March 2010

Online resources for grantseekers

The U.S. Department of Educations e-newsletters include grant opportunities http://www2.ed.gov/news/newsletters/index.html The Foundation Center: http://foundationcenter.org Free online training courses, including grantwriting basics, and Free regularly scheduled webinars http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/training/online/ Philanthropy News Digest has funding opportunities, grantmaker interviews, and other useful information: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/ GuideStar.org has a variety of resources for nonprofits, including funder information (form 990s) The W.K. Kellogg Foundations Evaluation Handbook: A useful resource, and a good example of current thinking about evaluation among grantmakers http://www.wkkf.org/~/media/10BF675E6D0C4340AE8B038F5080CBFC.ashx

Books for grantseekers

Barbato, Joseph & Danielle Furlich. Writing for a Good Cause. Fireside, 2000. Brown, Larissa Golden & Martin John Brown. Demystifying Grant Seeking. Jossey-Bass, 2001. The Foundation Center. The Foundation Centers Guide to Proposal Writing (5th edition). The Grantseekers Guide to Winning Proposals [a collection of 35 actual proposals] Levy, Reynold. Give and Take: A Candid Account of Corporate Philanthropy. Harvard Business School Press, 1999. Sprinkel Grace, Kay. Beyond Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment (2nd edition). Wiley, 2005. Weeden, Curt. Corporate Social Investing: The Breakthrough Strategy for Giving and Getting Corporate Contributions. Berrett-Koehler, 1998.

Cheryl K. Olson, Sc.D. & Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D.

www.ckolson.com