Foundation Center Cooperating Collection

The Ida Rupp Public Library is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center. As a member of this nationwide network of libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies, the Ida Rupp Public Library provides visitors with free public access to grantmaker directories, books on fundraising and nonprofit management, and the Foundation Center’s electronic databases, Foundation Directory Online Professional, Foundation Grants to Individuals Online, and Philanthropy In/Sight. These fully searchable databases include detailed profiles of all active U.S. foundations, an extensive file of recent grants awarded by the nation's top funders, and interactive mapping tools.

These free online resources are available for In-Library Use only. Please ask a staff member for assistance.

Updated weekly, Foundation Directory Online Professional provides access to essential facts on grantmakers and their funding activities worldwide. To pinpoint prospective funders, explore four comprehensive databases: Grantmakers, Companies, Grants, and 990s. With geographic search tools, you can zoom in on regional and local grantmakers or grants by state, county, city, metro area, congressional district and ZIP code. Choose from over 1,100 indexed search terms or keyword-search. Interactive maps and charts show a funder’s giving trends, and you can click through to see recipient lists and grant details. 

Updated quarterly, Foundation Grants to Individuals Online contains detailed descriptions of more than 8,300 foundation programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.

Philanthropy In/Sight is an interactive mapping tool that can quickly create maps that reveal patterns of giving and funding relationships.

The Foundation Center Librarians are available for additional assistance

 Philanthropy News Digest (PND), a daily news service of the Foundation Center, is a compendium, in digest form, of philanthropy-related articles and features culled from print and electronic media outlets nationwide.  PND also publishes RFP(Requests For Proposals) daily. 

In addition to the online resources, the library has many print sources available.  While many of the print titles are located in the reference department, many of the books are also available in the library’s circulating collection. Printing and photocopying are available (.10 per page)

Print Titles include:

• After the Grant: The Nonprofit's Guide to Good Stewardship (2010)
• America's nonprofit sector: a primer (2011)
• Board Member's Book (2003)
• The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing, 5th ed. (2007)
• The Foundation Directory (2011)
• The Foundation Directory, Part 2 (2011)
• The FOundation Directory Supplement (2011)
• Foundation Fundamentals (2008)
• Foundation Giving Trends (2011)
• Foundation Grants to Individuals (2011)
• Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates (2011)
• Foundation Yearbook (2011)
• The Grantseeker’s Guide to Winning Proposals (2008)
• Guía para escribir propuestas (2008)
• Guide to Funding for International and Foreign Programs (2010)
• National Directory of Corporate Giving  (2011)
• Securing Your Organization’s Future (2001)
• Social Justice Grantmaking II (2009)
• The 21st Century Nonprofit: Managing in the Age of Governance (2009)

Supplementary Print Titles include:

• 90 Days to success in grant writing (2010)
• 101 fun and effective fundraising events for nonprofit organizations (2011)
• 250+ fundraising ideas for your charity, society, school and PTA (2011)
• The complete guide to getting a grant  (1996)
• The complete idiot's guide to grant writing (2011)
• Every Nonprofit's tax guide (2011)
• The Foundation Center's guide to proposal writing (2007)
• Free money! and other stuff (2008)
• Free $tuff for seniors (1998)
• Fundraising for non-profit groups (2002)
• Fundraising for social change (2007)
• Getting grants: The complete manual of porposal development and administration (2006)
• Go get that grant!: a practical guide for libraries and nonprofit organizations (2010)
• Grant$ for libraries and information services (2005)
• Grants for higher education (2005)
• Grantwriting 101 (2011)
• Grant Writing: a complete resource for proposal writers (2009)
• Grant writing demystified (2011)
• Grant writing for dummies (2011)
• The "how-to" grants manual : Successful grantseeking techniques for obtaining public and private grants (2011)
• How to say it: Grantwriting (2009)
• How to write knockout proposals: what you must know (and say) to win funding every time (2004)
• The Left brain's guide to fundraising: over 100 ideas for the creatively challenged (2010)
• Loans and grants from Uncle Sam: am I eligible and for how much? (2006)
• Million dollar consulting proposals (2012)
• Models of proposal planning & writing (2005)
• The Non nonprofit: for-profit thinking for nonprofit success (2012)
• Nonprofit meetings, minutes & records: how to run your nonprofit corporation so you don't run into trouble (2011)
• The only grant writing book you'll ever need(2003)
• Proposal planning and writing (2003)
• Starting and building a nonprofit: a practical guide (2011)
• The ultimate scholarship book 2010: billions of dollars in scholarships, grants and prizes(2009)
• The volunteers' guide to fundraising : raise money for your school, team, library or community group (2011)
• Writing and winning grants and government contracts (2011)

Other Online Resources:

• JustGrants! Ohio a comprehensive resource for news, tools, and resources for and about Ohio's grants community
• Grants.gov   If your organization is eligible for a US grant, use this website to get registered with grants.gov.
• Government Benefits, Grants, and Financial Aid for Citizens: USA.gov  Information from the US government on federal benefits, grants and financial aid for US citizens.
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance provides a full listing of all Federal programs available to State and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi- public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.
• USA.gov for Nonprofits Government information for nonprofits including information on grants, management and operations and tax information.
• National Council of NonProfits