Where should I refer people looking for grants to individuals?

Most foundation funding is awarded to nonprofit organizations, not to individual grantseekers. However, the Foundation Center has gathered resources for individual grantseekers, including the tools and web sites listed in the Individual Grantseekers area of our web site.

The Foundation Center's new web site, GrantSpace, features various articles in the Knowledge Base that could be useful to you and your applicants:

• Where can I find information about grants to individuals with disabilities?
• Where can I find funding for an invention or patent?
• Where can I find help with emergency housing costs?
• How can I recognize and avoid grant or scholarship scams?
• How do I write a grant proposal for my individual project? Where can I find samples?

We also publish Foundation Grants to Individuals Online, a directory of grantmakers that fund individual grantseekers. A print version of Foundation Grants to Individuals can be purchased online or accessed free of charge at the Center's libraries in Atlanta, Cleveland, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, and at our Cooperating Collections.

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