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Centers for social mobilization
Democracy and political participation
Digital inclusion
Fair Trade
Fundraising resources
Gender issues
Local leadership tools
More innovative solutions
Networks for social change
News sources
Nonviolence
Proposal writing
Research and academic resources
Rural development
Social and economic development
Sustainable development
Volunteerism
  
 Centers for social mobilization
San Francisco Eco-Industrial Park
Washington, DC Provisions Library & Resource Center for Activisism and the Arts
Washington, DC Josephine Butler Parks Center
Brooklyn, NY`s Monkey Town privileges video art, films, documentaries, music & dance ($)
San Jose, CA MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana), an energizing artspace
 Democracy and political participation
Electoral Reform resources by the Institute for Policy Studies
The International Foundation for Election Systems
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
More Democracy´s Movement for Citizen-Initiated Referendums
International Bill of Rights Project
AdvoKit - Tools for a New American Politics
 Digital inclusion
Kabissa - Space on the Internet for the African Non-Profit Sector
Community Service and the Community Development Technology Initiative
Alliance for Community Technology
bridges.org: spanning the international digital divide
Center for Digital Democracy
Center for Digital Government
The Committee for the Democratization of Information Technology (CDI)
Diagnosing a developing community´s readiness for a networked world
The Digital Divide Network
The Digital Government Institute
Digital Nations´ resources
Enersol Associates apply solar energy in rural areas - for computers & more
"Falling through the Net" Report by the US NTIA
Families, Technology and Education Conference Proceedings 1997
Geek Corps
The Impact of Information Technology on Civil Society Research Forum Papers
Internet for the Third World: Chance or Threat?
Methodology & Social Impact of Information and Comunication Tech in America Project
The NET That Binds: Using Cyberspace to Create Real Communities, by Andrew Shapiro
FUNREDES - Networks and Development Foundation: Disseminating the new ICTs
Isis International Manila: Radio Production Training for Asian Women Broadcasters
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Fellowship: Using IT to Empower the Developing World
Universally Usable Sites -- Principles and Strategies
Virtual Villages - How technology can help developing countries leap ahead
Digital Dividend - a project of the World Resources Institute
Development Gateway Foundation: supporting sustainable development through the use of ICTs
Community Technology Centers´ Network
Digital Opportunity Channel Archives: Internet
Alliance for Community Media
Integrating Information and Communications Technologies in Development Program OECD Report
Low Income Networking and Communications (LINC) Project - building tech capacity in the US
Institute for Connectivity in the Americas
Cyberstate - Increasing citizen access to & familiarity with ICT tools & resources in MI
Connectivity in Africa Infobook
 Fair Trade
Development through Enterprise site of the World Resources Institute
 Fundraising resources
Global Fund for Women supporting women´s humans rights organizations around the globe
TechGrants you can use - updated biweekly with the latest technology-related grants
Association of Fundraising Professionals
Echoing Green - Fellowships for start-up social entrepreneurs in their first two years!
National Center for Charitable Statistics
New Voices - a program to seed innovative citizen media ventures around the United States
American Institue of Philanthropy
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Council on Foundations
Philanthropy Day annual fundraising conference in the USA
Association of Small Foundations
Community Wealth Ventures: Consulting firm that helps nonprofits generate revenue
Funders Network on Trade and Globalization funder directory
Social Edge Funding Recommendations
Social Venture Partners International - a community of social investors.
 Gender issues
Female Genital Mutilation Programmes to Date: What Works and What Doesn´t (WHO Report)
 Local leadership tools
Community Planning: Interactive Planning for Real
Philanthropy News Digest
Third Sector New England´s Capacity-Building Grants
The Quest Network supports local activists improving community quality of life in the UK
UnLtd - small grants and technical support to community initiatives in the UK
Network for Good Nonprofit Resources
Alliance for Community Technology
AMARC - serving the community radio movement
Bobby - check if your website is accessible to the disabled
Center for Community Change
Center for Third World Organizing
Citizen Advocacy Center
Tips on Starting a Community Network
Computer Recycling and Reuse Network for Non-profits - acquire used materials here!
Echoing Green grants to social entrepreneurs
The Foundation Center
Gifts in Kind - product philanthropy
Grantmakers Without Borders
Channel G - Empowering charitable projects with mass media television exposure
Help for Nonprofits by Hearts & Minds
The Independent Sector
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
TechSoup - technology for non-profits
Tolerance.org fights hate by teaching tolerance
Translation services free from SDL International
Universally Usable Sites - Principles / Strategies
Village Earth connecting rural villages to global resources
Essential Information Encouraging Activism
Tips on Starting a Community Network
OMB Watch: Nonprofit Issues
Impact Alliance: A global capacity building network bringing leading edge know-how to you
Fundraising from the Heart with Lynne Twist: Secrets to Fundraising
Znet´s global calendar of protests, meetings, benefits, and conferences
People in your town share your interests. Join their Meetups and organize your own!
Technology tools by ContentBank
Chronicle of Philanthropy Guide to Grants
Non-profit Resource Center - accounting information for US nonprofits
Seed Awards: recognizing innovative ideas and supporting them to come to fruition
InterConnection - developing country NGOs get websites, training, & refurbished computers
BoardSource - National Center for Nonprofit Boards of Directors
Nonprofit Resource Center, USA
The Nonprofit Times - monthly publication for the USA nonprofit community
Hearts & Minds´ Self-Help Resources
Charity Channel - connecting nonprofit professionals worldwide
The Regional Environmental Centre for Central & Eastern Europe: Capacity-building programs
National Charities Information Bureau, USA
Alliance for Nonprofit Management
Nonprofit FAQ
Peter Drucker Foundation/Leader to Leader Institute strengthening social sector leadership
Social Fusion: an incubator for entrepreneurs to grow for- and non-profit businesses.
NeighborWorks network of community development organizations
IT Resource Center - Technology leadership for nonprofits
Communishare - Community self-indexing & identification of individual assets
Social Action and Leadership School for Activists (SALSA), Washington DC
Compumentor - Skills, experience and methodology to enable Community Technology Centers
Placemaking Tools for Community Action (PDF file)
Wisdom Mountain caring community connections
Groundspring.org - Affordable Internet fundraising, email and advocacy for nonprofits
Social Edge: Marketing, Communications and Fundraising resources for social entrepreneurs
The best online translation tool we´ve found.
 More innovative solutions
The Scarman Trust`s UK solutions
Ashoka Innovators for the Public
Bioneers - visionary and practical solutions for restoring the Earth
Changemakers.net
Cities Alliance - Cities Without Slums
Community Resource Exchange
Community Resource Group helping communities in the southern USA
Development Marketplace of ideas, talent and resources that address development challenges
Enersol Associates apply solar energy in rural areas - for computers & more
EPA Community-Based Approaches
The Global Ideas Bank
Habitat for Humanity International
The Honey Bee Network
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
MegaCities Project solutions for megacities
Network WorldWide Projects
New Rules Project - build community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics
Self-help tools by Hearts & Minds
The Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities
The Stories Exchange Project
Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Era: Project Knowledge Base
Sustainable Development Principles Database (IISD)
We the Peoples; the story of 50 communities (IISD)
Global Giving
Care2 gets you connected to environmental nonprofits and eco-oriented corporations
Best Practices on ContentBank
Open Knowledge Network
Knowledgeplex: The professional resource for affordable housing and community development.
Bellanet - Supporting Collaboration in the Development Community
UNESCO´s MOST Best Practices Database featuring indigenous knowledge and human settlements
WorldChanging - innovative blog site with positive tools & solutions to change the world
World Movement for Democracy´s Participants Database
Green Century Institute´s Sustainable Solutions Database
Celebrating Solutions´ database of innovative solutions
Honey Bee Network Database
Youth Policy Action Center database of organizations, issues, and officials. Take action!
Contemporary Africa Database
Stockholm Challenge Project Database
Design for Development uses the design process as a tool to address poverty worldwide
 Networks for social change
Network of Democracy Research Institutes
European Youth Forum
PlaNetwork "link-tank" for cyber greens
World Forum of Civil Society Networks
Knowledge Networks (IISD)
NetAid: A growing network of people and organizations committed to ending extreme poverty
New Civilization Network - linking the people who change the world
Czech Forum 2000: Bridging Global Gaps
Znet - a community of people committed to social change
CBNRM Net - The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network
Indigenous Environmental Network
Aid Workers Network: Don´t reinvent the wheel in aid work
Shack/Slum Dwellers International is a loose network of people´s organisations
TINCAN - The Inland Northwest Community Access Network (Spokane, WA, USA)
Sustainable Communities Network
San Francisco Women`s Environmental Network
WANGO - World Association of NGOs
Alliance of Artists Communities: Supporting & advocating for artists
Omidyar Network: An online community of individuals making a difference
South Asia Regional Network for Prevention of Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS
World Movement for Democracy
Habitat Jam - the largest public consultation ever held on urban sustainability
 News sources
Free Speech TV
Institute for Public Accuracy
International NGO Campaign on Export Credit Agencies
National Radio Project
Africa Online
Atlantic Monthly foreign affairs
The Christian Science Monitor World News
CIA World Factbook
CNN
EarthTrends at WRI
The Economist
ecountries.com updates to your email by country
Greenpeace CyberActivist Community
Independent Media Center (indymedia)
InfoBrazil.com
International Independent Information Exchange
Mother Jones
The Nation
OMB Watch monthly reports on US government accountability issues
OneWorld.net
The Progressive
Shaan Online e-zine on Gender and Human Rights
Tom Paine.com(mon sense) - A Public Interest Journal
UTNE - A Different Read on Life
The Washington Post
Yahoo! News
YES! A Journal of Positive Futures
Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
Pambazuka News - Information Service for Social Justice in Africa
Chronicle of Philanthropy - The newspaper of the nonprofit world
Reporters Without Borders
Sur Press Magazine - bilingual magazine generating European interest in Latin America
Awakened Woman: The Journal of Women´s Spirituality
Democracy Now daily radio and TV news program on over 270 stations in the US
Reporters Without Borders
World Health Organization FACT SHEETS
The Week Magazine - a great, succinct, way to stay up-to-date on US & international news
 Nonviolence
Gandhi Conference on Nonviolence in Tennessee, USA
The Center for Nonviolent Communication
Class on Nonviolence, readings compiled by Colman McCarthy (Center for Teaching Peace)
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
 Proposal writing
Center for Nonprofit Management provides strategic solutions at low cost to nonprofits.
 Research and academic resources
What the World Thinks: How Global Publics View Their Lives...The World...
Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University
Brookings Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
Citizen Advocacy Center: Mapping and Data Tools for Equiptable and Sustainable Development
Digital Nations research at MIT
"Falling through the Net" Report by the US NTIA
The Impact of Information Technology on Civil Society - Research Forum Papers
International Relations Center
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
The NET That Binds: Using Cyberspace to Create Real Communities, by Andrew Shapiro
Plannersweb
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies books and bibliography on cyberculture
Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Fellowship: Using IT to Empower the Developing World
University of Maryland Data & Scientific Research on the Internet
International Development Research Centre
Center for Global Development
Network of Democracy Research Institutes
International Network for Urban Research and Action
International Society for Ecological Economics
Social Criticism Review - Offers selected readings in social criticism.
EcoResearch.net - Interdisciplinary Research Network on Environmental Online Communication
Latin American Network Information Center
Principal social science journals of Latin America translated into English
 Rural development
Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group
 Social and economic development
Alliance 21: Alliance for a Responsible, United and Plural World
AMARC - serving the community radio movement
Amnesty International Report 2005
Cities Alliance - Cities Without Slums
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
Cyburbia: The Urban Planning Portal
Planners Network: Resources for Progressive Planners
Development Gateway: Where Worlds of Knowledge Meet
International Association for Community Development
International Development Exchange
International Development Research Centre
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Participation-focused Organizations List by USAID
Planetizen: The Planning & Development Network
Praxis Peace Institute
Sister Cities International
Transparency International
Virtual Villages - How technology can help developing countries leap ahead
Andean Competitiveness Project at Harvard
Critical Choices - Achieving better paying, longterm employment through workplace skills
YouthLearn - Making use of new technologies to advance youth programs
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Chrysalis - Changing Lives through Jobs
Housing Works - housing in New York City for homeless people living with AIDS
Onyx Vision - helping individuals and organizations develop revenue generating businesses
Woodstock Institute - Promoting Community Reinvestment and Economic Development
New Community Corporation of Newark, NJ (USA)
Community Investing
 Sustainable development
The Esquel Group Foundation: Promotes policies and programs for sustainable development
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Smart Growth Network
Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions- SRISTI
Sustainable Development Communications Network
Tamil Nadu services for small industries, India