Visit the Toledo Lucas County Public Library’s Grantsmanship Center

Toledo Lucas County Public Library’s Grantsmanship Center, located in the Main Library, offers a collection of books and electronic materials to help nonprofit organizations find potential grant money, as well as books on nonprofit fundraising and management. Affiliated with the Foundation Center in New York, the Grantsmanship Center sponsors orientations and seminars on effective grant seeking techniques. Contact the Library’s grant specialist, Linda Koss, at 419.418.2292, by email at linda.koss@toledolibrary.org or phone the Business Technology Department reference desk at 419.259.5209 for more information.

Recommended Web sites

Foundation Center: www.fdncenter.org -- Information on grant writing and grant making organizations.

Foundation Directory: (available only at Main) -- The online listing of over 90,000 private and corporate foundations, corporate giving programs, and public charities that give grants to nonprofit organizations.

Foundation Grants for Individuals: (available only at Main) -- searchable online listing of foundation grants available to individuals.

Foundation Center's Request for Proposals: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/ -- Lists of requests for proposals from foundations and other organizations, broken down by subject areas. You can also subscribe (for free) to have RFPs e-mailed directly to you.

No Free Money: http://www.nofreemoney.com -- A website on funding help for individuals, with emphasis on Lucas County and Toledo.

Federal Register: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html -- Listing of federal regulations and grant announcements, updated daily.

Governor's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives: http://gofbci.ohio.gov -- Funding and training available to faith-based and community-based groups in Ohio.

Grants.gov: www.grants.gov --Warehouse of federal grant opportunities, information and registration.

Foundation Center: http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/990finder/ -- The 990s and 990-PFs of nonprofit groups and private foundations. These are valuable sources of information about who has been funded by foundations in the recent past.