Web Sites for Grant Writers

 

The Nonprofit Resource Center
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This is a one-stop directory for Internet resources for nonprofit organizations. Among their many resources:

Grants and Grantsmanship at www.not-for-profit.org/grant.htm. Here you will find a wealth of information from a list of books on the many subjects of grants, to list of available organizations, foundations and other grantors.

Fundraising at www.not-for-profit.org/fund.htm

Legal at www.not-for-profit.org/legal.htm The legal links on this site is very helpful both with federal tax law and information about individual state laws.

Support Orgs. & Info for Boards at www.not-for-profit.org/supt.htm "Internet Service for Grant-Funded Programs, an online subscription service providing management, fiscal and administrative reference materials and other information for grant-funded organizations. "

NonProfit Times On-Line
URL: http://www.nptimes.com/
Telephone: (973) 734-1700
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This is an on line publication that if monitored regularly could have grant information available in their articles. This is a magazine online dedicated to information regarding nonprofits. Not really an informational site for how-to-write-a-grant for beginners.

Nuts & Bolts Publishing
URL: http://www.nutsbolts.com/
Telephone: (407) 677-6564
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Mail Address: 4623 Tiffany Woods Circle, Oviedo, FL 32765-6102
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This web site works as a companion to the printed version of a monthy subscription newsletter called Non-Profit Nuts & Bolts. The mission of both the web site and the hard copy newsletter is to provide non-profit professions with practical, management tips to build and support their nonprofit organization. There was not any information regarding fundraising or grantwriting.

Pew Charitable Trusts
URL: http://www.pewtrusts.com
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Pew Charitable Trusts invested $30,803.500 in 31 grants for education among many other areas of interest over the last year as found in the News Room, Pew states that grantmaking "is closer to a strategic investment, and at the Trusts, we are thinking more like venture capitalists, seeking to derive the greatest benefit from every strategic investment of time, talent and capital. In our case, return on investment is not measured in profits but in long-lasting, positive and powerful results in the areas of our grantmaking."

www.pewtrusts.com/Frame.cfm?Framesource=Grants/grants.cfm
Grant Guidelines: Who - What - When - How. This is a very good place to start. Basic information necessary to start.

www.pewtrusts.com/Frame.cfm?Framesource=Grants/search_grants.cfm
Search Grants site allows you to search grants made by Trusts in the past three years using search categories

www.pewtrusts.com/grants/grantee_links.cfm
Grantee Web Links, A through Z for even more information. This area lists websites of organizations that have given funds in the past.

The Distance Learning Funding Sourcebook
URL: http://www.technogrants.com/
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Check out the 10 pointers of "Grantwriting For Success". This information is great for learning how to put together a successful grant proposal. See the "Funding Sources" area of this website for many past grants that have been funded. Arlene Krebs, President of New Orbit Communications, is the author of The Distance Learning Funding Sourcebook. Her website is a must for any first time grant writer.

TGCI=The Grantsmanship Center
URL: http://www.tgci.com/
Telephone: Phone: 213-482-9860
FAX: Fax: 213-482-9863
Mail Address: 1125 W. Sixth Street, Fifth Floor
P.O. Box 17220
Los Angeles, CA 90017
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TGCI offers workshops on grantwriting and fundraising and offers support over the Internet. They offer a writing guide and publish a grantwriting magazine called The Grantsmanship Magazine

Grantmaker Services
www.tgci.com/training/grantmaker.htm
A list of seven services to guide you through the grantwriting process. This is a very good place to start in the grant writing process.

Staff email directory
www.tgci.com/tgci/maildir.htm


Funding Through State Government
www.tgci.com/STATES/states2.htm
Links to each state's home page to find agencies that relate to your topic in every state.
For example, this site tells everything there is to know about New Mexico.
www.state.nm.us/

School Grants: Grants and Opportunities for K-12
URL: http://www.schoolgrants.org/
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This is a site specific to Schools K-12. They offer a free electronic news letter

Foundation Grant Opportunities with Time Deadlines
www.schoolgrants.org/campus_grants.htm
A list of many different Grant opportunities

School Grant-Writing Resources
www.schoolgrants.org/links_grant_writing_resources.htm
A list of many website links that offer resources

Grant Guides Plus, Inc.
URL: http://www.grantseeker.com/
Telephone: 888-247-2689
FAX: 888-248-4339
Mail Address: 1510 High Street, Ste. 205
Denver, CO 80218
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Grant Guides Plus provides quality information and educational services to grantseekers, nonprofits, schools, libraries and local governments. They offer workshops and training, publications, strategies and support services. This site is full of information.

Grantseeker.com
www.grantseeker.com/strategy.htm
There are 11 strategies here and each one needs to be looked at.

Grants Information
URL: http://members.xoom.com/Jay_Katz/grants.htm
Telephone: 303-477-3225
FAX: 303-561-3740
Mobile: 303-246-8632
Mail Address: Grants West
3435 West 36th Avenue
Denver, CO 80211
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This site has samples of other grant proposals, and offers grant information and resources. Grantwriter services are offered here as well.

URL List for Grantseekers
URL: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ebf9q/url_list.html (Last updated 12/19/96)
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www.people.virginia.edu/~ebf9q/url_list.html#Resource
Look here for an in-depth list of private organizations and associations.

Converge Funding K-12 Curricula and Technology
URL: http:// www.convergemag.com/Publications/CNVGOct99/FundingTech/FundTech.shtm
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Here's Arlene's column in Converge. There's a yellow column on the left all the way down at the bottom of the article that has another group of web links to check out. This website is a good place for the beginning grant writer should start. Some very good basic information.

Virtual Schoolhouse Grant - Cisco EdNet
URL: http://www.cisco.com/edu/programs/schoolhouse/
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This site is a good example of a grant funding foundation. Some of the links no longer work though.

NEC Foundation of America
URL: http:// www.nec.com/company/foundation/
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This site has explicit instructions on their application procedure, current deadlines, reasons why they reject proposals, tips, answers to question etc. A very interesting site. There are links to other philanthropic sites on the Internet. Contains downloadable information such as grant applications from the Foundations Online link.

Intel Grant Information
URL: http:// http://www.intel.com/intel/community/grants.htm
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This location describes how to apply for their grants. Application materials can be downloaded here. This site is a very good site to start with.