Other Help and Miscellaneous Resources
Services, workshops and training
LaSalle University Nonprofit Center [non-profit organizational trainings]
1900 W. Olney Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19141
Phone: 215.951.1701
Fax: 215.951.1488
Email: nonprofitcenter@lasalle.edu
Web: lasallenonprofitcenter.org
Description: Workshops and trainings on many facets of non-profit organizational structure and practice.
Nonprofit Technology Resources [computer training]
1524 Brandywine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Phone: 215.564.6686
Fax: 215.564.6642
Email: ntr@libertynet.org
Web: ntronline.org
Description: Computer training and consulting for non-profits. Also accepts, refurbishes, and donates used computers to deserving people and organizations.
Philadelphia Arts & Business Council [some computer training]
200 S. Broad St., #700
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: 215.790.3620
Fax: 215.790.3600
Web: artsandbusinessphila.org
Description: Provides a range of services to arts and culture non-profits, including volunteers from various business backgrounds, technology training, and furniture donations.
Resources for Human Development: New Beginnings [Non-profit Incubator]
4700 Wissahickon Ave., #126
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Phone: 215.951.0300
Web: http://www.rhd.org/programs/prg_nb.asp
Helps small and start-up non-profits to build capacity and effectiveness.
Scribe Video Center [video trainings]
4212 Chestnut Street, 3rd floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215.222.4201
Fax: 215.222.4205
Email: Inquiry@scribe.org
Web: www.scribe.org
Description: Scribe Video Center seeks to explore, develop and advance the use of video as an artistic medium and as a tool for progressive social change. Focus is on communities that traditionally have not had access to video training or production facilities. Scribe provides workshops and training in electronic media (all facets of documentary video production, 16 mm film production, camera and lighting, oral history production, web-page design, and more) for projects exploring personal visions, social issues, and community life. Scribe also offers artists' services such as fiscal sponsorship, equipment rental, and editing facilities.
Temple University School of Law / Center for Community Nonprofit Organizations
1719 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: 215.204.1465
Fax: 215.204.4693
Email: ccno@temple.edu
Contact: Sharon Wilson
Web: temple.edu/lawschool/ccno/
Description: Free legal services to qualifying non-profit clients serving low-income communities and working for community vitality and uplift, by third-year Temple Law students, working under attorney supervision. Help in filing for non-profit status, and a range of other legal matters.
General information and assistance
Regional Foundation Center [funding resources]
Free Library of Philadelphia
1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215.686.5423
Web: library.phila.gov/rfc/rfcabout.htm
Contact: Gloria Hibbert
Description: A good source of information on fundraising, the Regional Foundation Center maintains extensive collection of information on private, corporate, governmental and individual philanthropy, as well as general resources for non-profit organizations. The Center offers free orientations on using its resources. It is staffed from 9-5 Monday through Friday and the first Saturday of each month from 1-5. The Free Library is one of a national network of such centers. Also see The Foundation Center (http://www.foundationcenter.org), an online resource with information about grantmakers as well as general philanthropy issues.
Community Accountants [service organization]
3721 Midvale Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19129
Phone: 215.951.03330 x125
Email: communityaccountants@rhd.org
Contact: Debra Hope Colligan, Executive Director
Web: communityaccountants.org
Description: Community Accountants offers accounting and financial services to not-for-profit organizations, helps place people with accounting and financial expertise on boards, offers a range of workshops, and publishes information (for example: about how to start a not-for-profit organization and how to do sound financial management).
Community Design Collaborative of AIA Philadelphia [architectural services]
117 S. 17th Street, #210
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215.587.9290
Fax: 215.587.9277
Email: cdesignc@cdesignc.org
Web: cdesignc.org
Description: The Community Design Collaborative is a volunteer-based professional service organization that provides area non-profits with access to free pre-design services.
Delaware Valley Grantmakers [link to funding resources]
230 South Broad Street, #4C
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: 215.790.9700
Web: dvg.org
Description: Umbrella group for 140 funders in the greater Delaware Valley. The website offers the common grant form accepted by many funders as well as a list of grantmaker members and other resources for grantseekers.
The Fund for Folk Culture [organizations, resource]
PO Box 303366
Austin, TX 78703
Phone: 512.472.8757
Contact: Betsy Peterson
Web: folkculture.org
Description: Funding for various folklife programs. Target funding changes, but has included resources for gatherings, community folklife programs, and grants to organizations for other types of projects. No funds are currently available for Philadelphia groups in most cases, but visit their site for resources on issues in the folk arts and culture.
New York Foundation for the Arts [link to funding resources]
155 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10013-1507
Phone: 212.366.6900
Fax: 212.366.1778
Email: NYFAweb@NYFA.org
Web: nyfa.org
Description: Although NYFA is a state-wide service organization specifically for New York state artists, it also provides NYFA Source, a free national information resource for artists in all disciplines and for those who support them in any way. NYFA Source is intended to be an access point to the largest national database of information on grants, awards, services, and publications for artists in all disciplines.
Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts [service organization]
The Bellevue
Office of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
200 S. Broad St., #700
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: 215.545.3385, ext. 1
Email: info@pvla.org
Web: pvla.org/pvla/
Description: PVLA offers legal services to artists and cultural organizations, provides educational workshops and publishes information on topics such as copyright, taxes, contracts, liability, labor issues and other common arts-related legal problems and issues. PVLA also offers a legal referral services for low income artists, and a legislation analysis program to examine issues upcoming within the government which would be of interest to artists.
And more. . . .
Looking for a place to perform? Information about venues in the Philadelphia area is maintained by the Philadelphia Music Project in their resource section.
Need computer software? Free and nearly-free software for non-profits is available through Tech Soup.
Dreaming of a place and time to recharge, to develop work, to transform? Check out artist residency sites at the Alliance of Artists' Communities. (Lots more information there, too: resources, artists' service agencies, coops and more. . . .)
Need a consultant? Here are some guidelines for how to work effectively with someone, from the Southern New England Nonprofit Consultant Directory.
Have questions about audio or recording equipment? Our friends at the Vermont Folklife Center have useful suggestions on their website. Visit transom.org, a "showcase and workshop for new public radio," which has reliable and useful reviews of equipment, and more.
Looking for media funding on a national level? Try the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media (with a May 15 deadline for pre-production and distribution of social issue film and video projects,and production and distribution of radio projects.) The Soros Foundation offers funding for documentary photography projects working for social change.
Not from Philadelphia (but from elsewhere in this state)? Click here for information about regional folk arts centers serving Pennsylvania.
