Chicago Links

City of Chicago:

Chicago Park District: www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/

Chicago Public Library: www.chipublib.org/

Chicago Public Schools: www.cps.k12.il.us/

American Civil Liberties Union-Chicago: www.aclu-il.org/

American Friends Service Committee-Chicago

Bold Chicago: www.boldchicago.org/

Campaign For Better Transit: w/ww.bettertransit.com/

Center for Neighborhood Technology: www.cnt.org/

CTA Bus Schedules    http://transitchicago.com/maps/bus/bus.html

CTA Bus Tracker        http://ctabustracker.com/bustime/home.jsp

CTA Gray Line 'L' Route" Project http://community-2.webtv.net/GLRTS/GRAYLINECONVERSION/

Chicago Area Waterways: http://www.chicagoareawaterways.org/

Chicago Environmental and Public Health Outreach Project: www.uic.edu/depts/lib/projects/resources/cephop

Chicago Independant Media Center: http://chicago.indymedia.org/

Chicago Solar Program: http://www.chicagosolarpartnership.com/index.htm

Chicago Wilderness: www.chiwild.org/

CTA: A Riders Perspective http://ctariders.blogspot.com/

[A blog written about the] CTA by RedEye staffers http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/ctablog/2008/04/whats-shaking-c.html

Donor's Forum: www.donorsforum.org/

Earthwatch - Chicago: http://earthwatch.chicago.home.att.net/

Eighth Day Center for Justice 8th Day Center for Justice Radioshow

Environmental Justice Data: www.scorecard.org/community/ej-index.tcl

Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC): www.elpc.org/

Environmental Research Foundation / Rachel's News http://www.rachel.org

Events Calender: www.calsnet.com/imc_chi/

Financial Incentives for Homeowners, businesses, non-for-profits, etc...: http://www.chicagosolarpartnership.com/welcome/incentives.htm

Foundation for Human Rights: www.fhrg.org/

Friends of the Chicago River: www.chicagoriver.org/

Friends of the Parks: www.fotp.org/

Global Warming International Center - Naperville: www.globalwarming.net/

Great Lakes Protection Fund - Evanston: www.glpf.org/

Gray Line Website: http://www.grayline.20m.com

Healthy Homes: www.afhh.org

Healthy Schools Campaign: http://www.healthyschoolscampaign.org

Illinois Chapter of the Sierra Club - Chicago: http://illinois.sierraclub.org/

Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation - Chicago: www.illinoiscleanenergy.org/

Illinois Public Interest Research Group (Illinois PIRG) - Chicago: www.illinoispirg.org/

Illinois Recycling Association - Oak Park:

Jobs for Youth: www.jfychicago.org/

Lincoln Park Conservancy - Chicago: www.friendslp.org/

Metropolitan Tenants Organization: www.tenants-rights.org/

National Brownfield Association - Arlington: www.brownfieldnews.com/

Neighborhood Capital Budget Group: http://www.ncbg.org/

North Branch Restoration Project - Chicago: www.northbranchrestoration.org/

Open Lands: www.openlands.org

Peace Chicago: http://peacechicago.org

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum / Chicago Academy of Science: http://www.chias.org/

Pilsen/Southwest Side Green Party's: http://www.pilsensouthwestsidegreens.org

Promontory Point Community Task Force - Chicago: www.savethepoint.org/

RTA Trip Planner       http://tripsweb.rtachicago.com/

Southwest Youth Organization: www.swyc.org

University of Illinois at Chicago: www.uic.edu

Online Resources:

At http://www.foundationcenter.org the Foundation Center provides information about every foundation in the country. Much of this information is free, but some of it is for paying subscribers only.

At http://www.guidestar.org Guidestar lists financial information for 800,000 nonprofits. You can use Guidestar for research, and you can also update your organization's entry there.

At http://www.idealist.org Idealist.org has built the leading nonprofit job site in the country. In addition to jobs, you can also list events, volunteer opportunities and internships, and at http://www.idealist.org/consultants you can find the most comprehensive directory of nonprofit consultants on the Web.

At http://news.gilbert.org Michael Gilbert maintains a great site with daily news updates bridging the online and nonprofit worlds. You can read the news there, or you can subscribe for weekly email updates.

At http://www.nonprofitbasics.org the Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership is building a resource center with lots of great information for starting, running and funding an organization.

At http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq Putnam Barber maintains the Nonprofit FAQ - an older resource center that is special because it is based on actual questions and answers posted by nonprofit managers over the years.

At http://www.networkforgood.org people can find volunteer opportunities, and they can also make donations to hundreds of thousands of nonprofits. Most importantly, you can use this site to add a free Donate button to your Web site.

At http://www.serviceleader.org you will find a huge site covering every aspect of volunteer management, from screening, matching, record-keeping and evaluation, to legal issues, risk management and virtual volunteering.

At http://www.techsoup.org Techsoup has built the leading resource center for all issues related to nonprofit technology. In addition, they offer steep discounts on software for nonprofits, sometimes up to 90% off the list price.

At http://www.volunteermatch.org people can find volunteer opportunities all over the country by ZIP code or area of interest.

Lastly, in addition to these 10 online resources, we recommend that people check out http://www.ncna.org/states.htm for the nonprofit state association closest to them.

For general information please email us here.

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