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.

Don't miss this webinar!

The Foundation Center invites you to join for an exclusive webinar where you can take a guided tour and learn search strategies for the Foundation’s Center’s premier funding research tools, the Foundation Directory Online and Foundation Grants to Individuals Online.

What: Foundation Center Funding Tools Webinar
When: Wednesday, February 5, 2014, at 2:00 PM ET
Who should attend? Librarians, development staff, provosts, researchers, and anyone who wants to find funders!

How to Register? Register Online , or via email to Nora Niesen at: nln@foundationcenter.org

The Foundation Directory Online (FDO), the leading institutional funding research tool, helps connect grantseekers with grantmakers. Updated weekly, FDO includes reliably-sourced details on over 120,000 foundations, corporate donors, and public charities, and their 3 million recently awarded grants. FDO’s current, accurate, and comprehensive information is commonly used by fundraisers, administrators, professors, researchers, students, and librarians as their premier source for fundraising research.

The Foundation Grants to Individuals Online (GTIO) database has detailed information on nearly 10,000 foundations and public charities that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. If you serve individuals in need of grants or scholarships, GTIO is the resource for you.

Both these databases are available for free access when you visit theNonprofit Resource Center at the Onondaga County Central Library. For more information about this collection of accessing the online databases, please call 315-435-1900

Charting Impact: A New Tool To Tell Your Story

Charting Impact is the newest tool to help charitable organizations highlight the difference they make, sharpen their approach, and be in a position to work with others.

Here's how it works: Answer a series of five simple, yet powerful questions, and your organization will receive a concise, standardized report to share with potential supporters and partners.

Charting Impact was developed by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, GuideStar USA, and Independent Sector, with help from an advisory group that included the Foundation Center.

Learn more and create your unique Charting Impact report for free at www.ChartingImpact.org

Did you know?
Foundation Finder is now accessible from your smartphone, so
you can have key financial data and contact information on U.S. grantmakers right at your fingertips!

GrantSpace

The Foundation Center’s GrantSpace offers information and resources that are specifically designed to meet the needs of grantseekers. Visit GrantSpace to explore in-depth content, engage with a community of peers and experts and energize your fundraising efforts.

Join GrantSpace today and get a free 24-hour gift card for Foundation Directory Online Professional—the Foundation Center’s searchable database of nearly 100,000 grantmakers and more than 2 million grants.

• View video recordings of live discussions with grantmakers and listen to podcasts featuring experts in the field

• Find answers to your questions in our Knowledge Base

• Get information about opportunities in your subject

• Increase your expertise in fundraising and management

• Attend training and events, in-person and online

Foundation Center Newsletters

Subscribe to free Foundation Center newsletters:

Philanthropy News Digest
RFP Bulletin
Arts Funding Watch
Education Funding Watch
Health Funding Watch

Tools and Resources for Assessing Social Impact

The Foundation Center has launched a new database: Tools and Resources for Assessing Social Impact (TRASI). Developed in conjunction with McKinsey & Company, and with additional input from experts in the field, TRASI contains over 150 approaches to measuring and analyzing social impact for programs and investments, collected in a single searchable database.

These tools have been authored by social investors, foundations, NGOs, microfinance institutions, and others in the field who seek social change. Besides the assessment tools, the web portal provides additional resources including videos, podcasts, articles, an experts section.

Additional information can also be found at McKinsey & Company's Learning for Social Impact page.

Topical Resource Lists

The Foundation Center provides a selective list of relevant resources for researchers and practitioners and grantmakers.

The lists include books, pamphlets, periodical articles, videotapes and web links. Most of the materials can be found in Foundation Center libraries.

Contact the Nonprofit Resource Center supervisor for more information or to request copies of any of the articles.

315.435.1900 reference@onlib.org

Funding Resources for K-12 Education on the Web

The Foundation Center's Foundations for Education Excellence, a web portal created with support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, reports on the funding interests of the most important private foundations and the federal government's programs and features grant maps, research studies, and news in the field.

Other websites of interest ..
DonorsChoose - public school teachers post online proposals to fund classroom activities; donors review each proposal and donations are tracked as the project is funded.
Adopt-A-Classroom - a fundraising portal that connects public school classrooms across the country with potential individual donors.

Also use the Foundation Directory Online database to discover other K-12 resources. Use field of interest terms such as "Elementary/secondary education" or "Elementary/secondary school reform" to find prospective funders. Find those same terms in the Search Grants database's recipient type and grant subject indexes.

May Is Funding for Education Month

May Is Funding for Education Month at the Foundation Center
Free Resources and Special Events for Nonprofits, Scholarship Seekers

This May, the Foundation Center, a national nonprofit with locations around the country, is holding Funding for Education Month. It will offer special programs specifically for those in the education arena: free events, classes, and online resources designed to help nonprofits and individuals alike become more effective grantseekers and find new funding prospects.

The "Focus on Funding for Education" area of the Center's web site will feature frequently updated information on programs, news, and research related to education funding — a "one-stop shop" of free, easily accessible information including events, classes, webinars, and podcasts. In addition, interactive maps display the geographic distribution of both private foundation and ARRA funding for education.

Map of Cross-Border Giving

A Map of Cross-Border Giving is available in the Foundation Directory Online database. See who's giving and who's getting grants outside the U.S.
Visit the Robert P. Kinchen Central Library for free access to this valuable resource.

Focus on the Economic Crisis

Visit the Focus on the Economic Crisis page at the Foundation Center. Listen to the podcast, Turning Crisis Into Opportunity and read the fact sheet, The Foundation and Corporate Response to the Economic Crisis.

Foundation Center Annual Report

ReThink, the Foundation Center's 2008 annual report, has been released. Learn all about the newest tools to help you weather the economic crisis, their latest research findings, and how their working with various partners inlcuding their network of Cooperation Collections like the Onondaga County Public Library's Nonprofit Resource Center.

Read the report online or download the pdf.