Desperately Seeking Funding

Using Foundation Directory Online to Find Grants & Funding Opportunities

Joan C. DivorBCLS Business Services

Librarian

Overview

• How do you currently identify funding opportunities?

• What works; what doesn’t work?

Goal

FUNDER VISION AND MISSION

ORG. VISION & FUNDING NEEDS

Your Library Can Help!

Foundation Directory Online• Suite of feature–rich funding

research databases & tools

Your Library Can Help!

Foundation Directory Online• Three main databases

–Grantmakers–Grants–Companies

Your Library Can Help!

Foundation Directory Online• Key Strengths

– Current – User friendly – Tools: download, email, save, tag, alert– LINKED!

Your Library Can Help!

Foundation Directory Online• Single user license• PROFESSIONAL license – highest

level of access/features

Objectives

1. Create and run basic searches in the 3 Foundation Directory Online directories using several different approaches.

Objectives2. Explain how the 3 Foundation

Directory Online directories work together to enhance your results.

3. Use Power Search to supercharge your research.

ALLOW TIME FOR YOU TO RESEARCH

YOUR FUNDING PROJECT

Foundation Directory Online via BCLS

• Home page to Databases A-Z listing

bcls.lib.nj.us

Foundation Directory Online via BCLS

• Home page to Business Gateway – Nonprofits guide

bcls.lib.nj.us

Staff will log you in.

Grantmakers

• 100,000 + US foundations– Community foundations – Company-sponsored foundation – Independent foundation – Operating foundation

• 12,000 grantmaking public charities

• 1,200 corporate giving programs

Grantmakers – Case Study

“I’m looking for funding for my local community theatre group.”

BROADEN!

OR

BROADEN OR NARROW?

OR

Programs for Adult Literacy or Employment

OR

NARROW!

AND

BROADEN OR NARROW?

AND

AND

AND

Programs for Adult Literacy AND Employment

Grantmakers – Case Study

“I’m looking for funding for my local community theatre group.”

Online

Keyword Searching

Grantmakers demonstration:

I would like to identify organizations located in New Jersey that might fund a new adult literacy program needed in our community.

Online

Grantmakers – Exercise 1

I am seeking potential funder(s) for our New Jersey-based non-profit’s new interfaith initiative.• Find funders – find 1 – 3 potential

matches• Index and keyword searching• Look at the grants of one match

Take a Break!

Grants (Recipients)

• Over 2.4 million grants awarded by US foundations–Profiles by recipient–LINKAGES

Grants – Case Study

Funding for a business plan competition• Known recipient• Keyword/phrase

Online

Online

Grants – Exercise 2

1.Grants search

2.Compare to Grantmakers search

I would like to identify organizations that could fund a new adult literacy program needed in our community.

GRANTMAKERS DATABASE GRANTS DATABASE

GRANTMAKER STATE - NJ GRANTMAKER STATE - NJ

FIELD OF INTEREST: Adult education--literacy, basic skills & GED SUBJECT: Adult education--literacy, basic skills & GED

Carlozzi Charitable Foundation, Inc., Nicholas H. and Margaret H. A Friends' Foundation Trust (1)

Roberts Foundation, Nora Boye Foundation, Inc., The (1)

Verizon Reads, Inc. Bunbury Company, Inc., The (2)

Wish You Well Foundation Community Foundation of New Jersey (2)

Zobel Foundation, Inc. Creamer Foundation, J. Fletcher (1)

  Dodge Foundation, Inc., Geraldine R. (8)

  Evans Foundation, Charles, The (2)

  Harbourton Foundation (1)

  Hearst Foundation, Austin, The (1)

  Hyde and Watson Foundation, The (6)

  Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Contribution Fund (3)

  Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood, The (2)

  Kirby Foundation, Inc., F. M. (14)

  Knistrom Foundation, Fanny and Svante (1)

  Link, Jr. Charitable Trust, George, The (2)

  McGraw Foundation, Curtis W., The (2)

  Merck Company Foundation, The (3)

  Milano Foundation, Inc. (2)

  Provident Bank Foundation, The (1)

  Prudential Foundation, The (23)

  Roberts Foundation, Nora (4)

  Rolin Foundation, The (1)

  Turrell Fund (5)

  UBS Foundation U.S.A. (1)

  Verizon Foundation (159)

  Victoria Foundation, Inc.

  Walbridge Fund, The (1)

WHAT DOES THIS TELL US??

Companies

• Access corporate grantmaker records by searching across the corporate info. of sponsoring companies.

• Detailed company info. to complement their grantmaker profiles

• 3,400 – plus companies

Companies

CIGNA FDN.

CIGNA CORP CONTRIBUTIONS PROG.CIGNA CORP

Companies – Case Study

I want to identify the funding interests of major companies in nearby Philadelphia & Bucks counties to explore potential matches for our food and health related programs.

Online

Companies – Exercise 3

Identify 3 Pennsylvania companies with $50 million or more in sales with a grantmaking entity that provides funding in support of philanthropy/volunteerism.• Name the grantmaking entity for

each company you find.• Practice the linkages among all 3

directories.

Power Search

• Simultaneous KEYWORD search of:• Grantmakers, Companies, Grants • 990s• Foundation Center's philanthropy

news, nonprofit jobs, RFPs, foundation publications, and nonprofit literature databases.

Power Search – Case Study #1

• Adult literacy New Jersey (broader than our previous search)

• (more precise): “Adult literacy” – “New Jersey”

• Guided search helps at each step

Some Advanced Stuff

Wildcard Search

• WRITE? = WRITE OR WRITES OR WRITER

• WRIT* = WRITE OR WRITES OR WRITER OR WRITERS OR WRITTEN OR WRITING….

Available in Grantmakers, Grants, Companies, as well as

in Power Search.

Power Search – Case Study #2

I want to explore the fundraising opportunities and trends related to urban gardening.

(Demonstration of some more advanced searching options.)

Power Search – Case Study #2• “urban gardening” - 41• “urban garden*” – 51• urban NEAR/1 garden* - 206• urban NEAR/2 garden* - 297• urban gardening - 581• urban and gardening – (same)• urban garden* - 10,000 plus

Summary / Review• Directories? • Index searching?• Keyword/phrase?• Linkages?• What can you do with your findings? • Power Search? What is it and how is it

searched? • Different ways to fine-tune research using

keywords, proximity, wild card?

Summary - Review

Exercise 4• Try your own projects…or…

How can you leverage this??

1. Create a list of between 10 and 20 grantmakers who fund in the area of women’s health. (hint: wildcards)

2. Identify grants awarded by the Ford Foundation for capacity building.

3. Identify newly established (after 2008) foundations that have a giving program of at least $250.000.

4. How many NJ companies with grantmaking arms are in the medical instruments & supplies industry.

Exercise 4

Objectives

1. Create and run basic searches in 3 Foundation Directory Online directories using several different approaches.

Objectives2. Explain how the 3 Foundation

Directory Online directories work together to enhance your results.

3. Use Power Search to supercharge your research.

ALLOW TIME FOR YOU TO RESEARCH

YOUR FUNDING PROJECT

Key links @ bcls.lib.nj.us

• Databases A-Z – Foundation Directory Online

• Business Gateway -http://explore.bcls.lib.nj.us//business –Nonprofits guide– Foundation Directory Online– Nonprofits

• NJ State Library Funding Information Center

Also…Grant Space

Free Foundation Ctr. “space for nonprofits”: content, community, tools (searchable knowledge-base)

– or via BCLS Business Gateway Nonprofits Guide

grantspace.org

BCLS Business & Nonprofit Services

Joan C. Divor, Business Services Librarianjdivor@bcls.lib.nj.us

KNOWLEDGE TO EMPOWER