<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"><channel><title>Helpful Resources</title><description></description><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (ccef)</managingEditor><pubDate>Sat, 7 Sep 2024 17:24:43 -0700</pubDate><generator>Blogger http://www.blogger.com</generator><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><link>http://ccef-helpful-resources.blogspot.com/</link><language>en-us</language><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle/><itunes:owner><itunes:email>noreply@blogger.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><item><title/><link>http://ccef-helpful-resources.blogspot.com/2012/03/resources-for-lefs-education-resources.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (ccef)</author><pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:02:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123662582349160674.post-5209400207906580795</guid><description>&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Education Resources&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.edvoice.net/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;EdVoice&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;a statewide, grassroots organization advocating support for public education&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.edsource.org/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;EdSource&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;data on California education issues&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sscal.com/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;School Services of California&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cceflink.org/pdfs/Legal%20Issues%20Update%20for%20CCEF%20December%202008.pdf" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Legal Issues Update: A Basic Primer&lt;/a&gt;, by Ronald T. Vera, Gutierrez &amp;amp; Vera, LLP, provides a legal update for local education foundation leaders. This document was presented during the 2008 CCEF annual conference.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cceflink.org/resources.html#" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;A policy paper on Local Education Foundations and Lobbying&lt;/a&gt;, prepared by Ronald T. Vera, Guitierrez &amp;amp; Vera and CCEF Advisory Board, was made available to all LEFs in California through a generous grant from the California Casualty Group. Contact CCEF regarding additional copies or to order if not an LEF.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cceflink.org/docs/New_Law_Affects_Nonprofit_Governance.pdf" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;A summary of new legislation (AB 1233)&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;affecting nonprofit corporation governance and operations including non-voting director status, insurance and other topics.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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Interesting Reading&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Endowment Funds for Public Schools by Michael Pinto -&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.cceflink.org/docs/Endowment_Funds.pdf" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;read here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Elements of Successful Public Education Foundations by Michael Pinto -&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.cceflink.org/docs/Elements_of_Successful.pdf" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;read here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Education Foundations: Changing Public Education And the Way Connecticut Communities Pay for It By: Jim H. Smith -&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.cpec.org/ppr/edfoundations.htm" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Link to article on CPEC website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;N. California Nonprofit Resource Centers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;li style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hafoundation.org/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Humboldt Area Foundation Rooney Resource Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rescenter.org/allstars/about_the_ebrc.html" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;East Bay Resource Center for Nonprofit Support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.volunteernow.org/resources.html" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Resource Center for Nonprofits, Sonoma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.grcnc.org/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Grant and Resource Center of Northern California&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://fdncenter.org/sanfrancisco/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;The Foundation Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.supportcenter.org/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Nonprofit Support Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cfscc.org/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Community Foundation of Santa Cruz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nprcenter.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;Sacramento Nonprofit Center&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;S. California Nonprofit Resource Centers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.npsolutions.org/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Nonprofit Management Solutions (NMS)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://volunteercenter.org/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Volunteer Center of Orange County&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnmsocal.org/index.html" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;The Center for Nonprofit Management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Nonprofit Services&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.compasspoint.org/index.html" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;CompassPoint&lt;/a&gt;, of special interest are the Genii and the Library&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.compumentor.org/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;CompuMentor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.npinfotech.org/tnopsi/index.htm" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;The Nonprofit Software Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techsoup.org/" style="color: #647499; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;TechSoup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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