Foundation Center @ TCCL
Core Resources
The Foundation Center @ TCCL’s reference collection is located in the Research Center on the 4th floor of the Central Library, the collection’s reference materials and databases are limited to use in the Central Library. A collection of circulating books and videos is also located on the 4th floor of Central Library; these materials can be requested and routed to any of TCCL’s 24 locations.
Databases
The
Foundation Directory Online Foundation
Grants to Individuals Online |
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Oklahoma
Foundation DataBook
A directory and CD-ROM of 1,123 Oklahoma foundations, with comprehensive profiles of the largest
214 grantmaking foundations and a categorical listing of every one of the 7,710 grants they awarded to mostly Oklahoma
nonprofit organizations for the most recent year on record. The Oklahoma Foundation DataBook CD-ROM can be found on the
Foundation Center terminal in the Research Center.
Books
The Foundation Center’s Core Collection, located in the Research Center on the 4th Floor of the Central Library, consists of the following titles.
The
Foundation Directory (061 F82)
The 2006 edition features key facts on the nation's top 10,000
foundations — the most influential foundations in the nation!
The
Foundation Directory Part 2 (061 F825)
The Directory Part 2 features the next 10,000 largest
U.S. foundations to broaden your fundraising base.
The Foundation Directory Supplement (061
F82 Suppl.)
The Supplement provides revised
entries for hundreds of foundations in The Foundation Directory and The Foundation Directory Part 2
Foundation
Grants to Individuals (001.44 F825)
This directory features more than 6,200 entries, with current
information on foundations that award funds directly to individuals. Perfect
for artists, students, and researchers!
The
Foundation 1000 (361.760973 F82a)
The Foundation 1000 details program
area descriptions and application information; names of program staff;
and easy-to-read tables and charts are just a few examples of details
found only in this volume.
Guide
to Funding for International and Foreign Programs (300.25 G941)
Find
over 1,500 descriptions of grantmakers that support international relief,
conferences, disaster assistance, human rights, civil liberties, community
development, education, and more.
Guide
to U.S. Foundations, Their Trustees, Officers and Directors (061.3
F825)
Find new philanthropic connections for your organization!
This volume covers nearly 70,000 foundations and the people who run them.
National
Directory of Corporate Giving (361.76502573 N213)
This Directory provides
the most current information available in print on corporate donors.
You’ll find background on the sponsoring company, including: plant, office,
division, and subsidiary locations, names of corporate officers, financial
data, and Forbes and Fortune ratings.
Foundations
Today Series
Expand your knowledge about foundation philanthropy with this unique collection of
facts and figures on private and community foundations and their giving.
Foundation
Giving Trends (361.7632 F8252)
Foundation
Growth and Giving Estimates (361.7632 R298f)
Foundation Yearbook
(361.7632 F8253)
Other Helpful Reference Books
National
Guide to Funding in… (series, varying call numbers)
Locate funders and grants that
fund your particular area of interest from Aging to Substance Abuse.
Grants for… (series)
(001.44)
Do you know who's
giving—and getting—grants in your field? This series
reveals the scope of current foundation giving in a variety of fields.
The series includes titles for Arts, Culture and the Humanities, Higher
Education, Minorities, the Physically and
Mentally Disabled, etc.
The
Foundation Center’s Guide to Grantseeking on
the Web (658.15224 F825)
With this Guide, you’ll learn
about government funding sources, prospecting for individual donors,
searchable databases, journals, newsletters, discussion lists, and message
boards.
The
Foundation Center’s Guide to Winning Proposals II / Margolin,
Judith, Editor
(658.15224 F8251 2005)
To guide you through the proposal writing process this book features
real proposals reproduced in their entirety.
Starting
and managing a nonprofit organization: a legal guide / Hopkins,
Bruce.
(346.73 H774s 2001)
This practical reference offers you information on virtually
every legal aspect of starting and operating a nonprofit organization.
The tax law of
charitable giving. 2002 cumulative supplement / Hopkins, Bruce.
(343.73052668 H774t 2002)
This book can help the lawyers, managers, and development
directors of tax-exempt organizations make sure that they are up-to-date
on all current regulations pertaining to charitable gifts, and that they
are well-prepared to make decisions about their organization's fund-development
program.
For circulating books search the library’s online catalog. Are you and the desired book not at the same location? All circulating materials can be routed to any of TCCL’s 25 locations