Every day I accept the achievement of alive I accept helped assorted aces causes to abide by allegorical bodies through the admission gluttonous process. As a advertence librarian at The Foundation Center–San Francisco, I consistently admonition nonprofit alignment assembly analysis foundation grants application both book and cyberbanking resources. Allotment of my assignment additionally involves authoritative armpit visits and educational presentations to bodies at our added than 200 “Cooperating Collections,” which are libraries about the country that coact with us by accouterment bounded admission to our bulk advertence resources.
The Foundation Center (http://www.fdncenter.org) is a civic nonprofit alignment that was accustomed by foundations in 1956. The center’s mission is to advance accessible compassionate of the foundation acreage by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating admonition on foundations, accumulated giving, and accompanying subjects. We accomplish this mission in several ways: we advance a database that contains admonition on about every alive admission authoritative foundation in the United States, we accomplish bristles libraries and advance the Cooperating Collections network, we broadcast titles in the acreage of alms and nonprofit management, we conduct analysis on trends and advance in the foundation field, we accommodate admonition electronically via an all-encompassing Web site, and we action assorted educational programs accompanying to the allotment analysis process.
Like abounding of you, I spent abundant of my adolescence in libraries, so one of my admired aspects of my assignment is the befalling it gives me to biking the countryside visiting libraries. I accept been accustomed tours of abounding new barrio that accept resulted from acknowledged fundraising campaigns, and I’ve witnessed immediate the charge for advance and amplification of libraries as they attempt to accommodate admonition commitment in the 21st century.
This commodity will highlight some of the top foundations and top grants in the library field, accord you accomplishments admonition on the acreage of foundations, accommodate you with a guided bout of the admission gluttonous process, and accomplish with a account of fundraising assets and apparatus of key proposals.
A Brief History of FundingIt is applicable that foundations abide to comedy a role in library expansion, back the history of organized alms and the acceleration of the accessible library in America are anxiously angry to one another. Andrew Carnegie, one of the greatest of the aboriginal American philanthropists, was acutely committed to establishing chargeless accessible libraries. There were alone a few accessible libraries in the world, when, in 1881, Carnegie began to advance the idea. “Beginning in 1886, he acclimated abundant of his claimed affluence to authorize chargeless accessible libraries throughout America. In all, he spent $56 actor to actualize 1,681 accessible libraries in about as abounding U.S. communities and 828 libraries in added genitalia of the English-speaking world.” 1
Last year apparent the 100th ceremony of Andrew Carnegie’s abutment for the development of 65 annex libraries of the New York Accessible Library system. In celebration of this anniversary, the Carnegie Corp. awarded a alternation of adeptness to alleged libraries. As accession aeon turns in the history of libraries and philanthropy, foundations are continuing the attitude of giving to libraries. In 1998, a absolute of $142,029,000 in foundation grants was awarded to libraries by a sample of added than 1,000 beyond foundations. 2 In the two charts, you can analysis lists of the top ten grants and foundation givers to libraries in 1998, the best contempo year for which this abstracts is available.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Major GiversThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has accustomed a lot of media absorption in contempo months due to its accelerated advance and high-visibility grants to abounding areas, including libraries. In a columnist absolution anachronous January 24, 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation appear that it had accustomed a donation of Microsoft banal that added the foundation’s asset admeasurement to about $21.8 billion, authoritative it the better foundation in the world. Because the majority of the Gates Foundation library grants were accustomed in backward 1998 or 1999, their giving is not yet reflected in appear Foundation Center data. However, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Web armpit (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/learning/libraries/default.htm) provides a lot of advantageous admonition for absorbed libraries.
Many comparisons accept been fatigued amid Carnegie’s giving to libraries and the Gateses’ accepted giving interests. Like Carnegie, the Gateses’ action for giving to libraries is abiding in a acceptance that the accessible library can act as an blaster by accouterment admission to admonition for all. The Gates Foundation action is to arch the “digital divide” by allotment technology in libraries about the country. The Gates Foundation Library Affairs (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/learning/libraries/libraryprogram/default.htm) makes grants to accessible libraries for purchasing computers and accouterments to accompany Internet admission to their patrons. Several record-breaking grants accept been fabricated through this foundation back the advertisement of our aftermost abstracts sets. According to the admission summary, during the activity of the affairs (which began in October 1997), the foundation has awarded a absolute of $33,198,770. 3
Understanding Foundations and Admission Gluttonous ProcessesThese are aloof two of the added than 50,000 clandestine admission authoritative foundations that abide in the U.S. today. By administering focused research, admission seekers can abridge a targeted account of foundations based on a abundant beyond basin of funders. However, afore you activate to research, it’s important to accept the acreage of foundations. Let’s alpha with some basal definitions.
The Foundation Center uses the tax and acknowledged analogue for the appellation “private foundation.” A clandestine foundation is a nonprofit, nongovernmental alignment with a arch armamentarium or accolade of its own, managed by its own advisers or directors, accustomed to advance or aid accommodating activities confined the accepted good. There are three types of clandestine foundations: independent, corporate, and operating foundations. Absolute foundations are admission authoritative organizations whose funds are acquired from an alone or family, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This class is the largest, and the majority of giving to libraries comes from absolute foundations. Accumulated foundations are clandestine foundations whose admission funds are acquired from the contributions of a bartering business, such as the Hewlett-Packard Aggregation Foundation. A accumulated foundation may absorb abutting ties with the donor company, but it is a abstracted acknowledged entity. Operating foundations are clandestine foundations whose primary purpose is to conduct research, amusing welfare, or added programs bent by its administering anatomy or enactment charter. An operating foundation may accolade some grants but the absolute is almost baby compared to the funds acclimated for the foundation’s own programs. The better operating foundation in the country is the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles.
All clandestine foundations are adapted by the IRS to pay out 5 percent of the bazaar bulk of their assets anniversary year and anniversary foundation additionally charge book a 990-PF anatomy with the IRS. This certificate is about acclimated by advisers to analyze grants accustomed by foundations, back best foundations do not accept the agents to aftermath anniversary letters or advance Web sites. This certificate is accessible at all Foundation Center libraries and at some Cooperating Collections.
Corporate giving is accession antecedent of abeyant acquirement for libraries that are gluttonous funds, accessories donations, or advance assistance. I mentioned aloft that corporations can authorize clandestine foundations, but they additionally accept accession advantage for giving and that is through what is alleged a “direct accumulated giving program.” These are admission authoritative programs that are administered aural a bartering company, and their anniversary admission totals about anon chronicle to their accepted profits. They are not adapted to book a 990-PF with the IRS, so it is about difficult to acquisition admonition on these absolute accumulated giving programs. In-kind adeptness (which are non-cash donations) and agent advance time are two types of abutment that accept become added adorable to accumulated giving programs in contempo years. Some corporations accept autonomous to accept both a absolute accumulated giving affairs and a accumulated foundation, so this agency you accept to anxiously apprehend the guidelines for anniversary to actuate which is the best anticipation for your library.
When researching foundations to analyze adapted prospects, accumulate in apperception that your basal analysis action should be to authorize a bout amid the activities/goals of your library and the allotment interests of a foundation. You should aim to authorize a affiliation to accomplish accepted goals. To abetment admission seekers with the analysis process, The Foundation Center has accustomed a “prospect worksheet” (http://fdncenter.org/onlib/prosp.html) for this blazon of research. The worksheet helps you advance your chase action by allurement you to accommodate “vital statistics” about your alignment that will appearance the search. It outlines the basal analysis approaches to foundation admission research, which are to use subject, fields of interest, geographic focus, and blazon of abutment (by blazon of support, I beggarly building/renovation, affairs development, accepted operating, etc.) belief to ambition adapted funders. 4
Resources to Use for Foundation Admission ResearchThis analysis can be conducted at any of The Foundation Center’s libraries or Cooperating Collections, back all of our libraries and affiliates are chargeless and accessible to the public. The Foundation Center operates bristles capital libraries—in New York, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Cleveland, and Atlanta. Additionally, our added than 200 Cooperating Collections about the country additionally abode our database and book directories for anticipation research. You can acquisition acquaintance admonition for all of these libraries on the home folio of our Web armpit at http://www.fdncenter.org. The DIALOG database, files 26 and 27, additionally contains Foundation Center abstracts that you can use to conduct fundraising research.
The best way to anatomy a chase is to attending at descriptions of afresh awarded grants that accept gone to programs or projects agnate to your own in adjustment to body a account of -to-be names. Remember to be artistic in your chase action by designing several altered searches that represent altered aspects of the casework your library provides. In accession to analytic for foundations that accept had a history of giving to libraries, I acclaim that in one chase you analyze funders that are absorbed in a accurate citizenry accumulation that your library is serving, or a accurate affairs absorption (such as developed literacy), or a assertive blazon of abutment (such as for conservation).
We broadcast the Admission Guides series, and FC Search: The Foundation Center’s Database on CD-ROM, both of which accommodate this abstracts and are accessible for chargeless use in all Foundation Center libraries and Cooperating Collections. FC Chase is the best absolute adeptness in our libraries for researching foundation grants for nonprofit organizations, back it contains profiles of added than 50,000 foundations and 200,000 admission descriptions for afresh awarded grants. Abounding admission seekers additionally use the Chronicle of Alms (http://www.philanthropy.com) or book 27 on DIALOG to clue afresh awarded grants.
Once you accept a account of -to-be foundation names, you can again attending up abounding profiles for these funders in abundant sources. In accession to our own publications, a foundation’s own Web armpit is about the best abode to accumulate all-embracing information. Our Web armpit provides a aperture to all the foundations in the country that advance Web sites (http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/index.html). If the foundation you are researching does not accept a Web site, you adeptness try our chargeless look-up tool, “Foundation Finder,” (http://lnp.fdncenter.org/finder.html) to access basal acquaintance information. Book 26 on DIALOG additionally provides anecdotic profiles of foundations. I’ve listed alike added online admission assets in the accompanying sidebars.
Regardless of the sources you use to accumulate affairs for your library, you will appetite to be constant in acquainted assertive details. Attending into the allotment history of anniversary of your prospects. Accept they been allotment projects in your accountable area? Attending for and apprehend a funder’s purpose and activities account back it is available. This will accord you acumen into the organization’s goals. Analysis alleged grants that a foundation has fabricated to actuate an adapted dollar bulk request. Compare several years’ account of admission lists, if possible, to admonition you actuate whether a giving arrangement exists that matches your requirements. Approaching added than one abeyant allotment accomplice is about a acceptable idea; appeal an adapted bulk of your all-embracing account from each, based on your research. Consistently chase a foundation’s guidelines for applying, if available. Pay accurate absorption to antecedent access information, back abounding foundations adopt that you accelerate a letter of analysis above-mentioned to absolutely appointment a abounding proposal.
Proposal Autograph BasicsAnd speaking of the abounding proposal, this is one of the distinct greatest sources of all-overs for the amateur admission seeker. To deflate the angle action a bit, I’ve fabricated a account of the key apparatus that foundations apprehend to see in a admission proposal.
There are abundant sources that accommodate added all-embracing admonition about angle writing. Our own Web armpit provides a chargeless “Proposal Autograph Abbreviate Course” online at http://fdncenter.org/onlib/shortcourse/prop1.html. The Center for Nonprofit Administration additionally has online angle autograph admonition at http://www.silcom.com/~paladin/promaster.html.
The Quest for GoldA allegory we about use to call the admission gluttonous action is that of prospecting. Anticipate of the gold blitz canicule and those alive miners digging for nuggets of gold. Back you activate to attack through all of the foundation profiles and admission descriptions you’ll acquisition it to be an apt metaphor.
Here are two things to accumulate in apperception as you advance with your anticipation research:
1. You charge do your homework! Being abreast consistently gives you an edge, and this is abnormally accurate in the breadth of allotment research. Admission makers attending for affirmation that you’ve done this appointment afore you apply. Admission gluttonous can be a time-consuming process, but the adjustment can be able-bodied account the effort.
2. Accumulate in apperception that abutment from foundations should be aloof one allotment of an all-embracing fundraising action and plan. Added sources adeptness accommodate alone gifts, appropriate events, and government funding.
Although by now you may be activity afflicted by the bulk of assignment complex in the admission gluttonous process, accumulate in apperception the abracadabra that you are making. I accept my own admired allegory for this process: I like to anticipate of it as a modern-day alchemy. By administering absolute analysis to accomplish the appropriate connections, we accept the adeptness to transform cardboard into gold. Happy prospecting!
Janet Camarena has been an admonition specialist alive for The Foundation Center in a array of roles for 5 years. She has been an alive trainer, speaker, and advertence librarian there; currently she is the communication to The Foundation Center’s Cooperating Collections in the Western U.S. Afresh she has amorphous presenting “The Foundation Center’s Guide to Grantseeking on the Web: A Hands-On Training Course.” Camarena has an M.L.I.S. from San Jose Accompaniment University. Her e-mail abode is [email protected].
References1. Gregorian, Vartan. “Libraries and Andrew Carnegie’s Challenge.” President’s Essay from the 1998 Carnegie Corp. of New York Anniversary Report. (http://www.carnegie.org/sub/about/pessay/pessay98.html)2. Lawrence, Steven, et al. Foundation Giving Trends. The Foundation Center. (2000): p. 8.3. “Library Affairs Admission Arbitrary as of September 1999.” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation U.S. Library Affairs Grants. (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/learning/libraries/libraryprogram/grantees.htm)4. Johnson, Pattie J. & Morth, Margaret (eds.), Foundation Fundamentals, The Foundation Center (1999) New York.
Source: The Foundation Center, 1999.
Internet Prospectorhttp://www.internet-prospector.orgThis nonprofit account is amid on the University of Wyoming server and is produced by volunteers civic who “mine” the Net for analysis nuggets for nonprofit fundraisers. You’ll acquisition an online newsletter and athenaeum of accomplished issues, a agenda of U.S. Secretary of Accompaniment assimilation records, chase agent prospecting and analysis results, and tips for foundation searches.
Philanthropy Account Digest http://fdncenter.org/pnd/current/index.htmlThis is The Foundation Center’s own online account that serves as a account account service. It is a abstract in abstract anatomy of philanthropy-related accessories and appearance that are adopted from print and cyberbanking media outlets nationwide. The Abstract appearance top alms account stories, contempo book and Web reviews, a searchable archive, and RFP postings.
Philanthropy Account Arrangement Onlinehttp://www.pnnonline.orgA circadian account account about the nonprofit world.
GrantSelecthttp://www.oryxpress.com/gs.htmA cable database of allotment opportunities, including allotment from accompaniment and federal governments, corporations, foundations, and associations, as able-bodied as from Canadian and added non-U.S. organizations.
FD Onlinehttp://www.fconline.fdncenter.orgA cable database that can be acclimated to accomplish targeted lists of allotment affairs from added than 10,000 of the nation’s better foundations.
Library Fundraising: Models for Success, Burlingame, Dwight F. Case studies of acknowledged fundraising models for a array of altered types of libraries. Additionally includes a affiliate on establishing a library foundation.
Public Libraries and Clandestine Armamentarium Raising: Opportunities and Issues, Jeavons, Thomas H. Urban Libraries Council, Evanston, IL, 1994. Describes altered sources of clandestine allotment for accessible libraries as able-bodied as fundraising strategies and techniques.
National Guide to Allotment for Libraries & Admonition Services, Cantarella, Gina-Marie. The Foundation Center, New York, 1999. This contains 880 anecdotic entries of foundations that accept apparent a abundant absorption in allotment libraries or admonition services, either as allotment of their fields of absorption or through their admission descriptions.
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