It's YOUR library!

What do you want to see in the redesigned Central Library? How can we provide better services to local nonprofits and small businesses?

What do you think?

Giving Tuesday 12/2/2014

Tomorrow, December 2, 2014, is Giving Tuesday.

Support a local charitable cause this holiday season and share an 'unselfie'.

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Connecting to Change the World
by Peter Plastrik, Madeleine Taylor and John Cleveland

Books for nonprofit boards

Check out these new books!

Train your board (and everyone else)to raise money

by Andrea Kihlstedt and Andy Robinson

Making money with donor newsletters

by Tom Ahern

Here are more titles that may be of interest if you are on a nonprofit board.

Recent Arrivals

New titles are being added to the Nonprofit Resource Center collection every month.

See what's new by subscribing to the Recent Arrivals Newsletter and receive quarterly email notification.

Don't miss this new book!

Fundraising with Businesses: 40 New and Improved Strategies for Nonprofits
by Joe Waters

More new titles!

Mission Drift: the unspoken crisis facing leaders, charities and churches
by Peter Greer and Chris Horst

Effective Leadership for Nonprofit Organizations: how executive directors and boards work together
by Thomas Wolf

The Money-Raising Nonprofit Brand: motivating donors to give, give happily and keep on giving
by Jeff Brooks

Check out any titles from the Nonprofit Resource Center collection by placing hold requests online through the catalog. Pick up and return items to any OCPL library location.

Building Your Brand: a practical guide for nonprofit organizations
by Michele Levy

New books - Check them out !

Mobile and Social Fundraising For Good: a how to fundraising guide for nonprofits
By Heather Mansfield

Find Grant Funding Now!: the five-step prosperity process for entrepreneurs and businesses
By Sarah Beth Aubrey

FDO - New look and features

The Foundation Directory Online has a new look!

Here is a little of what you can expect from the new version of the site:

Ranked results: When you use Power Search, results are now sorted by relevance so you don’t have to sift through pages of results. You can also choose which databases you want to search.

Guided search functionality: With the new and improved index filtering options, you can find the perfect search term as you type.

New ways to narrow your results lets you drill down to the right list of grantmakers with fewer searches.

Printer-friendly grantmaker profiles bring information from the database to your desk more easily.

The ability to e-mail lists of grantmakers and groups of grantmaker profiles gives you more options for taking the data out of the database in the way that works for you.

Visit the Central Library to access the Foundation Directory Online database. Questions? Contact Peg Elliott by email at reference@onlib.org or call 315-435-1900.