Online Resources for Grantees

The Internet can be one of your most valuable sources of information.

Visit the links below for online grant information and assistance.

Resources for Individuals

The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center has recently launched a new area on its Web site geared toward individual grantseekers. This section includes links to user aids, online tutorials, and other tools that help individuals find funding.

Fund-raising Resources

GuideStar
This searchable database of more than 650,000 nonprofits is indispensable for individual and institutional donors researching potential grant recipients. Nonprofit organizations may place information about their organization here free of charge.

The Foundation Center
Established to increase public understanding of the foundation field, The Center offers a wide range of educational services and resources. This Web site provides access to private foundation information, directories, books and periodicals, grantmaker files, and bibliographic databases.

Foundations On-line
Foundations On-line is a searchable database of grantmaking foundations. Browse the foundation directory, pick a listed foundation, search any foundation's information page, or search any foundation's home page.

Gifts in Kind
Gifts In Kind International is the recognized leader in the field of product philanthropy. It helps top manufacturers and retailers give away software, computers, office equipment, and supplies to nonprofit organizations worldwide. Visit the Gifts in Kind Web site to register to receive these product donations.

Program Planning/Implementation Resources

Innovation Network
Innovation Network (InnoNet) provides online consulting, training, and coaching on program evaluation and organization development. Its free online Workstation is a site of evaluation and planning tools designed specifically for nonprofit program planning. The tools allow you to build a blueprint for designing, evaluating, and budgeting a successful program. The Workstation also helps you build work plans — management tools to help you get the job done. The result is stronger programs with measurable results. The Workstation leads you through a series of interactive steps — a program plan (to help you define your goals and determine what activities you'll need to carry out on the way to those goals), an evaluation plan (to let you integrate evaluation into your program from the very beginning), and a budget plan (to make sure you've got the financial resources you need). Information from these plans is then made available for your use in developing grant proposals.

Success Measures Project
Success Measures is an integrated system of training, technical assistance, and technology support for community-based organizations and their resource partners in the community development field to document outcomes, measure impact, and inform change. The Success Measures Data System (SMDS), the technology component of the system, is a user-friendly Web-based service that reduces the time, costs, and in-house skills needed to conduct effective outcome-based evaluations.

Training and technical assistance is offered through introductory workshops, in-depth training sessions, and one-on-one coaching to help organizations get started with participatory, outcome evaluation, evaluations to integrate into their existing business, planning, and evaluation cycles. NeighborWorks® America offers the Success Measures program to its NeighborWorks® Network and to the wider community development field. View more information at www.successmeasures.org.

Technology Resources

Digital Divide Network
The DDN is the Internet's largest community for educators, activists, policy makers and concerned citizens working to bridge the digital divide.

General Nonprofit Resources

BoardSource
BoardSource is reportedly the world's largest, most comprehensive publisher of material on nonprofit governance. Here you'll find more than 100 booklets, books, videos, and audiotapes on the subject available online.

Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Chronicle of Philanthropy is a leading news source for charity leaders, fund-raisers, grantmakers, and others in the philanthropy field. The Chronicle's Web site features articles from the latest printed issue, a news archive, conferences and workshops, grant listings, job opportunities, and extensive industry links.

The Nonprofit FAQ
The Nonprofit FAQ is a compilation of frequently asked questions, and their answers, based on online communications about nonprofits (mostly in the United States of America) beginning in the early 1990s.

Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits (MAP)
MAP provides a variety of affordable management support services for nonprofit organizations. The MAP Web site features a library on helpful topics such as human resources, organizational development, fundraising, and planning.