Philanthropy Front and Center - New York

New Foundation Center Map of Cross-Border Giving

Our new Map of Cross-Border Giving allows grantseekers to access a wealth of information on grants awarded by U.S. foundations to non-U.S. recipients. This interactive database includes detailed descriptions of grants awarded to over 12,000 international organizations totaling more than $8.5 billion. With this new resource, users can:

• Browse grants from U.S. grantmakers to non-U.S. recipient organizations using the interactive world map.
• Filter grants by fiscal year, grantmaker type, primary subject, recipient type, or type of support.
• View descriptions of over 30,000 grants to international organizations with information on the recipient, amount awarded, duration, type of support, description, and subject.
• Access detailed profiles of more than 1,400 funders, including contact information, giving interests and limitations, key financial data, and full copies of IRS returns for past years.
• Copy, print, or save maps for future reference. Data can also be exported as a spreadsheet file for further manipulation.

The Foundation Center's Map of Cross-Border Giving is available by monthly or annual subscription. For more details, go to crossborder.foundationcenter.org or visit the Marketplace section of our web site.

Live From Challenges and Opportunities of the Economic Crisis - October 13

Bradford K. Smith, president of the Foundation Center, will provide his perspective on the impact of the economic crisis on the philanthropic sector – both foundations and service providers – and the challenges and opportunities these turbulent times present for the future.

This 60-minute program will be at the Foundation Center-Atlanta on Tuesday, Oct. 13, starting at 2:30 p.m. To read Mr. Smith's biography or sign up to attend, please see our Events Calendar.

Can't get to this event in person? Attend the program virtually via the window below, either during the program or after it's happened. This program also will be taped and posted to our web site later this month.

Pattie Johnson, Director, Foundation Center-Atlanta

PubHub: The Foundation Center's Knowledge-Sharing Application

Sharing Knowledge to Build a Better World is PubHub's motto, and it's a fitting one. As you know, foundations do more than support direct service programs and organizations; they fund research that helps build an understanding of pressing issues in the work of nonprofit organizations. The Foundation Center's PubHub helps you access that research efficiently.

PubHub is an online catalog of foundation-funded research reports, evaluations, surveys, case studies, annual reports, and other useful knowledge, annotated, indexed, and made searchable for users, with links to the publications on the publishers’ web sites. Here are just a few examples of what's available:

Building Climate Change Resilience
August 2009
Funder: Rockefeller Foundation



Insurance Discrimination on the Basis of Health Status: An Overview of Discrimination Practices, Federal Law, and Federal Reform Options
February 2009
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation



The Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education
August 2009
Funders: Arts Education Partnership; Wallace Foundation



Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success
September 2009
Funder: Carnegie Corporation of New York

Visit PubHub today to begin your research, sign up for alerts, get an RSS feed, or submit reports. And get the PubHub widget for your online use.

Resources for Scholarship Seekers

Starting the search process as early as possible and submitting applications in advance of deadlines will help you in the highly competitive process of finding scholarship and grant support for your education. The Foundation Center's training, databases, podcasts, and online resources can help you to streamline the work:

Introduction to the Process:
Foundation Center training:

• Finding Foundation Support for Your Education
  Onsite, New York
  Online, Webinar
  Online, Interactive self-paced tutorial
• Getting Started With Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
  Onsite, New York
  (Learn to search the Center's online database for scholarships, fellowships, and other grants using various types of strategies.)

Databases and Search Wizards:

• Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
  Access to the Center's database is provided free of charge at the Foundation Center's New York library and at local Cooperating Collections.
• Student Aid on the Web
• Council of Graduate Schools, Fellowships and Financial Aid
• International Scholarship Search
• Philanthropy News Digest - RFPs: To search for current fellowship opportunities, use the keyword Search RFPs tool at the top of the page.

Additional search sites and the print directories you need to complete your research are listed and described in our FAQ, "Where can I find information about grants to attend college, graduate school, or beyond?".

This FAQ is also available in Spanish, "¿Cómo consigo apoyo financiero para asistir a la universidad?".

Other Tools

Check out the following for more ideas and information.

• Philanthropy Chat: How Donors Can Support Students' Educational Funding
• Philanthropy Chat: John Beahm Discusses Support for Student Humanitarian Work
• Focus on Funding for Education

The Foundation Center's New York library is the place to be to get this research done, but the main branches of the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Library systems also offer access to excellent resources and dedicated librarians to help you organize and focus your searching. For example, check out the 5th floor of the beautiful Bronx Library Center (the first City-funded green building), a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center, which offers access to funding databases and provides educational counseling. Go ahead, get started today!

Bradford K. Smith to Speak at the First AFP Tri-State Summit on Philanthropy

Thursday, September 24, 8:30 am-1:00 pm
Following the success of the joint teleconference with Guidestar CEO Robert G. Ottenhoff, Turning Crisis Into Opportunity, Bradford Smith, president of the Foundation Center, will join his colleagues in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors to discuss pressing issues in long-term nonprofit sustainability.

Fundraising Success in the New Economic Times is presented by New Jersey and Greater New York Chapters of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and marks the first AFP tri-state conference on philanthropy. Learn more and register for this event online.

Here are travel directions to New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

Susan Shiroma, Senior Librarian, Foundation Center-New York

Introducing Philanthropy In/Sight

The Foundation Center recently released Philanthropy In/Sight, our new interactive mapping tool for grantmakers, policymakers, researchers, and others interested in seeing the impact of philanthropy in the U.S. and worldwide.

Philanthropy In/Sight provides two unique mapping platforms powered by the Foundation Center's comprehensive databases of the more than 97,000 U.S. grantmakers and records of 1.6 million grants. Users can choose from over 1,100 subject areas and dozens of thematic indicators to assess past funding and current needs in areas such as education, housing, and health care at the global, national, state, or local levels. With these features, Philanthropy In/Sight enables foundations and policymakers to take a more strategic approach to grantmaking.

Philanthropy In/Sight users can:

• Plot the locations of grantmakers and grant recipients by country, state, county, city, metro area, congressional district, or ZIP code
• Find quick information about grantmakers and grant recipients, as well as details about past and recently-awarded grants
• Use layered demographic and thematic data to assess local funding needs and impact
• Explore emerging trends in both domestic and international grantmaking

To learn more, take the guided tour of Philanthropy In/Sight or see these frequently asked questions.

Interested in subscribing to Philanthropy In/Sight? Click here.

New Funding Guide for Preserving Historical, Cultural Collections

Working in collaboration, the Foundation Center and the Library of Congress have just released the second edition of Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums. This publication, issued as a PDF file, includes over 1,900 grants awarded by close to 500 foundations to public, academic, research, school, and special libraries, as well as to archives and museums, for work in conservation and preservation.

Deanna Marcum, associate librarian of Library Services at the Library of Congress said, “We are currently developing new initiatives to help libraries, archives, and museums care for our country's vulnerable cultural patrimony, including modern media during challenging times. We are delighted to partner on this Guide, which will lead people to funding sources that can support their preservation efforts."

Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums is available for free download at the Library of Congress web site, http://www.loc.gov/preserv/foundtn-grants.html.

Free Shipping this June on Proposal Writing Book Sets

This June, the Foundation Center is offering free shipping on our bestselling proposal writing book sets when you order online. With helpful insight and sample proposals, our popular proposal writing sets give valuable advantages to grantseekers.

The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing
In the fifth edition of our essential Guide, author Jane Geever provides detailed instructions on preparing successful grant proposals. Incorporating the results of 40 interviews with grantmakers across the nation, the Guide reveals their priorities in reviewing submissions and provides insight into what makes a winning proposal. ( Also available in Spanish - Guia para escribir propuestas.)

The Grantseeker's Guide to Winning Proposals
This latest addition to our best-selling Winning Proposals series includes 35 actual, funded proposals reprinted in their entirety. The Grantseeker's Guide features proposals to international funders, including the Mott Foundation; large regional funders, such as the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation; corporate funders, including the Mitsubishi Foundation, as well as regional and local foundations. Featured examples cover a wide variety of projects, from start-up costs to a major medical center. Each proposal includes remarks by the program officer who approved the grant.

Buy any of these popular sets online and get free shipping during the month of June:

• Guide to Proposal Writing / The Grantseeker's Guide to Winning Proposals
  Price: $69.90 - Buy now
  
• Guide to Proposal Writing / Guía para escribir propuestas
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• The Grantseeker's Guide to Winning Proposals / Guía para escribir propuestas
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• Guide to Proposal Writing / Guía para escribir propuestas / The Grantseeker's Guide to Winning Proposals
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Philanthropy Annual: 2008 Review

Highlights of News and Issues That Shaped the Year
The Foundation Center has just released Philanthropy Annual: 2008 Review, our yearly overview of the news, issues, people, organizations, and giving trends shaping the field. The new edition "serves as a permanent record of the ups and downs we've faced together in 2008 and the efforts of so many people to strive for something better," says Bradford K. Smith, the Center's president, in the Annual's introduction. Contents are drawn in part from Philanthropy News Digest, our daily online news service, as well as from selected Center research findings and other sources. Available for free use in our libraries, the Annual can also be downloaded or purchased ($19.95) at our web site.

Free Shipping on Popular Proposal Writing Guides

This March, the Foundation Center is offering free shipping on our bestselling proposal writing book sets when you order online. With helpful insight and sample proposals, our popular proposal writing sets give valuable advantages to grantseekers.

The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing, 5th Edition
In the fifth edition of our essential Guide, author Jane Geever provides detailed instructions on preparing successful grant proposals. Incorporating the results of 40 interviews with grantmakers across the nation, the Guide reveals their priorities in reviewing submissions and provides insight into what makes a winning proposal.
Also available in Spanish - Guía para escribir propuestas

The Grantseeker's Guide to Winning Proposals
This latest addition to our best-selling Winning Proposals series includes 35 actual, funded proposals reprinted in their entirety. The Grantseeker's Guide features proposals to international funders including the Mott Foundation; large regional funders such as the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation; corporate funders including the Mitsubishi Foundation, as well as regional/local foundations. Featured examples cover a wide variety of projects, from start-up costs to a major medical center. Each proposal includes remarks by the program officer who approved the grant.

Buy any of these popular sets online and get free shipping during the month of March:

• Guide to Proposal Writing / The Grantseeker's Guide to Winning Proposals
  Price: $59.90 - Buy now
  
• Guide to Proposal Writing / Guía para escribir propuestas
  Price: $59.90 - Buy Now
  
• The Grantseeker's Guide to Winning Proposals / Guía para escribir propuestas
  Price: $59.90 - Buy Now
  
• Guide to Proposal Writing / Guía para escribir propuestas / The Grantseeker's Guide to Winning Proposals
  Price: $79.85 - Buy Now