BarnRaisers

BarnRaisers
Index

Achieving sustainability

Finding and using technology

Some long-
established Cape Cod nonprofits

Advocates for nonprofits

Finding grant makers

Fund-raising 

Management resources for nonprofits

News

Civic engagement

Writing effective newsletters

Page last updated May 30, 2006

Hauser Center for 
Nonprofit Organizations:  
John F. Kennedy School 
of Government, 
Harvard University

The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations is an interdisciplinary research center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The Center aims to illuminate the vital role that the nonprofit sector and nongovernmental organizations play in aiding societies to discover and accomplish important public purposes. 
     The Center seeks to expand understanding and accelerate critical thinking about civil society among scholars, practitioners, policy makers and the general public, by encouraging scholarship, developing curriculum, fostering mutual learning between academics and practitioners, and shaping policies that enhance the sector and its role in society.

Investing in Sustainable
Nonprofits

Alcoa Foundation created the Social Venture Initiative (SVI) to help nonprofits manage increasing needs for their services and declining available funding. The initiative is designed to help nonprofits generate their own revenue streams using their existing resources and new entrepreneurial strategies. It consists of three initial phases:  (1) Launch in 2003 with a forum of international experts in nonprofit sustainability that will be webcast to nonprofits at Alcoa locations around the world.  (2) Request for nonprofits to submit proposals that detail their plans for sustainability. And (3), reconvene nonprofit SVI grant recipients to share lessons learned and mentor other groups of nonprofits in sustainability.

Rhode Island Sustainability Coalition

About us: Our vision is of a life-sustaining Earth. We are committed to the achievement of a dignified, peaceful, and equitable existence. A sustainable Rhode Island will provide equitable opportunities for satisfying livelihoods and a safe, healthy, high quality of life for current and future generations. Our state will protect its environment, its natural resource base, and the functions and viability of natural systems on which all life depends.

The Sustainable Nonprofit (TSN)

"The Sustainable Nonprofit (TSN) examines critical issues related to nonprofit sustainability through the eyes of nonprofit leaders, practitioners, and consultants."

Guidestar:  "True Sustainability: A New Model to Aid Nonprofits in Developing Self-Sustaining Revenue Streams"