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The small professional machinery that holds the sector together
The Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center: In October 1982 the Allen County Public Library established the Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center in its Readers' Services department (the library's own history is in the Libraries leg) — a Foundation Center Cooperating Collection, today a Candid Funding Information Network partner — to collect, organize and share information on foundations, nonprofit organizations and corporate giving, free to the sector. It is funded through the Foellinger Foundation and the Paul Clarke Endowment held at the Community Foundation. Its signature program, Get On Board, launched in January 2012 with Young Leaders of Northeast Indiana on a Foellinger Foundation grant, recruits and trains young professionals for nonprofit board service — the pipeline through which much of the sector's governance renews itself.
The fundraisers' chapter: The Northeast Indiana chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals — about fifty-five fundraising professionals on its own profile — serves the development staff of the region's nonprofits; its IPFW collegiate chapter, formed in 2005, was among the first two collegiate chapters in the international association. The chapter runs the local National Philanthropy Day celebration and was named both a Ten Star Gold Chapter and an IDEA Champion by AFP Global in 2022. With the Community Foundation it has co-offered a Certificate in Fundraising Management cohort for local fundraisers. The Alliance for Human Services (2016; above, in the 2018 count) completes the triangle: a resource center for knowledge, a chapter for the fundraising profession, an alliance for the human-service agencies themselves.
Sources:
- Allen County Public Library, "Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center" (acpl.lib.in.us) — established October 1982; the Foundation Center cooperation; funding through the Foellinger Foundation and the Paul Clarke Endowment; Business People, 24 January 2012, and BoardSource, 2014 — Get On Board's launch with Young Leaders of Northeast Indiana on a Foellinger grant.
- AFP Northeast Indiana Chapter (afpnein.org) — chapter profile (55 fundraising professionals); AFP Global, news release, 12 April 2022 — the chapter's Ten Star Gold and IDEA Champion designations; Association of Fundraising Professionals, 2005 annual report — the IPFW collegiate chapter among the first two collegiate chapters formed; AFP Northeast Indiana event listings, 2026 — the Certificate in Fundraising Management cohort run through the Community Foundation.