Our Favorite Nonprofit Resources

Reports

Confluence keeps a library of interesting reports on the sector. Here are a few:

• Convergence: How Five Trends will Reshape the Social Sector — This report by La Piana Consulting is part of their NonProfitNext inititive.
• The Nonprofit Email Marketing Guide — This report by Network For Good contains "Seven Steps to Better Email Fundraising and Communications".
• Idealware and NTEN's Detailed Reviews of Low-Cost Donor Management Systems from April, 2009.
• Supporting Communities of Practice: A Survey of Community-Oriented Technologies — This shareware article by Etienne Wenger surveys products and vendors that help develop on-line communities of practice.
• E-Advocacy for Nonprofits — This Alliance for Justice publication is everything you ever wanted to know about the "law of lobbying and election related activity on the net". Incredibly thorough, accessible and informative.
• Communications, Protection, Readiness — This was NPower's Nonprofit Guide to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• The Nonprofit Sector and Business: New Visions, New Opportunities, New Challenges, The Aspen Institute, Summer, 2001.
• The Nonprofit Sector and the Market: Opportunities and Challenges, The Aspen Institute, Summer 2001.