Sustaining Your Work

Fund your work

• Fundraising

  As part of Idealist's Tools for Nonprofits resource center, this section will help you unravel the mysteries of fundraising.

• Idealist.org: Ask Kim

  Kim Klein is the founder and publisher of the Grassroots Funding Journal and answers questions about fundraising for non profits.

• Nonprofit FAQ: Fundraising

  This section responds to some frequently asked questions about fundraising.

Find funding sources

• Nonprofit FAQ: Grants

  This section responds to some frequently asked questions about finding and writing grants.

• The Foundation Center

  As one of the best resources on the world of philanthropy, The Foundation Center compiles, organizes, and communicates information for people to learn about donors and foundations in the United States that provide financial support for grantseekers. The center itself offers education and training to grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public on the grant-seeking process.

• International Grants and Funders

  Fundsnet Services Online has put together a list of organizations and foundations from all over the world that offer grants to organizations contributing to the greater good.

• International Directory of Foundations

  As a part of The Foundation Center, this international directory offers information on funding to people from outside the United States, organized according to region. It also provides a list of websites that function much like the Foundation Center does in the United States.

• International Grants and Funding

  This section of Proposalwriter.com provides an extensive list of links to foundations and other funding sources the world over.

• The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

  This resource lists all of the federally funded programs in the United States available to domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.

Write a Grant Proposal

• Nonprofit FAQ: Grantwriting

  This section responds to some frequently asked questions about grantwriting.

• Nonprofit Guides

  These guides are free web-based grantwriting tools for nonprofit organizations, charitable, educational, public organizations, and other community-minded groups, designed to assist these groups through the grantwriting process.

• Promising Practices in Revenue Generation for Community Organizing

  A project of The Center for Community Change, this report discusses ways in which community groups can strengthen and diversify their funding base.

• Grantwriting Tips and Sample Proposals

  The Philadelphia Folklore Project has put together this guide which outlines the basics of applying for a grant and gives examples of sample successful proposals from their organization.

• Proposal Writing

  This list of internet resources, brought to you buy the University of Wisconsin at Madison, offers links to quite a few proposal writing guides for individuals or groups interested in non-governmental, research, or federal funding.