Nonprofit Resources
Greenwich Library is a Cooperating Collection of The Foundation Center. Based in New York, The Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Foundation Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants. Greenwich Library maintains a core collection of nonprofit resources for the needs of individuals and organizations.
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Foundation Center has a full list of FAQs to guide you in your nonprofit research.
Databases Available for Nonprofit Research
Connecticut Grantmakers Online
Subject:
business
Description:
Search the Web's most comprehensive, up-to-date database of Connecticut grantmakers. Password required; login on the right-hand side. Please see librarian.
Foundation Directory Online Professional
Subject:
business
Description:
This new online version includes a wealth of new information and features in addition to the comprehensive database of 80,000 grantmakers and half a million grants. A new, unique Professional tool, 990 Search, allows you to search across the text of our entire database of over 230,000 IRS 990s for private foundations, community foundations, and grantmaking public charities and exclusive funder portfolios. **For Use in the Main Library only**
Foundation Grants to Individuals
Subject:
business
Description:
An essential resource for individual grantseekers as well as for financial aid offices and funding libraries. It provides searching of foundations and public charities that provide support to individuals.
Gale Business Insights: Essentials
Subject:
business
Description:
Combines all of the content formerly found in Business & Company Resource Center with a new interface. Use this to find information on companies and industries, investigate investment opportunities, research businesses and find parent-subsidiary relationships, explore market and industry information, SWOT reports, investment reports and business associations; instantly analyze and compare financial and statistical data, study product and brand information, compare companies within an industry and target new customers and inform on potential business opportunities, distribution channels and licensing opportunities.
GrantSpace
Subject:
business
Description:
GrantSpace, a service of the Foundation Center, offers information and resources that are specifically designed to meet the needs of grantseekers.
Philanthropy/Insight
Subject:
business
Description:
"This interactive mapping tool was designed for grantmakers, policymakers, researchers, & academics. Choosing from a wide range of customization options, users can quickly create maps that reveal patterns of giving and funding relationships. Users can overlay grant data with their choice of over 150 demographic, socio-economic, and other data sets to create compelling visual portraits showing where philanthropy has made an impact and where opportunities exist to fill critical needs."
Reference USA
Subject:
business
Description:
Choose Business Listings for information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses; search by company name, business type, sales volume and more. Choose Residential Listings for information on over 135 million households; search by name, address, median home income and more. Also contains OneSource, an international company database. It contains three million global companies and five million executives.
Greenwich Library Core Collection of Books, Magazines & Journals
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