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Grantmakers are an important audience for us, and the Foundation Center provides resources and services tailored to your special needs.
How Can We Help You?
We have answers to your questions about the services of the Foundation Center and how we can help your organization. Peruse our FAQs, submit a question to our Online Librarian, or consult one of our topical resource lists.
Help us to ensure that grantseekers are finding current information about your programs. We make it easy for you to submit your grants electronically, update your record, create a web site, and inform the public about news, jobs, and grant opportunities.
Refer your grantees and applicants to us! We can help them improve their funding research and proposal writing skills, and identify alternate funding sources.
Are you new to the foundation world? Let us help you understand the basics of foundations, grants, and the 990-PF.
We have the latest research on U.S. foundations and their giving, white papers on best practices for grantmakers, and a catalog of online reports sponsored by foundations.
What's New
Val Porter Appointed Director of the
Foundation Center-Atlanta 6/3/10
Ms. Porter will oversee the Foundation Center's activities in the entire Southeast, continuing a 15-year history of service to the region. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Porter headed a strategy and branding firm, Cultural Capital, dedicated to the sustainability and growth of public and private ventures.
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Race to the Top: What Grantmakers Can Learn from the First Round6/2/10
This issue brief documents the experiences of grantmakers, government leaders, and education consultants in states that applied for the U.S. Department of Education's 2010 "Race to the Top" competition. It offers critical lessons on grantmaker and government collaborations for education reform and beyond.
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- Download the report Free
The Foundation Center Elects Two New Board Members:
Marcia Smith and Valdemar de Oliveira Neto5/19/10
 
Marcia A. Smith is senior vice president at The Atlantic Philanthropies, a global foundation that makes large investments toward addressing the root causes of social injustice. Valdemar Neto (known as "Maneto") is policy director of AVINA, a Latin American foundation.
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- View the Foundation Center's Board of Trustees
Foundation Center's Philanthropy Annual: 2009 Review5/17/10
The Foundation Center has just released Philanthropy Annual: 2009 Review, the third edition of its yearly compendium highlighting the news, issues, people, organizations, and giving trends shaping the field of philanthropy.
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- Learn more
Foundation Center Is Research Partner for
Global Philanthropy Forum, April 19-21 4/19/10
Visit our Global Philanthropy web portal to learn about the work foundations are doing to mitigate the effects of climate change and to ensure access to water, food, and health care in developing countries.
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- Visit the web portal
The Foundation Center Releases Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates, Current Outlook (2010 Edition)4/16/10
The recent economic crisis caused the nation's more than 75,000 grantmaking foundations to cut their 2009 giving by an estimated 8.4 percent-by far the largest decline ever tracked by the Foundation Center. Grant dollars fell from $46.8 billion to $42.9 billion. Yet according to Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates (2010 Edition), released today by the Foundation Center, this cutback totaled less than half the 17 percent loss in foundation assets recorded in the prior year.
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- Download the report Free
Glasspockets.org Encourages
Foundation Transparency2/1/10
A new web portal from the Foundation Center puts the spotlight on foundation transparency, identifying first-rate examples of organizations that communicate openly about their work. Glasspockets.org illuminates successes, failures, and ongoing experimentation so foundations can build on each other's ideas to increase impact.
- Read the press release
- Visit www.glasspockets.org
Over 40% of Surveyed Funders Are Planning a
Direct Response to Crisis in Haiti1/22/10
A survey of the Foundation Center's Grantmaker Leadership Panel indicates that a significant number of leading funders are considering a direct response to the crisis in Haiti, with a primary focus on providing emergency assistance. Read the three-page report, Earthquake in Haiti: Leading U.S. Foundations Respond
to the Crisis, for more about the survey's findings.
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- Visit Focus on Haiti: Earthquake Relief and Recovery
Celebrity Giving Spotlighted in New Directory11/9/09
The Foundation Center's new Celebrity Foundation Directory features profiles of thousands of charitable foundations that have been established by well-known figures in business, sports, entertainment, politics, and other areas. It details the charitable giving interests of the rich and famous in a downloadable, searchable PDF format.
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- Purchase the directory
Decline in 2009 Foundation Giving Steeper Than Anticipated, Survey Finds11/4/09
Foundation giving will likely decline by more than 10 percent in 2009 according to survey findings released by the Foundation Center. Based on responses of close to 600 foundations, Foundations' Year-end Outlook for Giving and the Sector also finds that continued reductions are expected in 2010. This study was made possible in part by support from The Wallace Foundation.
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- Download the advisory Free
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Philanthropy In/Sight™
Our interactive mapping tool illustrates philanthropy's impact around the world. Create customized maps with demographic overlays to show funding patterns worldwide.
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Free Web Sites
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Our "Foundation Folders" program provides free web sites to foundations, to make information about their foundations more widely available.
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Best Practices for Grantmakers
Gain fresh perspectives and useful advice on core areas of foundation practice with Practice Matters: The Improving Philanthropy Project.
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