Foundation Center
This is a comprehensive Web site that contains free online tutorials and downloadable materials for creating grant proposals. There are FAQs, reference guides and topical resource lists that go over the proposal process as well as a free audiobook on proposal writing that can be listened to on-site or downloaded as a MP3. There are also online tutorials that cover funding research and fundraising.
http://foundationcenter.org/
FOR CURRENT SJSU STUDENTS AND STAFF
http://foundationcenter.org.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/
Here is a description from foundationcenter.org:
Established in 1956 and today supported by close to 550 foundations, the Foundation Center is a national nonprofit service organization recognized as the nation’s leading authority on organized philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. Its audiences include grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants; issues a wide variety of print, electronic, and online information resources; conducts and publishes research on trends in foundation growth, giving, and practice; and offers an array of free and affordable educational programs.
Every day thousands of people gain access to valuable resources through the Center’s web site and in its five regional library/learning centers and national network of more than 425 Cooperating Collections at libraries, nonprofit resource centers, and organizations in every U.S. state and Puerto Rico and in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, South Korea, and Thailand. The Center’s online subscription database, Foundation Directory Online, provides detailed information about more than 98,000 U.S. foundations and corporate donors and 1.7 million grants. It can be used free of charge on site at all Center locations and Cooperating Collections.
http://foundationcenter.org/
FOR CURRENT SJSU STUDENTS AND STAFF
http://foundationcenter.org.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/
Here is a description from foundationcenter.org:
Established in 1956 and today supported by close to 550 foundations, the Foundation Center is a national nonprofit service organization recognized as the nation’s leading authority on organized philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. Its audiences include grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants; issues a wide variety of print, electronic, and online information resources; conducts and publishes research on trends in foundation growth, giving, and practice; and offers an array of free and affordable educational programs.
Every day thousands of people gain access to valuable resources through the Center’s web site and in its five regional library/learning centers and national network of more than 425 Cooperating Collections at libraries, nonprofit resource centers, and organizations in every U.S. state and Puerto Rico and in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, South Korea, and Thailand. The Center’s online subscription database, Foundation Directory Online, provides detailed information about more than 98,000 U.S. foundations and corporate donors and 1.7 million grants. It can be used free of charge on site at all Center locations and Cooperating Collections.
Gerding/MacKellar Grant Blog
Center for Nonprofit Management
Grant Seeker's Handbook: A Guide to Seeking Funds, written by Harvey Chess, edited by Lauren Kay. Edited and Updated by the Center for Nonprofit Management, August 2004.
URL: http://www.cnmsocal.org/
URL: http://www.cnmsocal.org/
ED.gov (U.S. Dept. of Education)
This sites has various grants listed for school libraries. Check out "Improving Literacy Through School Libraries"
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/lsl/index.html
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/lsl/index.html
Grants.gov
This is a site that houses the federal grant repository as administered by the Department of Health and Human Services.
CLICK ON THE SITE FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.grants.gov/
Grants.gov is your source to FIND and APPLY for federal grants. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that is having an unparalleled impact on the grant community.
CLICK ON THE SITE FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.grants.gov/
Grants.gov is your source to FIND and APPLY for federal grants. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that is having an unparalleled impact on the grant community.
Community Resource Center
According to one of our classmates, this site is a pretty large and respected funding agency based out of Denver, CO. You can know more about the grant process using this link:
http://www.crcamerica.org/grants_guide/default.asp
http://www.crcamerica.org/grants_guide/default.asp
