Foundation Center

INDIVIDUAL CHARITABLE GIVING

• Inspired Philanthropy: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Giving Plan and Leaving a Legacy

• Invest in Charity: a Donor's Guide to Charitable Giving

• Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

CREATING A FAMILY FOUNDATION

• A Founder's Guide to the Family Foundation: How to Use, Enjoy and Govern Your Family Foundation

• First Steps in Starting a Foundation

• Principled Giving: An Introduction to Independent Foundation Stewardship

MODELS FOR CHARITABLE GIVING

• Community Foundation Handbook: What You Need to Know

• Philanthropy's Challenge: Building Nonprofit Capacity Through Venture Grantmaking

PHILANTHROPY IN AMERICA

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: the Newspaper of the Nonprofit World

• The Foundation: a Great American Secret: How Private Wealth is Changing the World

• Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy : Causes and Consequences of the Transfer of Wealth

• Philanthropy in the 21st Century : the Foundation Center's 50th Anniversary Interviews

Visit the EVPL Foundation Center or search our catalog for additional resources.

USEFUL WEBSITES

• BBB Wise Giving Alliance

In-depth evaluative reports on national charities based on comprehensive Standards for Charity Accountability.

• Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University

Providing nonprofits, donors and scholars with the resources they need to make a difference.

• Charity Navigator: Your Guide to Intelligent Giving

• Community Foundation Alliance: Connecting People Who Care with Causes that Matter

• Council on Foundations

• Guidestar

A searchable database of more than 1.7 million IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations.

• Idealist.org: Action Without Borders

A global clearinghouse of nonprofit and volunteering resources.

• Indiana Grantmakers' Alliance

Dedicated to advancing philanthropy throughout the state of Indiana.

• Vanderburgh Community Foundation

A nonprofit, public charity created by and for the people of Vanderburgh County

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