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Affinity Groups

Africa Grantmakers
The Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (AGAG) is a network of grantmakers working in, or interested in working in Africa. The group has its roots in the Southern Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (SAGAG), which was designed to encourage greater foundation interest in South Africa, promote better grantmaking in the country, and assist nonprofit organizations fighting apartheid.

Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
Founded in 1990, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) is a national membership association dedicated to the two-fold mission of increasing the participation and leadership of Asian Pacific Americans in philanthropy and increasing philanthropic resources to those communities. AAPIP's members include foundations, the staff and trustees of grantmaking institutions, and representatives of nonprofit organizations.

Association of Small Foundations
With a membership of some 1,900 foundations, ASF works to provide information and assistance related to quality philanthropy to foundations having five or fewer persons and a portfolio that includes all aspects of foundation work, including public relations, writing letters, cutting checks, mailing and processing grant applications, working with trustees and grantees, doing site visits and evaluations, and managing assets.

Communications Network
The Communications Network is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes strategic communications as an integral part of effective philanthropy by providing the philanthropic community with strategic communications leadership, guidance, and resources. The Network also publishes "Network Notes," an e-mail newsletter focusing on philanthropy and communications issues.

Consortium of Foundation Libraries
The Consortium of Foundation Libraries is dedicated to enhancing learning, sharing resources, and coordinating information services among foundation libraries and archives. The Consortium comprises libraries and information centers associated with public and private foundations, private operating foundations, nonprofit organizations whose function is to perform services for foundations or collecting and disseminating information relating to the foundations' fields of interest, and other nonprofit organizations whose aims and operations are deemed by the membership to be similar to the above organizations.

Environmental Grantmakers Association
The Environmental Grantmakers Association, a voluntary association of foundations and giving programs concerned with the protection of the natural environment, works to increase awareness of the relationships between environmental grantmaking and other areas of grantmaking and to encourage all types of philanthropic programs to support environmentally related activities. In addition, EGA provides the means by which members can improve their effectiveness as grantmakers and works to increase the resources available to address environmental concerns.

Funders Concerned About AIDS
Funders Concerned About AIDS assists philanthropy in being more aggressive and strategic in HIV/AIDS and related grantmaking areas by helping funders to broaden their strategic understanding and appreciation of HIV/AIDS issues and increase their creativity in designing and sustaining effective grantmaking strategies around the world.

Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues
Founded in 1982 as the Working Group on Funding Lesbian and Gay Issues, FLGI works to increase the visibility of and funding for lesbian and gay issues in the philanthropic community.

Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities is a resource for foundations, nonprofit organizations, and other partners working to solve the environmental, social, and economic problems created by suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. The Network informs funders of critical policy and grassroots developments; enables program staff to share effective strategies and tools; builds the capacity of key constituencies to promote smart growth and livable communities; and raises awareness about the interdisciplinary nature of these issues and the need for sustained engagement by a diverse coalition of funders.

Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service
The Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service, an affinity group of grantmakers representing the whole spectrum of philanthropy, including private foundations, individual donors, corporate foundations and community foundations, is organized around the belief that service -- giving of oneself for purposes greater than oneself is a fundamental value of American democracy as well as a value that should be supported and celebrated.

Grantmakers Concerned with Care at the End of Life
Grantmakers Concerned with Care at the End of Life (GCCEL) is a national network of funders who are addressing the critical issues surrounding the experience of dying. GCCEL works to heighten awareness of these issues among philanthropic, government, and healthcare institutions, and also helps to educate funders about what they can do to aid in the development and research of new systems of care, governmental and institutional policies, and public and professional education programs.

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Established in 1990, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) is a national network of more than 175 foundation staff and trustees representing 115 foundations with diverse grantmaking interests and geographic areas of focus. GCIR promotes awareness and understanding among grantmakers about national and international migration trends and public policies and other issues affecting immigrants and refugees, and works to increase financial support for projects and activities benefiting immigrant and refugee communities.

Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families
Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families (GCYF) is a membership association of grantmaking institutions established to increase the ability of organized philanthropy to improve the well-being of children, youth and families. GCYF serves as a forum to review and analyze grantmaking strategies, exchange information about effective programs, examine public policy developments, and maintain ongoing discussions with national leaders.

Grantmakers for Education
A membership organization for private and public grantmakers that support education from early childhood through K-12 and beyond.

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, a network of people located both in and outside the United States, is dedicated to promoting learning and encouraging dialogue among funders committed to the field of organizational effectiveness.

Grantmakers in Aging
Grantmakers in Aging is an educational nonprofit membership organization for staff and trustees of foundations and corporations active in the field of aging.

Grantmakers in Health
Grantmakers In Health, an educational organization dedicated to helping foundations and corporate giving programs improve the nation's health, works to foster communication and collaboration among grantmakers and others, and to strengthen the grantmaking community's knowledge, skills, and effectiveness in dealing with health-related issues.

Grantmakers in the Arts
Representing over 250 organizations, Grantmakers in the Arts is a nonprofit membership organization comprised of private foundations, family foundations, community foundations, corporate foundations, corporate giving programs, and nonprofit organizations that make arts grants. GIA welcomes public sector grantmakers as affiliate members.

Grants Managers Network
A project of the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Grants Managers Network, an association of foundation professionals responsible for grants management, provides a forum in which grants manageers can exchange information about grants management and its relevance to efficient and effective grantmaking.

Hispanics in Philanthropy
Hispanics in Philanthropy is an association of more than 450 U.S. and Latin American grantmakers and nonprofit leaders committed to increasing philanthropic support of Latino communities and to promoting greater participation by Latinos within organized philanthropy. HIP seeks to increase Latino representation on foundation staff and boards, promotes efforts to strengthen the Latino nonprofit sector, develops cross border exchanges between Latin American and U.S. foundations, and educates grantmakers about issues affecting Latino communities.

International Funders for Indigenous Peoples
Established in 1999, the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP) is a venue for communications and resource sharing among international funders of indigenous peoples. IFIP provides a forum that cuts across grantmaking disciplines to build a contextual understanding of indigenous peoples that includes the impact of globalization.

Jewish Funders Network
The Jewish Funders Network brings together Jews, nationally and regionally, who believe that their funding decisions must be philosophically and strategically sound and who understand that their philanthropy goes much deeper than the mere act of writing checks. JFN encourages membership among individual philanthropists as well as foundation trustees, executives, and grantmaking professionals.

National Network of Grantmakers
The National Network of Grantmakers is an organization of 400 individual donors, foundation staff and board members, and grantmaking committee members involved in funding social and economic justice by supporting organizations working for change.

Neighborhood Funders Group
A membership association of grantmaking institutions dedicated to strengthening the capacity of organized philanthropy to understand and support community-based efforts to organize and improve the economic and social fabric of low-income urban neighborhoods and rural communities.

Technology Affinity Group
The Technology Affinity Group seeks to advance technology best practices in philanthropy through the formation of a network of technical and non-technical foundation staff. TAG helps its members to spread understanding of how technology can best serve philanthropic goals, foster partnerships with program and communications staff, explore appropriate future technologies, and identify resources for technical knowledge and expertise.

Women & Philanthropy
Women & Philanthropy is an association of grantmakers, women and men dedicated to mobilizing the resources of the philanthropic community to achieve equity for women and girls by increasing funding for programs that achieve equity for women and girls.

Women's Funding Network
The Women's Funding Network is an association of women's funds working to increase resources for programs benefiting women and girls. By fostering strategic alliances among women, donors, communities, and institutions, WFN promotes the development and growth of women's funds with the aim of strengthening the women's funding movement and promoting women's leadership in philanthropy.

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Board Development

Board Café
Board Café, a collaborative project of CompassPoint Non-profit Services and the National Center for Nonprofit Boards, is the electronic newsletter for members of nonprofit boards of directors. "Short enough to read over a cup of coffee," Board Café presents ideas, information, opinions, news, and resources to help board members give and get the most out of board service.

BoardSource
BoardSource, formerly the NationalCenter for Nonprofit Boards, is the premier resource for practical information, tools and best practices, training,and leadership development for board members of nonprofit organizations worldwide. Through our highly acclaimed programs and services, BoardSource enables organizations to fulfill their missions by helping build strong and effective nonprofit boards.

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Charity Monitoring Groups

BBB Wise Giving Alliance
The BBB Wise Giving Alliance collects and distributes information about the programs, governance, fundraising practices, and finances of hundreds of nationally soliciting charitable organizations that are the subject of donor inquiries. The Alliance Web site offers an interactive form that can be used to request information on charities that are not included among its current evaluation reports.

Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability
Comprised of charitable, religious, missionary, social, and educational organizations, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability serves as a "Christian Better Business Bureau" by making appropriate public disclosure of its more than 900 members' financial practices and accomplishments.

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Infrastructure Groups

Council on Foundations
The Council on Foundations, a membership organization for grantmakers, provides assistance to foundation staff, trustees and board members through one-to-one technical assistance, research, publications, conferences and workshops, legal services, and an array of other services.

Foundation Center
Founded in 1956, the Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on institutional philanthropy and is dedicated to serving grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. To that end, the Center collects, organizes, and communicates information on U.S. philanthropy; conducts and facilitates research on trends in the field; provides education and training on the grantseeking process; and ensures public access to information and services through its World Wide Web site, print and electronic publications, five library/learning centers, and a national network of cooperating collections.

Independent Sector
The mission of Independent Sector, a coalition of more than 700 national nonprofit organizations, foundations, and corporate philanthropy programs, is to promote, strengthen, and advance nont-for-profit initiative, philanthropy, and citizen action in the United States.

National Center for Family Philanthropy
Established in 1997 by a group of family foundations, the National Center for Family Philanthropy serves as a resource for family philanthropists by publishing books, conducting research, and offering educational seminars on family foundations.

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy promotes philanthropy that addresses the unmet needs of disadvantaged populations through action research, technical assistance, and policy advocacy. NCRP's reform activism targets foundations, corporations, individual donors, and workplace fundraising. In addition to information about the Committee's projects and publications, the NCRP Web site offerss the current issue "Responsive Philanthropy," the organization's newsletter.

National Council of Nonprofit Associations
Founded in 1989, the National Council of Nonprofit Associations is a network of thirty-eight state and regional associations of nonprofit organizations representing more than 17,000 nonprofits throughout the country. NCNA helps state associations of nonprofits to increase the impact, influence, and effectiveness of local nonprofits by providing information, training and leadership; advocates for state associations and the nonprofit sector by providing information to national policy makers and the business community; and increases public awareness and understanding of the vital role nonprofits play at the local, state, and national level by working closely with the media, legislators and community leaders.

Philanthropy Roundtable
The Philanthropy Roundtable is an association of grantmakers founded on the principle that voluntary private action offers the best means of addressing many of society's needs and that a vibrant private sector is critical to creating the wealth that makes philanthropy possible. The organization's Web site features synopses of articles from current and past issues of "Philanthropy," a journal that covers relevant topics in the field, and information about the Roundtable's publications and conferences.

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News & Media

BUST
With an attitude that is fierce, funny, and proud to be female, BUST provides an uncensored view on the female experience. BUST tells the truth about women’s lives and presents a female perspective on pop culture. BUSTing stereotypes about women since 1993

Communications Consortium Media Center
CCMC is a public interest media center dedicated to helping non profit organizations use media and new technologies as tools for change. Our mission is to use communications strategies for policy change.

Feminist Majority’s Foundation’s
List of feminist magazines.

Feminist News
The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. Our organization believes that feminists - both women and men, girls and boys - are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.

Feminist Review
Feminist Review is an international peer reviewed journal edited by a Collective based in the UK with support from an international group of Corresponding Editors.

Lifetime Television for Women
Lifetime Entertainment Services is dedicated to offering the highest quality entertainment and information programming as well as advocating a wide range of issues that affect women and their families.

Ms. Magazine
When Ms. was launched as a "one-shot" sample insert in New York Magazine in December 1971, few realized it would become the landmark institution in both women's rights and American journalism that it is today. Ms. was the first national magazine to make feminist voices audible, feminist journalism tenable, and a feminist worldview available to the public.

News We Can Use
News We Can Use focuses on news, issues, books and Web sites of interest to women, most of which aren't heavily publicized in the mainstream media. Wed Aug 28 2002 Rose Aguilar began News We Can Use as a labor of love in November, 1999. It has since grown to reach women (and men) in over 60 countries including Burkina Faso, Saudi Arabia, Hungary and Peru. News We Can Use aims to give women a voice and publicize important stories that are either ignored by the mainstream press or don't get the attention they deserve. It also aims to provoke dialogue and provide women with the information and resources needed to prosper in both their personal and professional lives.

Women’s eNews
Women's eNews is a definitive source of substantive news covering issues of particular concern to women and providing women's perspectives on public policy. It enhances women's ability to define their own lives and to participate fully in every sector of human endeavor.

World Pulse Magazine
World Pulse magazine addresses the under-representation of women and children in the international news media- as subjects, reporters, quoted experts, and decision makers.

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Women's Groups

Center for Policy Alternatives
Founded in 1976, the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) is the nation's leading nonpartisan progressive public policy and leadership development center serving state legislators, state policy organizations, and state grassroots leaders. CPA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation with a staff of 35 and an annual budget of $4 million, supported by foundations, unions, corporations and individuals.

Empowering Women in Philanthropy
"When it comes to charitable giving, women are shortchanged. Only a tiny sliver of the philanthropic pie goes to programs aimed at women. Even more startling is that this discriminatory underfunding is virtually unacknowledged.
Although groups may claim they target more dollars to women and girls than to men and boys, overall allocations for specific gender-based programs shows a clear and harmful bias particularly among the larger programs."

Institute for Women's Policy Research
The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families. IWPR focuses on issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, the economic and social aspects of health care and domestic violence, and women's civic and political participation.

National Council of Women's Organizations
The National Council of Women's Organizations is a bipartisan network of more than one hundred women's organizations, which together represent more than 6 million members.

National Partnership for Women & Families
The National Partnership for Women & Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family. Working with business, government, unions, nonprofit organizations, and the media, the National Partnership is a voice for fairness, a source for solutions, and a force for change.

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