How do you find grant opportunities?

[DODI]

Does anyone out there have a good method for finding grant opportunities? I was at our school improvement meeting today and we all agreed that we need a REAL library and our Auditorium needs major help. We are an inner city school, but not on the priority list. Any ideas on how to search for money?

[XanaDUer]

1. Grants' Register

Hardcover at the library. Standard source I have used for proposal writing.



Best source. Probably some online stuff.

[OneBlueSky]

2. The Foundation Center is the repository of all grants information . . .

you can access them online at http://fdncenter.org/ . . . their major publication is "The Foundation Directory," a really huge and really expensive book that you can find at better libraries (http://fdncenter.org/marketplace/catalog/product_directory.jhtml?id=prod10002) . . . (check which edition they have, though . . . a new one is published every year, and foundation information changes constantly) . . . there's a topical index in the back of the Directory that you can use to find foundations interested in contributing to schools and libraries . . . your best bets are foundations in your own state, although some larger ones give nationally . . . there are also community foundations in many areas that give specifically in their own neighborhoods . . . good luck . . .