ONLINE RESOURCES

Below are links to a number of organizations and online resources providing helpful information about philanthropy.

Planned Giving Design Center
Provides legal, tax and financial advisors with authoritative information on the topics of charitable taxation and charitable gift planning so they may better assist their clients in accomplishing their philanthropic, financial and estate planning objectives.

NewTithing.org
Home of the PrudentPal Charitable Giving Calculator used to conservatively determine appropriate charitable giving.

Give.org
Created by the Better Business Bureau and National Charities Information Bureau.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy
"The Newspaper of the Nonprofit World," offering some of the most up-to-date and of-interest reports on charitable giving and philanthropic trends.

Greatorgs.com
A collection of links administered by Northern California Planned Giving Council to estate, financial planning and gift planning organizations in the Bay Area.

CFP Financial Planners Standards Council
Your online resource for information about CFP™ certificants and the financial planning profession.

Leave a Legacy
A community-based program to help people learn about charitable giving through a will or from an estate.

State Bar of California

The Internal Revenue Service

California Board of Accountancy

Planned Giving and Estate Planning Councils
Santa Clara County Estate Planning Council
San Francisco Estate Planning Council
Northern California Planned Giving Council
Financial Planning Association
Financial Planning Forum

Nonprofit Organizations and Grantmaking Resources
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services

The Foundation Center
Northern California Grantmakers Association