Grants & Foundations

Foundation Center logoThe Suffern Free Library is working in cooperation with the Foundation Center in New York City to offer resources that help non-profit organizations and individuals identify sources of grants and foundation funding.

Upcoming Webinar: Introduction to Finding Funders

Thursday, March 26 from 9:00-10:30AM

This session porvides an introduction to one of the key online tools for finding funders, Foundation Directory Online Professional. Learn how to create customized searches to develop lists of prospective foundation and corporate donors that will match your nonprofit organizations' funding needs. With Foundation Directory Online Professional you can search for foundations that support programs and organizations like yours, fund in your geographic region and many other criteria. FREE. Register online now.

Available resources include:

Foundation Directory Online Professional
(available for in-house use only)
Provides fundraisers with access to searchable online databases of grantmakers, grants, and 990s

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
(available for in-house use only)
Database of more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers

Foundation Center
The Foundation Center’s webiste provides online tutorials, training and tips on all areas of fundraising and philanthropy including proposal writing, budgeting, non-profit management and much more.

Print Publications
The Foundation Center’s core collection, as well as Suffern Library’s guides on fundraising (some items are for in-house use only)

Our reference librarians are happy to help you. Please stop by the adult reference desk, call (845) 357-1237 or email us at reference@suffernfreelibrary.org.