USEFUL LINKS - PHILANTHROPY BY INDUSTRY

 Arts and Culture

Americans for the Arts
From their website: “Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. With 45 years of service, we are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. [Among the goals are to] generate more public- and private-sector resources for the arts and arts education.”
http://www.americansforthearts.org/

Arts Philanthropy (Australia)
This Topical Issues section of the Philanthropy Australia website lists recent donations and recent media coverage of arts philanthropy in Australia.
http://www.philanthropy.org.au/issues/arts.html

Grantmakers in the Arts
From their website: Grantmakers in the Arts is a membership organization whose trade is discourse on ideas about arts philanthropy within a diverse community of grantmakers...Primary goals are to: improve and strengthen arts philanthropy beyond GIA's membership, support individual grantmakers and deepen their involvement with each other, and enhance GIA's organizational effectiveness.
http://www.giarts.org/

Canadian Council for Aid to Education (CCAE)
From their website: “The CCAE is a volunteer-led organization that promotes excellence in educational advancement. We provide opportunities for networking, professional development and mutual support.”
http://www.ccaecanada.org

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
From their website: “CASE helps its members build stronger relationships with their alumni and donors, raise funds for campus projects, produce recruitment materials, market their institutions to prospective students, diversify the profession, and foster public support of education.”
http://www.case.org

Council for Aid to Education (CAE)
From their website: The CAE is a national nonprofit organization established to advance corporate support of education and to conduct policy research on higher education, today CAE is also focused on improving quality and access in higher education. CAE also is the nation's sole source of empirical data on private giving to education, through the annual Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey and its Data Miner interactive database.
http://www.CAE.org

National Association of College and Business Officers (NACUBO)
From their website: “NACUBO represents chief administrative and financial officers through a collaboration of knowledge and professional development, advocacy, and community.”
http://www.nacubo.org

National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)
From their website: “NAIS is the national voice of independent education. We offer standards, targeted resources, and networking opportunities for our 1,300 member schools.”
http://www.nais.org/

American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)
From their website: “The AAMC is a nonprofit association of medical schools, teaching hospitals, and academic societies. The AAMC seeks to improve the nation's health by enhancing the effectiveness of academic medicine.”
http://www.aamc.org/

Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP)
From their website: “The AHP is an international professional organization dedicated exclusively to developing the men and women who encourage charity in North America's health care systems. Established in 1967, AHP is the source for education, networking, information, and research opportunities in health care philanthropy.”
http://www.ahp.org

Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium: Philanthropy and the Third Sector
From their website: APPC's mission is to increase the quality and quantity of philanthropy within and for Asia by strengthening the institutional infrastructure and improving the operating environment for the philanthropy sector. To achieve its mission, APPC serves as a catalyst, convener, and network builder.
http://www.asiapacificphilanthropy.org/

Directory of Social Change
From their website: "An internationally recognised independent source of information and support to voluntary and community sectors worldwide. We enable the community and voluntary sectors to achieve their aims through being an independent voice, providing training and information."
http://www.dsc.org.uk/

Foundation Center
From their website: “The Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants — a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector.”
http://www.fdncenter.org

Nonprofit Managers Library
This library of free information includes management courses in topics such as board roles and responsibilities, communications skills, finance and taxes, program development, and other topics related to nonprofit management.
http://www.mapfornonprofits.org/

NonprofitsCan.ca
From their website: “NonprofitsCan.ca is Canada's leading source of information on the nonprofit and voluntary sector.”
http://www.nonprofitscan.ca/home.asp

Points of Light Foundation
From their website: “The Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network engages and mobilizes millions of volunteers who are helping to solve serious social problems in thousands of communities. Through a variety of programs and services, the Foundation encourages people from all walks of life — businesses, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, low-income communities, families, youth, and older adults — to volunteer.”
http://www.pointsoflight.org/

VolunteerMatch
From their website: “VolunteerMatch is a leader in the nonprofit world dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer. The organization offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement. Our popular service welcomes millions of visitors a year and has become the preferred internet recruiting tool for more than 30,000 nonprofit organizations.”
http://www.volunteermatch.org/