Sara Peterson Consulting

RESOURCES & LINKS

Forming a Nonprofit

• IRS StayExempt

• National Council of Nonprofits

• Citizen Media Law Project

Public Info on Your Organization

• Candid: Guidestar

• IRS Charity Search

• National Center for Charitable Statistics

• Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

• Your state charitable oversight office.

Critical Topics

• Good Governance (Independent Sector)

• Nonprofit Accounting Basics

• Nonprofit Audit Guide

• The Overhead Myth

• Risk Management (NRMC)

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Tools, Glorious Tools…

• Better Evaluation

• BoardSource 

• Candid: GrantCraft & GrantSpace 

• Community Toolbox (community-building)

• Evaluation Toolkit (Pell Institute)

• Guidelines & Principles for Excellence Wiki

• LearnPhilanthropy

• Nonprofit Law Resource Library (Hurwitt & Assoc.)

• Propel Nonprofits - Resources 

(formerly the Nonprofit Assistance Fund)

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Rating Organizations

• Charities Review Council (MN only)

• Charity Navigator

• Give.org - BBB Wise Giving Alliance

• Give Well

• Philanthropedia

Favorite News Sources

• BoardSource SmartBrief

• National Council of Nonprofits

• Nonprofit Quarterly

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy

• Stanford Social Innovation Review

A Little Consultant Humor 

• Courtesy of the New Yorker