Cooperating Collections

Funding information centers for nonprofits and individuals seeling grants

Visitors to the Foundation Center's Cooperating Collections gain access to the Center's wealth of information on U.S. grants and grantmakers, along with one-on-one assistance and training on how to use it --all at no charge. This rapidly growing network of funding information centers, located in libraries, community foundations and nonprofit resource centers throughout the nation, gives grantseekers the dedicated support they need to find the grants they want.

Cooperating Collections offer core Foundation Center electronic and print resources--databses, directories, and other publications--as well as fundraising research guidance, funding-related technical assistance, workshops, and programs for local nonprofits.

Here is what you'll find:

• Profiles of more than 91,000 U.S. grantmakers and one million grants in Foundation Directory Online Professional, the most comprehensive database of its kind.
• Proposal-writing guides with step-by-step instruction and examples of successful propositions
• Grants to Individuals Online, a one-of-a-kind database of more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that provide support for students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers
• Annual research reports on U.S. foundations and their giving trends
• Free workshops and orientations on how to effectively use these resources and identify potential funders
• Expert staff trained to help you make the most of your research

Find a Cooperating Collection near you

Our hundreds of Cooperating Collections--in every state in the nation and in Puerto Rico and Mexico--are conveniently located in both rural and urban areas. To find the ones closest to you, visit foundationcenter.org/collections

About the Foundation Center

Established in 1956, and today supported by more than 600 foundations, the Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants. It also operates research, education, and training programs designed to advance philanthropy at every level. Thousands of people gain access to the Center's free and affordable resources at its web site; in its five regional library/learning centers; and through its network of Cooperating Collections.

Foundation Center Contact Info

Online
foundationcenter.org

Main Office
New York, 79 Fifth Avenue, (212) 620-4230

Regional
Atlanta, 50 Hurt Plaza, Suite 150
Cleveland, 1422 Euclid Avenue, Suite 1600
San Francisco, 312 Sutter Street, Suite 606
Washington, DC, 1627 K Street NW

Cooperating Collections
See list at foundationcenter.org/collections