Searching for Ideas

This blog post might be a little week. Considering we had no class Friday, and no presentations, my brain is working slow to think of something to blog about.

While I was Google searching some news stories of non-profit or philanthropy I came across an online newspaper for the non-profit world. I thought I might blog about this, just so I could share this with everyone.  It’s interesting for several reasons, I think it might give people an idea of what is going on out there, (give them something to clog about), also gives organizations ideas of what other people are trying for fundraising-lets them know whats working and what is not.

The website is called:   http://www.philanthropy.com/    The Newspaper of the non-profit world.  I am sure a lot of people have heard about  it, but I don’t really know if they realize how great of a tool this is.  It covers everything from, grant tips, celebrity philanthropy, philanthropy careers to suggestions on where to donate.

They have a specific section of careers, and they list over 650 avalible positions.  You can type in your zip code and find a non-profit job near you. And I remind you this is ALL free. It will even break it down into fundraising positions, administrative, executive etc…

One of my favorite sections was the “suggested books” section: It has a list of books about non-profit, and fund raising that are good. You can click on the title and get a review of that book.

This is a great site, and people should take advantage of it!