Grant Seekers

Grant Seeker Resource Center

 

A Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center*

 
This collection, housed only at Lexington Park Library, contains the following resources that individual researchers and nonprofit organizations can use to research funding opportunities from foundations and corporations.

 

Print materials (many can be checked out) covering:

  • fundraising
  • grant seeking
  • nonprofit management and board development
  • proposal writing
  • philanthropy

 

Online Databases- Free in-house access at Lexington Park Library ONLY!

Profiles of 92,000+ foundations, corporate donors and grantmaking public charities, and a million plus recent grants.  Links to IRS 990’s, funder portfolios and grantmakers’ websites.

Searchable information on 6500+ foundation and public charity programs that provide support for students, artists, researchers and other grant seeking individuals.

An interactive mapping tool for anyone interested in the impact of philanthropy around the world.  It combines data on grantmakers and grants with familiar Google maps.  Choose from a range of customization options  to create maps that reveal patterns of giving and funding relationships.  Users also can overlay grant data with more than 150 demographic, socio-economic, and other data sets to create visual portraits showing where philanthropy has made an impact and where opportunities exist to fill critical needs.

Free Workshops on fundraising and grant seeking     

  • Live Webinar:  Proposal Writing Basics
    Covers how the proposal fits into the overall grantseeking process; what to include in a standard proposal to a foundation, tips for making each section of your proposal stronger, what funders expect to see in your proposal and attachments, tips cor communicating with funders during the grant process, additional resources on proposal writing, including sample proposals.
              Register                  Tuesday, June 25
                                                  1-2 PM
                                                  Lexington Park Library

 

Other websites of interest:

 

*About the Foundation Center – Established in 1956, and today supported by more than 600 foundations, the Foundation Center is the nation’s leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust.  The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants.  It operates research, education, and training programs designed to advance philanthropy at every level.  The Center offers free and affordable resources at its website; in its five regional library/learning centers; and through its network of Cooperating Collections.