The Foundation Center offers a new website, Funding Information Network or FIN

Looking for grants? Check out this  Foundation Center resource offering grant-seekers the following online training and tutorials:

Grantseeking Basics for Individuals
Prepares individuals to seek out and identify potential sources of foundation support.

Guide to Funding Research
A basic primer on the grantseeking process and an introduction to the available resources.

Guide to Fiscal Sponsorship and Affiliation
A detailed look at the possibilities for individual grantseekers to affiliate with an organization or obtain a fiscal sponsor.

Finding Foundation Support for Your Education
Guides students through the process of seeking financial support from foundations to pursue their studies.

Tools and Resources

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
An online database of foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. Low monthly, three-month, and yearly subscription rates.

Foundations Grants to Individuals
The only publication devoted exclusively to foundation funding opportunities for individual grantseekers, featuring thousands of foundations funding individuals.

FAQs for Individual Grantseekers
The Foundation Center's librarians have gathered the questions most frequently asked by individuals.

Foundation Center Libraries
The Foundation Center's five libraries hold many resources for individual grantseekers. Search the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature, the libraries' collective holdings.

Proposal Writing Short Course
(Available in English, French, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish)
Describes how to prepare a funding proposal, including the planning, research, and cultivation of foundation and corporate donors.

Requests for Proposals in PND
Requests for proposals (RFPs) by grantmakers who wish to attract applicants with specific projects or interests.

PND Talk
Share opinions, insights, and questions related to the field of philanthropy with your peers at the Philanthropy News Digest

Special Grant Foundation workshop at the Ukiah Library

Scott Ullman of the Foundation Center will hold a workshop at the Ukiah Library
on March 4th at 1 pm.

Event

Guide to Online Grantseeker Resources and Foundation Directory Online

Free

Learn to navigate and use the wide range of resources available through the foundation's databases, Foundation Directory Online and Philanthropy In/Sight, and on the Foundation Center's newest web site, GrantSpace.org.

This session provides an introduction to the Foundation Center's comprehensive online database, Foundation Directory Online Professional. Learn how to create customized searches to develop targeted lists of foundations that will match your organization's funding needs. We will spend time exploring Power Search, which allows you to search across nine Foundation Center databases ? grantmakers, grants, companies, 990s, news, jobs, RFPs, nonprofit literature, and PubHub reports.  You'll also be introduced to the Center's newest, map-based research tool, Philanthropy In/Sight.

This hands-on session will also introduce you to the resources available on the Foundation Center?s newest web site for grantseekers, GrantSpace.org.  GrantSpace, a service of the Foundation Center, offers information and resources that are specifically designed to meet the needs of grantseekers. You can explore content based on your subject area or a skill set you want to improve, as well as take advantage of our various tools to get answers to the most frequently asked questions, find sample documents, including proposals, and more.

This class will show you how to get the most out of the web site, to help you gain the knowledge and skills you need to get grants, manage your nonprofit, and improve your community.

Sign up online here: 

http://grantspace.org/Classroom/Training-Calendar/Other-Locations/Guide-to-Online-Grantseeker-Resources-2013-03-04-Ukiah-CA  

Any Questions: Call Eliza 463-4580