YNPN Chicago

RESOURCES

The following links are useful resources for a variety of nonprofits. If you would like to see an organization added to this list, please send the web address and a brief descrition to webmaster@ynpnchicago.org.

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Educational Opportunities for Nonprofits
Financial Resources
Fundraising & Development
Job Opportunities for Nonprofits
Legal Resources
Research & Consulting
Strengthening the Nonprofit Community
Technology & Media Resources

Educational Opportunities for Nonprofits
The Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management at Northpark University serves the educational needs of nonprofit professionals through graduate degree and certificate programs, on-site training, and an annual symposium series that addresses contemporary issues and challenges confronting nonprofit organizations.

DePaul University: Public Services Graduate Program teaches the leaders of the nonprofit, nongovernmental and government organization workforce. The Public Services Management program offers degrees and certificates on three campuses in the Chicago area and abroad. Students learn critical thinking, analysis, and writing skills, as well as practical management skills for the nonprofit and government sectors.

The Graduate Program in Public Administration at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is now offering a specialization in Nonprofit Management.

Online Certificate in Nonprofit Management offered by the University of Illinois at Chicago offers a convenient way to gain the management skills you need to face today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities. Whether you are new to the nonprofit sector or seeking to enhance your expertise, courses in nonprofit management will give you the skills you need. UIC's web-based instruction allows you to weave professional development into your busy life. Choose from courses focusing on Financial Management, Nonprofit Governance, Fundraising Management, Strategic Management, and Operations Management or complete them all to earn your certificate in Nonprofit Management.

Financial Resources
Nonprofit Financial Center strengthens the viability of communities by enhancing the financial stability and management capacity of nonprofits, individuals, and organizations that support those communities. NFC has provided direct financial management servies to over 200 nonprofit organizations and reached countless others through online resources.

Fundraising & Development
Donors Forum of Chicago is the premier resource for networking, education, information, knowledge, and leadership serving philanthropists in the region. As a nonprofitt membership association of grant-makers, individual donors and advisors, the Donors Forum advances philanthropy by serving its members and by promoting an effective and informed nonprofit sector.

Gifts In Kind International partners with businesses and nonprofit organizations to provide an effective conduit for the donation of products, goods and services from the private sector to the charitable sector in order to improve lives in communities around the world.

Job Opportunities for Nonprofits
Career Builder Nonprofit jobs in Chicago

Careers In Nonprofits Careers In Nonprofits provides temporary, permanent and temp-to-hire staffing to Chicago's nonprofits and associations.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy: The Newspaper of the Nonprofit World

Craigslist Chicago

Idealist Action without Borders connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.

Nonprofit Career Center is dedicated to the nonprofit sector of today's business and economic world. Our mission is to be a complete, one-stop resource center for nonprofit organizations, individuals seeking job opportunities in a nonproft organization, and people who want to volunteer to make a difference in this world.

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Legal Resources
Lawyers for the Creative Arts provides pro bono legal services to qualifying individuals and organizations in the arts, including the visual, literary and performing arts, and provides educational programs as well. Since its inception in 1972, LCA has provided legal services and educational programming to tens of thousands of artists and cultural organizations, including many who are now among the most prominent in the area. LCA is the only pro bono provider of legal services in the Chicago metropolitan area limited to, and expert in, the arts.

Research & Consulting
The Association of Consultants to Nonprofits develops, strengthens, and promotes its members as providers of best practice consulting services to the nonprofit community. ACN was founded in 1989 as CATAP (Chicago Area Technical Assistance Providers). Today, the Association of Consultants Network continues to be Chicago's only professional forum for the full range of consulting services available to nonprofits.

Capaciteria is a free, comprehensive searchable database directory of administrative resources that helps nonprofitsleveragetheir own capacity using the trusted source networks of information theyrelyupon. It assists nonprofits in understanding the various categories ofadministrative capacity theyneed to manage their nonprofits and provides them links to resources inthosecategories, vetted by their peer NGOs.

Executive Service Corps of Chicago enhances people's lives by helping to improve the management and governance of nonprofits, schools, and governments through the efforts of highly trained volunteers. Volunteer consultants are retired executives and professionals who bring decades of skills, knowledge, and life experiences to the nonprofits, schools and governments they serve.

Metro Chicago Information Center is a not-for-profit research and consulting resource founded in 1990 by civic, philanthropic, and business leaders. They are neutral third party experts committed to generating strategic information sets that improve local and regional economic and quality of life conditions in communities. Their strategic insights, analysis, and reports inform decision-making across a wide range of programs, products, and policies.

Strengthening the Nonprofit Community
The Association of Volunteer Administrators of Metropolitan Chicago's mission is to strengthen leadership and provide advocacy for the field of volunteer resource management and to provide an accessible forum for networking, knowledge sharing and collaboration. AVA-MC offers its members valuable training in the field of volunteer management and administration, a member directory which links volunteer managers and their organizations to each other, 24-hour access to member news and opportunities through special networking.

Greater Chicago Nonprofit Gateway is Chicago's premier online resource center for today's nonprofit practitioneer. Through the use of on-line technologies, Gateway provides links to resources, nonprofit news and announcements, as well as learning opportunities and local nonprofitc events. Gateway's interactive features facilitate communication and collaboration across the local nonprofit community.

The National Association for Asian American Professionals, Chicago Chapter provides opportunities for personal and professional development, community service, social networking, and cultural awareness, therefore enhancing the Asian American community and society as well as the Asian American experience.

Work Ministry is a career management resource assisting faith-based and community organizations in developing job support groups serving the unemployed, underemployed and career changers, as well as connecting individuals and groups with employers.

Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (national organization) promotes an efficient, viable, and inclusive nonprofit sector that supports the growth, learning, and development of young professionals. YNPN National engages and supports future nonprofit and community leaders through professional development, networking and social opportunities designed for young people involved in the nonprofit community.

Technology & Media Resources
The Centre for Management and Technology provides strategic planning, consulting, management, and technology solutions at little to no cost to eligible nonprofit organizations.

Community Media Workshop at Columbia College, founded by journalist Hank DeZutter and community activist Thom Clark, is a small institution encouraging media to tell the stories of the oft-neglected neighborhoods and back streets of Chicago, where problems are felt most deeply and solutions are most likely to be born. The Workshop trains people working on these problems to tell their stories to the media, tips to sensitize journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities that make up Chicago and the Midwest.

IT Resource Center helps nonprofit organizations use computers. Founded in 1984, the nonprofit Center provides comprehensive tecchnology planning, training and support services to more than 400 organizations each year. Their goal is technology leadership for nonprofit excellence.

Teaming for Technology (T4T) is a collaboration of United Way, IBM, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. They run a program called the "year of assistance," which is available to nonprofits in Chicago. The year involves establishing a technology plan, assessing the technological needs of the organization for them to complete their mission, creating technology goals and accomplishing those goals with volunteers from professional and collegiate areas. For those accepted into the Year of Assistance, there are free software training classes for all staff of the organization, including: Microsoft applications, Open-Source software applications, basic computer navigation and usage, and seminars on anti-virus protection, SPAM, and pop-ups.