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Desperately Seeking Funding
Using Foundation Directory Online to Find Grants & Funding Opportunities
Joan C. DivorBCLS Business Services
Librarian
Overview
• How do you currently identify funding opportunities?
• What works; what doesn’t work?
Goal
FUNDER VISION AND MISSION
ORG. VISION & FUNDING NEEDS
Your Library Can Help!
Foundation Directory Online• Suite of feature–rich funding
research databases & tools
Your Library Can Help!
Foundation Directory Online• Three main databases
–Grantmakers–Grants–Companies
Your Library Can Help!
Foundation Directory Online• Key Strengths
– Current – User friendly – Tools: download, email, save, tag, alert– LINKED!
Your Library Can Help!
Foundation Directory Online• Single user license• PROFESSIONAL license – highest
level of access/features
Objectives
1. Create and run basic searches in the 3 Foundation Directory Online directories using several different approaches.
Objectives2. Explain how the 3 Foundation
Directory Online directories work together to enhance your results.
3. Use Power Search to supercharge your research.
ALLOW TIME FOR YOU TO RESEARCH
YOUR FUNDING PROJECT
Foundation Directory Online via BCLS
• Home page to Databases A-Z listing
bcls.lib.nj.us
Foundation Directory Online via BCLS
• Home page to Business Gateway – Nonprofits guide
bcls.lib.nj.us
Staff will log you in.
Grantmakers
• 100,000 + US foundations– Community foundations – Company-sponsored foundation – Independent foundation – Operating foundation
• 12,000 grantmaking public charities
• 1,200 corporate giving programs
Grantmakers – Case Study
“I’m looking for funding for my local community theatre group.”
BROADEN!
OR
BROADEN OR NARROW?
OR
Programs for Adult Literacy or Employment
OR
NARROW!
AND
BROADEN OR NARROW?
AND
AND
AND
Programs for Adult Literacy AND Employment
Grantmakers – Case Study
“I’m looking for funding for my local community theatre group.”
Online
Keyword Searching
Grantmakers demonstration:
I would like to identify organizations located in New Jersey that might fund a new adult literacy program needed in our community.
Online
Grantmakers – Exercise 1
I am seeking potential funder(s) for our New Jersey-based non-profit’s new interfaith initiative.• Find funders – find 1 – 3 potential
matches• Index and keyword searching• Look at the grants of one match
Take a Break!
Grants (Recipients)
• Over 2.4 million grants awarded by US foundations–Profiles by recipient–LINKAGES
Grants – Case Study
Funding for a business plan competition• Known recipient• Keyword/phrase
Online
Online
Grants – Exercise 2
1.Grants search
2.Compare to Grantmakers search
I would like to identify organizations that could fund a new adult literacy program needed in our community.
GRANTMAKERS DATABASE GRANTS DATABASE
GRANTMAKER STATE - NJ GRANTMAKER STATE - NJ
FIELD OF INTEREST: Adult education--literacy, basic skills & GED SUBJECT: Adult education--literacy, basic skills & GED
Carlozzi Charitable Foundation, Inc., Nicholas H. and Margaret H. A Friends' Foundation Trust (1)
Roberts Foundation, Nora Boye Foundation, Inc., The (1)
Verizon Reads, Inc. Bunbury Company, Inc., The (2)
Wish You Well Foundation Community Foundation of New Jersey (2)
Zobel Foundation, Inc. Creamer Foundation, J. Fletcher (1)
Dodge Foundation, Inc., Geraldine R. (8)
Evans Foundation, Charles, The (2)
Harbourton Foundation (1)
Hearst Foundation, Austin, The (1)
Hyde and Watson Foundation, The (6)
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Contribution Fund (3)
Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood, The (2)
Kirby Foundation, Inc., F. M. (14)
Knistrom Foundation, Fanny and Svante (1)
Link, Jr. Charitable Trust, George, The (2)
McGraw Foundation, Curtis W., The (2)
Merck Company Foundation, The (3)
Milano Foundation, Inc. (2)
Provident Bank Foundation, The (1)
Prudential Foundation, The (23)
Roberts Foundation, Nora (4)
Rolin Foundation, The (1)
Turrell Fund (5)
UBS Foundation U.S.A. (1)
Verizon Foundation (159)
Victoria Foundation, Inc.
Walbridge Fund, The (1)
WHAT DOES THIS TELL US??
Companies
• Access corporate grantmaker records by searching across the corporate info. of sponsoring companies.
• Detailed company info. to complement their grantmaker profiles
• 3,400 – plus companies
Companies
CIGNA FDN.
CIGNA CORP CONTRIBUTIONS PROG.CIGNA CORP
Companies – Case Study
I want to identify the funding interests of major companies in nearby Philadelphia & Bucks counties to explore potential matches for our food and health related programs.
Online
Companies – Exercise 3
Identify 3 Pennsylvania companies with $50 million or more in sales with a grantmaking entity that provides funding in support of philanthropy/volunteerism.• Name the grantmaking entity for
each company you find.• Practice the linkages among all 3
directories.
Power Search
• Simultaneous KEYWORD search of:• Grantmakers, Companies, Grants • 990s• Foundation Center's philanthropy
news, nonprofit jobs, RFPs, foundation publications, and nonprofit literature databases.
Power Search – Case Study #1
• Adult literacy New Jersey (broader than our previous search)
• (more precise): “Adult literacy” – “New Jersey”
• Guided search helps at each step
Some Advanced Stuff
Wildcard Search
• WRITE? = WRITE OR WRITES OR WRITER
• WRIT* = WRITE OR WRITES OR WRITER OR WRITERS OR WRITTEN OR WRITING….
Available in Grantmakers, Grants, Companies, as well as
in Power Search.
Power Search – Case Study #2
I want to explore the fundraising opportunities and trends related to urban gardening.
(Demonstration of some more advanced searching options.)
Power Search – Case Study #2• “urban gardening” - 41• “urban garden*” – 51• urban NEAR/1 garden* - 206• urban NEAR/2 garden* - 297• urban gardening - 581• urban and gardening – (same)• urban garden* - 10,000 plus
Summary / Review• Directories? • Index searching?• Keyword/phrase?• Linkages?• What can you do with your findings? • Power Search? What is it and how is it
searched? • Different ways to fine-tune research using
keywords, proximity, wild card?
Summary - Review
Exercise 4• Try your own projects…or…
How can you leverage this??
1. Create a list of between 10 and 20 grantmakers who fund in the area of women’s health. (hint: wildcards)
2. Identify grants awarded by the Ford Foundation for capacity building.
3. Identify newly established (after 2008) foundations that have a giving program of at least $250.000.
4. How many NJ companies with grantmaking arms are in the medical instruments & supplies industry.
Exercise 4
Objectives
1. Create and run basic searches in 3 Foundation Directory Online directories using several different approaches.
Objectives2. Explain how the 3 Foundation
Directory Online directories work together to enhance your results.
3. Use Power Search to supercharge your research.
ALLOW TIME FOR YOU TO RESEARCH
YOUR FUNDING PROJECT
Key links @ bcls.lib.nj.us
• Databases A-Z – Foundation Directory Online
• Business Gateway -http://explore.bcls.lib.nj.us//business –Nonprofits guide– Foundation Directory Online– Nonprofits
• NJ State Library Funding Information Center
Also…Grant Space
Free Foundation Ctr. “space for nonprofits”: content, community, tools (searchable knowledge-base)
– or via BCLS Business Gateway Nonprofits Guide
grantspace.org
BCLS Business & Nonprofit Services
Joan C. Divor, Business Services [email protected]
KNOWLEDGE TO EMPOWER