UK
- Association of
Community Trusts and Foundations
- The Arts Council of
England publishes an introduction
to the components of the UK arts funding system.
- ArtsFunding
bulletin board from the Regional Arts pages, who
also publish a fundraising
information sheet for individual and small groups of visual and media artists.
- The Association
of Charitable Foundations publishes information for grant-seekers and researchers,
including a variety of leaflets published online.
- Association of Community Trusts and Foundations - the
umbrella body for community trusts. 4 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2RL. Tel: 0171 404
1338.
- Charities Aid Foundation is a grant-making body as well as
an information resource for charities and donors. Guided by an independent group of
experts nominated by other voluntary organisations, the CAF Grants Council responds to
applications from charities looking to increase efficiency, to develop new initiatives or
simply to survive when another source of funding dries up. The Grants Council makes grants
of over ?400,000 each year on behalf of CAF; it distributes much more on behalf of
Government, Companies, Foundations and other donors.
- Chapel & York Ltd
provide information for non-US charities on fundraising opportunities within the US.
Directors Nancy Bikson and David Wickert, both formerly with CAFAmerica, provide the
following:
- The Fundraising Alert
- General information about the US, fundraising ideas,
profiles of Funders. Nine issues each year.
- Grantmakers' Guidelines
- The guidelines of foundations that fund internationally with
our annotations and advice as to who should apply. Eighteen issues a year covering the
broad spectrum of foundation interests.
- Email/fax HelpLine
- 10 questions included in base price.
- Directory of Non-US Charities for US Funders
- Designed for US funders that are looking for charities in a
particular field or a particular part of the world.
- Department for
Culture, Media and Sport publishes information on the National Lottery, the good
causes it supports, the distributing bodies, and the awards granted.
- Department for
International Development
- Information on funding opportunities for voluntary
organisations in Devon is available from Devon Local Development Agencies
Forum (Deldaf). Deldaf is a charity which aims to promote, support and develop
voluntary and community organisations throughout Devon. It has a membership of over 20
local development agencies such as Councils for Voluntary Service, Volunteer Bureaux and
other agencies which have the primary aim of supporting other voluntary organisations in
their area.
- The
English Sports Council
- FunderFinder -
develops and distributes software to help individuals and not-for-profit organisations in
the UK to identify charitable trusts who might give them money.
- Funding Digest
- the unique fundraising information service exclusively dedicated to the needs of
charities, voluntary organisations, the public sector and local authorities throughout the
UK.
- Grants International Limited
- Grant Negotiators and Cost Reduction Analysts
- Grantseeker from Charities Aid Foundation - is a CD-ROM version of
The Directory of Grant Making Trusts.
- Heritage Lottery Fund
- London Borough Grants
- provides grants to voluntary organisations working in London, which are providing
quality services to their client groups.
- The Millennium
Commission
- The National Lottery
Charities Board, including information on 1st and 2nd round grants listings, together
with current and future grant rounds. You can also find out which organisations are
receiving grants from the National Lottery Charities Board by visiting the Department for
Culture, Media and Sport's database. You
can search for recipients by name, region, political constituency, project cost and other
criteria. Sadly for fundraisers keen to learn from others' mistakes, it does not include
information on applications that have been rejected.
- New Opportunities Fund
- created by the National Lottery Act 1998, is responsible for distributing National
Lottery grants throughout the UK for health, education and environment initiatives.
- REGARD - a
bibliographic database ESRC social science awards.
Europe
- Charity Know How
- a joint initiative of the Department For International Development, Charities Aid
Foundation, and a number of leading UK foundations and trusts. It is a grantmaking
organisation which was established in 1991 to assist the revitalisation of the voluntary
sector in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States.
- European Foundation Centre
- set up to promote and underpin the work of foundations and corporate funders active in
and with Europe.
Established in 1989 by seven of Europe's leading foundations, the EFC today has a
membership of over 160 independent funders and serves a further 7,000 organisations linked
through networking centres in thirty-five countries worldwide.
- European Grants Ltd publish the European Union Grants Directory on disk
(Windows '95), and the European Union
Grant Locatorc on CD-ROM. This provides outline details of the 400 or so grants
available from the European Commission (as found on the European Union Grants Directory
disk), plus European Union grant details including the official guidance/application
notes, full application forms and contact name(s) and addresse(s), and a search facility.
A fortnightly update service is available via the Internet.
- Funders Online
offers access to a range of European funding and grantmaking resources. A project of the
European Foundation Centre and other international partners, its Funders Online Directory
offers access to profiles of foundations and corporate funders' Web sites. The Directory
is also searchable by funder's areas of interest, indexed by subject focus, geographic
focus, population focus and types of support.
North America
- The Art Deadlines
List: includes grant information, competitions, call for entries for artists. Also
available as a monthly e-mail list by sending SUBSCRIBE DEADLINES in the Subject line or
body of your message to: adl@rtuh.com
- Canadian
Fund Raising Directory from Canada Grants Service, contains over 1,100 major Canadian
& US foundations donating over $350 million per year in Canada to individuals &
groups in various areas of interest.
- CD
Publications - provides funding advice and news for organisations working in
"education, health care, substance abuse, mental health, family services, housing, or
other community service programs".
- Community Grants &
Planning, Inc - are professional consultants specializing in funding and planning
services for non-profits, for-profits and municipalities. They publish application deadlines for a selection of
federal, corporate and foundation grants.
- Corporate Gifts and
Funding - software to help locate corporate donors
- Databases for
Global Funding and Business Market & Trade Research from Craig &
Vartorella, Inc including:
- Exploration Database: worldwide grant activity involving
field and laboratory investigations (bioanthropology, mummy DNA, space, GIS, fisheries,
biodiversity, etc.)
- Health Care Database: prevention & treatment of
Cardiovascular Diseases is the major thrust, with an extensive listing of funding sources
by sub-specialty; also, Women's Health.
- The Performing Arts Database: Focus is Dance (especially
Ballets ,with a grants listing of corporate and foundation donors.
- Free Equipment for Nonprofits Database: A Strategic
document, as well as source analysis, as more than $1,000,000 in free gear & supplies
are donated DAILY to nonprofits in the U.S.
- Federal Grants Retriever
- a software package that helps people and organizations looking for federal grants and
funding in general. It offers the most current information on 1,324 federal funding
programs (June1996 edition) worth more than one trillion dollars in grants, loans and
other forms of assistance.
- The Foundation Center -
a remarkable source for grantseekers from US foundations. Information on foundations,
books, courses, news and other publications. The Center is a valuable source of practical
advice and tips, for example, the Proposal
Writing Short Course, excerpted from The
Foundation Center's Center's Guide to Proposal Writing by Jane C. Geever and Patricia
McNeill.
- Funding
Highlights - a biweekly publication listing federal and private funding opportunities,
published by the Office of Sponsored Programs at the
University of Vermont. Available as e-mail, Web and PDF. Archives
are available. (7/6/99)
- Fundsnet Online Services provides a master index of funders listed on
their site, which is a resource center for nonprofit organizations, parents and educators.
- Grant Trackers list of grants-related sites.
- GrantMaking
Criteria Bill Somerville, Director of the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation in
Oakland, California originally developed these grantmaking criteria a decade ago to help
grantmakers refine their criteria for evaluating grant proposals. By making this criteria
available to the nonprofit community, via the Support
Center for Nonprofit Management, he gives even novice proposal writers an opportunity
to look at their proposals through the eyes of a funder. Before sending out your next
proposal, ask yourself whether your proposal meets these grant making criteria?
- Grants and
Funding, from "Internet Resources for Non-Profit Public Service
Organisations" by Sarah Nesbeitt and Richard Truxall of the School of Information and
Library Studies, The University of Michigan. Sadly, in Winter 1996 the authors ceased
updating the guide, and there are no plans to update it.
- The Grants
Centre from The Canadian Non-Profit Resource Network provides a searchable list of
grants.
- IGrants-L -
e-mail discussion list covering funding, grant development requirements, and other aspects
of developing projects within institutions of higher education around the world. (Formerly
the GRANTS-L list).
- The Grantsmanship Center -
a leading source of fundraising training and information for the nonprofit sector. Since
it was founded in 1972, TGCI has trained more than 65,000 agency staff in grantsmanship,
program planning, and fundraising
- GrantSource(SM) -
information about US grant and funding opportunities provided by the University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill Office of Research Services. GrantSource can search the full text of
nearly 10,000 documents available from major funding sources. Some sources are available
only to UNC campus.
- GrantsWeb
from the Society of Research Administrators provides an extensive list of links to US
federal funding, for both for-profit and nonprofit organisations, including links to grant
application forms.
- How to write
successful grant proposals - includes three full examples of grants proposals from US
teachers that have been successful. Read them online or download them to your PC (they are
in Mac format). You can also examine useful [Macintosh] software for
grantmaking.
- Interview
with a Grantmaker - Martha Simpson and Timothy Wu from the Support Center for Nonprofit Management
interviewed Radha Stern, Program Officer for a family charitable trust which makes
anonymous grants each year, for the Support Center's Fundraising Forum on March 10 1997.
- Nonprofit
World Funding Alert - from The
Society For Nonprofit Organizations. A sample is available but the full publication is
an exclusive benefit of membership. Funding categories include Arts/Humanities, Civic,
Education, Health, In-Kind, Regional and Other
- Opportunity
Alert - a free e-mail service from the US Federal Information Exchange that delivers
information about research and education funding. Users specify their areas of funding
interest with an online form.
- Polaris -
provides free information and guidance on grant-seeking on their Web site. Polaris
President Cheryl New wrote Grantseeker's Toolkit: A
Comprehensive Guide to Finding Funding.
- Seliger + Associates
provides comprehensive grant writing and grant source research services for public and
nonprofit agencies throughout the United States on a consulting basis. Seliger +
Associates writes all types of grant proposals, including federal, state, county, city,
private foundation and corporate giving, as well as conducting grant source searches. They
also publish the Seliger Funding Report,
a newsletter, detailing currently available federal, state, local and foundation grant
opportunities, available via the Web, fax or post.
- Student
Services Inc, a research group committed to helping students find financial aid, has a
database of more than 180,000 scholarships, grants, fellowships, and loans representing
billions of dollars in private sector funding for college students living in the United
States.
- UBC Office of Research Services & Administration's Program Query - an
interactive online query to the ORS database of research granting agencies.
- The Virtual
Foundation
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