Non-Profit and Social Service Organization
Databases and Job Search Web Sites

ORGANIZATION DATABASES

Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Public Libraries Community Information Database

Santa Clara Country
Information and referral database for Santa Clara County health and social service agencies.

Monterey County
United Way of Monterey County has a list of 43 non-profits in the county that they fund. Click on “Find Help”

The Monterey County government site lists non-profits. Go the the main page and clink on non-profits section on the left hand side of the home page.

Bay Area and San Francisco
San Francisco Helplink/211 Information and Referral Center
A comprehensive online database for finding social services organizations in Bay Area cities and counties. The San Francisco Helplink/211 Call Center also provides information about social services. In the Bay area call: 1 800 273-6222. Outside of the Bay Area call: 415 808-4357

San Francisco and Bay Area Social Service Directory

SF Government Referral pages have links to both government and community agencies. Select “Health and Social Services” and “Related Residential Links”

Sacramento and San Francisco counties
Healthy City

San Mateo County
Community Information Page of the Peninsula Public Library

Contra Costa County
Costa County’s health and human service organizations database.

Sonoma County
A searchable database of agencies that focus on various issues in the Sonoma County area. Click on “Information and Referral”.

Los Angeles
LA charitable organizations/Social Services in southern California

A database of health and human services organizations in the LA area.

Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara county's comprehensive guide to social services organizations.

San Diego
http://www.informsandiego.com/
Click on “Resource Database” to find San Diego’s health and social service community database.

New York City
United Way of New York City has compiled detailed information on over 2,469 agencies, 15,050 programs and 7,042 location sites, ready to help. You may access the United Way CARESTM database quickly, confidentially and free-of-charge.

Nationwide
http://www.guidestar.org/search/
A national database of more than 700,000 U.S. nonprofit organizations searchable by city, state, keyword, name.

GENERAL NON-PROFIT JOB SITES

Craig's List, Nonprofit Jobs (Bay Area based community bulletin board, that posts nonprofit job openings, among other things)
California Association of Nonprofits - California Nonprofits Career Center
Career Builder (Search under “Nonprofit” and desired location)
Chronicle of Philanthropy
Community Career Center
Deep Sweep
DotOrgJobs ( A number of job categories in non-profit to search on including “recent grad”)
Human Services Career Network
Idealist (You can subscribe to receive daily mailings of nonprofit jobs and internships)
NonprofitOyster
Non-profit Times
Nonprofit Career Network (Listings of jobs in the non-profit sector)
Nonprofit Jobs Cooperative
Opportunities NOC’s (A great resource for nonprofit employment opportunities)
SocialService.com (Great social service jobs site)
Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit community job announcements)

SPECIFIC NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

AmeriCorps
Habitat for Humanity
Peace Corps
Planned Parenthood (Positions with both Planned Parenthood of America and with affiliates)
Red Cross Careers

SPECIFIC TYPES OF NON-PROFIT JOBS

American Society of Association Executives
Energize Job Internship Databank for Volunteer Managers
Feminist Majority Foundation On-Line Homepage (Scroll down and select “Career Center Jobs”. Lists jobs with feminist and progressive organizations nation wide.)
National Youth Development Information Center (Jobs and internships in youth development agencies)
Philanthropy New Network Online (Generally lists fund raising/development positions in non-profits)
Philanthropy News Digest (Generally lists fund raising/development positions in non-profits)
Public Health Employment Connection

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Volunteer Match (volunteer opportunities nationwide)

 

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