Introduction

Overcome Anxieties

One Basic Organizational Consideration

Fund Raising/Grant Seeking Basics

Keys to Successfully Written Grants

Internet Resources

Suggested Reading

• The Foundation Center: http://fdncenter.org
  The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse, whose mission is to provide the public with helpful ways to understand foundations and corporate giving.  The Foundation Center maintains a database on over 57,000 grantmakers and 243,000 grants; publishes dozens of directories, guides, research reports and books; provides free access to all Center publications in five Center-run libraries and more than 200 Cooperating Collections across the country; and offers a variety of training and educational seminars.  The Center itself does not make grants or write or review grant proposals.  Please visit the Center’s web site to view A Proposal Writing Short Course, or to view schedules and locations of its Proposal Writing Seminar, as well as the other kinds of information listed above.
  
  
• The Grantsmanship Center: www.tgci.com
  The Grantsmanship Center (TGCI) offers low-cost grantsmanship training and publications to nonprofit organizations and government agencies.  TGCI partners with local agencies across the country to offer more than 200 workshops annually in grantsmanship and proposal writing.  Its 75,000 alumni benefit from regular meetings and technical assistance and other forms of support delivered through the Internet. 
  
  
• TGCI’s The Grantsmanship Center Magazine is mailed to the staff of 200,000 nonprofit and government agencies in the U.S. and 58 other countries. 
  The TGCI proposal writing guide, Program Planning and Proposal Writing is the most widely read publication in nonprofit history, with more than a million copies in print.  Many government, foundation, and corporate grantmakers have adopted this guide as their preferred application format. 
  
  
• The European Foundation Centre: www.efc.be
  The European Foundation Centre (EFC) promotes the work of foundations and corporate funders active in Europe.  Established in 1989 by seven of Europe’s leading foundations, the EFC now has a membership of over 160 independent funders and serves 7,000 organizations in 35 European countries. 
  
  
• The Canadian Centre for Philanthropy: www.ccp.caThe Canadian Centre for Philanthropy is a national organization dedicated to advancing the role and interests of the charitable sector for the benefit of Canadian communities. 

• The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance: www.cfda.gov
  The Federal government of the United States of America is the largest source of grant funds in the world.  The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) is a government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activities which provide assistance or benefits to the American public.  It contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs administered by departments and establishments of the Federal government. 
  C FDA provides access to a database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments, federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories of the United States; domestic assistance; nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals. 
  
  
• The U.S. Government Printing Office GPO Access: www.access.gpo.gov
  GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free access to a wealth of information products produced by the Federal Government, including government databases, tools to locate government information, and user support.  GPO Access provides access to the Federal Register, the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies, including funding programs and opportunities. 
  
  
• The United States Environmental Protection Agency: www.epa.gov/seahome/grants/src/msieopen.htm
  In partnership with Purdue University, the EPA has produced an excellent grant writing tutorial.  The tutorial addresses three EPA programs (Environmental Justice, Environmental Education, and Environmental Justice Through Pollution Prevention), which have some application to Urban and Community Forestry issues, but the tutorial is also useful just in terms of providing a very effective introduction to proposal writing.  Its Mock Grant Writing Activity is especially helpful by allowing you to practice writing different sections of a grant application, with important tips in each sections as well as actual examples against which to compare your own work.

Other Resources

• Charity Portals:
  Charity Portals are web sites that offer searchable directories of nonprofits. Their goal is to make it easy for people to donate money online to their favorite charity or interest. Some portals offer this service for free, others charge a small percentage of the donation. Basically, all you have to do is register with each portal by giving information about your organization, its mission, services, etc. Following are some hotlinks to the major portals: www.helping.org, www.greatergood.com, www.charitableway.com, www.allcharities.com, www.giveforchange.com, www.4charity.com.
  
  
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy: www.philanthropy.com
  The Chronicle of Philanthropy is the newspaper of the nonprofit world.  Published every other week, it is the best news source for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and others involved in philanthropic activities.  The paper (available in hardcopy and online) contains a wealth of information regarding available grants and grant making sources.  Some of this material is available for free and some only by subscription.
  
  
• Nonprofit Universe: www.grantscape.com
  Nonprofit Universe is a group of services offered by Aspen Publishers, Inc. and includes quality newsletters and online databases that identify potential donors in a variety of subject areas. 
  
  
• The National Council of Nonprofit Associations: www.ncna.org
  NCNA is a network of 39 state and regional associations with a collective membership of more than 20,000 community nonprofits.  It can help you connect with your own state association of nonprofit organizations for peer-to-peer support in the nonprofit sector.  NCNA state associations represent all nonprofit organizations—large and small, well-established and starting up, in all fields of nonprofit effort. 
  
  
• W. Alton Jones Foundation: www.wajones.org
  The W. Alton Jones Foundation offers funding under several categories of environmental programs, as well as a wealth of information and resources on environmental issues.

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