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Foundation Center Collection

The Foundation Center, an independent national service organization, specializes in providing information on foundations and corporate giving to non-profits.

The Greenville County Library System is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center and has been selected to provide public access to a core collection of Foundation Center books and databases including the following:

• After the Grant: The Nonprofit’s Guide to Good Stewardship
• America’s Nonprofit Sector
• The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing
• The Foundation Directory
• The Foundation Directory, Part 2
• The Foundation Directory Supplement
• Foundation Fundamentals
• Foundation Grants to Individuals
• Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates
• Foundations and Public Policy
• The Grantseeker’s Guide to Winning Proposals
• Guia para escribir propuestas
• Guide to Funding for International and Foreign Programs
• International Grantmaking IV
• National Directory of Corporate Giving
• Securing Your Organization’s Future
• Social Justice Grantmaking II
• The 21st Century Nonprofit: Managing in the Age of Governance

DATABASES

• Foundation Directory Online Professional
  provides subscribers with access to an unprecedented wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. Included is a database of the entire universe of over 100,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U. S.; a database of over 4,000 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate funders; a database of over 2.4 million recently awarded grants; and a keyword-searchable database of over 700,000 recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF. This database is accessible from computers in all Greenville County System locations.
• Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
  focuses on foundations that make direct grants to individuals. The types of support include a wide range of purposes such as scholarships, students loans, fellowships, program development, internships, professorships, arts and cultural projects, research, awards/grants by nomination only and general welfare. This database is accessible from computers at all Greenville County Library System locations.
• Philanthropy In/Sight
  allows users to quickly create maps that reveal patterns of giving and funding relationships. The demographic data in Philanthropy In/Sight comes from a variety of sources, including the American Human Development Project of the Social Science Research Council, the United Nations Development Programme's annual Human Development Report (HDR), the World Bank's Data Catalog, This database is accessible from computers in the Hughes Library with staff assistance.

Other Web Resources for Grant Seekers

National Resources

• Foundation Center
  provides an unparalleled amount of information about grants and grant making foundations for nonprofits.
• GrantSpace
  offers information and resources that are specifically designed to meet the needs of grant seekers. GrantSpace is the place for grant seekers to: explore in-depth content, engage with a community of peers and experts, and energize fundraising efforts.
• Guidestar
  allows access to information on more than 800,000 nonprofits with free registration. Full reports include mission, programs, leaders, financials, contacts and more. This is an excellent source for 990s.
  

State and Local

• South Carolina State Library
  includes tutorials, lists of resources and links to federal, state, public and private sources of funding.
• South Carolina Foundation Directory (2006)
  contains a comprehensive downloadable listing of public charities located within South Carolina or registered in South Carolina that also give in South Carolina. For assistance regarding the 2010 Directory, please contact SC State Library staff at (803) 734-8026.
• Community Foundation of Greater Greenville
  provides information on grant and funding sources in the Greenville area.
• South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations
  SCANPO contains the SCANPO membership directory. Search by name, company or city.

Federal

• GPO Access
  provides access to information about federal funding opportunities as soon as they are announced.
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
  provides access to information about federal funding opportunities as soon as they are announced.
• Grants.gov
  includes a comprehensive listing of grant programs offered by all federal grant-making agencies along with information on how to complete a grant application.