Toolkit Essentials:

Finding Funders for Your Cause

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Toolkit Essentials:

Finding Funders for Your Cause

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Kyla HuntTechSoupFacilitator

Bobbe LuceONEplace @ kpl

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David HolmesFoundation Center

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• David Holmes: Foundation Center, Resources• Questions from the audience• Bobbe Luce: ONEplace, Cooperating

Collections• Questions from the audience

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Toolkit Essentials for Advancing Your Cause

How do I find funders interested in my cause?

April 26, 2012

The Foundation Center

Our Mission:To strengthen the social sector by advancing knowledge about philanthropy in the U.S. and around the world.

Accomplishing Our Mission

• Collect, organize, and communicate information on U.S. philanthropy

• Conduct and facilitate research on trends in the field

• Provide education and training in the grantseeking process

• Ensure public access to information and services through various vehicles

Today’s Program

Toolkit Essentials:• Finding Funders: Foundation Directory

Online, RFP Bulletin

• Finding Answers: GrantSpace.org, AskUs

• Finding Help: Libraries and Cooperating Collections

Foundation Directory Online

Four primary search options:• Search Grantmakers

– Find funders interested in what you do• Search Companies

– Find companies with grantmaking programs located in your area

• Search Grants– Find examples of who’s funded organizations or

projects like yours• Search 990s

– Find additional examples of funded organizations

GrantSpace.org: The Foundation Center’s Learning Community for the Social Sector

• Information & resources designed for grantseekers– Subjects– Skills– Classroom– Tools

GrantSpace

• ONEplace@kpl is an externally-funded nonprofit management support (MSO) center at the Kalamazoo Public Library

• Opened in March, 2009

ONEplace@kpl: Kalamazoo Public Library

• All services are free and open to the public

• We manage the KPL Cooperating Collection and Directory Online

ONEplace@kpl: Kalamazoo Public Library

To be the ONE place for nonprofit information, resources, training, and referrals.

ONEplace@kpl GOALS

To be the ONE place for all who lead, manage, and support nonprofit organizations in Kalamazoo County to connect with new ideas, resources, and each other.

ONEplace@kpl GOALS

Circulating Collection:

• Nonprofit capacity building

• Professional development

• Organizational development

• Foundation Center resources

Accomplishing Our Goals

Education and Trainings:

• Workshops

• Webinars

• Peer Networks

• Leadership Academy

Accomplishing Our Goals

• Custom individual and small group counseling, consulting, and referrals

• Consultant & Trainer Network and online Directory

Accomplishing Our Goals

• Promote Foundation Center resources: eNews, etc.

• Provide full-time access to the FC Directory Online: onsite, dedicated computers in ONEplace

Our Cooperating Collection Activities

• Provide regular workshops on grant research and grant proposal writing, highlighting how to use FC resources

• Tutoring: individuals/groups

Our Cooperating Collection Activities

• 160+ workshops, webinars, and peer-networks per year

• 1500+ attendees

• Over 8,000 service points/year

• Staff of 1.75 FTEs

A Few Statistics on ONEplace@kpl

Contact Information:

Bobbe A. Luce

ONEplace@kpl Director

ONEplace@kpl.gov

www.kpl.gov/ONEplace

Our Cooperating Collection Activities

Questions?

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• The Foundation Center is the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. Through data, analysis, and training we connect people who want to change the world to the resources they need to succeed.

Who is the Foundation Center?

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