Where can I find information on online training opportunities?

The Foundation Center offers an array of online training courses and tutorials to help you succeed in your fundraising efforts.

Our interactive online training courses are detailed, guided courses that reinforce lessons with assignments and self-tests. When you select an e-learning course, you will be asked to log in or register at our web site.

• Foundations and Their Role in Philanthropy is an interactive e-learning tutorial offering a detailed overview of the world of private foundations. (free)

• Finding Foundation Support for Your Educationguides students through the process of seeking financial support from foundations to pursue their studies. (free)

• Getting Ready for Foundation Fundraising is an overview of the first steps nonprofits need to take to become viable, effective organizations in preparation for fundraising. (free)

• Grantseeking Basics for Individuals
  Prepares individuals to seek out and identify potential sources of foundation support. ($19.95)

• Grantseeking Basics for Nonprofit Organizations
  Helps those working with nonprofit organizations to identify foundations as potential sources of funding. ($39.95)

• Proposal Writing: The Comprehensive Course (http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/training/online/prod1150001_detail.jhtml) is a thorough, step-by-step guide to preparing an effective proposal for foundation support, covering every section of the proposal. Includes a copy of The Foundation Center’s Guide to Winning Proposals II. ($189.95)

Our free, quick tutorials introduce you to the world of foundations, proposal writing, and more.

• Foundations Today Tutorial explains what foundations do, how they are changing, and where they fit in the larger philanthropic universe.

• Guide to Funding Research offers the basics for those new to the grantseeking process for individuals as well as nonprofit organizations.

• Guide to Fiscal Sponsorship provides a detailed look at how individual grantseekers can affiliate with an organization to increase their chances to receive funding.

• Proposal Writing Short Course (Available in English, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish) describes how to prepare a funding proposal, including the planning, research, and cultivation of foundation and corporate donors.

• Proposal Budgeting Basics (Available in English and Spanish) offers the basics of developing a project budget—an important component of the grant proposal.

• Demystifying the 990-PF provides an overview of the content, accessibility, and value of the Form 990-PF, the IRS tax return filed by private foundations.

• Establishing a Nonprofit Organization describes how to establish a nonprofit organization task-by-task.

Guided Tours introduce and explain the features of Foundation Center products.

• Corporate Giving Online Guided Tour shows searching the Corporate Giving Online for information on thousands of companies and their giving interests.

• The Foundation Directory Online Guided Tour shows searching the database for information on thousands of grantmakers and their giving interests.

• Foundation Grants to Individuals Online Guided Tour provides the basics on searching foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.

• Catalog of Nonprofit Literature Guided Tour explains the Center's searchable database of the literature on philanthropy, the foundation world, the nonprofit sector, voluntarism, and charitable giving.

• Foundation Center’s Web Site Tour helps new visitors make the most of our web site, foundationcenter.org

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