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Resources for Non-Profits

Below are listed some resources that charities may find useful for fund raising, gaining awareness, etc.  This page will be updated and added to as new resources are found.

Grants

Grant Spy
Grant Spy

Grant Spy does the legwork for grant seekers in non-profits, government agencies, schools, police and fire departments, special districts, and other public organizations across the nation, so that they can spend less time searching for funding and more time writing proposals. Every business day, Grant Spy delivers summaries of the latest opportunities from federal, foundation, and state funders in one convenient e-mail, all for 20.95 a month (for the basic subscription).

Michigan State Library has comprehensive lists of grants from animal welfare to children and youth. See the Grants Available!

Get grants & free advertising from Google! Click here to be redirected!

Sample Grant Documents & Helpful Websites

*From The Complete Guide to Writing Effective & Award-Winning Grants by Dianne Harris. Stored in .doc (Microsoft Word) format; if you don't have access to MS Word, you can open and edit these files in LibreOffice.

How to Write a Grant for a Non-Profit (Bizfluent)

Online Courses About Fundraising, Grant Writing, etc. Most are free along, with free tutorials!

Fundraising

CafePress

Cafe Press

Cafe Press allows you to sell your merchandise online with having to keep the inventory on hand. All of your items are made to order for customers. You can get your own shop that can be linked to.

Register with MissionFish & Ebay

Then people can sell their stuff on ebay and donate 10%-100% of the proceeds to your charity or non-profit. Or, sell items on ebay directly to earn money for your organization.

Ebay

MissionFish


Accept Credit cards as a payment method on your website (without having to use Paypal).


This site has 1200 fundraising ideas and links to where you can get this fundraising (the company, etc. website).

Sell Adspace on your website.

You can make money for your non-profit by selling ad space: merchants pay you to put their ads on your website. Click to be directed to the article.

Also, check out Comission Junction where you can be paid to place ads on your website.

Mightycause

Register with Mightycause and allow people to fundraise for you and donate to your cause!


This website seems like a great resource for finding a sponsor for non-profits!

Empowered

Empowered

Mobilize your supporters and participants on one free platform.

Fundraising

Volunteer Coordination

Events

Chapter Management

Custom Solutions

Click and Pledge

Click and Pledge

Simply put, Trio is a better way to bring the power of the web to your organization. Consisting of our exclusive payment engine, a powerful website and community management program and a flexible donor management system, Trio does what no other system does: it offers world-class integrated system performance, with modular flexibility, at an affordable price.

Easy Fundraising Ideas

Easy Fundraising Ideas

Has tons of ideas for fundraising and the resources to do it from their webpage!

Other free resources

Charity Village

Welcome to Main Street of CharityVillage.com, Canada's supersite for the nonprofit sector. Every day, you'll find more than 3,500 pages of news, jobs, resources, how-to articles, volunteer and event listings, educational opportunities, and much more. If philanthropy and volunteerism are part of your world, this is your place.

8 Amazing Resources For Charities

This article lists tons of resources for charities, including free web hosting, and more!

Free quiz maker: Pro Profs

Free Resources for Non Profits

Get free technology for your non-profit website from Tech Soup!

This site contains over seven hundred pages with over 17,000 hyperlinks to additional information that can be useful for both individuals and nonprofits.

Google also offers a plethora of tools free for non-profits to use!

PetFinder scroller

Customized Pet Scroller from Petfinder

Show off your organization's adoptable pets on any Web site with this Pet List Scroller! Just follow the step-by-step instructions, then copy and paste the displayed code directly into your HTML.

Animoto

Animoto

Animoto can provide several services:

Professional video: Animoto automatically turns your images, video clips and music into stunning videos. A static web site is easily forgotten; instead, engage your audience with video, on your site and elsewhere.

Drive traffic and donations: use Animoto videos to convey a message with the right balance of information and emotional connection. Attract your audience back to your site.

Spread your message to users on social networking sites: post easily to MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Capitalize on the power of social networks.

Fundraise through video: raise money by reselling DVDs of Animoto videos, or kick off your events with big screen projections for powerful, emotional messages.