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by Peg Elliott, Librarian
| If you are looking for: Help in locating potential funders for your nonprofit agency? Writing a grant proposal? Management tips or how to structure a solid fundraising campaign? Trends in philanthropic giving? The library has many types of resources that will be useful to you. Most of these are part of the Regional Grants Collection. |
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Directories
Books
Magazines
Databases
Websites
[Available only in the Central Library]
Guide To U.S. Foundations, Their Trustees, Officers and Donors
Contains:
U.S. grantmaking private foundations (approx. 38,500), community foundations (approx. 400) and nongrantmaking operating foundations (approx. 1,865); 4158 foundations giving only to specified beneficiaries (listed in Appendix B)
Use For Finding:
Foundation address and telephone numbers; application address(es) and contact person(s); establishment data; basic financial information; geographic limitations; printed material available from the foundation; application information; donors, officers, trustees, or other governing bodies; type of foundation; grantmaking status (if applicable); Employer Identification Number
Foundation Directory
Contains:
Foundations with assets of $2 million or more or total grants of at least $200,000 (7,549 foundations).
Use for Finding:
Detailed information on giving interests and restrictions, application guidelines, names of officers and directors, and selected grants (when available)
Foundation Directory Part 2
Contains:
Foundations with assets between $1 million and $2 million or whose total giving is between $50,000 and $200,000 (5,075 foundations)
Use for Finding:
Detailed information on giving interests and restrictions, application guidelines, names of officers and directors, and selected grants (when available)
National Directory Of Corporate Giving
Contains:
Corporate charitable activities, including direct corporate giving (non-foundation) programs approx. 669) and company-sponsored foundations (approx. 1,972)
Use for Finding:
Detailed information on companies and their giving interests and restrictions, application guidelines, and names of program administrators
Foundation Grants To Individuals
Contains:
Detailed descriptions of more than 6,000 foundation programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.
Use for Finding:
Educational support – scholarships, fellowships, loans, and internships
Students and graduates of specific schools, arts and cultural support
Awards, prizes, and grants by nomination, research and professional support
Guide To Federal Funding For Governments And Nonprofits
Contains:
Key facts and insider tips for tapping more than 750 federal aid programs offering funds for: housing, parks and museums, social services, community facilities, job training, services for the elderly, public health and more. The clear explanations help you compare different programs in terms of eligibility requirements and uses of funds. Regular Updates include new and updated program descriptions, as well as articles detailing new legislation and regulations, budget action and funding trends.
Foundation Today Series
Contains:
Unique collection of facts and figures on private and community foundations and their giving contained within the following three individual titles:
Foundation Giving Trends: Update on Funding Priorities
Examines 2004 grantmaking patterns of a sample of more than 1,000 larger U.S. foundations, and compares current giving priorities with trends since 1990
Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates: Current Outlook
Provides a first look at estimates of foundation giving for 2005 and final statistics on actual giving and assets for 2004. It also presents new top 100 foundation lists.
Foundation Yearbook: Facts and Figures on Private and Community Foundations
Documents the growth in number, giving, and assets of all active U.S. foundations from 1975 through 2004.
‘Must reads’, published by the Foundation Center
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Foundation Fundamentals: A Guide for Grantseekers
by Kief Schladweiler
Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing
by Jane C. Geever
Foundation Center's Guide to Winning Proposals
by Sarah Collin
New books added recently to the OCPL collection
Proposal Writing for Grants
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Complete Book of Grant Writing
by Nancy Burke Smith
Writing Grant Proposals That Win
by Deborah Ward
Models of Proposal Planning and Writing
by Jeremy and Lynn Miner
Successful Grant Writing: Strategies for Health and Human Services Professionals
by Laura N. Gitlin
Grassroots Grants: An Activists Guide to Grantseeking
by Andy Robinson
Winning Grants Step by Step
by Mim Carlson
Nonprofit organizations
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Securing Your Organization’s Future: A Complete Guide to Fundraising Strategies
by Michael Seltzer
Fundraising Habits of Supremely Successful Boards: a 59-minute Guide to Securing Your
Organization’s Future
by Jerold Panas
Nonprofit Internet Strategies: Best Practices for Marketing, Communications and Fundraising Success
by Ted Hart
Fund Raising
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Fundraising: Hands-on-Tactics for Nonprofit Groups
by L. Peter Edles
Essential Principles for Fundraising Success: An Answer Manual for the Everyday Challenges of Raising Money
by G. Douglass Alexander
Fundraising with eBay: How to Raise Big Money on the World’s Greatest Online Marketplace
by Greg Holden
Revolution in the Mailbox: Your Guide to Successful Direct Mail Fundraising
by Mal Warwick
The Central Library subscribes to the following print magazines. Some articles and e-newsletters can also be found on their websites.
Chronicle of Philanthropy
http://www.onlib.org/website/links/grants.htm
Foundation News and Commentary
http://www.foundationnews.org/
Giving USA
http://www.aafrc.org/
Grassroots Fundraising Journal
http://www.grassrootsfundraising.org/
Nonprofit Times
http://www.nptimes.com/
FOUNDATION DIRECTORY ONLINE [available only at the Central Library]
Find information on more than 90,000 U.S. foundations including direct corporate giving programs and company-sponsored foundations, 900,000 recent grants, and more than 400,000 key decision-makers.
FOUNDATION GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS [available only at the Central Library]
Quickly search through detailed descriptions of more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.
For articles about grant seeking, proposal writing or philanthropy, see OCPL’s Online Databases. Here you can access magazine and journal articles, newspapers, and reference books 24 hours a day using your OCPL library card and PIN.
BUSINESS & COMPANY RESOURCE CENTER
http://www.onlib.org/website/databases.htm#business
An online database linked from the Online Databases page, can provide you with access to thousands of magazine articles.
NEWSBANK
http://www.onlib.org/website/databases.htm#newspapers
A database containing searchable full-text of all locally written articles from the Syracuse newspapers from December 1986 to the present.
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The Foundation Center
http://foundationcenter.org/
The Foundation Center's mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about U.S. philanthropy. Use the Find Funders section to look up basic information on grantmakers in the U.S.—including private foundations, community foundations, grantmaking public charities, and corporate giving programs. The 990-PF Search provides online access to IRS returns offering basic financial data, a complete grants list, the names of the foundation's trustees and officers, and other information on the foundation. The 990-PF may be the only source where grantseekers will find complete grants lists for smaller foundations. Use the Gain Knowledge section for access to free online proposal writing and budgeting basics short courses and tutorials.
Many more websites on these topics can be found on the Library’s Grants and Nonprofits Internet Links page, http://www.onlib.org/website/links/grants.htm
Last updated November 26, 2007