ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES

The National Congress of Vietnamese Americans (NCVA) believes that partnership with other like-minded organizations will increase the impact of our activities.

• Community Organizations
• Nonprofit Resources
  • Nonprofit Articles
• Vietnamese Cultural Resources

Community Organizations

• The American Immigration Law Foundation

• APIAVote

• API Resources

• Asian American Justice Center (AAJC)

• Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund (AALDEF)

• Asian Americans for Civil Rights & Equality (AACRE)

• Asian Nation

• Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS)

• Boat People S.O.S.

• Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL)

• Federal Asian Pacific American Council (FAPAC)

• Hmong National Development, Inc.

• IMDiversity

• Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)

• Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

• Montagnard Foundation

• Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (MALDEF)

• National Association for the Advancement of Color People (NAACP)

• National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies (NAVASA)

• National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC)

• National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development

• The National Conference for Community & Justice

• National Council of Asian Pacific Americans

• National Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Advocacy Task Force

• National Low Income Housing Coalition

• Partners for Livable Communities

• Refugee Council USA

• Southeast Asian Resource Action Center (SEARAC)

Nonprofit Resources

• Developing Quality Federal Grant Proposals

• Getting the Word Out

  • Crafting an Effective News Release

  • Distributing Your News Release

• Guidance to Faith-Based and Community Organizations on Partnering with the Federal Government

• Nonprofit Advocacy

• Strategic Planning

• Strategic Planning: Cutting Through the Buzz

• About.com
  Provides resources and information for nonprofits.

• Alliance for Nonprofit Management
  A professional association of individuals and organizations devoted to improving the management and governance capacity of nonprofits - to assist nonprofits in fulfilling their mission.

• Association of Volunteer Administration
  Offers a listing of resources for mobilizing and managing volunteers.

• Bay Area Video Coalition
  Offers computer/media classes as well as workshops for video, graphics, and web development.

• BoardSource
  Provides practical information, tools and best practices, training, and leadership development for board members of nonprofit organizations worldwide.

• BPM
  Free seminars for nonprofits in preparing for audits, buying insurance, influencing public policy, technology planning, and other topics.

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
  Developing and writing grant proposals - guidance on submitting grant proposals to federal agencies.

• CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
  Offers a wide range of nonprofit consulting, training services, and seminars.

• CompuMentor
  Helps nonprofit organizations use technology more effectively to achieve their missions.

• Congress.org
  Take action on issues.

• The Foundation Center
  Provides education, information, and training on the grantseeking process.

• Gifts in Kind
  Offers nonprofits (with 501 (c)(3) federal tax exempt status) donations of office supplies, equipment, consumer products, and building materials (including used computers).

• Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
  GCIR seeks to move the philanthropic field to advance the contributions and address the needs of the world's growing and increasingly diverse immigrant and refugee populations.

• Idealists.org
  Contains listing of useful sites on the Web for individuals starting, managing and funding a nonprofit organization.

• Internal Revenue Service
  IRS website has 990 tax return forms and a broad range of tax information.

• Internal Revenue Service - State Links
  A collection of links to State government web sites with useful information for tax-exempt organizations. The State web sites have information on state registration requirements for charities, taxation, information for employers, and more.

• The Management Center
  Resource for nonprofit management support in Northern California.

• Media Alliance
  Offers computer and media classes and resources on media issues.

• Nonprofit Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  Basic information on establishing, maintaining and operating a nonprofit organization.

• National Council of Nonprofit Associations
  The National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA) is the network of state and regional nonprofit associations serving over 22,000 members in 46 states and the District of Columbia. NCNA links local organizations to a national audience through state associations and helps small and mid-sized nonprofits.

• Natural Resource Center - Best of the Best
  The National Resource Center provides capacity-building technical assistance to funded intermediary organizations and those faith- and community-based organizations they support.

• Nonprofit Good Practice Guide
  A project of the Philanthropic and Nonprofit Knowledge Management Initiative, this focuses on community service,  the study and teaching of philanthropy, volunteerism and nonprofit management.

• Nonprofit Management Education Center
  Information on how to start a nonprofit organization.

• Nonprofit Manager Library
  Offers a library for nonprofits on categories such as volunteers, fundraising, and creativity and innovation.

• Nonprofit Regulations and Guidelines
  The site provides information on setting up a 501(c)3 organization.

• Nonprofit Resource Center
  An accounting resource for non-profit organizations.

• Northern California Grantmakers
  Provides short-term loans to nonprofit human service organizations experiencing cash-flow problems that place their services in jeopardy.

• Panel on the Nonprofit Sector
  The Panel on the Nonprofit Sector is an independent panel of 24 leaders from a wide range of the country’s public charities and private foundations. The Panel has worked over the last eight months to develop recommendations to improve the governance, ethical conduct, and oversight of nonprofit organizations.

• Points of Light Foundation
  Offers a searchable database by ZIP code or state to find local volunteer centers.

• TechSoup
  Technology news, resources for nonprofits, and offers discount technology for nonprofits through DiscountTech.

• TouchDC
  A web-based initiative of Washington, D.C. Grantmakers to help donors find out about local nonprofits serving the Greater Washington region.

Nonprofit Articles

• Basics of Nonprofit Marketing

  • Nonprofit Media Tour: Free Press Makes Cents!

• How Ethical Is Your Nonprofit Organization?

• Nonprofit Directors & Officers Insurance

• Key Characteristics of Donors Who Give Less Than $1,000

• Other Tips

Cultural Resources

• Southeast Asian Archive

• The Vietnam Project

• Viet Nam Literature Project

• Vietnam Scholars Group

• Vietnamese American Heritage Project

• Vietnamese Customs

• Vietnamese Reflections