The Grant Seeker's Handbook: A Guide to Finding Funds
Appendix C

SOURCES OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

Center for Nonprofit Management
Nonprofit Resource Library
1000 N. Alameda Street, Suite 250
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 687-9511
Web site: www.cnmsocal.org

The Center for Nonprofit Management fosters healthy neighborhoods and communities by improving the performance of nonprofit organizations addressing critical issues and serving underserved populations.

Established in 1979 by the corporate and foundation community, the Center for Nonprofit Management helps nonprofit organizations more effectively fulfill their missions by:

• Guiding Nonprofits to Critical Information
  
• Developing Nonprofit Leadership and Management Skills
  
• Counseling Organizations Through Change
  
• Building Human Capital: Finding and Keeping the Right People
  
• Promoting Collaboration and Communication
  

The Center for Nonprofit Management’s programs include:

• Knowledge and Information Services: Our Nonprofit Resource Library and Nonprofit Manager’s Helpline provide free, accurate and timely information and resources to help nonprofits make decisions.
  
  
• Professional Development Training: Our management seminars train nonprofit leaders in various aspects of management, including supervision, board development, fundraising, finance, technology and evaluation.
  
  
• Consulting Services: Our experienced consultants work closely with boards of directors, management, and staff to help them with strategic planning, team building and other strategic, organization-wide activities.
  
  
• Nonprofit Sector Labor Support: Our weekly jobs newsletter Nonprofit Directions and annual Compensation & Benefits Survey help organizations recruit qualified employees and compensate them fairly.
  
  
• Research and Publications: The Center has produced several original reports (available for free download from our web site), such as studies of the technology needs of Los Angeles nonprofits and of the effects of the economy on local nonprofits, as well as books including The Nonprofit Answer Book and Building and Maintaining an Effective Board of Directors .
  

Our Knowledge and Information services are free and our fees for other services are set on a sliding scale to help make them accessible to organizations of all sizes.

California Association of Nonprofits (CAN®)
520 South Grand Avenue, Suite 695
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(213) 347-2070
Web site: www.CAnonprofits.org
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Executive Director: Flo Green

The California Association of Nonprofits (CAN), a statewide membership organization of over 1,700 diverse nonprofits, is dedicated to protecting, strengthening and promoting nonprofit organizations in our state.

CAN’s mission is to promote, strengthen and advance the influence, professionalism, accountability and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations in a manner that builds their capacity to accomplish their missions and preserves the idealism and value of nonprofit organizations in California.

Benefits and services for Members include the Alert newsletter, a Manager’s Helpline, the CAN Policy Council, which gives nonprofits a powerful voice in public policy decisions, various conferences and seminars, special insurance coverage and other discounts and special services for nonprofits.

California Community Foundation
445 South Figueroa Street, Suite 3400
Los Angeles, CA 90071-1638
(213) 413-4130
Web site: www.calfund.org
President & CEO: Antonia Hernández
Executive Vice President: Joe Lumarda

Established in 1915, the California Community Foundation’s mission is to build one community out of many by matching acts of caring to community needs. A nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, the foundation administers charitable funds for a broad cross-section of individuals, corporations and nonprofit organizations.

Named by Peter Drucker in Forbes magazine as one of the 10 best-managed nonprofit organizations in America, the community foundation offers uniquely flexible and innovative philanthropic services that appeal to people and organizations of both wealth and modest means.

Nonprofit organizations that have come to believe that endowment building is important to their long-term stability can set up a fund at the California Community Foundation. The organization can arrange to receive the income from the fund, or have it roll back into the fund over time, while benefiting from the lower fees and costs resulting from the foundation’s economies of scale.

Through its primary funding initiative, “Nurturing Neighborhoods/Building Community,” the California Community Foundation addresses the essential elements to maintaining healthy and independent lives for at-risk populations in Los Angeles, particularly those who face barriers and discrimination due to language, economic situation, culture or sexual orientation. The community foundation funds programs that strengthen and expand economic opportunities, revitalize neighborhoods, build healthy communities and improve early academic achievement.

Through a number of other initiatives and specified funds, the California Community Foundation also makes grants to individual artists, arts organizations, health facilities, community-based nonprofit groups, environmental agencies and many more nonprofit service providers throughout Los Angeles County.

California Lawyers for the Arts
1641 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 998-5590
Web site: www.calawyersforthearts.org
Executive Director: Alma Robinson
Program Coordinator: Audrey Greenberg

California Lawyers for the Arts, a statewide nonprofit legal services and information organization, offers numerous programs to assist artists of all disciplines. Arts Arbitration and Mediation Services offers an amicable, inexpensive, and expedient means to resolve disputes outside of court. The Lawyer Referral Service provides referrals to attorneys experienced in art-related business and legal matters. The Educational Programs offer workshops, seminars and clinics to provide artists with basic business and legal information. A speaker’s bureau makes C.L.A. lecturers available to other organizations and schools. Two offices in the Bay Area offer similar services.

Center for Cultural Innovation
244 S. San Pedro Street, #401
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 687-8577
Fax: (213) 687-8578
Web site: www.cci2002.org
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Board Chair: Cora Mirikitani
President: Judith Luther Wilder

The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) was launched in 2001 as a next-generation financial and management support center for self employed artists, small arts businesses and the nonprofit arts sector, focusing on the needs of artists and creative entrepreneurs. Established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, CCI provides high-end, responsive business training, incubation, and financial services to a wide range of self-employed artists and the small and mid-sized arts and entertainment businesses and nonprofit organizations that constitute a $53 billion industry nationwide.

Community Partners
1000 N Alameda St, Suite 240
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 346-3207
Web site: www.communitypartners.org/
Executive Director: Paul Vandeventer

Community Partners serves as an engine for charitable sector leadership, innovation and excellence with an eye toward building a sustainable nonprofit infrastructure in Southern California. To this end, we act as an incubator for and provide technical assistance to organizations and projects in emergent and transitional phases of development. Our services include project sponsorship, financial and administrative management, and consultation in areas such as board development, organizational and program planning, budgeting, evaluation and grantseeking. Currently, approximately 170 projects operate within our incubator, receiving fiscal sponsorship and a full complement of other services, including individualized technical assistance and access to a specially designed training curriculum. Community Partners is a way for projects in their early stages of development to overcome the frustrating delays that often accompany incorporating and applying for tax exemption. This allows groups to use precious start-up energies to focus on developing their program rather than jumping through administrative and legal hoops. We assist the leaders of our projects, as well as leaders of organizations outside the umbrella, in establishing the management capability necessary to achieve their objectives.

Executive Service Corps of Southern California
520 South Lafayette Park Place, Suite 210
Los Angeles, CA 90057
(213) 381-2891
Web site: www.escsc.org/
Executive Director: Megan G. Cooper
Associate Director: Barrie Segall

The Executive Service Corps (ESC) is an organization of more than 125 retired executives who are available to help solve management and organizational problems. These volunteer consultants are recruited for short- and long-term projects to assess needs and offer assistance on a wide variety of management issues. ESC consultants are also available to serve on nonprofit boards through the ESC Board Bank and to serve as board coaches to nonprofit agency boards.

Info Line
Information and Referral Federation of Los Angeles County
P.O. Box 726
San Gabriel, CA 91776
(626) 350-1841
Executive Director: Maribel Marin

Info Line helps Los Angeles County residents find and access essential health and human services quickly and efficiently. Info Line’s highly skilled multi-lingual, multicultural information specialists are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing referrals in English, Spanish and 160 other languages. Services also are provided for the hearing impaired. In addition, Info Line provides information on job training and on alternative transportation for people with disabilities, and operates the Cold Weather Shelter Hotline and the county’s Elder Abuse Reporting Hotline. The toll-free numbers for Info Line are as follows:

Los Angeles: (323) 686-0950
San Fernando Valley: (818) 501-4447
Burbank/Glendale: (818) 956-1100
San Gabriel Valley: (626) 350-6833
West Los Angeles: (310) 551-2929
South Bay/Long Beach: (310) 603-8962
Airport Area: (310) 671-7464
Other L.A. County: (800) 242-4612
TTD (for the Deaf): (800) 242-4026

Legal Aid Foundation
Main Office (West)
1102 S. Crenshaw Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90019
(323) 801-7989
Fax: (323) 801-7921
Web site: www.lafla.org

As Los Angeles’ frontline law firm for low-income people, the Legal Aid Foundation promotes access to justice, strengthens communities, combats discrimination and effects systemic change through representation, advocacy and community education. Support-staff work in the community in a variety of ways.

Lodestar Management/Research, Inc.
315 W. 9th Street, Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 891-1113
Web site: www.lmresearch.com/main.html
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President: Morgan Lyons, Ph.D.

Founded in 1985, Lodestar is a research and management assistance firm based in downtown Los Angeles. Lodestar’s mission is to improve the capacity of organizations to fund, plan, administer or deliver services to individuals, families, communities and society.

Our clients are community-based organizations, government agencies, schools and private foundations. We offer services in a number of areas, including program and organizational evaluation, community research and program development. Since its formation, Lodestar has provided these services to client organizations in a variety of fields including a number of different social services, health care, education and criminal justice.

Nonprofit Resource Center of the Volunteer Center Orange County
1901 E. 4th Street, Suite 100
Santa Ana, CA 92705
(714) 953-5757
Web site: www.volunteercenter.org
Director: Carol R. Stone

The Nonprofit Resource Center provides a wide variety of services to those individuals and groups involved with nonprofit organizations throughout Orange County. It is primarily designed to improve and enhance the administrative, managerial and programmatic capabilities of nonprofit organizations and their staff. Major services include: weekly seminars, the resource library, consulting and a nonprofit management Core Competency Certificate.

The Volunteer Center Resource Library contains an extensive collection of books, periodicals, handouts and audiovisual materials on all aspects of volunteerism, nonprofit administration, board development, fundraising and funding research information. Current listings on nonprofit job openings are also available.

Other Volunteer Center programs refer groups and individuals of all ages for volunteering in nonprofit organizations, assist corporations with employee volunteering, administer court-ordered community service volunteering, aid nonprofits in the recruitment of board members, host yearly county-wide volunteer recognition events, and provide low-income seniors with subsidized job training opportunities in area nonprofits.

Public Counsel
601 S. Ardmore Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90005
(213) 385-2977
Web site: www.publiccounsel.org
Executive Director: Steven Nissen

Public Counsel’s Community Development Project (CDP) is committed to supporting community-based organizations and businesses that strengthen low-income and underserved Los Angeles neighborhoods. CDP maintains a network of hundreds of volunteer attorneys specializing in corporate and transactional law. We match attorneys from this network with qualified nonprofit organizations and microbusinesses that require legal assistance. CDP staff and volunteers provide assistance on a matter-by-matter basis and do not provide ongoing or litigation assistance. Legal services range from helping start-ups incorporate and obtain tax-exemption to helping established organizations and microbusinesses as they evolve and develop different legal needs on matters such as contracts, financing agreements, intellectual property and employment issues. Nonprofits and microbusinesses may receive free legal help if their mission and work benefit low-income individuals or communities. CDP has an application process to determine eligibility. Information is available through our Intake Line at (213) 385-2977, x200. We review applicants based on their charitable mission, ongoing or expected viability, and their ability to pay for legal services without impairing operations. In addition to direct legal services, CDP also provides free seminars and publications on substantive legal topics relevant to both nonprofits and microbusinesses. An updated list of seminars and more information on our services is available on our website at www.publiccounsel.org.

Volunteer Center of Los Angeles
8134 Van Nuys Boulevard, #200
Panorama City, CA 91402-4801
(818) 908-5066
Fax: (818) 908-5147
Web site: www.vcla.net
Executive Director: Jim Leahy

Volunteer Center of Los Angeles is a nonprofit organization responsible for the recruitment, placement, training and recognition of volunteers. It provides volunteer information for both public and private agencies in all phases of health, education and cultural services. The Center offers consulting in volunteer management and program development, in addition to technical assistance for corporations wishing to establish employee volunteer programs. A research library on all aspects of volunteerism is also available.

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