Useful Websites

• Aid for Africa
  
• American Institute of Philanthropy
• Better Business Bureau for Charities and Donors
• Bolder Giving
• Causecast
  
• Charity Fraud (government site)
• Charity Guide
• Charity Navigator
  
• Do Something
  
• The Foundation Center
  
• GiveWell
  
• GlobalGiving
  
• GreatNonprofits
  
• Guidestar
  
• HelpFromHome
  
• Idealist.org - The Nonprofit FAQ
  
• Jolkona Foundation
  
• JustGive
  
• Learning to Give
  
• Network for Good
  
• Philanthropedia
  
• Protecting Yourself from Online Scams
  
• We Are What We Do

Recommended Reading

• I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, by Eve Ensler
• Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell
• Sold, by Patricia Mccormick
• Shalom India Housing Society, by Esther David
• Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village, by James Maskalyk
• The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, by Patrick Radden Keefe.
• Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, by Helen Thorpe 
• Say You're One of Them, by Uwem Akpan
• Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town, by Nick Reding
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick
• A Thousand Hills to Heaven:Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda, by Josh Ruxin
• The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism, by Naoki Higashida
• Bingo's Run, by James A. Levine
• I am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
• Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome, by Reba Riley
• Lost Canyon, by Nina Revoyr

PHILANTHROPY

• A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity, by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn

• Give a Little: How your small donations can transform our world, by Wendy Smith
• Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, by Greg Mortenson
• The Generosity Plan, by Kathy LeMay
• A Kids Guide to Giving, by Freddi Zeiler
• 31 Ways to Change the World, by We Are What We Do
• The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World, Idealist.org with Stephanie Land
• How to Be an Everyday Philanthropist, by Nicole Bouchard Boles
• Quilting for Peace, by Katherine Bell