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.

Great ROI opportunity

Small investment. Big impact.

Make an annual contribution to the Future Fund Endowment of $100 or more. The endowment provides a $5000 grant each year to a local not-for-profit.

Your membership gives you a say in which organization the Future Fund supports.

Visit Future Fund and discover:
How your employer can double your membership contribution
A list of organizations the Future Fund has helped
Other ways you can get involved
How the grant cycle works

Find Funders! Free workshop

Connecting Grantseekers with Grantmakers
Friday March 7, 2014
9:15 Am - 10:30 AM
Central Library Nonprofit Resource Center

Free workshop for 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations. Learn about the resources and services of the Nonprofit Resource Center. Receive hands-on training and search strategies for searching the Foundation Directory Online database to locate new funding prospects.

Meet on 3rd floor of the Central Library for collection orientation.

Call the Central Library at (315)435-1900 to pre-register for this session or to find out about scheduling on-site group training.

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

Just added ...

The Nonprofit Chief Exectutive's Ten Basic Responsibilities

By Rick Moyers

Check out this and other BoardSource titles for free from the Nonprofit Resource Center collection at the Central Library.

The Generosity Network

The Generosity Network:New Transformational Tools for Successful Fund-Raising
Jennifer McCrea and Jeffrey C. Walker

Boardsource titles added to Nonprofit Resource Center collection

Managing Conflicts of Interest: The Board's Guide to Unbiased Decision Making
Sarah E. Paul and Daniel L. Kurtz

Better Bylaws:Creating Effective Rules for Your Nonprofit Board
D. Benson Tesdahl, Esq

Building the Governance Partnership: The Chief Executive's Guide to Getting the Best from the Board
Sherill K. Williams and Kathleen A. McGinnis

Board Fundamentals: Understanding Roles in Nonprofit Governance
Berit M. Lakey

New Books !

The Brand Idea: Managing Nonprofit Brands with Integrity, Democracy and Affinity
by Nathalie Laidler-Kylander and Julian Shepard Stenzel

Donor Cultivation and the Donor Lifecylce Map
by Deborah Kaplan Policy

Connecting Grantseekers with Grantmakers

Missed the 12/6/13 library orientation and training session?
Don't worry, the following group sessions are scheduled for Spring 2014

Friday March 7, 2014 and Friday May 2, 2014.

Free workshops for 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations. Learn about the resources and services of the Nonprofit Resource Center. Receive hands-on training and search strategies for searching the Foundation Directory Online database to locate new funding prospects. Meet on 3rd floor of the Central Library for collection orientation.

Call the Central Library at (315)435-1900 to pre-register or to find out about scheduling a 30-minute one-on-one session or on-site group training.

Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday Decmber 3, 2013

Giving Tuesday
Sponsored by the Central New York Community Foundation

Use your social media accounts to vote for the nonprofit you feel deserves $5,000.

December Training opportunities

Connecting Grantseekers with Grantmakers
Robert P. Kinchen Central Library
Friday December 6, 2013 9:15AM - 10:30AM
For 501c3 nonprofits
Call 315-435-1900 to register

Free webinars are available from Grantspace.org

Grantseeking Basics
December 2, 2013 3:00PM

Introduction to Fundraising Planning
December 12, 2013 3:00PM

Proposal Writing Basics
December 12, 2013 1:00PM

Proposal Budgeting Basics
December 17, 2013