [http://www.mapnp.org/library/plan_dec/project/project.htm[Project Management Section of the Free Online Management Library for Businesses and Nonprofits]]

• [http://ctb.ku.edu/about/successstory.jsp?success_story_id=19[Guide to Developing Good Program Logic Models]]

• [http://www.sprc.org/calendar/noconf/logicmodels.pdf[A Overview of Logic Models in Program Development]]

• [http://www.publichealth.arizona.edu/chwtoolkit/PDFs/Logicmod/logicmod.pdf[Using Logic Models to Bring Together Planning, Evaluation and Action - Logic Model Development Guide]]

---+++Board Development

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

• [http://search.genie.org/genie/ans_result.lasso?cat=Board+Development[Nonprofit Genie search results for "Board Development"]]

• [http://www4.compasspoint.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=652[Board Cafe]]

• [http://www.boardsource.org/QnA.asp?Class=NonprofitEssential[BoardSource]]

---+++Volunteer Development

• [http://nationalserviceresources.org/[The Resource Center: Tools and Training for Volunteer and Service Programs]]