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Disclose It - Revised 1/08 - A summary of federal and state public disclosure requirements for charitable nonprofits
Grant
Research Tools
Our
libraries in Baltimore and Silver Spring house all the essential
tools you need to research and secure your next grant. Make
an appointment today to use these and hundreds of other fundraising
resources.
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The Foundation Directory Online Professional – contains information on over 90,000 private, public and corporate foundations. This service also includes a searchable file of more than 900,000 grants and over 350,000 trustee, officer and donor names.
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GrantsDirect.com – an online service that provides full profile information on almost 1,500 Maryland, D.C. and Northern Virginia foundations and identifies funders across 14 searchable fields. GrantsDirect also includes profiles on more than 4,500 national foundations.
- Pro Platinum - a Web research tool that helps nonprofits identify and qualify potential funders in 3 key areas: foundation giving (access information on more than 3 million grants made by over 75,000 foundations), individual giving (includes information on more than 30 million individuals), and corporate giving (includes corporate matching programs and foundations).
- Maryland's Leading 500 Foundations (2007) Fourth Edition
Features fully updated, in-depth profiles on Maryland's 500 largest foundations, including sample grants, Boards of Directors, contact information and indexes that will help nonprofits identify potential sources of funding.
The leading 500 foundations included in this new directory represent over 85% of all the foundation assets in Maryland. These foundations have made more than 15,000 grants totaling over $500 million. Over 95% of the information in the directory is 2005 or 2006.
Download the order form to order your copy today. Contact Bernie Jankowski @301-696-0797 or bjankowski@grantsdirect.com for more details. The price of this book is $219.00 + $8.95 S&H. If you are a member of Maryland Nonprofits, you receive an additional discount to $175.00 + $8.95 S&H.
Also, you can book a custom foundation research workshop for your grantees with Katherine Jankowski! Find out how here>>.
Please
note that the above resources are available to members of Maryland
Nonprofits. If your organization is not a member, join now.
Educational
Resource Packets
Maryland
Nonprofits has developed a collection of 22 Educational Resource
Packets that are intended to assist individual organizations to
implement specific standards. These materials are available to all
Maryland Nonprofits members free of charge.
Collectively, the 22 Educational Resource Packets cover each of
the 55 Standards. The following Educational Resource Packets on fundraising/development are
available for download in the Members Only Online Community:
Employment of Fundraising Personnel
Fundraising Costs
Fundraising
Practices
Fundraising
Regulations
Solicitation
and Acceptance of Gifts
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