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
- Approaching a Small Foundation
- 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
- Program Evaluation & Outcome Measurement
- Finding a Nonprofit
- 990 Forms
- Giving to Charities
- Professional Associations
- Jobs in the Nonprofit Sector
- Starting a Foundation
The Grants Collection is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center.
Research & Resources
Info Guides - Grants: How to Find Out About Funding
Finding the right funder requires research into available funders and which funders fit with your organization. See the Fit Funding Match.
Formal Path
- Published sources in print (books) or electronic format (databases - Foundation Directory Online Platinum and AZ Guide to Grants and Giving) at the library
- Internet: but only about 12% grantmakers in Foundation Directory Online have Web sites. Gateway Web sites such as Foundation Center.
- Read the Guide To Funding Research provided by the Foundation Center.
- See the web for all federal and some state government grant information.
- Web sites of some businesses outlines their grantmaking program or their community involvement.
- Use library resources on this web site.
- Grantseeking Basics (free monthly workshop) at the library teaches about these resources.
Informal Path
Locations and groups which may serve as sources of information, brainstorming, and partnership rather than as sources of funding.
- Word of mouth.
- Annual reports and newsletters of grantseeking nonprofits and groups in your field and in your geographic area.
- Formal presentations and informal conversation at professional associations, conferences, workshops, and meetings in your field.
- Internet communication in your field: newsgroups, blogs, listservs, forums, and discussion groups; Web sites of organizations in your field.
- Networking organizations in your field or in fundraising and grantsmanship. See Professional Associations.
- Local organizations and government agencies such as
- Community Foundatioin for Southern Arizona
- City and county Community Services departments
- City, county, and state elected officials and their staff
- PRO Neighborhoods
- City of Tucson's Citizen and Neighborhood Services
- School districts or schools in your neighborhood
- United Way
- Civic and fraternal organizations, clubs and associations in your community.
- General interest newspapers and magazines in your community to raise your awareness of local grantmakers and funding sources.
- The Pima County Public Library can direct you to resources for finding everything mentioned above.