Resources for Grant Writing

Resources for Grant Writing
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Community Foundation Locator: Search for community foundations by state or zip code (the locator is near the bottom of the page).
Corporate Giving Online: Explore The Foundation Center’s fee-based online database of corporate donors that support nonprofit organizations and programs through grants and donations. Requires a paid subscription.
Foundation Center Online: The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse that collects, organizes, analyzes, and disseminates information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects.
Foundation Finder: Use the free Foundation Finder to search for organizations by name. Additionally, you can search the Center’s databases of more than 98,000 grant makers and more than 1.7 million grants, for a monthly or annual fee.
Foundation Grants to Individuals: For a low monthly fee, you can search the Foundation Center’s online database of over 8,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grant seekers.
FundsNet Services Online: At the Fundsnet site, you can find funding organizations by category and subject area, including: foundations, national grant makers, regional funders, international funders, government funding, and more.
Grant Seekers Toolbox: From the Donors Forum of Chicago, this site delivers a step-by-step tutorial on how to find funding.
Grant Spy: This is a commercial site for grant seekers who are looking for federal, foundation and state grants. For a monthly fee, you can sign up to receive daily bulletins on new and updated grants.
Grant Watch: The most up-to-date grants funding website for nonprofit grants, grants for small businesses, federal government grants, foundation grant funding, grant assistance programs, state grants, city grants and local grants.
Grant Writer Team: A tool to solicit grant writers and find one who meets your organization’s needs.
Grantsmanship Center: The nonprofit sector’s leading source of training and funding information.
Grants and Related Resources Guide: Find reference guides and information sources, blogs, grants for nonprofits, grants for individuals, funding for business and economic development, national grant makers, international and foreign grant makers, funding opportunities, and much more.
Guide to Grants: Search grants by subject or from a listing of grant makers, from the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
NonprofitReady: A free online professional development portal for nonprofits that includes over 200 e-learning courses, videos, and other training resources all focused on improving nonprofit operations.
Online Orientation to the Grant-Seeking Process/Guide to Funding Research: An excellent overview from the Foundation Center which includes: approaches to funding research, who gets foundation grants, what funders look for, types of support given, hints on proposal writing, and lots more.
Open Directory: Grant-Making Foundations: Explore listings and links, as well as foundations by category: animal welfare, arts, business, children, community foundations, corporate grant makers, development, education, environment, humanitarian, medical, music, peace, race, science, U.K., U.S., and women.
Philanthropic Capacity Building Resource (PCBR) Database: The Human Interaction Resource Institute has put together this database of more than 300 capacity building programs from U.S. foundations. You can get information about each program, search for programs by type, and obtain reports.
proposalCENTRAL: At this site, you’ll find numerous grant opportunities listed by the members of proposalCENTRAL, which is a collaborative effort among nonprofit, government and private grant-making organizations, primarily in the health area.
RFP Bulletin: The RFP (Request for Proposals) Bulletin is published weekly by the Philanthropy News Digest. Each RFP listing provides a brief overview of a current funding opportunity offered by a foundation or other grant-making organization.

Typical Funding Sources and Advantages/Disadvantages of Each: This is a very comprehensive comparison of different types of funding sources in an easy-to-read table format.

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