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Toolkit Essentials: Finding Funders for Your Cause
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Toolkit Essentials: Finding Funders for Your Cause
Presenters Kyla Hunt TechSoup Facilitator Bobbe Luce ONEplace @ kpl Presenter David Holmes Foundation Center Presenter Assisting with chat: Becky Wiegand
Agenda • David Holmes: Foundation Center, Resources • Questions from the audience • Bobbe Luce: ONEplace, Cooperating Collections • Questions from the audience
How do I find funders interested in my cause? Toolkit Essentials for Advancing Your Cause April 26, 2012
Our Mission: To strengthen the social sector by advancing knowledge about philanthropy in the U.S. and around the world. The Foundation Center
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 GrantSpace.org: The Foundation Center’s Learning Community for the Social Sector • Information & resources designed for grantseekers • Subjects • Skills • Classroom • Tools
ONEplace@kpl: Kalamazoo Public Library • 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 GOALS 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.
Accomplishing Our 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
Our Cooperating Collection Activities • 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
A Few Statistics on ONEplace@kpl • 160+ workshops, webinars, and peer-networks per year • 1500+ attendees • Over 8,000 service points/year • Staff of 1.75 FTEs
Our Cooperating Collection Activities Contact Information: Bobbe A. Luce ONEplace@kpl Director ONEplace@kpl.gov www.kpl.gov/ONEplace
Who is the Foundation Center? • 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 TechSoup? • TechSoup is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. • As of June 2010, TechSoup served more than 127,000 organizations, distributed more than 6.3 million technology donations, and enabled nonprofit recipients to save more than $1.8 billion in IT expenses in 33 countries around the world.
Who is TechSoup? TechSoup is part of TechSoup Global, is working towards the day when every nonprofit, library, and social benefit organization on the planet has the technology, knowledge, and resources they need to operate at their full potential.
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