House Representative André Carson, representing Indiana’s 7th Congressional District, offers an extensive General Guide to Government Funding, listing a wide variety of funding, training and other resources for nonprofit organizations throughout the state, regardless of their home congressional districts.
Serve Indiana provides resources, training and guidance to nonprofit organizations, and operates Volunteer Centers in many Hoosier cities in partnership with local United Way offices (see United Way Chapter link below).
The Indiana Arts Commission is in charge of distributing grant awards and program support to arts organizations and artists in cities around the state.
United Way Chapters – Indiana Nonprofit Resource Network provides a list of information and training opportunities to UW members and their nonprofit partner organizations.
Association of Fundraising Professionals – Indiana State is a network of more than 370 professional fundraisers providing monthly education luncheons, brown bag series, ongoing networking events, a mentor program, and ongoing career support.
Charitable Allies, based in Indianapolis, is a nonprofit law firm that provides legal services to nonprofits nationwide, plus free educational resources such as its blog, webinars and podcast.
Charitable Advisors is a for-profit, social-purpose business that is focused on strengthening the nonprofit sector by increasing communications, sharing information about area nonprofits, highlighting national news, creating a one-stop nonprofit jobs portal and offering consulting services that help boards build sustainability and bridge leadership transitions. C.A. charges a small fee for each of its various services.
AmeriCorps – Indiana distributes scholarships and manages volunteer activities within the AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps Seniors programs; in Indiana, AmeriCorps State grants are run by Serve Indiana. Interested in hosting a few of their participants? Click on the link above and give them a call.
Fractured Atlas – Indiana provides Fiscal Sponsorship support to arts organizations such as the Magic Thread Cabaret in Indianapolis and the Ballet Theatre of Indiana in Carmel.
The Fund Raising School – Indiana University operates within the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University Indianapolis. They offer 18 courses to develop your professional fundraising skills, and they confer Certificates in Nonprofit Executive Leadership and in Fundraising Management to individuals who complete their programs.
Hoosiers by the Numbers focuses specifically on labor market information for Indiana. These statistics are particularly helpful for schools and nonprofit job training and community re-entry programs.
Indiana State Library runs a Grants Portal for Indiana Libraries with library-focused grants, federal grant registries, foundation sources and how-to-get-grants resources.
The Nonprofit Alliance of Monroe County, a program of United Way of South Central Indiana, serving the counties of Owen & Greene as well, strengthens the nonprofit sector through communication, collaboration, professional development, outreach and a list of available grants in the area. Cities they support include Bean Blossom, Benton, Bloomington, Clear Creek, Ellettsville, Harrodsburg, Indian Creek, Perry, Polk, Richland, Salt Creek, Stinesville, Van Buren, Washington and several other towns and townships.
The Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center in Allen County provides a variety of training and resources designed to enrich the strengths of its local nonprofit organizations in the cities of Fort Wayne, Leo-Cedarville, Huntertown, Harlan, Monroeville, Hoagland, New Haven, Woodburn, Grabill and Aboite.
SAVI (The Polis Center’s Social Assets and Vulnerabilities Indicators Program) is another free online resource providing data focused on the central Indiana counties of Boone, Brown, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Morgan, Putnam and Shelby. Along with the data, SAVI provides the tools to visualize and analyze the data for nonprofit strategy development and proposal writing preparation. Statistics include historical and current data on Poverty, Education, Housing, Crime, Population and Community Assets.
STATS Indiana provides easy, one-stop, online access to critical statistics for counties, cities, towns, townships, regions, census tracts and more within the state.
