Professional Advisor Links - Organizations that Support Charitable Giving

Find links for organizations that support charitable giving.

The Association of Small Foundations (ASF)
Provides information and assistance to private foundations staffed by five or fewer persons. Members receive a quarterly newsletter on management, policy, tax, resource and personnel issues. ASF holds regional meetings and networking and training opportunities.

The Council on Foundations
Provides education, training, professional development, and publication to help grantmakers respond to society and public issues.

The Family Firm Institute (FFI)
An international professional membership organization dedicated to providing interdisciplinary education and networking opportunities for family business and family wealth advisors, consultants, educators and researchers and to increasing public awareness about trends and developments in the family business and family wealth fields.

The Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
Promotes philanthropy by inspiring and enhancing the leadership and capacity of regional associations of grantmakers and their members in promoting the public good.

The Foundation Center
A national source of factual data on philanthropy. Publications and a network of library reference collections help grantseekers identify funding sources.

Network for Good
Uses the web to help people get more involved in philanthropy. Features nonprofit resources, online donation forms, volunteer opportunities.

The Inheritance Project
A nonprofit consulting firm, works with heirs to enhance their understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities that come with inherited wealth.

The National Center for Family Philanthropy
Assists families and individuals in creating and sustaining their philanthropic missions, focusing solely on matters of importance to families engaged in philanthropy and their effective giving through research, educational materials and programs.

The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Their mission is to make philanthropy more responsive to people with the least wealth and opportunity, more relevant to critical public needs, and more open and accountable to all, in furtherance of social welfare.

The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI)
Helps donors increase their impact through the development of innovative and strategic approaches to philanthropy. TPI's consulting services for families, foundations, corporations, individuals, and advisory institutions include: strategic planning and facilitation; training of trustees and staff; research on social issues of concern to TPI clients; and development, implementation, and evaluation of programmatic initiatives.

The Philanthropy Roundtable
A national association of individual donors, foundation trustees and staff, and corporate giving officers that advocates that voluntary private action offers the best means of addressing many of society's needs and that a vibrant private sector is critical to creating the wealth that makes philanthropy possible.

Planned Giving Today
Serves as a networking, marketing, and inspirational resource for professional advisors seeking to develop the planned giving elements of their practice or business.

The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI)
Brings together philanthropists and philanthropy professionals to educate and encourage women to increase their charitable giving.