Funding Your Projects

The Foundation Center 
The Foundation Center is an excellent resource for researching funding opportunities and gain knowledge about writing grants to foundations. It maintains a large database of foundations which is available for a monthly or annual fee. They also host free educational online courses and webinars and a free customizable listserv for opportunities.

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Grant Proposal.com 
This site provides free resources for both advanced grant writing consultants and inexperienced nonprofit staff.

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Guidestar.org 
Provides free access to the IRS 990PF forms of private foundations so you can research previously funded grantees. 
 

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University of Idaho Library

• Foundation Directory – print edition of comprehensive listing of U.S. foundations
• Foundation Center’s Guide to Grantseeking on the Web
• Annual Register of Grant Support – A Directory of Funding Sources, 2008

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Latah County Library

• Guide to Proposal Writing, Foundation Center
• Grant Writing Handbook, Sara Deming Wason

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The Most Corporations and Foundations ... 

• Respond more favorably to innovative proposals from entities who have established a relationship with them. The staff at Corporate and Foundation Relations are here to help you establish and steward those relationships.
• Are becoming more focused and strategic in their giving and are demanding a new level of accountability and donor service.
• Fund projects that address specific projects in line with their mission.
• Require recipient be a 501(c)(3) charity so gifts are tax deductible for the donor, which we are.
• Often maintain a lag time of several months from submission to notification of award. 
• Frequently limit the number of proposals an organization can submit per funding cycle. We assist with this coordination.