The Communities of Practice Workshop Resource Guide [PDF] contains information about initiating, funding, and managing communities of practice.

CPsquare is a diverse community of practitioners that has gathered to share knowledge and build a practice around their passion for and belief in the potential of communities of practice as a vehicle for positive organizational and world change.

About.com provides information on grant proposal writing geared for not for profit entities, also includes information on foundations and non-profit management.

Author Etienne Wenger gives a brief introduction to communities of practice.

Infed.org explores informal education, lifelong learning and social action. This link features the proceedings from a conference on informal education within a formal setting.

Funderstanding’s mission is to help educators design better programs and products that engage learners fully, where the learning process is fun, meaningful, deep, and long lasting. This is their take on communities of practice.

From the Education Resources Information Center: Conceptual Analysis and Research Questions: Do the Concepts of "Learning Community" and "Community of Practice" Provide Added Value? (Click on the "ERIC Full Text" link to read the PDF.)

This page from Anecdote deals with stories of communities of practice.

Richard McDermott's article [PDF], Knowing in Community, outlines ten factors crucial in building a community of practice.