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Alternate Foundations and Funding Sources
- The Environmental Grantmakers Association ( www.ega.org ) a project of the Rockefeller Family Fund and an affinity group of the Council on Foundations, helps its 250 member organizations become more effective environmental grantmakers through information sharing, collaboration and networking.
- The Foundation Center ( www.foundationcenter.org) is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust.
- The Grantsmanship Center ( www.tgci.com ) offers grantsmanship training to nonprofit and government agencies. Numerous resources for grantseekers available at no cost on the website, the center include daily grant announcements from the Federal Register and indexes of funding sources.
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Since 1990, the Institute for Conservation Leadership ( www.icl.org ) has worked to strengthen leaders, organizations, networks and coalitions that protect our Earth. ICL offers public programs, custom-designed services, publications and tools to help groups more effectively accomplish their missions.
- The National Network of Grantmakers (www.nng.org) is an organization of individuals involved in funding social and economic justice. NNG works primarily within organized philanthropy.
- netCorps (http://www.netcorps.org) has worked with hundreds of nonprofits on a variety of technology projects since their formation in 1996.
- Philanthropy News Digest ( www.foundationcenter.org/pnd ) a weekly news service of the Foundation Center, is a collection of philanthropy-related articles and features in digest form gathered from print and electronic media outlets nationwide.
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Training Resources for the Environmental Community -- TREC’s ( http://trec.org/ ) mission is to catalyze the habitat conservation and wilderness protection community in Western North America. Activists helping activists with the business of activism, TREC offers coaching, consulting and training services focused on leadership development, capacity-building and leveraging resources to organizations dedicated to habitat conservation and wilderness protection in Western North America.
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2005 stood out as a particularly disastrous year for the Gulf Coast Region as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit communities in four states. For more Resources for Grassroots Environmental Groups on the Gulf Coast click here.
Progressive Technology Project (ptp) adds another Voter Tech Training in Atlanta, August 20-21