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The Council of European Rare Disease Federations provides a platform for the exchange of experiences and information across federations working for different diseases or group of diseases.
Resources
The 50 Most Generous Philanthropists
To measure what donors have given or pledged over the past five years, a team of reporters spends months conducting interviews and scouring databases, news reports, and foundation filings. For consistency, we count pledges in full at the time they’re … Read More
Funds for NGOs
fundsforngos.org is an online initiative, working for the sustainability of NGOs by increasing their access to donors, resources, and skills. It uses technology to spread knowledge and increase capacity. NGOs around the world all face unique challenges in attracting and … Read More
How Do Nonprofits Raise the Funds They Need?
http://nonprofit.about.com/ http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fundraising/u/happydonors.htm Fundraising is the meat and potatoes of a nonprofit. Luckily there are a lot of choices about how to go about it. Find out the best ways and match the right ones to your organization. Fundraising online, fundraising … Read More
Third-party financial evaluations
Find a charity you can trust: Charity Navigator, an independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the Financial Health and Accountability and Transparency of America’s largest charities. http://www.charitynavigator.org/
Getting donors online
http://www1.networkforgood.org/ Get Donors Online Our Fundraising Services (http://www1.networkforgood.org/for-nonprofits/fundraising) Network for Good is here to give you all the tools (and moral support) that you need to fundraise online. And we do it all for less with no hidden fees. Free … Read More
Transparency and charitable giving
GuideStar To revolutionize philanthropy and nonprofit practice by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving. www.guidestar.org They gather and publicize information about nonprofit organizations. Our reach is far and wide. The database … Read More
Pharmaceutical companies giving
We invite you to look into each of these areas of possible funding. Pharmaceutical companies (as well as device manufacturers) quite often are interested in giving to Patient Organisations, and as we are concerned with International Patient Groups here, we … Read More
Foundations by country – Europe
Finland Members Listing. Council of Finnish Foundations. Listing of 40 grantmaking foundations and associations, with some Internet links. http://www.skr.fi/spalvelu/council France The Foundation Jean Jaurès Germany German Foundation Index Provides links to more than 1,200 homepages of German foundations. The site … Read More
Books on philanthropy (European and other)
At http://www.nefic.org/content/news you can download Philanthropy in Europe Philanthropy in Europe has been largely neglected. A book, Philanthropy in Europe – a rich past, a promising future, edited by Norine MacDonald and Luc Tayart de Borms, will start to fill … Read More
Searching for grants in Europe
European Foundation Centre http://www.efc.be/NewsKnowledge/Pages/ForGrantseekers.aspx (They did lots of work and papers until 2007 and since then, much less. http://www.efc.be/NewsKnowledge/Pages/FoundationsInTheEU/FoundationsintheEU-2001.aspx and http://www.efc.be/NewsKnowledge/Pages/FoundationsInTheEU/ComparativeMapOfFoundationSectorEU.aspx There is an Annual ERNOP Conference 2011 (08/12/2010) Philanthropy and Civil Society: European and Transnational Perspectives Organised by: European Research … Read More