Foundations & Grants

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Foundation Center
Free Foundation Center resources on the Foundation Center website include a Foundation Finder directory; a 990 Finder, which allows access to thousands of 990 forms in pdf format; a sign-up page for Foundation Center newsletters; and more.

Grant Space
A free Foundation Center website that expands upon the information made available by the original Foundation Center website. Includes a Subjects section that helps locate topical funding information in such areas as: Arts and Culture, Education, Health Care, and more. Also includes a Skills section, with information on the various skills needed to raise funds and manage nonprofit organizations. Other sections have similarly useful material.

Foundation Center Resources
The Foundation Directory Online Professional - This online version of the print Foundation Directory includes information on more than 92,000 funders and over 1.3 million recent grants. It allows the user to research foundation grants and also to locate grants from other types of grantmakers such as grantmaking public charities and corporate giving programs. In addition, grant information can be searched via online IRS 990 Forms. Searches can be narrowed in a number of ways, including geographically and by the type of grant support a funder offers. For more information see online Guided Tour and/or Search Tutorial. ** Available only at the Central and Miller branches

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online - This database allows the user to quickly search through detailed descriptions of more than 6,200 foundation programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual (rather than institutional) grantseekers. Grants can be searched by type of support offered. Search results can be narrowed down in a number of ways, including geographically. For more information see online Guided Tour. ** Available only at the Central and Miller branches


Locating Grant Opportunities

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Federal Sources for Grants
Grants.gov

• Grants Search
• Organizational Registration to Grants.gov
• Subscribing to Grants.gov

Maryland Department of Planning - Clearinghouse Grant Resource Center
(Government agencies located in Maryland must inform this state clearinghouse when applying for a Federal Grant.)

Maryland Sources for Grants

State Grants Clearinghouse

• Maryland Catalog of State Assistance Programs (Maryland Redbook)

Governor's Office

• The Governor's Grants Office 

Maryland State Agencies

• Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention
• Governor's Office on Service & Volunteerism
• Maryland Department of Aging
• Maryland Department of Agriculture
• Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development (includes Arts Council)
• Maryland Department of Housing & Community Development
• Maryland Department of Human Resources
• Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
• Maryland Department of Natural Resources
• Maryland Department Of Public Safety And Correctional Services
• Maryland Department Of The Environment
• Maryland Energy Administration
• Maryland Historical Trust
• Maryland State Department of Education
  • Child Care Grant Programs
  • Collaboration and Program Improvement Branch
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers
• Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO)
• Grants - Maryland State Arts Council

Local Resources

• Columbia Foundation
• Horizon Foundation
• National Center for Charitable Statistics (Urban Institute)
• Preservation Howard County
  

Grants Sources by Subject Area

• Funding by Subject Area Statistics (Foundation Center)
• Michigan State University Libraries
  • Academic Fundraising Web Resources
  • Arts
  • Funding for Business and Economic Development
  • Fundraising for Educators Web Resources
  • Grants for Individuals
  • International and Foreign Grant Makers
  • Grants for Nonprofits
  • Grants for Nonprofits: Community Development
  • Nonprofit Fundraising Web Resources
  • Religious Fundraising
• Teachers Network: Teacher Grants

Getting a Grant

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Preliminaries, Including Training

• Independent Sector (Calculating volunteer time for matching purposes)
  
• Maryland Governor's Grants Office - Training Library
• Organization registration in Grants.gov

Application Preparation

• Applying for a Grant Opportunity through Grants.gov (University of Minnesota)
• Grants and Proposal Writing (Drexel University)
• Using Grants.gov & the University of Michigan
• University of Wisconsin
  • Proposal Writing
  • Tips for Developing a Winning Proposal

Grants Management (for government grants)

• Federal Grants Management
  • Federal Financial Management, Grants Management
    
• U.S. OMB Circulars:
  • OMB Circular A-110, Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Other Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals and Other Non-Profit Organizations
  • OMB Circular A-122, Cost Principles for Non-Profit Organizations
  • OMB Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations
  • OMB Circular A-21: Cost Principles for Educational Institutions
  • OMB Circular A-87, Cost Principles for State, Local and Indian Tribal Governments (Does not apply to non-profit and educational institutions)
  • OMB Circular A-102, Grants and Cooperative Agreements With State and Local Governments (Does not apply to non-profit and educational institutions)

Online Publications & Blogs

• The Chronicle of Philantrophy
• Donor Power Blog

Additional resources

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• Maryland Nonprofits
  
• National Grants Management Association

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