Public and Private Funding Directories and Resources
This area of the tool kit provides you with links and connections to funding directories and indexes on the Internet. These should provide you with useful resources to help you with your grant seeking efforts.
Cosmic Warehouse Funding Links and Directories
- Environmental
Grantmaking Foundations 2001 is the best-selling guide to the most
significant independent, community and company-sponsored foundations that fund
environmental projects. These foundations give over $600 million for environmental purposes
annually.
http://www.environmentalgrants.com/productdescr2001.htm - The Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) grew out of, and is still a part of, the Environmental Grantmakers Affinity Group of the Council on Foundations (COF). In 1987, a group of environmental grantmakers met in Washington, D.C. to discuss common interests and to learn about each other's specific programs. As a result of the enthusiasm generated at this meeting, plans were made for future meetings, grants lists exchanged, and a "directory" of foundation program interests was published. Subsequent meetings have reaffirmed this interest for increased communication among grantmakers through the EGA
- Federal Commons - Internet
federal grants management portal serving the grantee organization community, with
subject matter and grants administration links. Best Bet.
http://www.cfda.gov/federalcommons/ - Office
of the Federal Register - Search
the CRF (Code of Federal Regulations) and the Federal Register. Also here are
Public Laws, the US Government Manual, Weekly Complilation of Presidential Documents,
Public Papers of the Presddent, Congressional Information and more. Best Bet.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html -
Notices of Funding Availability - Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs) are announcements that appear in the Federal Register, printed each business day by the United States government, inviting applications for Federal grant programs. This page allows you to generate a customized listing of NOFAs.
http://ocd.usda.gov/nofa.htm - The
Foundation Center – National organization based in NYC and Washington
DC, but also having regional collections throughout the nation (including Utica
NY at Utica Public Library). Collects and distributes information on grant makers,
including statistics and trends. Many grant-related publications, directories
and 'how to' books. Links to hundreds grant makers. FAQ listings and access to
online librarian. Publish Philanthropy News Digest. Best Bet.
http://www.fdncenter.org
- RFP
Bulletin – Published weekly by Philanthropy News Digest of The
Foundation Center. Brief overview of current funding opportunities offered by
a foundation or other grantmaking organization. This is the index site for subject
areas.
http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/index.jhtml - Search Zone - Brings
together all the search capacity of The Foundation Center including databases
and annotated links for Private Foundations, Corporate Grantmakers, Grantmaking
Public Charities and Community Foundations. Use keywords to conduct a general
search of the Center's Web site, links to grantmakers web sites, search the Philanthropy
News Digest archives, and the Online Database of the Literature of the
Nonprofit Sector. A fee-based services takes you beyond these information sources,
to details of the 10,000 largest foundations in the US.
http://fdncenter.org/searchzone/