The CCPL is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center. As a member of this nationwide network of libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies, the CCPL provides visitors with free public access to grantmaker directories, books on fundraising and nonprofit management, and the Foundation Center's electronic database, FC Search: The Foundation Center's Database on CD-ROM. The fully searchable database includes detailed profiles of all active U.S. foundations, as well as an extensive file of recent grants awarded by the nation's top founders. This specialized collection of materials is available at the Main Library.
For more information, please visit our Nonprofit and Grant Resources blog. Please send Foundation Center comments or suggestions to Misty Jones.
Nonprofit Web sites
The Foundation Center
(NY) Created by the Foundation Center. This site has links to many private and community foundations, corporate funders, and federal programs.
Internet Nonprofit Center
With a nonprofit locator, nonprofit FAQ's, current online news, and a nonprofit library.
NonProfit Times
This site provides current news and information about the nonprofit world. You can submit questions.
Grants and Funding Sources
Provided by Coastal Carolina University, this is a list of many funding sources available on the internet.
Guide Star
GuideStar is a searchable database of more than 640,000 nonprofit organizations in the United States. Type a name in the Charity Search box or use the Advanced Search to find a charity by subject, state, zip code or other criteria.
National Science Foundation
A weekly listing of the latest publications and programs available are found under "News of Interest." Program deadlines and a search feature are located under "Info and Pubs."
National Institutes of Health
(NIH) Click on "Grants and Contracts" for information about NIH grant and fellowship programs, applying for grants or fellowships, etc. Search for NIH grants over the last 6 weeks or from January 1992 to the present and retrieve full texts of Requests for Applications (RFA's).
Community of Science
(COS) Provides a searchable funding opportunities database. Federal Register and Commerce Business Daily can also be searched.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Provides a searchable index to CFDA, which contains all federally sponsored programs (programs do not necessarily have current funding cycles).
Federal Register
(FR) A daily publication where new federal grant programs and guidelines are announced. The database is searchable from 1995+.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The newspaper of the non-profit world. Published every other week, it is a good news source for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise.
Council Online
Created by the Council on Foundations in Washington D.C., this site gives links to grantmakers, nonprofits,and other resources. It also has links to key legislation.
Idealist
This site compiles resources available on the Internet and arranges them by topic and geographic location. The nonprofit directory can be searched by keyword. The site also includes tools for nonprofits and links to appropriate tax forms (Adobe Acrobat required for the tax forms).
