• Users can add, rate and comment on the capacity resources of nonprofit organizations similar to rating a book on Amazon.com. The real uniquness of the system is this peer review of resources.
  
• When searching the database, user ratings and the popularity of the links are actually taken into account in the order that 'found' items are displayed to the user, similar to google.
  

• Capaciteria is easy to navigate and looks like Microsoft's popular Windows XP desktop.
  
  
• There is a forum or message board connected to each resource directory that allows users to ask each other questions about the particular topic.
  
  
• Significant effort has been made in collecting the resources that are often most desirable and sought after: nonprofit jobs, donation and in-kind resources, philanthropy resources, advocacy resources and volunteer resources in addition to the categories like financial mangement and accounting, evaluation, telcommunications, human resources and a variety of other catagories of resources that were added.
  
• For those with a commitment to open source applications, while Capaciteria looks very much like a Microsoft XP product it is in fact entirely designed using open source tools and the code has been modified to mak it look appealing.
  
• Foundations, nonprofits, associations, governments, academics and corporations searching for ideas related to not for profit capactity resources will all find this site useful.

Capaciteria's real utility to you is in its utility to others -- and the commitment people make to rating or commenting on a neat link they find here or in adding a new useful one.

• Sure it's nice to have an easily searcheable directory of useful, targetted links. It's a lot nicer however when someone else has been here before you and takes the opportunity to give their opinion or rating regarding a link -- or places a useful question or peice of information in the forum that you can benefit from keep that in mind before departing Capaciteria and leaving your oppinions for colleagues in the field. It's a very easy way to make this resource that much more useable.
  
• The idea behind Capaciteria is for others to add useful nonprofit capacity and administrative support links. You have to start somewhere though, and to make Capaciteria useful from the outset, almost a thousand unrated links to useful sites were entered.

Below is a list of the categories of information that Capaciteria is tracking in its searcheable database: