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The Nonprofit Resource & Training Center

The Nonprofit Resource & Training Center provides information, resources, referral, and training for nonprofit organizations throughout the greater Hartford area including Windham and New Britain.

Click here for Grant Alert Plus, a periodic compilation of grants available for nonprofits.

 Click here for a very good article on Outcomes Now More Than Ever from the training calendar of the Technical Development Corporation (TDC) in Boston. Reprinted with permission.

Click here for technical assistance for nonprofits in Greater Hartford.


For a printer-friendly guide to state and federal requirements to become a charitable nonprofit and how to maintain that status, click here.


The library at the Nonprofit Resource & Training Center offers:

  • a collection of books, audio, videotapes and online resources.
  • Internet access and assistance in finding the most current online resources.
  • Current issues of the latest periodicals, such as The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Non-Profit Times, and Grassroots Fundraising Journal.
  • Updated information on Connecticut and national foundations and corporate giving programs 
  • Information on nonprofit management training opportunities from Boston to New York.
  • Some postings of career opportunities at local nonprofit organizations.

For more information or to schedule a visit to the Nonprofit Resource & Training Center, email Marsha Mason at mmason@uwcact.org or call (860) 493-1120.
First time visitors are encouraged to call for an orientation.

Please call for an appointment if you would like to visit the Resource Centers at our affiliate offices in Willimantic or New Britain.

Resource Center hours (Hartford only):
Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Closed holidays and weekends.

Online Resources

The Independent Sector is encouraging all nonprofits to adopt and follow a code of ethics. Tools and guidance are available on their web site which has a compendium of nonprofit standards which have been adopted by a variety of types of nonprofits and a 30-page publication: Obedience to the Unenforceable: Ethics and the Nation’s Voluntary and Philanthropic Community. www.IndependentSector.org .

 Johns Hopkins Research Report on the State of the Nonprofit Sector in CT

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