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Grantmaker profiles provide a powerful summary overview of the funder's work along with all the pertinent details fundraisers need to find and approach great prospects. With information on more than 140,000 grantmakers, FDO can help you find the funders you don't know yet. The majority of these grantmakers do not have websites and would otherwise be almost impossible to find. Updated weekly.
The Grants.gov system houses information on over 1,000 grant programs and vets grant applications for 26 federal grant-making agencies.
Funding opportunities database finds grant notices in medicine, humanities, social sciences, engineering and science from federal and private sources.
"Stanford has numerous internal funding opportunities for faculty and their research teams, but it's not always apparent where they all are, or how to apply. Our goal is to make it easy to find opportunities, despite the expansive nature of the university, and make it dead simple to apply. This service is part of a Dean of Research initiative to reduce the administrative burden incurred by faculty and their teams, and to afford them more time for our shared core mission of research and teaching."
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Dimensions is a large citation and abstract database that covers all subject areas and provides free access to more than 1.2 billion citations from research publications. Dimensions Plus, a fee-based service, brings together publications, datasets, grants, citations, alternative metrics, clinical trials, patents, and policy documents to deliver a platform that enables users to find and access the most relevant information faster, analyze the academic and broader outcomes of research, and gather insights to inform future strategy. Updated monthly, the grants portion of Dimensions Plus includes over 5.7 million grants from ca. 600+ funders worldwide. An up-to-date list of data sources is provided here: https://app.dimensions.ai/datasources.
Detailed grant information, including recipients, descriptions, and types of support, helps you determine which funders are most likely to fund your work, how much to request, and what to highlight in a grant proposal.
The mission of Grantome is to use data to drive discovery of new knowledge about scientific research grants. This knowledge can be applied to enhance the productivity and confer competitive advantage for researchers, institutions, and businesses that rely on grant funding. Towards this goal they have collected grant data from some of the world's largest and most prominent grant-giving organizations and assembled them into a single database.
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A searchable database of the literature of philanthropy, incorporating the contents of the Foundation Center's five libraries as well as selected literature from other sources. Contains more than 25,000 full bibliographic citations, of which more than 17,000 contain descriptive abstracts. Entries represent the literature on philanthropy, the foundation world, the nonprofit sector (particularly works on such topics as fundraising and proposal development) and works related to charitable giving, including project reports, studies, and statistical analyses.
Access evidence and insights that can help you make your case! Free reports, issue briefs, and valuable lessons learned from 1000's of other organizations working in your field. Produced by the Foundation Center, IssueLab fills a unique role, as one of the largest open repositories for social sector knowledge.
Philanthropy News Digest (PND) a daily news service of the Foundation Center, is a compendium, in digest form, of philanthropy-related articles and features culled from print and electronic media outlets nationwide. Also includes request for proposal listings and a job board.