GOOD SHEPHERD GRACENTER

Adam Eisendrath, Development Director at Good Shepherd Gracenter talks about what his nonprofit does and how Foundation Directory Online has helped.

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Adam Eisendrath
Development Director
Good Shepherd Gracenter
San Francisco, CA

THOMPSON WALL CONSULTING, LLC

As director of corporate and foundation giving, we are on the site constantly. We utilize both the grantmaker search and the grants search. It's just a tool we can't live without. If a foundation doesn't have a web site, Foundation Directory Online is our guide for helping us write that proposal; what language they use; what key words they're looking for.

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Donna Wall, CFRE
Partner
Thompson Wall
Consulting, LLC
New York, NY

STUDENTS RUN LA

Students Run LA (SRLA) is an innovative and successful youth empowerment program that helps at-risk Los Angeles students stay in school, graduate from high school, and continue on to college or university. Teachers volunteer to train with these students for the LA Marathon, to teach them how to set and achieve goals. While running is the core activity of the program, students participating in SRLA learn discipline, perseverance, and hard work. These lessons translate directly into their future success: SRLA students enjoy school, stay in school and graduate at a higher rate than do their peers.

Now in our 24th successful year of operation in Los Angeles, SRLA's annual results are both staggering and a tradition. More than 95% of the SRLA students who attempt the Marathon finish it, and more than 95% of the SRLA seniors who finish the Marathon graduate from high school. (Last March, 99% of the 2,856 SRLA runners completed the LA Marathon, and in June 2012, the graduation rate was also 99%.)

Students Run LA (SRLA) has been a subscriber to Foundation Directory Online for 10 years, and has had tremendous success with it. We have identified and applied to 52 foundations who serve disadvantaged youth in the Los Angeles area. As a result, eight of these foundations have contributed a total of $165,000 to SRLA, and four of them are ongoing contributors to our organization.

Just like SRLA, fundraising is a marathon effort. Foundation Directory Online is a tremendous help. Thank you.

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Ginny Gibbs
Development Director
Students Run LA
Los Angeles, CA

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOR THE ARTS, INC.

I have been extremely fortunate to work with many client organizations for the 10 years I have been in business, and it has been gratifying to see them grow from small start-up organizations to fully developed, large organizations that attract solid grant support from throughout our region.

I consider my Foundation Directory Online subscription a critical "value-added" service that I bring to clients. I am able to provide them with thorough and qualified prospect research as well as to have access to the many small foundations and research that cannot always be found through a simple web-based search. Also, the Foundation Center is a name that is well-known and respected among my clients and helps ensure them that my research and results are of the latest and best quality.

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Kathryn McKee
President
Business Development
for the Arts, Inc.
Wheaton, IL

YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY

Foundation Directory Online is an indispensible research tool that I use nearly every day. I like the convenience of accessing the Directory whether I am at the office or on the road visiting funders. I also have it open on my laptop screen during weekly prospecting meetings, so I can easily refer to funder records. This time-saving tool quickly pays for itself.

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Patrick Heryford
Institutional Giving Officer
Yosemite Conservancy
San Francisco, CA

MADONNA SCHOOL & WORKSHOP

[Foundation Directory Online] helped us increase grant funds by over $100,000 per year.

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Jay Dunlap
President
Madonna School & Workshop
Omaha, NE