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The Center's affiliate organization,
Western
State Strategies, is continuing our traditional work
on campaign finance reform, supporting voter-owned elections
and promoting a more transparent election system that
expands democracy. |
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Help Western States Center
support and grow the progressive movement in the West! |
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Grassroots
progressive organizations struggle to promote change
with limited staff, funding and other resources. For
nearly twenty years, Western States Center and its
partner organizations and consultants have helped
community groups unravel the mysteries of fundraising.
These tools, articles and web links are designed to
help build mission-driven organizations that are
strong and financially secure. |
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Documents for
Download:
- Grassroots
Grant Writing - Review and overview of
Andy Robinson's book, Grassroots Grants: An Activist's
Guide to Proposal Writing, describing what grant reviewers
appreciate in a proposal.
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Helpful Web Sites:
- The
Association of Fundraising Professionals - Represents
over 26,000 members in 171 chapters throughout the
United States, Canada, Mexico, and China working
to advance philanthropy through advocacy,
research, education, and certification programs.
- The
Foundation Center - Supports and
improves philanthropy by promoting public
understanding of the field and helping
grantseekers succeed. This site is primarily
focused on resources within the United States.
- The
Grantsmanship Center Funding Resources
- From the Grantsmanship Center, Funding Resources
offers grantsmanship training and low-cost
publications to nonprofit organizations and
government agencies.
- Grassroots
Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) -
Develops and strengthens the grassroots
fundraising skills of people working for social
justice. The goal of GIFT is to build the capacity
of progressive organizations to raise money and to
increase the number of people of color in
fundraising. GIFT seeks to decrease organizations'
dependence on foundation funding by helping them
develop a broad base of individual donors to
support their work.
- The
Grassroots Fundraising Journal -
Offers practical, how-to instruction on
fundraising by the publishers of the magazine of
the same name.
- GuideStar
- produced by Philanthropic Research, Inc.,
GuideStar is a national database of U.S.
charitable organization featuring data on more
than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofits.
- Innovation
Network - A nonprofit organization
working to share planning and evaluation tools and
know-how. We provide consulting, training, and
online tools for nonprofits and funders.
- Networkforgood.org's
Online Donation Resources - Helps
nonprofits expand their constituency base and find
more convenient and automated ways for your
organization to collect and track funds.
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