Not-For-Profit
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Finding the Best Charities
Givewell.net There are over 1,000,000 U.S. charities. Some do great work. Some fail. How can you choose the best one? Use our free research so your donation makes a difference. (They currently recommend 9 charities out of more than 300 analyzed.... very selective indeed!)
Charity Navigator Find a Charity You Can Trust: Charity Navigator, America's premier independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health of over 5,400 of America's largest charities.
Networkforgood.org We make it as easy to donate and volunteer online as it is to shop online, and we make it simple and affordable for all nonprofits, of any size, to recruit donors and volunteers via the Internet.
Fund Raising Ideas
Apply for free Google ads for your non-profit through the Google Grants (12/27/2005) program. This can have huge impact on the number of people you attract to your web site.
Raise funds by collecting used cell phones and mailing them to phoneraiser.com
Raise funds for your favorite charity whenever you search the internet by using goodsearch.com, powered by Yahoo.
Article Non-profits experiment with investment-style fund-raising, in Fast Company (April 1, 2006).
Grant Proposal Idea Wiki
Let's say you work for a not-for-profit and you have an idea for something that needs grant funding, but you don't have the time or contacts or whatever to write an actual grant. Why not write your idea here, where others can see it, and you might be able to meet up with collaborators, or maybe a funder will find it here and think its a great idea and assist you with the formalities of applying for a grant. Just give your idea a title, post the title below in double brackets, which will create a new page for you, and then write your thoughts on the new page. Voila, now something might happen with your idea!
Innovative Not-For-Profits
These are not-for-profits that are worthy of replication or a donation.
Remote Area Medical The Remote Area Medical® (RAM) Volunteer Corps is a non-profit, volunteer, airborne relief corps dedicated to serving mankind by providing free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States and the world. According to RAM, the organization has provided $33,079,038 worth of free health care to 357,368 patients with the help of 36,675 volunteers since its inception. Approximately two-thirds of this total is in the USA. (This is as of late 2009 as reported by Wikipedia.)
Kibera Community Youth Programe is a youth empowerment organization in Nairobi Kenya that, among other things, helps to support itself by selling small solar panels for charging radios and cell phones. Kibera is one of the largest slums in the world, according to the KCYP web site.
The American Institute of Philanthropy offers ratings of charities.
