The Foundation Center operates libraries at five locations. These include its headquarters in New York City and its field offices in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Cleveland, and San Francisco. Center libraries provide access to a unique collection of materials on philanthropy and are open to the public free of charge. Professional reference librarians are on hand to instruct library users in how to research funding information using Center publications and other materials and resources. Free training sessions are also available at each of the five library locations.
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The Center's more than 400 Cooperating
Collections are located in public, academic, or special libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Cooperating Collections offer a core collection* of Center publications
free to the public, and their staffs are trained to direct visitors to appropriate resources on funding information. Cooperating Collections offer free access to The Foundation Directory Online and Foundation Grants to Individuals Online.
Many Cooperating Collections also have directories and reports on local funders. Each offers their own orientations and other community workshops. It is advisable to call a Cooperating Collection in advance of a visit to verify holdings and hours of operation.
Learn more about establishing a funding information library in your area.
*The core collection consists of:
- The Foundation Directory Online Professional
- Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
- After the Grant: The Nonprofit's Guide to Good Stewardship
- America's Nonprofit Sector, 3rd ed.
- Board Member's Book
- The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing, 5th ed.
- The Foundation Directory
- The Foundation Directory, Part 2
- The Foundation Directory Supplement
- Foundation Fundamentals
- Foundation Grants to Individuals
- Foundations and Public Policy
- Foundations Today Series
- Foundation Giving Trends
- Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates
- Foundation Yearbook
- The Grantseeker’s Guide to Winning Proposals
- Guía para escribir propuestas
- Guide to Funding for International and Foreign Programs
- International Grantmaking IV
- National Directory of Corporate Giving
- Philanthropy Annual
- Securing Your Organization’s Future
- Social Justice Grantmaking II
- The 21st Century Nonprofit: Managing in the Age of Governance
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