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Career Information, Company Profiles and Contacts

Career Opportunities in Art Museums, Zoos, and other Interesting Places

Department of Labor: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980. This government document profiles a variety of typical non-profit organizations that need marketing expertise.

Careers for Good Samaritans and Other Humanitarian Types.

Marjorie Eberts and Margaret Gisler, 1991, Lincolnwood, IL: VGM Career Horizons. This book provides addresses of organizations like the Red Cross, VISTA and UNICEF that you can contact to turn your good deeds into enough money to pay rent. If you are interested in working with refugees, running inner-city clinics or helping arts organizations this is a great book to read.

100 Best Non-Profits to Work For

By Leslie Hamilton and Robert Tragert, Arco Publishing, 1998. Great organizations that reward you well for doing good! If you want a meaningful, socially responsible job -- but you also want good pay and career prospects -- where do you look? This one-of-a-kind new guide has 100 great answers! It offers profiles of the todays best paying, most secure, and most gratifying nonprofit organizations to work for. Public television stations, state-of-the-art wildlife parks, environmental groups -- these and scores of other organizations are described in detail.

Non-Profits' and Education Job Finder: 1997-2000.

By Daniel Lauber. Planning Communications. This all-new edition offers detailed information on over 2,222 sources of job openings in the education and the rest of the non-profit sector. What Color is Your Parachute? recommends it as the first place to look to learn where the job openings are advertised.

Opportunities in Non-Profit Careers

By Adrian Paradis, VGM Horizons, 1994. Emphasis is placed on the identification and variety of nonprofit organizations, with sources given for further information and direction. A separate chapter on fund-raising is included as an up-and-coming professionally recognized career path.

In Search of America's Best Non-Profits

By Richard Steckel, Jennifer Lehman, and Alan Shrader, Jossey-Bass. For both insiders and those looking to become more involved with nonprofits, this is a practical guide to the exemplary organizations that make our country a better place to live and work. A hands-on resource, this book includes a checklist for jobseekers and donors, worksheets for evaluating your own nonprofit, and descriptive portraits of today's most influential nonprofit leaders.

Social Entrepreneurship: Non-Profits for Profit.

In the Wet Feet Insider Guide on Social Entrepreneurship, our insiders take you inside the hottest development in the non-profit industry in years - the rise of business-oriented non-profit ventures (perhaps that Ben & Jerry's store around the corner is an example of such a venture).

Non-Profit Career Network.

Lists jobs by region and title. Very good place to look. Can submit your resume too.

Summer Jobs.

Find the right job for you next summer. Covers non-profits and more.

Habitat for Humanity.

Builds homes for the homeless and poor. Involved in building after Hurricane Mitch hit Central America.

Peace Corps

Overseas jobs! Need we say more...

United Way

The United Way Volunteer Action Center has tons of volunteer positions available.

Volunteers of America

A Christian human service organization. Find a newsletter, annual report, car donations and lots of programs here.

Ideas and Know-How

Advances in Nonprofit Marketing.

Vols. 1-4. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. By Russell Belk.

Managing the Non-Profit Organization.

By Peter Drucker. Drucker is one of the best known names in marketing and management. Drucker provides guidelines and expert advice on how to manage a non-profit organization effectively and efficiently. The book includes interviews with 9 executives. You may also be interested in the audio tape.

Fundraising.

By Peter Edels. New York, N.Y.: McGraw Hill, Inc. Edels provides secrets of running a successful fundraising campaign. Specifically, he provides a practical step-by-step down in the trenches look at fundraising.

How to Raise Millions Helping Others, Having a Ball: A Guide to Fundraising

By Carolyn Farb. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press. This fundraising "cookbook" provides practical suggestions for the non- profit marketer who has major responsibilities in fund-raising. Farb has an easy to read book that caters to the practitioner.

A Legal Guide to Starting and Managing a Non-Profit Organization.

By Bruce Hopkins. New York, N.Y.: John Wiley and Sons. Hopkins examines the non-profit organization from a legal standpoint. He provides detail for every legal issue that a non-profit needs to consider.

Filthy Rich and Other Non-Profit Fantasies.

By Richard Steckel, et. al., San Francisco, Ten Speed Press. This is a book which tells you how to run a non-profit successfully. Gives you a good background of how the whole non-profit sector works.

Strategic Marketing for Non-Profit Organizations

By Philip Kotler, OC Ferrel and Charles Lamb. 3rd Edition: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall Inc., 1987. This text is the premier authority on how to market non-profit organizations. It is the most popular text used in college courses for the non-profit field.

Associated Grantmakers

This link will bring you directly to the Associated Grantmaker "links" page where you will find an alphabetical listing of more than a hundred Massachusetts nonprofits. A terrific resource if you want to find out more about the nonprofit organization you are applying to.

Baker Library Non-Profit Organization Database.

A very detailed list of non-profits compiled by Harvard Business School.

Good Works

National web site that lists jobs in nonprofits. They have great information and interesting search parameters.

Guide Star.

You can find just about every nonprofit in the country at this site.

Idealist

A worldwide search engine for nonprofit organizations. Don't forget to go to their "tools" page where you will find more links.

New Non-Profit Execs Walk a Fine Line

By Hal Lancaster, in Careers.WSJ.Com, August 1998.

Magazines and Newspapers (Online and Off)

Chronicle of Philanthropy

A listing of management jobs updated every month from nonprofits and foundations.

NonProfit Times

A definitive online resource for those with an interest in non-profit careers.

Philanthropy Journal

Jobs in the nonprofit community.