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ASU Center for Non-Profit Leadership and Management
The Center for Non-Profit Leadership and Management conducts research, offers assistance to non-profit organizations, and provides non-profit leadership education and conferences. Site includes The Excellence Exchange, a pilot project to disseminate best practices and promising ideas in nonprofit leadership and management. The Center's initiatives include an organizational self-assessment project in five Maricopa County non-profit agencies and research on organizational diversity.

Northern Arizona University: Capacity Building for American Indians Project
The mission of the Capacity Building for American Indians Project is to enhance the capacity building and increase participation of American Indians and Alaska Natives in competition for discretionary rehabilitation grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements under Title I through VIII of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.

Arizona Grantmakers Forum
The Arizona Grantmakers Forum is a regional association of grantmakers. Member organizations make financial grants to non-profit organizations throughout the state of Arizona and represent the interests of private foundations, trusts, endowed community foundations, corporations, government agencies and individuals with organized charitable gift programs.

Social Venture Partners Arizona
Social Venture Partners Arizona (SVPAZ) pools the collective financial, professional and human resources of its Partners to invest in innovative nonprofit organizations addressing difficult social challenges in the metropolitan Phoenix area. Grant-making and the provision of volunteer expertise is aimed primarily at supporting capacity-building efforts of programs that support or enhance the resiliency skills or the academic skills of young people ages 5 - 18.

Arizona Community Foundation
The Arizona Community Foundation funds community and statewide needs in areas including the arts and culture, public education, the environment, youth development, community building, and health and human services. ACF's priorities are: children, youth and families; public education reform; and community development. The organization helps nonprofit organizations improve their abilities to respond to the needs of Arizona communities by providing training, technical assistance, program evaluation or capacity building. Site includes news, tools, and research of interest to non-profit community organizations.

Help 4 Nonprofits & Tribes
Arizona-based web site devoted to management and capacity-building resources for non-profit organizations and Native American tribes. Contains selected library of articles on economic and new business development, board development, fundraising, marketing, start-up and program development, and personnel management.