Multi Disciplinary Resource

Independent Sector

1200 Eighteenth St., NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC  20036
Phone: (202) 467-6100
Fax: (202) 467-6101
Website: www.independentsector.org
Email: info@IndependentSector.org

Primary Function of Organization:
Advocacy, Education, Funding, Non-profit Management, Research

Likely groups interested in this resource:
Arts Administrators, Community Organization Administrators

Independent Sector is the only national forum that brings together foundations, corporate giving programs, and nonprofit organizations to strengthen the nonprofit sector. Independent Sector members include many of the nation's leading foundations, prominent and far-reaching nonprofits of all sizes and Fortune 500 corporations with strong commitments to community involvement. Since its founding in 1980, the Independent Sector coalition has had an enormous impact on strengthening public policy related to nonprofit organizations, improving accountability and disclosure, building a body of research about the sector, and education policymakers and the public about the important role of the nonprofit sector in a vibrant democracy. The INDEPENDENT SECTOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE is the only national forum for foundations, corporate giving programs, and nonprofit organizations to come together as equal partners to exchange ideas and explore strategies to strengthen not-for-profit initiative. Also provides: publications, research, regional networking events, seminars.