Links

American Institute of Philanthropy

The American Institute of Philanthropy provides a comprehensive guide and tips for giving with a subscription search option.

BBB Wise Giving Alliance

The BBB Wise Giving Alliance reports on nationally soliciting charities, including an evaluation in relation to the voluntary BBB charity standards.

Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

Works to highlight the philanthropic activities of different institutions and groups, with a particular emphasis on multiculturalism - the patterns of giving and voluntarism by different religious, ethnic, racial, gender, and economic groups.

Charities Review Council of Minnesota

Helps donors to make wise charitable giving decisions by conducting in-depth reviews of organizations that solicite funds in Minnesota.

Charity Navigator

Charity Navigator provides evaluations of the financial health of America's largest charities.

Council On Foundations

The Council on Foundations is a membership organization of more than 2,000 grant-making foundations and giving programs worldwide. Provides leadership expertise, legal services and networking opportunities—among other services—to our members and to the general public.

Foundation Center

A guide to philanthropy resources on the web.

GuideStar

The national database of U.S. charitable organizations.

Minnesota Council on Foundations

An online source for news and information on Minnesota grantmaking and philanthropy.

MN Attorney General's Office Charities Division

Online guide to Minnesota charities, resources, issues, and laws.

Minnesota Toolkit for Giving

A local site for guidance on giving.

National Center for Family Philanthropy

A nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, was established in September 1997 by a group of family philanthropists to encourage families and individuals to create and sustain their philanthropic missions. It is the only national resource center focusing on matters of importance to families engaged in philanthropy and their effective giving.

Newtithing.org

A research organization committed to increasing charitable giving, personal fulfillment, and the productivity of donations to the world's charitable sectors.

Philanthropic Initiative, Inc.

A non-profit philanthropic consulting firm founded in 1989 to help donors increase the impact of their philanthropy.

T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving

An independent nonprofit corporation and donor-advised fund that assists individuals with planning and managing their charitable giving. The website's search program can access over one million nonprofits.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

A donor advised fund with over 5000 active accounts that has issued grants in excess of $700 million since inception. Recurring grants are quickly and easily facilitated online on the website.

Women's Philanthropy Institute

A nonprofit organization that brings together philanthropists and philanthropy professionals to educate and advance women as major donors and volunteer leaders for the nonprofit causes and institutions of their choosing. WPI believes that all women should have the knowledge and ability to make individual and collective philanthropic choices whenever and wherever they see the need.

Next Generation: Developing Healthy Financial Habits

It All Adds Up

Interactive site designed to help teens get a head start on their financial future and includes online games and simulations to learn about credit management, buying a car, paying for college, budgeting, saving, and investing.

Choose To Save

Promotes the idea that saving today is vital to a secure financial future and also provides Internet tools to help consumers (yes, even young people!) plan all aspects of their financial security.

What's My Score

A site for teaching teens and young adults how credit scores work in the real world and why they should be managed as closely as a GPA.

Share Save Spend

Help youth and adults -- via curriculum and other tools -- achieve financial sanity by developing and maintaining healthy financial habits.