Help for Nonprofits

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Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center

The Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center at the Allen County Public Library houses a special collection of non-circulating materials on foundations, grants, fundraising, and nonprofit management. The collection is located in the Readers' Services Department. The Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center services include personal instruction, monthly orientation to the Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center, monthly grant writing strategies program, workshops, research, and more.

Go! Series

Resource materials have been created to increase effective grantmaking and grantseeking in our community. The Go! Guides are a series of brochures focusing on fundamental issues for nonprofits. These guides offer information, advice, and sources of reference that include a concise summary of key points on a specific topic as well as references to additional easy-to-access sources of information on that topic. By clicking on the specific title of the Go! Guides brochure you are interested in, you will have access to downloadable and printable PDF files.

The Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center Calendar of Events highlights speakers and workshops relating to this program.

The Go! Guides include a series of 10 brochures designed for use by nonprofit staff, boards and donors. This project was made possible through a grant from the Foellinger Foundation and is being coordinated by the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne and the Allen County Public Library Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center.

Community Foundation Tools You Can Use

In 2003, the Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center at the Allen County Public Library was awarded a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne to provide and increase the resources available to organizations in our community. Tools You Can Use is a program developed through this grant.

The Tools You Can Use program focuses on providing helpful resources to promote organizational effectiveness for Allen County nonprofits. The Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center's staff can help direct you through Tools You Can Use. Resource materials including books, journals, and electronic reference materials; lists of speakers and their topics; and workshops your organization might benefit from are available.

The grant money from the Community Foundation's Proactive Grantmaking Program supports the operations of the Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center to purchase new materials and to create and market programming for local nonprofits.

To inquire about resources available, contact Marilynn Fauth, Coordinator, Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center at mfauth@acpl.lib.in.us or visit the Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center at the Allen County Public Library. The Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center Calendar of Events highlights speakers and workshops relating to this program.