Seymour Public Library District is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center. As a member of this nationwide network of libraries, community foundations and other nonprofit agencies, Seymour Library provides visitors with free public access to grantmaker directories, books on fundraising and nonprofit management, and the Foundation Center’s electronic databases, Foundation Directory Online Professional, Foundation Grants to Individuals Online, and Philanthropy In/Sight. These fully searchable databases include detailed profiles of all active U.S. foundations, an extensive file of recent grants awarded by the nation's top funders, and interactive mapping tools.
More details on the collection follow.
Electronic databases
Foundation Directory Online (FDO)
(online but can be accessed only in the library)
For nonprofits, Foundation Directory Online contains over 100,000 grantmaker profiles allowing grantseekers to see who is receiving funding and how. FDO allows users to access up to nine databases and is updated weekly, giving users the most up-to-date and accurate information available.
Records from this database may be saved to a flash drive or printed at the library’s standard rate of 10 cents a page.
Grants to Individuals
(online but can be accessed only in the library)
Grants to Individuals is an online database containing more than 8,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers and other individual grantseekers.
Records from this database may be saved to a flash drive or printed at the library’s standard rate of 10 cents a page.
Philanthropy In/Sight
(online but can be accessed only in the library)
Combing Google maps with the Foundation Center’s data on grantmakers and their grants, Philanthropy In/Sight is an interactive mapping tool designed to help grantmakers plan the future directions of their programs. Philanthropy In/Sight creates customizable maps based on the user’s interests.
Foundation Center’s Core Print Collection
- After the Grant: The Nonprofit's Guide to Good Stewardship (2010)
- Board Member's Book (2003)
- The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing, 5th ed. (2007)
- The Foundation Directory (2011)
- The Foundation Directory, Part 2 (2011)
- The Foundation Directory Supplement (2011)
- Foundation Fundamentals (2008)
- Foundation Grants to Individuals (2011)
- Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates (2011)
- Foundations and Public Policy (2009)
- The Grantseeker’s Guide to Winning Proposals (2008)
- Guía para escribir propuestas (2008)
- Guide to Funding for International and Foreign Programs (2010)
- International Grantmaking IV (2008)
- National Directory of Corporate Giving (2011)
- Securing Your Organization's Future (2001)
- Social Justice Grantmaking II (2009)
- The 21st Century Nonprofit: Managing in the Age of Governance (2009)
The library’s collection also includes non-Foundation Center books on grants, grant writing, and grant seeking.
Training for Grant Seekers and Nonprofits
The Foundation Center offers a variety of online training classes at its web site, http://grantspace.org . For a list of classes, click on the "classroom" tab. A variety of training options are available: free classes that can be viewed online from a home or office, free classes offered at Seymour Library, and fee-based classes offered at Foundation Center training sites across the country.
