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Nonprofit Organizations
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Support Organizations
These groups help with specific needs or projects by placing experienced professionals with nonprofits. This may be fee-based or free; free consultants are usually volunteers or are grant-funded.
- Mary's List
Connects Northern California nonprofits and consultants - Stanford Business School Alumni Consulting Team
Pro bono consulting - Taproot Foundation
Connects nonprofits with pro bono support - Techsoup: The Technology Place for Nonprofits
Access to discount and free technology - The Berkeley Group
UC Berkeley students pro bono consulting - Compass Point
Supporting nonprofit leadership - CalNonprofits
An association unifying California nonprofits - Young Nonprofit Professionals Network
Network for young nonprofit leaders
Finding Volunteers
Connect volunteers with your nonprofit.
- Foundation Directory Online — Provides access to information on thousands of grantmakers and their giving interests. Available at the Central Library only.
- Foundation Grants to Individuals Online — Provides access to foundations and public charities that fund students, artists, researchers and other individual grantseekers. Available at the Central Library only.
- Foundation Guide to Proposal Writing — Audiobook includes detailed instructions on preparing grant proposals and insights into what makes for a winning proposal.
- Grantspace.org — Candid's nonprofit information portal provides helpful training and tools to both novice and expert users.