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AFP eWire
April 11, 2005 |
Foundation Giving Declines, Key Issues Gain Support in 2003 Despite the decrease in giving across most fields, funding of specific issues, including arms control, disaster preparedness, national security and voter education, grew substantially.   |
AFP eWire
October 21, 2004 |
Community Foundations See Strong Gains in 2003 Two new surveys by the Columbus Foundation and the Council on Foundations show that the community foundation field had a strong year in 2003, primarily because of the steadily improving economy. |
AFP eWire
August 2, 2004 |
Grant Applications and Reporting Made Easier The Uniform Grant Guidelines Coalition, is requesting comments from all interested parties about its new proposed guidelines on consistent and uniform definitions and data elements in grant making. |
AFP eWire
November 17, 2008 |
Foundations Not Likely to Change Funding Priorities Despite Economic Distress U.S. foundations are not going to suddenly or drastically change their funding priorities in the present economic downturn, judging from historical trends. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2006 |
Online Education News Nimble Press has launched Grant Wrangler and Grant Wrangler Bulletin to help teachers, principals, and parents find available funding for K-12 schools in the US. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2004
Weaver & Fernley |
Tips for Getting Your Educational Technology Projects Funded Two points are important no matter what grant or source of funding you are looking at. |
AFP eWire
April 28, 2008 |
New Study Recommends Ways to Address Flaws in Grant Application and Reporting Nonprofit organizations and foundations alike are beginning to stagger under the weight of a grant application and reporting system that needs fixing. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2005 |
Polycom Enhances Grant Assistance Program Polycom Inc. has enhanced its Grant Assistance Program in order to help its customers purchase the video, voice, data, and Web communication solutions they need. |
AFP eWire
October 8, 2007 |
Canadian Funders Placing Huge Burdens on Charities The entire grant/funding process in Canada is becoming increasingly burdensome, time-consuming and complicated, according to a new report by the Wellesley Institute. |
AFP eWire
April 20, 2010 |
2009 Saw Record Decline in Foundation Giving The recent economic crisis caused the more than 75,000 grantmaking foundations in the United States to cut their 2009 giving by an estimated 8.4 percent -- by far the largest decline ever tracked by the Foundation Center. |
Entrepreneur
August 2004
Paul & Sarah Edwards |
No Such Thing as Free Money? Will your wish for free money be granted? Don't count on it. There are grants, but they are few and far between. |
Chemistry World
February 1, 2013
Rebecca Trager |
Duplicate grants could be costing US science agencies millions The US's premiere science agencies may be inadvertently awarding tens of millions of dollars to scientists who submitted the same grant proposal multiple times and accepted duplicate funding. |
AFP eWire
January 31, 2012 |
What to Do When Foundations Have Walled Themselves Off From Your Organization What can you do when you come face to face with a wall built by a foundation to keep organizations like yours out? |
AFP eWire
April 9, 2007 |
Foundation Giving Rises to $40 Million Foundation giving in the United States grew to $40.7 billion in 2006, an 11.7% increase from the previous year, according to a new study. |
AFP eWire
June 14, 2011 |
Before You Leap: Weighing the Benefits of Grants Here is some helpful perspective on the world of grants that might save your organization valuable time and resources. |
AFP eWire
October 8, 2007 |
"Orphan" Trusts Controlled by Large Banks, Law Firms Offer Less Charitable trusts that are created by families and then controlled by banks and law firms after family members pass away often grant fewer funds, while the fees to manage those trusts actually increase, according to a recent article in The New York Times. |
AFP eWire
February 26, 2007 |
Panel Recommends Fundamental Reform in Canadian Grant System An independent blue-ribbon panel commissioned by the Treasury Board has recommended substantial changes in how the Canadian government administers its federal grant and contributions program. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jan/Feb 2006
Jane C. Nober |
Discretionary Grants Foundations reviewing an existing or proposed discretionary grant program should keep some of these basic legal principles and operational guidelines in mind. |
AFP eWire
May 6, 2004 |
Urban Institute Releases Study on Foundation Practices, Attitudes Urban Institute study reveals a wealth of data about the attitudes and practices of different types of foundations, including how they view effective philanthropy and the monitoring and evaluation processes. |
AFP eWire
May 17, 2004 |
Report Reveals What Grantees Value in Foundations A new report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy has identified several key areas that charity grantees most value in the foundations that fund their programs. |
AFP eWire
September 18, 2006 |
New Standards for Community Foundations More than 260 community foundations recently earned the National Standards Seal, which was created by the council and leaders of the community foundation field. Nearly 300 more organizations are in the process of either compiling materials for their record book or are currently under review. |
AFP eWire
June 23, 2008 |
U.S. Charitable Giving Surpassed $300 Billion in 2007 Foundation grant making, which made up 12.5 percent of total giving, is the fastest growing source of charitable donations. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2005 |
Grant Program Helps Integrate Technology Into the Classroom InfoSource is accepting applications for its grant program, awarding $2.5 million in online tools and training to school districts. |
Foundation News & Commentary
May/Jun 2005
Helen Monroe |
Vision, Values & Verbalization New foundations completing first distributions, as well as foundations with a mature grantmaking program in place, should set aside time for in-depth conversations about their work. |
AFP eWire
May 21, 2007 |
Foundations Don't Support Overhead Costs, Do They? A new study suggests that foundations are more likely to support overhead expenses and award unrestricted gifts than most nonprofits realize. |
AFP eWire
May 19, 2008 |
Advice to Grant Seekers: Never Believe Your Own PR Grant seekers should remember to bring their data and a level head -- not a sales pitch -- when they approach a foundation for grant money. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Bill Becker |
Library Grant Money on the Web: A Resource Primer What if a library -- a public, academic, school, government, special, private/corporate, or research library -- seeks corporate, foundation, individual, or government grants? How can a professional searcher help? |
T.H.E. Journal
October 13, 2009
Dan Thompson |
K-12 Grant To Award Classroom Clickers The Turning Foundation, Study Island, and Performance Matters have launched a new grant to award teachers with student response systems, also knows as classroom clickers. |
InternetNews
April 15, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Regulatory Tug-of-War for Broadband Stimulus With more than 1,400 comments for how the broadband stimulus grants should be awarded, agencies have their hands full in setting rules for application period. |
Information Today
February 25, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
Evaluating the Laura Bush 21st Century Grant Program Launched in 2003, the grant was designed to address a range of challenges facing libraries throughout the United States. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2004
Douglas Brooks |
How to Write GRANTS: The Best Kept Secret in the School Business How do school districts, buildings or classroom teachers fund the products they need to improve student learning? The answer is through external grants. Here are some vital skills that will help when it comes to writing and applying for grants. |
AFP eWire
October 7, 2014 |
REPORT: New Data Shows Canada's Largest Foundations Give over $1 Billion Annually to Canadian Charities Philanthropic Foundations Canada and Imagine Canada recently released a first-ever report about the assets and giving trends of Canada's largest grantmaking foundations. |
Foundation News & Commentary
May/Jun 2005
Cole Wilbur |
Self-evaluation Periodic self-evaluation can renew the vitality of any foundation. |
AFP eWire
September 25, 2006 |
Congress Approves Database of Federal Grants, Contracts Congress has passed legislation (S. 2590) that would create a searchable database of all federal government spending, including grants to charities. |
AFP eWire
August 15, 2005 |
Matching Foundation Payout Rates to Mission A new report argues that foundations would be better served by matching their payout rate to the specific needs and programs of their mission as opposed to an arbitrary, government-set limit. |
AFP eWire
September 5, 2006 |
Canadian Government Seeks Comments on Grant Programs The Canadian federal government is asking nonprofit organizations and other interested parties to submit their comments and opinions about how to make the current system of grant and contribution programs less burdensome and more efficient. |
AFP eWire
November 23, 2010 |
Foundations Likely to Increase Giving in 2011 It may take several years for giving to match the peak level recorded in 2008, according to estimates reported by the Foundation Center. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2000 |
Late Breaks - SMARTer Kids & NEC Technologies ...Together, they are launching a new $20 million grant program open to accredited not-for-profit public and private schools, colleges and universities across North America.... |
AFP eWire
April 12, 2004 |
U.S. Foundation Giving Declines Slightly in 2003 Grantmaking foundations in the United States gave slightly less in 2003 campared to the previous year. |
AFP eWire
July 24, 2006 |
New Website to Collect Nonprofit Research A new website allows nonprofit organizations to post their research and other analysis on social issues free of charge. |
AFP eWire
May 21, 2007 |
Corporate Giving Reaches Milestone Independent of Disaster Relief A new study reveals that foundation giving rose by 6% in 2006, even though most giving related to the Gulf Coast Hurricanes and Southeast Asia Tsunami has already been completed. Giving exceeded $4 billion for the first time ever. |
AFP eWire
June 12, 2012 |
Growth in U.S. Foundation Giving Fails to Keep Pace With Inflation Giving by U.S. foundations showed a modest increase in 2011, totaling an estimated $46.9 billion and up 2.2 percent from the year before. After accounting for inflation, however, contributions by U.S. foundations were down slightly from 2010. |
Chemistry World
February 6, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
US funder mulls new emeritus award The US National Institutes of Health is exploring a new grant mechanism for emeritus faculty that would let senior investigators exit their NIH research grant supported role. |
AFP eWire
May 5, 2008 |
Despite Economy, Some Foundations Plan to Increase Giving Three recent surveys that asked foundations if they plan to increase their giving in 2008 and beyond show mixed results. |
AFP eWire
February 11, 2008 |
California Considering Diversity Disclosure for Foundations The California Assembly has passed legislation that would require foundations with more than $250 million in assets to disclose ethnic, gender and sexual orientation information about their boards of directors and their grant and contract recipients. |
AFP eWire
July 3, 2006 |
House Passes Bill to Create Federal Grant Database The bill, H.R. 5060, would require the government to disclose information on a website about all grants, as well as other types of payments, within 30 days of the money being awarded. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2009
James Mitchell Crow |
UK chemists force funding compromise More young chemists in the UK look set to receive government grants after the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) bowed to pressure from the chemistry community to spread its early career funding more widely. |
Chemistry World
June 28, 2013
Maria Burke |
Science 'ecosystem' needs diversity to flourish How should research grants be allocated? Are large grants to a few elite researchers more effective than small grants to many researchers? A new study has concluded that targeting diversity rather than 'excellence' may be more productive. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Sep/Oct 2006
Arthur M. Sussman |
Making Grants to Governments Providing foundation funds to government entities for specific initiatives can bring about substantial reform. |
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2009
Nancy K. Herther |
Grantsmanship: Information Resources to Help Researchers Get Funding There are actually many different types of support available to researchers |
