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Links

Below is an alphabetized list of links that you may find useful to your community work. If you notice a community health and development link we don't have, we'd appreciate you contacting us and letting us know. Submitted entries should include the site name, the URL or the web address and a brief description of site content and goals.

A Guide to Internet Resources in Sustainable Development
Purpose is to assist researchers and others to locate information on sustainable development on the Internet. This guide represents only a sample of what is available.


AbilityLinks
AbilityLinks is committed to increasing employment of job seekers with disABILITIES.


Access Project
The Access Project works with selected groups to provide technical assistance with their advocacy.


ACORN
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities.

Activists' Center for Training In Organizing and Networking (ACTION)
Activist's collective in Philadelphia which regularly takes in student and youth volunteers and interns to learn issues and skills by working on current activist projects.

Adbusters Culture Jammer's Headquarters
We will take on the archetypal mind polluters -- major brand names and corporations -- and beat them at their own game. We will take control of the role that the tobacco, alcohol, fashion, cosmetics, food and automobile corporations play in our lives.


Advocacy 2.0
We are mapping out a new version of advocacy, inspired by the tremendous culture changes shifting the landscape for social organizers. The way we think about organizing must be updated to fit this new culture. Organizing the same old way just doesn't seem to work the way it used to. As a result, we have new opportunities to affect change in meaningful ways. In part, these opportunities are made available through the power of the internet.

Advocacy Institute
Works to make social justice leadership strategic, effective, and sustainable in pursuit of a just world.

 

After-School and Community Technology Agendas for Youth
After-School and Community Technology Agendas for Youth - Explores ways after-school leaders and community technology advocates can work together to equip youth with the technology skills they need to reap the benefits of a technology-oriented society (from the California Community Technology Policy Group).

Alliance for Community Media
A national organization dedicated to public, educational, and governmental access to cable TV and the Internet.

Alliance for National Renewal
Offers assistance to communities, access to a network of people with common goals, a collection of stories on community renewal efforts, inspiration, ideas, tools and collaborative processes through conferences, publications, and technical assistance.

AMA's Links to Other Medical Sites
Synthesized vast amount of global medical information on the Web into a manageable set of quality resources. Goal is to promote the art and science of medicine, and to empower visitors with the ability to quickly and easily access desired information.

American Association of Health Education
Advances the profession while serving health educators and other professionals who strive to promote the health of all people.

American College Health Association
The ACHA is a leadership organization for the field of college health and provides services, communications, and advocacy to help its members advance the health of their campus communities.

American Council on Education
Nation's umbrella higher education association. Dedicated to the belief that equal educational opportunity and a strong higher education system are essential cornerstones of a democratic society.

American Evaluation Association
International professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation.

American Journal of Health Behavior
Official publication of the American Academy of Health Behavior.

American Psychological Association
Information about legislative issues, research and career opportunities in psychology, funding opportunities, etc.

American Psychological Society
Nation's leading society dedicated solely to scientific psychology. APS's mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, and the improvement of human welfare.

American Public Health Association
Information about the APHA, and a good source of links to other public health sites.

American Self-Help Group Clearinghouse
A keyword-searchable database of over 1,100 national, international, model and online self-help support groups for addictions, bereavement, health, mental health, disabilities, abuse, parenting, caregiver concerns and other stressful life situations. Also lists local self-help clearinghouses worldwide, research studies, information on starting face-to-face and online groups, and a registry for persons interested in starting national or international self-help groups.

American Society for Training and Development
ASTD convenes a number of specialized events throughout the year and provides products and services. Offers a wide selection of periodicals, books, newsletters, research reports, and videotapes, training.

America's Job Bank
Information about employers, job seekers, job market, and tips for job search.

America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth
Organization led by General Colin Powell, dedicated to mobilizing the nation to ensure our children and youth have access to the fundamental resources they need to become successful adults.

Americorps Volunteer In Service to America (VISTA)
Americorps offers a year long service and training program.

Amnesty International
International human rights defenders with local chapter offices.

An Ounce of Prevention
Prevention Yellow Pages - A worldwide directory of programs, research, references and resources dedicated to the prevention of youth problems and the promotion of nurturing children.

Annie E. Casey Foundation
Helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States.

APIAHF Home Page
The Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum is a national advocacy organization seeking to improve the health status of Asians and Pacific Islanders.

Arts and Health "Crossing Borders"
Arts and Health blog created by Cheryl McLean, Publisher of CCAHTE the Canadian based international and interdisciplinary open access peer reviewed journal of the creative arts in health, training and education


Ask Dr. Stoll
Provides interactive bulletin board for questions and sharing of information and experience, articles related to alternative health care, and archives of past contributions to the bulletin board on popular subjects.

Ask Eric
Personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the US and the World

Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
Information on current research and funding sources for non-profits, especially those working in low-income communities.


Asset Mapping for Community Connections
The Community Connections Asset Mapping Process (CCAMP) takes the traditional and invaluable resource of asset mapping and combines it with web-based technology to serve communities of every size and shape, from a single classroom to a multistate initiative. CCAMP’s database technology organizes a community’s ability to care, as CCAMP users discover their community’s unique assets and needs, connect existing assets to meet community needs, and transform their communities through intentional asset-based community development in the process.

Association for Progressive Communications
Global network whose mission is to empower and support organizations, social movements and individuals through the use of information and communication technologies to build strategic communities and initiatives.

Association for the Study and Development of Community
The Association for the Study and Development of Community (ASDC) is committed to building the capacity of organizations and institutions to develop the health, economic equity, and social justice of communities.

Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
The mission of the ACU is to improve the health of underserved populations by enhancing the development and support of health care clinicians serving these populations.

Association of State and Territorial Dir's of Health Prom & Public Health Education
Mission is to promote the quality practice of health education and health promotion as core disciplines of public health practice and to advocate for quality health education and programs and strategies to address the nation's leading health problems.

AVA Online
The American Vocational Association carries out a diverse array of programs that advance vocational-technical and school-to-careers education.

Ben and Jerry's Foundation
Funds are used as an endowment. Offers competitive grants to not-for profit organizations facilitating progressive social change, addressing the underlying conditions of societal or environmental problems.

Benton Foundation
Bridging the worlds of philanthropy, public policy, and community action, through demonstration projects, media production and publishing, research, conferences, and grantmaking. Probes relationships between the public, corporate, and nonprofit sectors.

 

Beyond The Conviction
The mission of Beyond The Conviction is to reduce recidivism of ex-offenders by providing an array of hope through employment advoacy, linkage to resources, and provisions to reduce traditional and nontraditional barriers hindering career and life advancement.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America
More than 25 national programs are available in the areas of education, the environment, health, the arts, careers, alcohol/drug and pregnancy prevention, gang prevention, leadership development and athletics.

Bright Futures
The goal of Bright Futures is to respond to current and emerging preventive and health promotion needs of infants, children, adolescents, families, and communities.

Building Coalitions (OSU-Youth)
This link from the Ohio State University's College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Science (YOUTH section) on BUILDING COALTIONS contains tools and resources for supporting community coalitions including assessment, facilitator guide, goal setting, developing members, evaluation, fund raising, mobilization, turf issues, understanding process and more.

Bureau of Primary Healthcare
This site will help you build healthier communities that meet the needs of vulnerable and underserved populations. The content is provided by one of the few federal agencies that mandates community-based governance, provides resources directly to community.

Business Growth Partners
Design and develop systems that will grow businesses. These systems take into account all factors that affect the success of business, including community, economy, information and technology.

CADCA
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America. The mission of CADCA is to build and strengthen the capacity of coalitions to prevent and reduce substance abuse and violence in communities across America.

California Center for Health Improvement
The California Center for Health Improvement (CCHI) is a non-profit health policy and education center. It aims to provide a better base of information to those who seek to improve health and well-being.

California Community Foundation
Addresses essential elements to maintain healthy and independent lives for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations in Los Angeles, particularly those facing discrimination due to language, economics, culture or sexual orientation.

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
Here you will find links to associations, databases and other data retrieval resources, evidence-based healthcare resources, funding agencies, government agencies, health ministries, journals and research centres.

Career Development And Job Search Resources on the Internet
Identifies more than 100 websites related to all aspects of the job search. Includes general career information sites as well as specific occupations.

Carnegie Foundation
Research on the well-being of children and recommendations.


The Carter Center
Dedicated to fighting disease, hunger, poverty, conflict, and oppression through collaborative initiatives in the areas of democratization and development, global health, and urban revitalization.

Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Program of US bishops which focuses on reducing poverty and improving social justice.

 

CBPR
The CBPR e-mail community was created to serve the growing network of people involved and interested in CBPR and other types of community-academic research partnerships. People from community organizations, colleges and universities, public and private funding agencies, decision makers and policy makers, and others are all encouraged to subscribe. We hope this listserv provides a resource for sharing knowledge and experience and contribute to strengthening the field of CBPR and ultimately improving the health of communities.

Center for Civic Partnerships
Provides a variety of information and resources including: Tools and Resources web pages on a host of issues (e.g., advisory groups); Funding Sources database with details and contact information about funding opportunities nationwide; information about the Center's publications (some of which are downloadable), including our Sustainability Toolkit and quarterly newsletter; a Calendar which highlights important capacity building workshops and conferences; and information about the Center's programs. If you visit our website, keep your eye out for the Community Toolbox website because it is listed on several of our Tools and Resources web pages!

 

The Center for Collaborative Planning
The Center for Collaborative Planning promotes health and social justice by providing training and technical assistance and by connecting people and resources. CCP supports diverse communities in key areas, such as: asset-based community development (ABCD), leadership development, working collaboratively, community assessment and strategic planning.

Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
U.S. Dept of Energy-contains a list of web sites on sustainable community development and the text of 28 community success stories.

Center for Living Democracy
The Center for Living Democracy inspires and prepares people to make democracy a rewarding, practical, everyday approach to solving society's problems.

Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)
Works with community organizations on research, advocacy and technical assistance for sustainable neighborhood development.

Center for Renewable Energy and Resources
Solstice is the Internet information service of the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST), and is a site for Sustainable Energy and Development information.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Federally-funded program designed to disseminate information, increase dialog, and promote community empowerment to combat alcohol and other drug problems.

Center for Sustainable Communities
Links to an online library, tutorials, and case studies of communities.

The Center for What Works
Improve the effectiveness of social policy by assisting public and non-profit sector organizations to systematically identify and replicate best practices.

Centers for Disease Control
Information about public health related issues in the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--Prevention Research Centers (PRCs)
The PRCs are a network of academic researchers, community members, and public health agencies that conducts applied research in disease prevention and control in their local communities. Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control, PRCs have been established at 33 cities across the U.S. Funding for the development of this curriculum came from the RPC Program through a cooperative agreement between the CEC and Association of Schools of Public Health. Examples in this curriculum are drawn from the Flint PRC and the Yale-Griffin PRC.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--Urban Research Centers (URC)
In 1995, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established the URCs to asses and improve the health of urban communities. Located in Detroit, New York City, and Seattle, the URCs engages government, academic, private, and community organizations as partners in setting priorities and designing, implementing, and evaluating community-focused public health research and interventions. Examples in this curriculum draw form the Detroit and Seattle URCs.

Center for Social Justice
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) conducts research, education and advocacy on issues of equality and democracy. It works to strengthen movements for social justice in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and globally.

Charity Village
Canadian site for the nonprofit sector with more than 2,000 pages of news, jobs, information and resources for executives, staffers, donors, and volunteers. Philanthropy, volunteerism.

The Charles A. Dana Foundation
A private philanthropic foundation with grant programs in health and education and operating programs of awards and public affairs.

Children's Defense Fund
The Children's Defense Fund exists to provide a strong and effective voice for all the children of America, who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves.

CHPNA Sharinghouse
The CHPNA web site is a Sharinghouse for the use of health promoters in Atlantic Canada. The site includes a data base, health promotion stories, resource list, bulletin board and more.

Christian Children's Fund of Canada
Christian Children's Fund of Canada is a Canadian-based, registered charity and child-centred international development organization. CCFC is inspired by Christ's example of personal, caring love. CCFC supports children, families and communities of all faiths in developing countries.

 

CIET International
CIET is an international group of epidemiologists and social scientists who bring scientific research methods to local government and community levels.   By involving people in the gathering, analysis, discussion and communication of evidence about their own reality, CIET helps them to participate, in an increasingly informed way, in decisions that affect their lives.

City Net
Connections and information about various home pages of cities in the United States and around the world - search more than 5,000 destinations.

Civic Practices Network
Information on methods, stories, resources and models for community development.

Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities
Website of the Healthy Communities Coalition.

Code of Ethics - American Marketing Association
World's largest and most comprehensive professional society of marketers, provides direct benefits to marketing professionals in both business and education and serves all levels of marketing practitioners, educators and students.

Cognitive Science Branch
The CgSB is part of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. The Branch conducts research and development in computer and information technologies, and supports their application in health professions education.

College Board Online
Information about financial aid, the SAT, adult services, international education, advanced placement, guides to campuses.

College View
Information about more than 3,700 schools, financial aid, career planning.

The Combined Health Information Database
CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.

Communication Initiative
The communitcation Initiative network is an online space for sharing the experiences of, and building bridges between, the people and organissations engaged in or supporting communication as a fundamental strategy for economic and social development and change.

CommuniTeam
National non-profit corporation dedicated to building healthier communities.

CommuniTeam Training and Consulting
CommuniTeam is an international training and consulting organization whose staff and associates are dedicated to helping communities work toward--and ultimately achieve--their visions. It specializes in youth-adult partnership development and condition-focused change efforts.

Community Action School
The James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at University of Maryland fosters principled leadership through scholarship, education, and training, with special attention to advancing the leadership of groups historically underrepresented in public life.

 

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
A nonprofit organization that promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Founded in 1996, we are a growing network of over 1,600 communities and campuses across North America and increasingly the world that are collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies. These partnerships are powerful tools for improving higher education, civic engagement and the overall health of communities.

 

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Past Featured Members
This page of the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health website features the work of its various members. Take a look to see their inspiring success stories.

Community Care Network Demonstration Program
Affiliated with the American Hospital Association, and funded by a WK Kellogg grant, the CCN is working with community groups throughout the country to improve the health status and the health delivery system in their local area.

 

Community Leadership Association (CLA)
A membership organization of hundreds of diverse community leadership organizations, graduates of these organizations, and others interested in community leadership development.

Community of Science
Rapid, easy-to-use information about scientists and the funding of science. Links researchers worldwide through information products available on the Web - information on funded NIH, NSF, and other grants.

Community Psychology Net
Web's most comprehensive site dedicated to the field of community psychology. Resource for educators, professionals, researchers, students, and others who are learning more about psychology, action research, intervention, and prevention.

Community Technology Advocacy
Community Technology Advocacy - Learn about how one advocacy group, the California Community Technology Policy Group (CCTPG), used a day at the state Capitol to ensure low-income communities have access to technology resources. For ideas on educating policymakers on this issue, read CCTPG's: Summary of Advocacy Day, State Policy Agenda, 2002-2003 Priorities, and One Page Synopsis on two bills in California that support offering technology access to youth and low-income communities.

 

The Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium
Seeks to understand and assess collaborative efforts involving natural resource issues and community development. The consortium provides a venue for researchers, community groups, government agencies, funders and individuals to share their research, find out about new developments and studies concerning community based collaborative groups and work in partnership with others on research projects.

The Community-Based Participatory Research Curriculum for General Pediatrics Fellows
Developed and implemented by CCPH Fellow Darius Tandon. Twelve General Academic Pediatrics Fellows in the Johns Hopikins University School of Medicine received this eight-hour curriculum during the 2002-20003 academic year.

The Community-Based Participatory Research listserv
Co-sponsored by Community-Campus Partnership for Health and Wellesley Institute is a valuable resource for connecting with colleagues involved in CBPR and keep up on the latest CBPR news, funding opportunities, conferences, etc.

The Community-Based Public Health Caucus
The Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association is guided by the belief that community lies at the heart of public health, and that interventions work best when they are rooted in the values, knowledge, expertise,a nd interests of the community itself.

Community Building Resources
Its goals are to discover the assets and capacities of a community; design an asset map that graphically shows supports and connections; develop community resources for community supports; and create community animation and action.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Founded in 1996, we are a growing network of over 1,500 communities and campuses across North America and increasingly the world that are collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies. These partnerships are powerful tools for improving higher education, civic engagement and the overall health of communities.

 

The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health CBPR Resources Webpage
Includes CBPR definitions, tools, resources, course syllabi and web links.

The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Consultancy Network
Helps community-campus partnerships to realize their full potential through presentations, workshops, and consultations. Consultants are "real life" practitioners with experience and expertise in service-learning, community-based participatory research and other pertinent content areas.

 

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Our mission is to foster partnerships between communities and educational institutions that build on each other's strengths and develop their roles as change agents for improving health professions education, civic responsibility and the overall health of communities.

 

The Community Health Scholars Program
A post-doctoral fellowship program in CBPR in public health. The program is offered at three Schools of Public Health: The University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina-Chapell Hill and John Hopkins University

Community Organizing Toolbox
A Funder's Guide to Community Organizing.

CompuMentor
CompuMentor provides free technical assistance and computer consulting services to non-profit organizations that serve low income populations.

Connect for Kids
Guidance for grownups. State-by-State directory of services, legislative initiatives, and events.

Connect NB Branché
Canadian agency (representing a network of 200 Community Access Centres in New Brunswick) that coordinates community-based activities/strategies and promotes economic/community development by providing information technology training

Contentbank.org
Contentbank.org - Web site designed to spur the development of needed online content for and by low-income communities. The Web site includes recommended Web sites for health, education, jobs and housing; message boards; information and tools to develop local content; and Web-based tools that will read the text aloud or translate it into Spanish to ensure the content is accessible to many communities (a project of The Children's Partnership, ).

Council for Disability Rights (CDR)
"Knowing your rights is the easy part. We'll tell you what the law says then help you with the tricky parts: how to make the system work for you and how to take action against structural barriers.

Council of Michigan Foundations
An association of 425 foundations and corporations which make grants for charitable purposes. As a membership organization, our mission is to enhance, to improve, and to increase philanthropy in Michigan.

Council on Foundations
A nonprofit membership association of grantmaking foundations and corporations to promote responsible and effective philanthropy by assisting existing and future grantmakers.

The Creative Exchange
A growing exchange of research and information for people working for change and development. Promotes understanding of creativity as a catalyst for change, and enables practical creative action for sustainable development.

Cross-Site Indexing Project
Search mechanism that links indexes across all U.S. Department of Education-sponsored sites.

Cyber Volunteer Program Managers
Web Site on Resources for Volunteer Program Managers and Volunteers. Contains online discussions and networking, cyber bookstore, training kits, and newsletter on volunteer programs.

CyberIsle Teen Health Web Site
Developed by teens, for teens, and addresses teen health and social issues in an anonymous, nonjudgmental environment. Requires registration.

 

The Dart Center
The Direct Action and Research Training (DART) Center is committed to building powerful, diverse, congregation-based, and democratically run organizations capable of winning justice on issues facing the community.

Data Center
A training program designed to provide research skills to social justice activists and organizers. Our trainings begin with the basics of planning research strategies and using the internet and other sources to quickly find the information you need.

Data Skills Online
Self-instructional tools teach analytic and technical skills for working with data.

Delaware Valley Grantmakers
Located in southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey to promote effective philanthropy providing grantmakers with continuing education, information exchange, grantmaking, public policy, and enhancing the environment.

Democracy Direct
A discussion of the importance of reclaiming representative government.

Demographic and Health Surveys
One of the world's largest primary sources of information on women, men and their families in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Body of comparable data on demographic, health, and family planning indicators.

Department Of Advertising, The University Of Texas At Austin
Links to the world of advertising.

Department of Energy Edpidemiologic Data Resource
Provide public access to health and exposure data concerning the Department of Energy installations. Data are from epidemiologic studies.

Department of Energy, Energy-efficient & Renewable Energy Network
Information on alternative fuels, geothermal, industry, solar, hydropower, ocean, wind, transportation.

Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. governments principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Includes more than 300 programs including medical and social science research, prevention, and food and drug safety.

Department of Justice
Information about Justice-related activities and funding.

Desi's Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)
Youthpower! Organizing Internships: A six week activist training program for working class and poor desi youth in NYC.

Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (URC)
The Detroit URC is a collaborative partnership, established in 1995, involving the University of Michigan Schools of Public Health and Nursing, the Detroit Health Department, eight community-based organizations, and Henry Ford Health System. The overall goal of the URC is to promote and support interdisciplinary, collaborative, community-based participatory research that both improves the health and quality of life of families and communities on the east and southwest sides of Detroit.

Diabetes Today National Training Center
This site is a national training center project funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control. It is designed to help bring about the creation of new diabetes-related community health projects nationwide.

 

The Distance Education and Training Council
Serves as a clearinghouse of information about the distance study/correspondence field and sponsors a nationally recognized accrediting agency called the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council.

Distance Education Clearinghouse
Allows users easy access to a wide range of information about distance education. This comprehensive and widely recognized web site brings together distance education information and resources from Wisconsin, national and international sources.

Distant Education Division
The Distance Education Division is part of the Office Of Professional Education and Programs at the Johns Hopkins University. It now offers a Graduate Certification Program in Public Health, available to students at a distance.

Donors Forum of Chicago
Information about grants awarded by foundations in the greater Chicago area.

Early Career Preventionist Home Page
Facilitate networking for people beginning careers in the field of health promotion and disease prevention.

The Earth Times
An international newspaper for global environmental issues on-line.

Educational Resources Information Center
National information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature.

 

The Electronic Development and Environment Information System
Offers an easy route to the latest information on development and environmental issues. Information sources, databases, library catalogues, bibliographies, and email discussion lists, research project information, map and newspaper collections.

Electronic Policy Network
Information and ideas about national and politics. Sections on health policy, welfare and families, education, economics and politics, etc.

Empowerment Evaluation Page
Dedicated to the exploration and refinement of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment approaches to evaluation.

Endgame Research Services
By providing research training, PIN can strengthen the critical work of activists around the world. PIN believes that activists will more effectively achieve their goals by obtaining and understanding information relevant to the group's goals and strategies, and by knowing how to distribute that information effectively within the group, among allied groups, to policy makers, the media, and the general public. Activists can earn how to gain access to meaningful information from a wide variety of sources, and learn how to apply that information strategically to achieve their chosen goals.


Energize, Inc.
Energize, Inc. energizes leaders of volunteers with tools and wisdom to ensure every ounce of volunteer effort makes a difference. Find books, articles, free resources, and an innovative online training plan.

"Enough to Make You Sick"
Helen Epstein discusses what is really killing America's urban poor.

Envirolink
Grassroots online community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world in more than 150 countries. EnviroLink is dedicated to providing you with the most comprehensive, up-to-date environmental resources available.

Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement
Links to over 500 web sites around the world.

Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)
U.K. based organization works around the world. Over the next ten years EJF aims to train 1,000 activists. These activists will work to prevent crises developing as well as solving existing problems.

Environmental Support Center (ESC)
ESC works to strengthen the organizational effectiveness of local, state and regional nonprofit organizations that work on environmental issues.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education Financial Aid
Offers links to a variety of websites related to financial aid.


e-Volunteerism
e-Volunteerism is the Electronic Jounal of the Volunteer Community, providing leaders of volunteer efforts with cutting-edge information from around the world about the field of volunteer management.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Research and identify unfulfilled needs of society and develop, implement and/or fund breakthrough impactive solutions. The Foundation's work is focused on two areas: Youth Development and Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Explorations in Social Inequality
An overview of social inequality with study results.

 

Farmworker News (Noticias Para los Trabajadores del Campo)
The Farmworker News is published and distributed by the National Center for Farmworker Health as part of the Call for Health project. Articles in the newspaper are written in both English and Spanish. The free, bi-monthly newspaper's purpose is to inform and entertain farmworkers with state and national news, occupational safety, relevant health topics, and poetry or artwork by farmworkers.


Fed Up Honeys
"The project is for and by young urban womyn of color and is reflective of our own concerns and the issues that personally affected us. The theme of stereotypes repeatedly came up in our group discussions. We latched onto the idea of exploring the stereotypes that we were frustrated with and challenged by. Though we are all womyn of color, we are a diverse collection of personalities and backgrounds; the fact that we all felt so passionately about this topic is a testament to its likely importance to all young womyn affected by stereotypes that are pervasive in popular culture and the self-image issues that stem from them." - About Us

 

The Federal Interagency Working Group on CBPR
The Federal Interagency Working Group on CBPR work to strengthen communication among federal agencies with interest in supporting CBPR.

Federation of Georgia Homeowners
A place to bring together the resources to empower homeowners in Georgia.

FedWorld
General info from the U.S. Department of Commerce.Offers a comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information.

FindArticles.com
Enables search and free viewing of articles from 1998 in over 300 magazines and journals.

Food & Fitness for Children and Families: A Rapid Assessment Tool
Provides a field guide that can help community-based organizations, health workers, researchers, educators and other individuals better understand the contextual and environmental realities of childhood overweight and obesity.

Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is an independent nonprofit grant-making organization. We make grants in all 50 U.S. states and in many countries around the world.

The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center: Your gateway to philanthropy on the World Wide Web. Useful links to other resources such as directories, financial information, news and programs, and other information relevant to finding resources for community programs.

Free Management Library
Provides basic, how-to management information to managers -- particularly those with very limited resources.

Freewebspace
It has a listing of free web hosting services that cater to nonprofit organizations.

French American Charitable Trust
Funds community organizing, by invitation, in California, the Southern United States, and France.

Funding Exchange
Network of community-based foundation across the United States.

General Accounting Office
Information on funding expenditures of the U.S. Government, and evaluation reports of programs started with government funding.

Gleitsman Foundation
Encourages leadership in social activism.

Global Health Network
An alliance of experts in health and telecommunications who are actively developing the architecture for a health information structure for the prevention of disease.

 

GrantsNet
GrantsNet features an extensive database on fellowships, grants and various sources or research support, as well as links to funders' Web sites, online applications, and comments from recent application reviewers.

 

The Grassroots Policy Project
An educational and research organization working in partnership with grassroots community groups, activist networks, statewide coalitions and other training organizations to encourage strategic approaches to issues of social and economic justice.

Greencorps
To teach the next generation of environmental leaders the strategies and skills they'll need to win tomorrow's environmental battles while providing critical field support for today's pressing environmental problems.

 

The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
Offers an annual conference and educational programs which are designed to assist those in organizations who are looking to broaden their personal and organizational effectiveness by fostering growth in themselves and others.

Greenpeace
Greenpeace is the leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful direct action and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and  to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.

HandsNet
Empowers organizations to effectively integrate online communications strategies, strengthening their programs and policies for children, families and people in need.

Hart's Environmental Data
Indicators of sustainable community: ways to measure how well a community is meeting the needs and expectations of its present and future members.

Hawaii Department of Health
Information about public health issues in Hawaii.

Healing the Heart of Diversity
Offers a four-time-a-year retreat series aimed at renewing and expanding people's spirit and ability for leading positive social change.

Health Disparities Community Solutions Database (APHA)
From the website: This database contains projects and interventions provided by members of the public health community.

Health Education Authority
Funded by the UK government's Department of Health. "Work with decision makers and opinion formers on health strategy, professionals who are involved in health and health improvement, and for members of the public.

Health Education Professional Resources (HEPR)
Designed for health educators to facilitate access to information which may be useful for professional practice.

Health in Action
Health in Action is a networking resource for health promotion and injury prevention in Alberta, Canada. It provides online access to programs, contacts, links and more.

Health Informatics World Wide
Health Informatics World Wide (www.hiww.org) is a regularly updated index of the most relevant links to websites on Health Informatics (also Medical Informatics, Nursing Informatics, ...).

 

Health Manager's Toolkit
The Health Manager's Toolkit is an electronic compendium of tools desigend to assist health professionals at all levels of an organization with practical tools to provide accessible high-quality and sustainable services. Conceived in 1997 as a collaborative effort of Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and Family Health International (FHI), the Health Manager's Toolkit has been a home to a number of tools developed by organizations working through the world to improve the delivery of health services. Our tools are available in several languages, including English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

 

Health OnLine
An interesting site devoted to community health issues.

Health Web
List to specific, evaluated information resources on leading academic medical centers in the Midwest.

Healthfinder
Gateway to consumer health and human services information. Leads to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, support and self-help groups, government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.

Healthwise
Healthwise is a nonprofit organization that promotes medical self-care, shared decision-making, and patient empowerment.

HealthWrights
HealthWrights is a non-profit organization committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups. We believe that health for all people is only possible in a global society where the guiding principles are sharing, mutual assistance, and respect for cultural and individual differences.

 

The Heinz Endowments
Supports programs in arts and culture, education, economic opportunity, children, youth and families, the environment, and philanthropy.

Highlander Education Center
In Tennessee, annual week-long Institute for Social Change; leadership training fellowships; environmental economic internship program.

Horizon magazine
The Enterprise Foundation, one of the world's leading organizations working to revitalize low-income communities, will launch the first online magazine dedicated to expanding an awareness of needs and challenges of low-income communities.

Hot vs. Not
Web Directory of Resources, including Public Health and Safety, Free Submissions are Welcome

HPRI
Quality Candidates vs Quantity Resumes. HPRI Delivers Jobs & Internships in Health Promotion* Direct to your E-mail Box *(Health Education, Wellness, Exercise Science, Public Health).

Human Kinetics
Its mission is to produce innovative, informative products in all areas of physical activity that help people worldwide lead healthier, more active lives.

 

The IBM Corporation
IBM corporate philanthropy gives monetary grants cuts across societal needs such as education, the environment, health, human services, arts and culture.

Idealist
Project of Action Without Borders, a nonprofit organization based in New York that promotes the sharing of ideas, information and resources to help build a world where all people can live free, dignified and productive lives. Use this site to post your organization, job openings, volunteer opportunities, events, internships, campaigns, and resources.

Idealware
Idealware provides candid Consumer-Reports-style reviews and articles about software of interest to nonprofits, centralized into a website. Idealware allows nonprofits to make technology decisions that will help them be more effective.

Impact Online
Nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing volunteerism through the Internet. Offers a matching service for volunteers, a research project on volunteer activities, and information and resources on volunteerism.

In Context: A Quarterly Journal of Humane Sustainable Culture
Nonprofit research organization, has been exploring and clarifying just what is involved in a humane sustainable culture - and how one can get there.

Independent Sector
National leadership forum, working to encourage philanthropy, volunteering, not-for-profit initiative and citizen action that help us better serve people and communities.

Inequality.org
Site that focuses on inequality of wealth distribution and its effects.

Inner City Press
Non-profit community, consumers and civil rights organization engaged in advocacy, reporting and organizing in the fields of community reinvestment, insurance and telecommunications, environmental justice, and government and corporate accountability.

Innonet Toolbox
Provides tools and instruction to create detailed program plans, evaluation, & fundraising plans. It's not NEARLY as comprehensive as the Community Tool Box, but could be useful to smaller nonprofit groups, student organizations, etc.

Institute for Educational Leadership (IEP)
IEP's mission is to improve education -- and the lives of children and their families -- through positive and visionary change.

Institute for Community Research
Institute for Community Research (ICR) conducts research in collaboration with community partners to promote justice and equity. ICR publishes ICR-Abstracts, and electronic compilations of abstracts of recently published CBPR articles and reports.

Institute for Global Communications
Nonprofit organization that provides alternative sources of information as well as online access and comprehensive Internet services for progressive individuals and organizations.

Institute for the Study of Civic Values
Includes online access to census data for neighborhood assessment and information for community groups on fundraising.

Institute of Health Promotion Research - UBC
Contains useful links and background information about the Precede/Proceed Model of community health promotion.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
World's largest archive of computerized social science data. Training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques. Resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies.

Interfaith Care Alliance
The mission of Interfaith Care Alliance is to provide compassionate, practical and emotional support for people living with AIDS and other serious illnesses, and their loved ones.

Interfaith Funders
Network of both secular and faith-based funders focused on social change and economic justice.

 

Interfaith Youth Core
IFYC builds mutual respect and pluralism among young people from different religious traditions by empowering them to work together to serve others.

International Electronic Journal of Health Education
Journal in health education, promotion, and behavior.

International Healthy Cities Foundation
This is a place where people interested in addressing urban and community issues along with concerns with health and quality of life issues in their communities can join and share information.

International Society for Equality in Health
From ISEqH's website: The purpose for which ISEqH is formed is to promote equity in health and health services internationally through education, research, publication, communication and charitable support: (a) to promote equity and expose inequity in health and in health care services internationally; (b) to facilitate scientific interchange of, and disseminate conceptual and methodological knowledge on issues related to equity in health and health care services; (c) to advance research related to equity in health; and (d) to maintain corresponding relationships with other relevant international and regional organizations.

International Union of Gospel Missions
Association of over 250 rescue missions and faith-based charities that reach out to the homeless, the poor, "at risk" urban youth, alcoholics and drug addicts in inner cities around the world.

Internet Nonprofit Center
Offers a locater of any charity in the US, bibliographies, Top 40 Charities, featured essays, the donor defense kit, government information, a gallery of organizations and general information on philanthropy.

Irvine Health Foundation
Goal is to improve the health - consisting of physical, mental and emotional well-being - of the residents of Orange County, California.

Issue Brief 2002 - New Report From The Children's Partnership
Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Americans: Issue Brief 2002 - New report from The Children's Partnership documenting the shortage of information online that is appropriate for Internet users with limited-literacy skills, non-English speakers, and other underserved groups PDF.

 

The Jewish Organizing Initiative (JOI)
In search of Jews considering or already pursuing a career in social justice, community or labor organizing.

 

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Grantmaking institution dedicated to foster improvement in the human condition by supporting research, policy development, dissemination, education and training, and practice. Global Security and Sustainability.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. Fellowships are not available for students.

Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Goals are to improve the quality of personal, family, and community life, enhance family planning and health communication programs, expand knowledge in health communication, enhance opportunities in family planning and health communication.

Join Together Online
A resource center and meeting place for communities working to reduce the harms associated with the use of illicit drugs, excessive alcohol and tobacco.

JumpStart Michigan
Interactive magazine for advocates, activists, volunteers, professionals, doctors, educators, legislators, the media, parents, and students. In other words, it's a resource for all who want to make a positive difference for children in Michigan.

 

The Just Connections Toolbox
Contains essays on the nature and uses of community-based research, stories about how partners have conducted CBPR in the past, reflections from community members and college faculty who have participated in CBPR projects, and tools for others interested in doing CBPR. Tools include sample grant proposals, workshop outlines, consent form templates, sample community service applications, sample information letters, reading lists, course syllabi and more.

 

The Kaiser Family Foundation
The Foundation's work is focused on: health policy, reproductive health, HIV policy, and health and development in South Africa. It has a special interest in health policy and innovation in its home state of California.

Kansas Action for Children
Web site of Kansas Action for Children, a non-profit, tax exempt organization which advocates for Kansas children.

Kansas State University Cooperative Extension Service Community Health Home Page
Research and extension.

Kids 4 Broadway
A dynamic after school theatre program which includes up to 12 original one-act plays written specifically for students ages 7-17 to perform

Kidshealth.Org
Specific health topics for kids. Information about growth, food & fitness, childhood infections, immunizations, lab tests, medical and surgical conditions, and the latest treatments. For kids and parents.

KUMC, School of Nursing
University of Kansas Medical Center (Kansas City, Kansas) School of Nursing -- They pioneered a lot of distance learning courses for nursing.

La Fondation Canadienne de la Recherche sur les Services de Santé
Vous y trouverez des liens vers des associations, des bases de données et d'autres sources d'extraction de données, des sources de soins de santé axés sur les preuves, des organismes de financement, des organismes gouvernementaux, des ministères de la Santé, des revues et des centres de recherche.

LeaderShape, Inc.
An interactive, energizing and unique experience that builds leadership skills no other program can match.

Leadership for a Changing World
Supports leadership to highlight importance of community work.

Learning and Training FAQs
These Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) postings serve as an on-line source for information on learning, training, instructional technology, and other useful topics related to adult education and improving the way people learn and teach.

Library of Congress
Documents, photographs, movies, and sound recordings that tell America's story.

Literacy Directory Home Page
Directory to aid in locating Internet resources of interest to the Literacy and Adult Education community.

Literacy Link
LiteracyLink is creating an integrated instructional system of video and online computer technology which will help adult students advance their General Educational Development and workplace skills.

Literacy Online
National Center on Adult Literacy and International Literacy Institute page with information on policy, research, technology, education, innovations, and training.

Living Knowledge: The International Science Shop Network
Enables science shops in Europe and beyond to share expertise and know-how with the aim of improving citizen access to scientific knowledge.

 

The Loka Institute
The Loka Institute is a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology.

Macdonald Youth Services
Dedicated to providing a range of quality assessment, treatment and support services to individuals, families and communities, with an emphasis on children and youth. Macdonald Youth Services believes in holistic services, maintaining and promoting dignity and self-respect

Make Your VOICE Count!
An online guide to collaborative health policy development. The website includes innovative tools and resources that have been developed to increase the capacity of voluntary health organizations and government to influence policy development. Highlights include an adaptable policy training workshop, reading rooms, planning tools, library and more.

Marin Non-Profit Organizations
Non-profit organizations in Marin County, California. Animal welfare, environment, media, service clubs, housing, volunteer, philanthropy, health.

Mary Black Foundation
Resources to benefit and enhance the health status and wellness of citizens of Spartanburg County. Promote wellness and concentrate on preventive measures that address the communities' families and individuals.

Mass Live
Online resources for Western Massachusetts. Contains forums and sessions on news, sports, business, classifieds, communities, entertainment, outdoors, for kids, special features, services and Massachusetts essentials.

Massachusetts Partners for Prevention Page
Working to prevent all types of illness and injury and to promote healthy lifestyles and healthier communities across the Commonwealth.

Medical Matrix
3029 entries in specialty and disease categorized information. Plus entries in clinical practice, literature, education, health care and professionals, and technology. Has a marketplace.

Menopause & Black Cohosh Information Center
This site is dedicated to bringing you the best information on menopause, the latest research, details on alternatives to hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and tips for effectively managing menopause.

Mental Health Net
A wealth of mental treatment and prevention resources.

Michael Schwerner Activist Award
$1,000 award for full-time undergraduate students who have fought oppression of a social or political nature.

Mid-South Delta Initiative
The. W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Mid-South Delta Initiative offers tools, resources, and a regional directory to support capacity building, leadership, collaboration, and creation of economic opportunity.

 

The Midwest Academy
One of the nation's oldest and best known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations, and individuals committed to progressive social change.

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
Statewide membership association of nonprofit organizations sharing information, services, and research to educate its members and the community. Includes a non-profit library and various publications.

Mohan Singh Temple in Cyberspace
Web site containing Mohan Singh's 84 Maxims on Cosmic Reflections on Health Education and Health Promotion.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Weekly series prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data in the weekly MMWR are provisional, based on weekly reports to CDC by state health departments.

More Than Money
This website works to help the wealthiest 5% of people partner with others for community change.

MyCommitment.org
This site, a project of the Clinton Global Initiative, was developed to give every person, regardless of age, income, or education, resources to make a commitment to take action, and connections to other people doing the work. "If each of us makes just one commitment, we can change the world."

NACCHO
NACCHO is a nonprofit membership organization serving all of the nearly 3,000 local health departments nationwide. NACCHO provides education, information, research, and technical assistance to local health departments.

National Business Education Association
Nation's largest professional organization devoted exclusively to serving individuals and groups engaged in instruction, administration, research, and dissemination of information for and about business.

 

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
The mission of the National Campaign is to prevent teen pregnancy by supporting values and stimulating actions that are consistent with a pregnancy-free adolescence. The Campaign's goal is to reduce the teen pregnancy rate by one-third by the year 2005.

National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
One of five minority group mental health research centers sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, and is the only program of this type in the country focusing specifically on American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

National Center for Education Statistics
A site containing various kinds of data regarding education.

National Center for Family Literacy
Advancement and support of family literacy services for families across the United States through programming, training, research, advocacy, and dissemination of information about family literacy.

 

National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc. (NCFH)
The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH), established in 1975, is dedicated to improving the health status of farmworker families by providing information services and products to a network of more than 500 migrant health center service sites in the United States as well as other organizations and individuals serving the farmwork population. The National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc. is a private, not-for-profit corporation located in Buda, Texas whose mission is "to improve the health status of farmworker families through appropriate application of human, technical, and information resources.

 

National Center for Fathering
The mission at the National Center for Fathering (NCF) is to inspire and equip men to be better fathers.

National Center for Research in Vocational Education
Contains information about National Center for Research in Vocational Education mission, programs, publications, and services and links to related sites.

National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Other Drug Information
Resources, research, statistics, databases, campaigns, publication and general information on alcohol and drugs.

National Community Building Network
Collection of resources relevant to folks interested in community economic development.

National Community for Latino Leadership, Inc. (NCLL)
To provide support for emerging and established Latino leaders and organizations through leadership training, technical assistance and resources.

National Congress for Community Economic Development (NCCED)
Training opportunities are provided by NCCED, its member organizations, and other collaborators in the field of community economic development. NCCED offers two conferences a year to bring together members, CED practitioners and non-profit, government, and corporate partners to share current ideas and opportunities.

National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
The annual Lideres summit brings together students, youth leaders, and activists from community-based programs and campus-based organizations throughout the country.

National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
Trained community volunteers to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court utilizing citizen advocates.

National Crime Prevention Center (NCPC)
National Training Center for Crime Prevention and Community Leadership trainings are designed to meet the needs of leaders from small, medium and large sized communities.

 

The National Health Information Center
Health information referral service.

National Healthcare Disparities Report
From the website: The National Healthcare Disparities Report, developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), is the first national comprehensive effort to measure differences in access and use of health care services by various populations. The report includes a broad set of performance measures that can serve as baseline views of differences in the use of services. The report presents data on differences in the use of services, access to health care, and impressions of quality for seven clinical conditions, including cancer, diabetes, end-stage renal disease, heart disease, HIV and AIDS, mental health, and respiratory disease as well as data on maternal and child health, nursing home and home health care, and patient safety. It also examines differences in use of services by priority populations.

National Heritage Foundation
Goal is to undertake projects that aim at restoring, maintaining and extending heritages. Resources and industry experience to give a sustainable advantage in setting up a foundation.

National Institute for Literacy
Interactive cooperative resource for expanding the community of literacy practitioners, students, and policymakers.

National Institute on Drug Abuse
Publications, grants, drug abuse prevention and treatment resources.

National Institutes for Health
The NIH is one of eight health agencies of the Public Health Service. The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

National Library of Medicine
World's largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences.

National Maternal and Child Health Clearinghouse
Funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration. It produces and disseminates educational materials on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, features forums, state resource sheets, publications, catalogs and other sources.

 

National Organization of Women (NOW)
NOW is the largest, most comprehensive feminist advocacy group in the United States. Our purpose is to take action to bring women into full participation in society — sharing equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities with men, while living free from discrimination.

National People's Action (NPA)
NPA is the tool for neighborhood people to take on corporate America and fat cat Washington Politicians.

National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness (NSCAHH)
NSCAHH works with a coalition of students and community members across the country to end hunger and homelessness through education, service and action.

 

The National Survey of America's Families
Seeks to document the well being of children and their families, identify changes in adult, child, and family well being over time, and explore the impact on children and families of the shift of responsibility for social programs.

National Training and Information Center (NTIC)
A non-profit organization that provides training, technical assistance and research for grassroots community organizations on issues such as housing, education, youth and workforce investment.

National Women's Health Information Center
Gateway for women's health resources and materials for consumers and professionals to improve the health of American women of all ages, races, and ethnicities, addressing health care prevention and service.

National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC)
The New Leaders Academy is a one-year professional leadership and management training program for emerging leaders in the youth employment and youth development field.

 

The Native Elder Health Care Resource Center
A national resource center for older American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians, with special emphasis on culturally competent health care.

Needmor Fund
Funds community organizing

Neighborhood Funders Group
National network of grantmakers working for improvements in low-income communities.

NeighborhoodNet
NeighborhoodNet is a website focused on neighborhood issues in Johnson County, KS. In conjunction with YouthFriends, NeighborhoodNet now provides a map based on the YF School data base.


Netcentric Campaigns
Creating power and influencing social change in the new culture requires an approach focused not only on the individual or organization, but also on the network as a mechanism for exerting influence. The network-centric approach unifies the strategy for creating change with the dynamics of our age. Netcentric Campaigns educates activists on how to harness the power of a connected grassroots. The vision is of a movement strategically networked together to be more powerful and more nimble.

 

NetSquared
Our mission is to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations.


Network for Good
Use the Network for Good to donate to charities online or find volunteer opportunities.


New City Example Showing Leadership in Addressing the Digital Divide
New City Example Showing Leadership in Addressing the Digital Divide - Cleveland: Read about how Cleveland is using a creative source of funding - its cable franchise renewal - to secure subsidies for community technology programs for youth and low-income communities. Want to try the same in your community? Look for "Tips and Tools on Using Cable Renegotiations to Increase Technology Access for Low-Income Communities" in the next update of techpolicybank due in September.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund
Small grants program for grassroots environmental initiatives in the New England states.

New York Cities Health Disparities Report (2004)
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and The Commonwealth Fund are committed to eliminating health disparities. This commitment supports a larger national movement, articulated in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2010 objectives. These objectives have two overarching goals: “to improve health for society as a whole, and to eliminate health disparities among segments of the population, including differences that occur by gender, race or ethnicity, education or income, disability, geographic location or sexual orientation.”

NGO-In-A-Box
NGO-in-a-box is a collection of essential tools for running a small-to-medium sized NGO. The Box contains a set of peer-reveiewed Free and Open Source Software tools, with associated guides and tutorials, giving you the technical foundations to build upon.

Nonprofit Genie
Provides fast information to nonprofit managers, volunteers, and board members.

Nonprofit Good Practice Guide
The Nonprofit Good Practice Guide, at www.npgoodpractice.org, captures and organizes good practices to assist nonprofits and foundations in improving their efficiency and effectiveness. The free online Guide provides nearly 7,000 tips and resources organized within ten topic areas including Accountability and Evaluation, Advocacy, Communications and Marketing, Foundations and Grantmaking, Fundraising and Financial Sustainability, Governance, Management and Leadership, Staff Development and Organizational Capacity, Technology, and Volunteer Management. "Training Essentials" within each topic area offers a framework for capacity building and staff training.

Northeast Action
Training designed for young people of color.

Novartis Foundation
Social marketing resources a to z.


Npower
National nonprofit with 12 local affiliates providing nonprofit technology consulting; maintains the techatlas.org online assessment tool.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Information about jobs, sections on career information, employment projections, evaluating an offer.

Ohio Literacy Resource Center
Primary purposes are to stimulate joint planning and coordination of literacy services at the local, regional and state level; enhance local organizations, providing and sharing information, data, research, expertise and literacy resources.

 

The On-line Conference on Community Organizing and Development
Helps connect people who care about the craft of community organizing, finds and provides information that organizers, scholars, and scholar-organizers can use to learn, teach, and do community organizing, and involves all members in meeting those goals.

One World
A community of more than 120 global justice organizations under one roof.

Open Society Institute - New York
Work with national foundations in education, civil society, independent media, communications, publishing, human rights, arts and culture, and reforms, assisting with administrative, financial, and technical support.

 

Organizers' Collaborative
A nonprofit membership organization composed of activist and technically oriented people working to enhance grassroots organizing, research, and movement building by social change organizations; makes tools, support, and training available at a low cost for small groups.


Overview of Colleges, Vocational Schools, and Careers
A searchable database of 900+ career fields, 6000+ vocational schools, colleges, and universities, links to scholarships, sources of loans, financial aid and advice.

Pacific Institute for Community Organizing (PICO)
Leadership training seminars, recruitment and development of community organizers, and ongoing consultation and technical assistance.

Pan American Health Organization
Information on public health from North and South America.


PARENTS FORUM
PARENTS FORUM® is a volunteer-led program of parent peer support. Where the Heart Listens, the program handbook, is available online for free download. PARENTS FORUM workshops focus on emotional awareness and are based on eight questions about family life issues. They are suitable for a variety of populations and settings. Program materials may be licensed for use by parent groups and agencies serving parents.

Partners for Livable Communities
An international network of more than 1,000 organizations committed to improving community well-being through economic development, social equity and quality of life.

Partnership for Effective Nonprofits
Strengthening New Hampshire’s Nonprofit Sector

 

Partnership IDEAS Network
Place where Nebraska families and professionals involved in the human services system may find information, dialogue opportunities, education resources, advocacy information and supportive relationships.

 

The People's Epidemiologist
From the website: Sibling specialists attack the political and economic causes of health disparities.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than 1.8 million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry.


Peterson's Guide
Organized content, information on elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, professional degree programs, study abroad and distance learning opportunities, financial aid, internships, summer programs, career guidance.

 

The Pew Charitable Trusts
National philanthropy (strong commitment to Philadelphia). In addition to grantmaking, fund independent projects that take interdisciplinary approaches to broad issues of significant interest or concern.

Pew Partnership
Civic research organization whose mission is to document and disseminate cutting-edge community solutions. We collaborate with local and national partners to empower diverse leadership and research successful solutions.

Pew Partnership for Civic Change
A civic research organization, their mission is to "identify and document promising solutions crucial to strong communities."

Philanthropy Journal Online
Coverage of nonprofit world. The voice of the nonprofit world and the marketplace for products and services nonprofits need.

 

Photovoice
Photovoice blends a grassroots approach to photography and social action. It provides cameras not to health specialists, policy makers, or professionals, but to people with least access to those who make decisions affecting their lives. From the villages of rural China to the homeless shelter of Ann Arbor, Michigan, people have used photovoice to amplify their visions and experience.


Physicians for Global Survival
Committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, the prevention of war, and the promotion of non-violent means of conflict resolution and social justice in a sustainable world.

 

Plan
We exist because millions of children live in conditions of extreme poverty across the World and we can do something to help. Our vision is of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies which respect people's rights and dignity. We do this by working with children, their families and the wider community, to help them achieve positive change in their own lives. For more than 60 years, we have stood for the rights of children and helped millions of children to have the opportunity to contribute to their societies in a positive way. We have long recognized that children are not passive recipients of aid. We believe that long-term improvements and change can only be sustained if children are 'development actors': they participate, voice their opinions, are listened to and taken seriously because their opinions count. Our work is broadly based around five key areas: Education, Health, Habitat, Livelihood, and Building relationships.

Policy Matters
The Policy PROFILES database is the core of Policy MATTERS. The policies are organized by five issues relevant to communities-- healthcare, education, economic vitality, safety and environment -- issues known to effect health status and quality of life.

PolicyLink
PolicyLink is a national nonprofit research, communications, capacity building, and advocacy organization working to advance a new generation of policies to achieve economic and social equity from the wisdom, voice, and experience of local constituencies.

Population Services International
Seek to improve world health through social marketing -- a cost-efficient, results-oriented approach more akin to private businesses than to other non-profits.


PracticingSpanish.com
Electronic resource designed to help healthcare professionals and students to better communicate with and understand the Spanish-speaking population in the medical setting. Includes basics of Spanish pronunciation, anatomical terminology, and cultural issues affecting the Spanishing-speaking population.

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Praxis Project
From the website: Capacity building, technical assistance, research, and training for community-based policy change.

Prevention Institute
Prevention Institute is a non-profit national center dedicated to improving community health and well-being by building momentum for effective primary prevention. Primary prevention means taking action to build resilience and to prevent problems before they occur. The Institute's work is characterized by a strong commitment to community participation and promotion of equitable health outcomes among all social and economic groups. Since its founding in 1997, the organization has focused on injury and violence prevention, traffic safety, health disparities, nutrition and physical activity, and youth development.

Prevention Research Center of Michigan
Prevention Research Center of Michigan strives to embody excellence in public heath research, practice, and policy through long-term partnerships based on trust and equality. The Center conduct community-based prevention research aimed at improving health status and reducing morbidity and mortality among populations experiencing a disproportionate share of poor health outcomes.

Preventiondss.org
This extensive website provides an abundance of tools for prevention professionals, service providers and community coalitions.

Professional Secretaries International - International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP)
Information about membership, products and services, PSI certification, current news, links to related issues.

ProgressivePubs.com
Database of progressive foundations.


Progressive Technology Project
National group that offers training, support, and some funding to grassroots groups, focusing on tech needs of organizing groups in communities of color.

Project for Public Spaces
From the website: Building Community, Creating Places, Using Common Sense. Project for Public Spaces in a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public place that build communities.

Project Hope
Health Opportunities for People Everywhere helps communities attain lasting improvements in health care by providing health education, health policy research, and humanitarian assistance.

Project Vote Smart
Abundant, relevant information on those who govern us, or wish to replace those who already do.

 

The Promising Practices Network
Highlights health and human service practices and programs that are effective in achieving positive results for children, youth, families, and communities. Our goal is to provide clear, practical, up-to-date information that will be useful in your work.

Public Service Advertising Research Center
Web site on Public Service Announcements. It has information on how to prepare them and get them placed and bibliographies on research about whether they work. It is maintained by a commercial organization.

Public Welfare Foundation
Focused on meeting basic human needs and promoting democracy around the world.

Public/Private Ventures
National organization whose mission is to improve the effectiveness of social policies, programs and community initiatives, especially as they affect young adults. Works with philanthropies, the public and business sectors, and nonprofit organizations.

PubMed
Developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers.

Quality of Life
The purpose is to carry out quality of life research that relates to communities, families, and individuals from a variety of population groups.

 

The Quebec WHO Collaborating Center on the Development of Healthy Cities and Towns
Trilingual page in French, English and Spanish -- emphasis on health, broadly defined in terms of quality of life, by organizing various activities where the commitment of the municipal political structure.

Radical Psychology Network
A site devoted to discussion and promotion of radical and critical psychology

Reproductive Health Online
Provides tools, information and communication forums for family planning and reproductive health trainers and faculty. Training tips, full-text of reproductive health reference manuals, free electronic newsletters on reproductive health topics.

Reproductive Health Outlook
Provides summaries of up-to-date information, links to the best in-depth reproductive health information on the web, and the chance to communicate with international experts and peers through Community Forum message boards.

Research Services of Greenbush
Web page that links to evaluation reports that are produced for SICA (State Incentive Cooperative Agreement) grantees in Kansas.

Research-It!
Comprehensive research engine with LANGUAGE, LIBRARY, GEOGRAPHICAL, FINANCIAL, SHIPPING and INTERNET tools.

Resist, Inc.
Funds organizing and educational work within social change movements.

Right to Know Network
Network providing access to databases, text files, and conferences on environment, housing, and development identifying factories and their environmental effects, analyzing reinvestment by banks in their communities, and assessing communities affected.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care, concentrating its grantmaking in health care at reasonable cost, improving services for chronic health conditions, and reducing harm caused by substance abuse.

Rockerfeller Foundation
Work is divided among the arts and humanities, equal opportunity, agricultural sciences, health sciences, population sciences, global environment, and special African initiatives including female education.

 

The Ruckus Society
Ruckus provides training in the skills of non-violent civil disobedience to help environmental and human rights organizations achieve their goals.

Rural Development Leadership Network (RDLN)
A national multicultural social change organization founded in 1983, supports comunity-based development in poor rural areas through hands-on projects, education and skills building, leadership development and networking.

SAMHSA's Prevention Platform
SAMHSA's Prevention Platform is a systemic community-based approach, which aims to ensure that substance abuse prevention programs can and do produce results. The idea behind SPF is to use the findings from public health research along with evidence-based prevention programs to build capacity within States and the prevention field. This in turn will promote resilience and decrease risk factors in individuals, families, and communities.

San Diego State University, College Health 2000 and Collaborative Workspace
Information about college health resources for students of San Diego State, and the world.

Search institute
Research relating to healthy kids, initiative development, capacity building, parenting.

Self-Help Network
The Self-Help Network Center for Community Support and Research, a part of Wichita State University's psychology department, has helped strengthen individuals, communities, and organizations for more than 20 years. Network staff help communities and nonprofits in three focus areas: Strengthening Organizations, Strengthening Communities; Research and Evaluation; and Self-Help Group Support.

Service Learning Home Page
The home of service learning on the web. With articles, bibliographies, manuscripts, dissertations & theses, jobs, internships, funding, & development, handbooks & manuals, journals, newsletters, papers, publications.

 

The Sickle Cell Information Center
A comprehensive information source about sickle cell disease.

Sierra Club
SC is the nation's oldest and largest environmental group.

Sierra Student Coaltion (SSC)
Professional Development, Environmental exploration and adventure programs for middle and high school students.

Simple Solutions
On the page, sign up for their free newsletter. They offer simple solutions for social problems. For more information, send an Email to simple@simsoc.org with member info as the subject.

 

Six Degrees
You've probably heard of the Six Degrees concept. Any one person (including me, Kevin Bacon) is connected to any other person through six or fewer relationships, because it's a small world. SixDegrees.org is about using this idea to accomplish something good. It's social networking with a social conscience. Through this web site, you can support your favorite charities by donating or creating fundraising badges — as well as check out the favorite causes of other people, including celebrities.

 

The Sloan Foundation
Main interests include: Fellowships, research, industries, non-profit sectors, universities, government performance, learning, understanding of science and technology, minorities, women, national issues, and civic projects.

 

The Social Action and Leadership School for Activist (SALSA)

An evening learning program providing classes in Washington, D.C. area on scores of topics in nonprofit management, communications, fundraising, direct action, and career development.

Social Marketing Com.
The most comprehensive online resource on social marketing. Offers a library, customized services, communication activities, bookstore, free publications, hands-on social marketing and links.

Sociological and Ethnographic Research of Cyberspace
Using free tools for building activist communities online. Excellent starting point for developing an Online Community. Includes research papers on the theory behind Online Community, information on free services, reviews of the top books for designers.

 

The Soros Foundations
8 Work with national foundations in education, civil society, independent media, communications, publishing, human rights, arts and culture, and reforms, assisting with administrative, financial, and technical support.

Soulard Neighborhood
"Steps to Neighborhood Revival" describes the process that neighbors took to pull their back from of urban decay and blight. The problem, the assets, and the solution are described, along with lessons learned.

Sparkplug Foundation
Supports start-up projects and community organizing.

Spirit of Service
List of volunteer organizations and area churches looking for opportunities for their volunteers to be active in the community.

 

START
START is a completely cost-free, 24-session study course that you conduct on your own. Gather 8 or 10 friends together, study and discuss environmental, domestic, and world issues using the on-line reading, read and think about the world we want and how to get there, and then act. The START Study Guide provides guidance on how to pull a group together, modify the process to meet your needs, and run a group. The START Reading List links directly to the readings, which are all free and accessible on-line.

Statistical Abstracts - U.S. Bureau of the Census
A collection of statistics (over 1400 tables and graphs) on social, economic, and international subjects.

Student Environmental Action Committee (SEAC)
Summer Institute, Action Camp, Outreach Program and other training activities are offered.

Student Public Interest Research Groups
The student PIRGs are independent state-based student organizations that work to solve public interest problems related to the environment, consumer protection, and government reform.

Sustainable Communities Network
A resource guide and case studies of communities working to create sustainable existences.

Sustainable Measures
Develops indicators that measure progress toward a sustainable economy, society and environment.

Sustainable Sources
A site devoted to solutions to environmental issues and development.

 

Taking it Global
TakingITGlobal.org is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. It's the world's most popular online community for young people interested in making a difference, with hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month.


TechSoup
Providing affordable training, equipment, software, discussions, etc. for non-profit groups, plus techfinder.org to find a consultant and netsquared.org for new social networking tools.

Teen Health and The Media
Web site dedicate to teenage health issues such as food and body image, teen sexuality, violence and suicide, tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, media literacy.


Third Wave Foundation
Support young women activists.

Tides
Makes grants to promote social justice.

Tom Wolff and Associates
Tom Wolff & Associates have the tools and resources necessary to mobilize the power of collaborative processes in your community or organization. These processes are the key to addressing the critical challenges that confront our communities, our states and our nation today. Through collaborations and coalitions, individuals, organizations and communities become empowered to impact the world around them. Our work is dedicated to bringing greater joy and a deeper sense of spirit and purpose to those seeking to create healthy communities.

Tools for Change
Accessible information for people interested in community collaborations.

 

Training for Change (TFC)
Helping groups stand up for justice, peace, and environmental harmony.

TrainingFinder.org
TrainingFinder.org is the Public Health Foundation's online distance learning clearinghouse. Users can search a database of courses by category or keyword, or submit a new one for inclusion.

Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics' annual comprehensive data book. Includes information on population family and neighborhood family, economic security, health conditions, education and achievement.

Tripod - Tools for Life
Providing information services and opportunities about careers, health, money, culture, travel, and community for individuals and groups.

Tutor Mentor Connection
Mission: To gather and organize all that is known about successful after-school tutor/mentor programs and share that knowledge to expand the availability and enhance the effectiveness of these services to children throughout Chicago.

 

UNICEF
United Nations Children's Fund, information about the lives and living conditions of children around the world.

 

United Connecticut Action for Neighborhoods (UCAN)
Organizer and group training on consultant basis; strong emphasis on senior issues, heath, disabilities, housing, neighborhood development.

 

United Nations Foundation
Register for concise, intelligent, daily summary of key news stories from around the world. UN Wire also features direct, immediate links to full-text, audio, video and additional sources of information on the Internet.