Foundation Center's List: Consultants

Lists recommended steps to take toward setting up an independent consulting business.

Provides advice for those considering becoming consultants, as well as answers to frequently-asked questions about working independently with nonprofits. NOTE: This is an archived version of the original page.

ACN is a Chicago-area membership association of consultants serving nonprofits and community-based organizations.

The Grant Professionals Association (formerly the American Association of Grant Professionals) serves grant developers who work for public or private organizations. The Web site has information about the organization, including a code of ethics and credentialing; useful articles about grantseeking; newsletters, journals, a place to exchange documents with other members and links to Web sites that contain information related to educational grant writing.

Links to many resources that cover: understanding consultants and consulting; working as a consultant; hiring consultants; requests for proposals; proposals and contracts; and general resources.

AFP is an international professional association for both individuals and organizations. Through its membership it seeks to foster philanthropy and advance fundraising best practices.

About the Advanced Certified Fundraising Executive (ACFRE) program including eligibility for application, portfolio, written examination, and oral peer review

Offers comprehensive legal resources for nonprofit groups. Can be searched by jurisdiction (state) or topic.

You want the insights and perspective of others, yet you don't want decisions to be undermined by endless discussion. Here's tips for when to use insiders and when to use outsiders to help inform different types of decisions. NOTE: This is an archived version of the original page.

A descriptive listing of web sites and other resources with directories of consultants or other useful information.

PND Classifieds puts grantseekers, grantmakers, and other nonprofit executives in touch with a wide array of products and services of interest to the nonprofit sector.

A key mission of AFP is to advance and foster the highest ethical standards through its Code of Ethical Principles and Standards. Find them all here.

AFP believes very strongly that percentage based compensation is a bad idea for a number of reasons. It enumerates those reasons in this 2008 position paper prepared by the AFP Ethics Committee.

Succinct advice by Derrick Feldmann, president and CEO, and Dave Sternberg, vice president, of Achieve, a consulting firm for small to medium-sized nonprofits. Published July 31, 2009.

Tips on how to find and hire a company or consultant for your website project, from the 2007 Bay Area Drupal Camp. Although the tips focus on hiring someone with open-source Drupal content management system, many of them pertain to hiring a consultant for

Free matching service to find lawyers in your city or county based on the specifics of your case and the lawyer's location and area of legal practice. Consumers are under no obligation to hire an attorney and choose from lawyers who are pre-screened to guarantee they are licensed and in good standing with their state bar association.

Lots of legal advice, provided by lawyers on a range of topics for the nonprofit community.

Lists nonprofit legal service providers for individuals and organizations for 16 states. Choose your state from the list on this page.

Lists providers of pro bono legal services to nonprofits in these states: CA, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, MA, MD, MI, MN, NJ, NY, PA, TX, VA, WA.

Corporate Pro Bono (CPBO), a national pro bono partnership project of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and the Pro Bono Institute, is the premier resource for legal departments and in-house attorneys interested in doing legal pro bono work.