The objectives of the project were to gather data against which NEW could benchmark its consulting and educational services, and to explore various approaches and trends in staffing, fees, procedures, marketing and development. Information was requested from over 50 organizations and consulting businesses around the country. The findings identified numerous management support organization directories, research, effective practices and leaders. The following sites are not new to the online community, but they work to bring the nonprofit community together by offering a space to list nonprofit organizations' information - free of charge. The first, Idealist.org , is a collaborative project through which thousands of organizations around the world have come together to form a comprehensive directory of volunteer and nonprofit resources on the Web.
Users can search by location, keyword or area of interest.
Another site working to build online community is WeCareToo . According to Rich Schaefer, one of the founders of WeCareToo, their mission is to provide free services to the nonprofit community through use of their site. In addition, WeCareToo offers a fundraising program by partnering commercial advertisers with the nonprofit organizations who opt to participate. Murphy's Law of Computing 1. When computing, whatever happens, behave as though you meant for it to happen.