Community Wealth focuses communities generating profit that can be used toward social change. Check out their Toolkit for some good articles, the Resources section for links to organizations and publications and sign up for an email conversation with other entrepreneurs.

Harvard Business School's Initiative on Social Enterprise focuses on non-profit organizations and socially reponsible efforts of the private sector. Their newsletter Social Enterprise People and Practice profiles organizations and individuals managing change.

Changemakers is a new on-line journal on social entrepreneurship from the Ashoka Foundation. For the first four months, the Journal arti cles will focus on best practices in the area of youth participation and development.

Check the Resource Center for Social Entrepreneurs created by the echoing green foundation.

Who Cares is a magazine developed as "a toolkit for social change." They offer a free full year trial subscription to new readers and they are always on the hunt for social ent repreneurs to write articles for the publication.

The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund offers resources on a particular twist on social entrepreneurism: non-profits starting their own businesses. Visit their Social Entrepreneur's Resource Page for more.

The Social Entrepreneurship Listserv is hosted by SERVEnet, a project of Youth Service America. This list is a discussion forum for people who have started their own non-profit organizations, including current participants in Youth Service America's Fund for Social Entrepreneurs.

There are things to learn from the private sector. Forbes has just launched Entrepreneurs, a new web area devoted to the small business community. Long-standing Forbes features like Starting Your Own Business and Entrepreneurs can be found here as well as the promise of new features devoted to start up, venture capital and trends. EntreWorld, is an on-line resource center for busi ness entrepreneurs sponsored by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

About.com offers a page of links devoted to the ins and outs of starting a non-profit.

Start and Run a Non-Profit comes from Shop2Give, an online shopping service that gives a percentage of what you spend to the non-profit of your choice.

NGO Cafe maintains Kickstart an NGO, a list of resources on starting and managing non-governmental organizations.

The regulations for setting up a non-profit vary from state to state. Some states, including Maryland and New Mexico, have information on the web.

Working Today, founded in 1995 by an echoing green fellow, advocates on behalf of the freelancers, independent contractors, entrepreneurs, temps, and contingent workers that make up the independent workforce. Working Today's goal is to build a nationwide constituency around the development of portable insurance plans, updated labor laws and an end to the double Social Security tax on independents.

The National Organizers Alliance has pioneered a pension program designed to help experienced organizers, especially women, remain in the field. Their program can also cover staff in a wide array of organizations doing progressive work.

The Artists' Health Insurance Resource Center provides information to the arts community to enable informed choices about individual and small business group health insurance options.

The Web is filled with resources and services for non-profits. More crop up each day. Here are a few we've found useful.

The Federal Government's Nonprofit Gateway is a great way to find government tools, opportunities and resources.

Although slanted for the San Francisco Bay community, Food for Thought, an email publication of the Support Center for Nonprofit Management, offers opportunities and a dvice useful to non-profits everywhere. Visit their web site to read back issues or to subscribe.

Nonprofit Online News is a service of The Gilbert Center. Their weekly email updates provide all kinds of tips and tools - particularly related to the Internet - useful to non-profits.

I Know offers a web database of resources for non-profits organized by areas including legal issues, fundraising, and strategic planning. A lot of well-organized information.

PhilanthropySearch.com contains information about charitable giving, volunteering and other nonprofit issues. It is designed to screen out irrelevant information, giving the user sites and information related only to the nonprofit sector, organizers say.

Information For and About Nonprofit Organizations combines several previously existing non-profit sites into one substantial resource. Look here for information on a dizzying array of issues facing non-profits.

Idealist, sponsored by Action Without Borders, seeks to create an international and comprehensive directory of volunteer and nonprofit resources on the Web. Idealist enables any nonprofit or community organization - whether it has a website or not - to use the Internet to post and update detailed information about its services, volunteer opportunities, jobs, internships, upcoming events, and any material or publication it has produced. Users can search by location, keyword or area of interest.

VolunteerMatch (founder and president is Jay Backstrand, Brown '90) is striving to become the web's largest database of volunteer opportunities. At no cost non-profits can post their volunteer positions and potential volunteers can search for an opportunity.

The Virtual Activist: A Training Course is a detailed set of information and links on using the internet to make change. Developed by Audrie Krause of NetAction, Judi Clark of WomensWork, and Michael Stein of Children Now.

Charity Village offers Online Publications for Nonprofits and a directory of Nonprofit Discussion Lists.