Releases

Community Visions, Community Solutions: Grantmaking for Comprehensive Impact emphasizes a grantmaking process that helps funders focus on creating lasting solutions to persistent problems. $35 plus $4.50 shipping. Bookkeeping Basics: What Every Nonprofit Bookkeeper Needs to Know provides step-by-step instructions, forms and definitions of terms to guide the novice nonprofit bookkeeper. $22 plus $4 shipping. Order online at www.wilder.org/pubs, or call 800/274-6024. Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 919 Lafond Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55104.

From Obstacles to Opportunities, v.1.0 chronicles the challenges facing funders who support nonprofits with technology-related grantmaking. The study identifies opportunities for individual funders or collaborating foundations and pinpoints six core elements of strategic technology grantmaking. Free download: www.summitcollaborative.com. Summit Collaborative, 61 Lincoln Avenue, Amherst, MA 01002.

Giving Until It Hurts—Coping with a Tough Economy examines creative strategies that individual donors and foundations are using to help their nonprofit partners in these tough times. Generations of Giving: An Interim Report summarizes initial findings on governance and continuity from a study of 30 multigenerational family foundations. $20 each or $50 for a year's subscription to Passages series. Call 202/293-3424 or visit http://ncfp.org/publications-passages.html. National Center for Family Philanthropy, 1818 N Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20036.

Building Relationships in Health: How Philanthropy and Government Can Work Together is a practical guide for health grantmakers and policymakers seeking to forge productive partnerships, with a focus on the elements that lead to strong collaboration across sectors. Free download: www.gih.org/usr_doc/gih_build_relations.pdf. Grantmakers In Health, 1100 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20036.

Among other resources, HIV/AIDS Philanthropy: History and Current Parameters 1981–2000 includes a guide to funding in AIDS, lists of the top HIV/AIDS funders, and information on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Free download: www.fcaaids.org/spotlight/030326.html. Funders Concerned About AIDS, 50 East 42nd Street, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10017.

Reflections On Communications Strategies That Accent Grantees encourages discussion and reflection about how communications can further grantmakers' goals and highlight grantees' achievements. Free download: www.tcwf.org/reflections/2003/feb. The California Wellness Foundation, 6320 Canoga Avenue, Suite 1700, Woodland Hills, CA 91367.

Across the Great Divide: People, Places & Poverty in the Northwest Area Foundation's Region, explores the demographic and economic situation of the people in eight states between 1990 and 2000, including the effects of population shifts. Free download: www.nwaf.org/pubs/Nothdruft.pdf. Northwest Area Foundation, 60 Plato Boulevard East, Suite 400, St. Paul, MN 55107.

Sixteen young activists are profiled in the inaugural volume of Youth In Action: Profiles of Youth Leading Change Around the World. The publication tells the stories of the first grantees of YouthActionNet, a youth-led website launched by the International Youth Foundation and Nokia as part of the Make a Connection program. Free download: www.makeaconnection.org/pdf/yan_textcover.pdf. YouthActionNet, International Youth Foundation, 32 South Street, Suite 500, Baltimore, MD 21202.

In The Law of Intermediate Sanctions: A Guide for Nonprofits, Bruce R. Hopkins explains the federal tax law on intermediate sanctions, including the influence of laws concerning private foundation self-dealing. $45. Order online at: www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471224022,00.html or call 800/274-6024. In the eighth edition of The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Hopkins offers guidance on federal regulations and laws governing nonprofit organizations. $210. Order online at: www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471268208,00.html. Wiley, 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030.

—Paula J. Kelly