A Woman's Work provides financial assistance for a variety of needs such as childcare, housing, transportation, medical needs and more. We ask only that recipients perform an act of kindness in return.

Human-Centered Design is a process used for decades to create new solutions for companies and organizations. Human-Centered Design can help you enhance the lives of people. This process has been specially-adapted for organizations like yours that work with people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Human-Centered Design (HCD) will help you hear people's needs in new ways, create innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind.

Newsweek said it best: "Suddenly, all the world is a-Twitter." Simple and powerful, Twitter is a must for nonprofit organizations. I created and manage a portal to nonprofits on Twitter @nonprofitorgs and based on my experience using site, I have crafted ten of my favorite Twitter Tips for beginners:

Commongood Careers enables today's most innovative nonprofits build strong organizations through the recruitment, retention, and development of outstanding talent. Founded by nonprofit professionals, Commongood Careers offers personalized, engaged services to jobseekers and organizations, as well as access to a wealth of information about careers in the social sector

America’s largest charities are turning to the Internet in an effort to increase awareness of their missions and to help connect with their constituencies. While these organizations are known for their nonprofit status and their fundraising campaigns, they demonstrate an acute awareness of the importance of Web 2.0 strategies in meeting their objectives.

Jobs for Change seeks to spark a nationwide movement toward careers in the nonprofit, government, and social enterprise sectors.

MAP for Nonprofits provides management and board recruitment services to large, medium and small nonprofit organizations in the Twin Cities. We complement the management expertise and resources of our clients with the right combination of our paid staff, expert consultants and management volunteers to achieve our clients' strategic objectives.

It is easy to be buried in statistics. But often people wonder, "What is happening in my own city, to my own neighbors?" Below we have compiled statistical data specific to women who live in the City and County of Denver. Some of these statistics appear for the first time in this collection, compiled just for this report.

The Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships (DOSP) was created in January 2004 by Mayor Hickenlooper to serve as a liaison between the City of Denver and the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. The DOSP works with individuals, foundations, corporations and nonprofit partners to raise critical funding for cooperative initiatives, foster innovative partnerships to support nonprofits and engage the entire community in volunteer efforts. We believe the nonprofit sector is a valuable component of what makes a great city.

Like a lot of nonprofits, I am not an early adopter of new technologies. I try to keep my skills focused close to where my nonprofit clients are and what they are ready for technology-wise. The tools I list here...

"The Feast" gathers the world's leading creative mavericks, entrepreneurs, revolutionaries, radicals, and innovators together to inspire action to change the world.

Updates and information on the creation of the iVolunteer iPhone app and ActionFeed.org website.

Next week, I'll be launching a series of guest posts looking ahead at how social media careers and technology could evolve in 2009. But first, I wanted to look back at some of the bright spots of 2008 by spotlighting cases where businesses and individuals used social tools to make our world a better place.

A blog about futuring and innovation in non-profits...

We connect schools and non-profit organizations with computer equipment donated by companies and people in the community.

Our Mission: To empower Colorado nonprofit organizations to effectively use technology to further their missions.

Erin McLain Consulting, or EMC Consulting, is a nonprofit consulting business based in Denver, Colorado. Committed to the success of non-profit organizations through effective leadership, management and fundraising, EMC Consulting, LLC provides a comprehensive range of services including Transition Management, Grant Seeking, Fundraising Consulting, Coaching, Board Development, and Strategic Planning.

opensourceCMS.com was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any CMS system here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs.

Colorado experienced the nation’s largest rate of growth in impoverished children from 2000 to 2006, according to a study released Tuesday.

Lutheran Advocacy Ministry is one of twenty State Public Policy Advocacy Offices of the ELCA. It is a ministry of the Rocky Mountain Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, through its Division for Church in Society. Legislative advocacy is a crucial part of the church's ministry. Advocacy is speaking with and for people living in poverty and those with little or no political power. The purpose of Lutheran Advocacy Ministry is to advocate for just, sound and compassionate public policies which protect human rights and promote responsible care of God's creation.

Mile High United Way does what no other nonprofit organization can. We coordinate the collective strength of more than 50,000 individual donors, 800 local businesses, 100 nonprofit organizations, and numerous community resources. Together, we deliver long-term solutions for individuals and families in metro Denver, Colorado empowering them to become more productive members of our community for years to come.

Housing Justice! educates diverse faith communities of Colorado and mobilizes them to join and give voice to the struggle to secure decent, affordable housing for all.

The mission of 9to5, National Association of Working Women is to build a movement to achieve economic justice, by engaging directly affected women to improve working conditions. Founded in 1973, 9to5 is a grassroots membership organization with activists in more than 200 cities and members in every state.

CPC is a statewide, progressive values driven organization and the anchor for Colorado's grassroots progressive community. We're building Colorado's progressive movement and are a leading local and national voice for civil rights and racial justice, economic justice and corporate accountability, health care for all, environmental justice, and an open and accountable democracy that works for all of us, not just the wealthy or the well-connected.

CAN is a group of private, public and non-profit agencies coming together to learn about available food resources, share information, improve availability and delivery services and resources benefiting Coloradoans who are experiencing hunger and food insecurity.

Energy Outreach Colorado is dedicated to keeping Colorado homes warm, healthy and safe by raising money for energy assistance. We assist people in emergency situations by helping pay the balances on their utility bills. We also help limited income families to be more self-sufficient by funding energy efficiency measures that lower energy costs in affordable housing across Colorado.

More than 200 local and statewide organizations and individuals currently participate in the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, forming a unified voice for consumers in Colorado’s health care reform debate.

The Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute (COFPI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan project of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, promotes justice and economic security for all Coloradans. COFPI is a dynamic organization, leading the effort to resolve some of Colorado's biggest fiscal challenges. As both a resource and catalyst, the Institute works for changes in public policy through timely, credible and accessible fiscal policy analysis, education, advocacy and coalition building.

If you have scarce marketing dollars, if you have scarce resources, building up a marketing database is one of the fastest ways to add value to your non-profit, stay in touch with your constituency, drive donations and funding campaigns, and make real cha

For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.

This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.

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Social news sites are like little anthills of information. Every member of the anthill forages for news and brings it back to the anthill and tells all the other ants about their little bit of news. Kikono is the nonprofit news anthill.

The Box Project is a national, non-profit organization that has been matching volunteer sponsors from across the United States with recipient families living in rural poverty in America since 1962.

The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) works to provide rural villages in developing countries with affordable and environmentally sound technologies that meet these needs. Through a combination of business incubation, education, trainin

Crayons to Calculators is a community-wide school supply drive that is a unique collaboration between Boulder and Broomfield county nonprofits that receives the extensive support of numerous organizations and corporations. The project was organized to coordinate the disparate efforts of multiple nonprofits in addressing the back-to-school needs of more than 5,000 Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) students from low-income homes. The goal of the project is to increase community support of children in need and ensure that all students start school with the supplies they need to succeed.

News and information about the nonprofit sector in Massachussetts

Crayons to Calculators is a community-wide school supply drive that is a unique collaboration between Boulder and Broomfield county nonprofits that receives the extensive support of numerous organizations and corporations. The project was organized to coordinate the disparate efforts of multiple nonprofits in addressing the back-to-school needs of more than 5,000 Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) students from low-income homes. The goal of the project is to increase community support of children in need and ensure that all students start school with the supplies they need to succeed.