GrantSpace.org
Foundation Directory Online
network.foundationcenter.org
FoundationCenter.org
FIN Core Collection
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The section of GrantSpace where you can find the best answers to your patron's social sector questions, such as where to go to start a nonprofit organization, how to develop a board, or how to research potential funders for a nonprofit organization.
What is "Knowledge Base"?
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Two alternatives to printing FDO records that makes its foundation and grants information available for future reference, all while saving trees.
What is Email and Export?
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The section of the Network Site where you can view train-the-trainer recordings, request training materials, find promotional materials, and feedback mechanisms for your audience (and you).
What is "Train and Learn"/"Teach Our Classes"?
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A service of Foundation Center, this website provides free access to thousands of case studies, evaluations, white papers, and issue briefs addressing some of the world's most pressing social problems.
What is "Issue Lab"?
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This online directory, part of the FIN core collection, provides details on funders that provide scholarships, fellowships, grants, and a wide range of financial support to individuals.
What is "Grants to Individuals Online (GTIO)"?
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This online service, staffed by Foundation Center librarians, answered more than 10,800 questions about foundations, philanthropy, fundraising and nonprofits, and more in 2015.
What is "Ask Us," "Chat Now, or "Online Librarian"?
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This tool/link provides users with the ability to search through FDO's official taxonomy terms and to easily populate search fields with them.
What is "View Index"?
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The directory on the Network site where you can find promotional materials, including a marketing toolkit, logos, signs, flyers, web ads and widgets, promotional copy and communications templates, and websites, blogs, and multimedia created by other partners.
What is "Promote & Sustain"?
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This daily news service of Foundation Center, is a compendium, in digest form, of philanthropy-related articles and features culled from print and electronic media outlets nationwide. It also features currently active RFPs and job listings in the nonprofit sector.
What is "Philanthropy News Digest" or "PND"?
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This online directory, part of the FIN core collection, is the Center’s premier data visualization tool and the easiest way to see who is funding what and where around the world. It helps funders and nonprofits access the knowledge they need to make strategic decisions and strengthen their impact.
What is "Foundation Maps"?
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This section on GrantSpace.org is the most used on the site and provides examples of winning proposals, budgets, letters of inquiry, and more.
What is "Sample Documents"?
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This database file within FDO allows you to search for more than 5.8 million grants already awarded to nonprofit recipients around the world.
What is "Search Grants"?
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This link helps you find the contact information of other Funding Information Network partners in your region and throughout the network.
What is "Partner Directory"?
300
Geared towards educating funders and program officers, this website combines the practical wisdom of funders worldwide with the expertise of Foundation Center to improve the practice of philanthropy. It includes guides, infographics, cases, blogs, podcasts, and interactive tools.
What is "Grantcraft"?
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This core collection title provides actual, funded proposals, reprinted in their entirety, along with a critique by the decision-maker who approved the grant.
What is "The Grantseeker's Guide to Winning Proposals"?
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This feature on GrantSpace lists upcoming trainings and events taking place online, at our library/learning centers, and at our Funding Information Network locations.
What is the "Training Calendar"?
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There are eight different "Types of Grantmaker" classifications used in FDO. These are three of them.
(Any three of the following): What are Community foundations, Company-sponsored foundations, Corporate giving programs, Governmentally-linked Foundations, Independent foundations, Non-Governmental Organizations, Operating foundations, or Public charities?
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If you want to recommend a prospective FIN Partner, you go to this section of the Network Site.
What is "Help Us Grow"?
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This website provides the most comprehensive resource available for generating tables and charts on the size, scope, and giving priorities of the U.S. foundation community.
What is "Foundation Stats"?
400
These can be obtained at a discount to our FIN partners to distribute to attendees at special events or classes held at your location.
What are FDO gift codes?
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A section of GrantSpace.org that recently featured such topics as "A Foundation CEO’s Six-Step Formula For Winning A Grant"; "When Keeping The Lights On Is Not Enough"; and "4 Best Practices For Spicing Up The Need Section With Data."
What is the GrantSpace Blog?
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This has provided Foundation Center with the ability to dramatically increase the number of grant records in FDO over the last year, expanding our reach into, and relevance among areas where philanthropic activity was rarely tracked before.
What is enhanced grants processing capacity?
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$500
What is the incentive for partners who recommend an organization that ends up joining the Funding Information Network? (Will also accept "What is the annual subsidy available to eligible partners through the FIN Subsidy Program?")
500
Nothing. Zero. Nada. Free.
What does it cost for the public you serve to access Foundation Directory Online; Foundation Grants to Individuals Online; Foundation Maps; foundationcenter.org; grantspace.org; grantcraft.org; Ask Us; our Knowledge Base FAQs; issuelab.org; Philanthropy News Digest; Knowledge Services; etc., etc., etc.
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An economical way to provide access to FDO on an institution-wide basis, providing username- and password-free access to everyone on a campus or to patrons across all branches of a public library system.
What is FDO Enterprise Access?
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