Grants: Getting Started
Grants & Nonprofit Info Center
Inside this Info Center:
- Grants & Nonprofit Info Center
- About the Grants & Nonprofit Info Center
- Grantseeking Basics: Free Library Workshop
- Local Training & Educational Opportunities
- Guide to Using the Grants & Nonprofit Info Center
Grants Databases
Info Guides
Grants Research
- Getting Started
- How to Find Out About Funding
- The Fit-Funding Match
- Local Funders
- Types of Funders
- Grantmaking Public Charities
- Government Grants
- Corporate Philanthropy
- Grantmaker Types of Support
- Requests for Proposals (RFP)
- Financial Aid & Scholarships
- Grants to Individuals
Grant Proposals
Nonprofit Resources
- Starting a Nonprofit
- Boards & Management
- Consultants
- Fundraising
- Prospect Research
- Program Evaluation & Outcome Measurement
- Finding a Nonprofit
- 990 Forms
- Giving to Charities
- Professional Associations
- Jobs in the Nonprofit Sector
- Starting a Foundation
- Economic Recovery and Nonprofits
- Technology & Social Networking Resources
The Grants Collection is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center.
For first-time grantseekers and those seeking a review of basic grantsmanship.
On this page:
Web Sites
Learn About Resources
- Free Online Training
- Guide to Online Grantseeker Resources
- Foundation Center
- The premier web site for grantseekers covering everything from getting started to finding a funder. Grantspace is the Foundation Center's learning community for the social sector. It organizes the information, trainings, and research found on the Foundation Center's website into a much more intuitive format for grantseekers looking for information directly related to their nonprofits.
- Just Grants Arizona
- A one-stop source for news, tools, and resources for and about Arizona's grants community. The database, Arizona Guide to Grants Online, can be accessed through the library's web site at Grants Databases. You must be in a library branch to use the database.
- Foundation Center's FAQs
- The Foundation Center's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section provides answers to more than 125 questions about the Foundation Center, funding research and resources for nonprofits and individuals, nonprofit management, and more.
- Foundation Center's Interactive Online Training Courses
- Outstanding tutorials to grantseeking, funding research, proposal writing, proposal budgets, and more. Start with "Guide to Funding Research" and "Proposal Writing Short Course."
- Foundation Center's Reference Guides
- Foundation Center librarians have long provided "reference guides" to guide visitors with particular interests to effectively use the resources in our library collection.
Recommended Books
Browse the library's collection of books on grants and nonprofits. Check the shelves at all branches under these call numbers:
and these subject headings:
- Proposal Writing for Grants
- Fund Raising
- Fund Raising - United States
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Nonprofit Organizations - United States
- Nonprofit Organizations - Finance
- Nonprofit Organizations - Management
These books are also recommended:
- Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits : Real-world Strategies that Work
- 658.15224 B7393e 2010
- An excellent overview of the many different types of fundraising activities and how to go about maximizing the success of each fundraising effort.
- The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing
- 361.70681 G271f 2012
- Provides clear and thorough guidance in writing grant proposals and strategies for researching and contacting potential funders.