THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL POLICY AND PRACTICE at the University of Pennsylvania offers graduate programs in nonprofit leadership, social work, and social welfare. Its Master of Science in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership is a full-time course of study, focusing on core areas such as financial management, program design and strategic planning. Each student is assigned a mentor who is an executive in the nonprofit sector.

THE PENN NONPROFIT CERTIFICATE PROGRAM in Executive Administration, Program Administration and Fundraising has been developed to "equip nonprofit administrators with the strategies and skills necessary to survive in today's competitive environment." Instructors are both Penn and non-Penn professors with extensive nonprofit backgrounds.

THE NONPROFIT FINANCE FUND provides financial and advisory services to nonprofit organizations. These include loans for facilities and other growth-related projects; business analysis for organizations that want to evaluate their readiness for change; and small planning grants.

THE CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FUNDING aims to strengthen nonprofits working for social and economic justice. The center says it does this through "expanding the opportunities of these organizations to raise money in workplace campaigns including solicitations, matching funds and volunteer programs; promoting public awareness of activities, needs and contributions of the non-profit sector; research and education of funders on the needs of constituent organizations."

THE CENTER FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, a division of the Caring People Alliance, provides technical assistance to U.S.-based nonprofit and government agencies, such as progam and budget development, strategic planning, grant writing, computer training, and fiscal agency and oversight. The center says it also maintains an expertise in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia.

RUTGERS-CAMDEN LAW SCHOOL has courses on Nonprofit Organizations.

THE REFUGEE INITIATIVES PROJECT at Penn's Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict has a director (a native of Spain) who has collaborated with local and international NGOs for over a decade, formulating programs for different funding agencies and implementing psychosocial and community programs with survivors of violence in the Balkans, Magreb, West Africa, Latin America and Sri Lanka.

THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT has a professor who studies "evolving patterns of international economic governance focusing on international financial institutions and NGOs."

THE NONPROFIT CENTER AT LASALLE UNIVERSITY aids capacity-building by nonprofit organizations. It has workshops and consulting services in fundraising, board development, planning and evaluation, human resources, financial management, and other topics.

PHILADELPHIA'S YOUNG NONPROFIT LEADERS brings together people working for and with nonprofits, people looking for work with nonprofits, and people who are interested in the work done by nonprofits. It is a joint project of Action Without Borders-Idealist.org and The Nonprofit Center at LaSalle University.

COMMUNITY ACCOUNTANTS provides accounting-related services through volunteers to help nonprofit organizations become self-sufficient. CA trains nonprofits to maintain their own financial records and reports accurately. CA is a nonprofit funded entirely by foundations, corporations, and individual donations.

THE REGIONAL FOUNDATION CENTER provides fundraising resources to local nonprofit organizations to increase their capacity to obtain funding. The center contains print and electronic resources on general philanthropy, nonprofit management, foundations, and the funding research process.

TEAMING FOR TECHNOLOGY is an initiative sponsored by IBM, United Way, and the Corporation for National Service. It aims to increase the technological capacity of nonprofits in the administration and delivery of services, to ensure that individuals (particularly youth) in low-income communities have increased access to computers.

The program provides technology planning, hardware and software acquisition and installation, network configuration, website development and enhancement and other consultative services.

WHARTON COMMUNITY CONSULTANTS provides consulting and advisory services to nonprofit and community organizations in the region. The club is managed by Wharton MBA and undergraduate students who volunteer their time to "make a measurable impact on the success of promising nonprofits in the Greater Philadelphia area." Clients have included art, theater, youth, health and community development organizations.

VERITY FOUNDATION helps socially focused nonprofits by recruiting business volunteers with specialized skills. Verity says it staffs, trains and manages volunteer-driven project teams "to provide pro-bono marketing and technology services to non-profits with missions that support education, social benefit or the arts."