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RESOURCES

Here is a partial list of resources available at the Grant Resource Network - Martha's Vineyard.

For more information contact the Reference Librarian,  Oak Bluffs Public Library, 508-693-9433 ext. 145 or go to www.oakbluffslibrary.org

Title

Author

Pub. Date & Edition

Books

 

 

Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations

Allison, Michael & Kaye, Jude

2003, 2nd Ed.

The Budget -Building Book for Nonprofits: A step by step guide for Managers and Boards

Dropkin, Michael & LaTouche, Bill

1998

Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices

Drucker, Peter

2006 Reprint

Special Events: Proven Strategies for Non-profit Fundraising

Wendroff, Alan

2003, 2nd HB&CD

Relationship Fundraising: A Donor Based Approach to the Business of Raising Money

Burnett, Ken

2002, 2nd

Webster's New World Grant Writing Handbook

Wason, Sara

2004

Fundraising for Social Change

Klein, Kim

2006

Nonprofit Essentials: The Capital Campaign

Walker, Julia Ingraham

2004

Capital Campaigns

Kihlstedt, Andrea

2004 & 2nd Ed.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Grant Writing

Thompson, Waddy

2007

Planned Giving: Management, Marketing, and Law

Jordan, Ronald & Quynn, Katelyn

2004

Planned Giving: 2007 & 2008 Supplements (See Above)

Jordan, Ronald & Quynn, Katelyn

2007-2008

Every Nonprofit's Guide to Publishing: Creating Newsletters, Magazines & Websites People Will Read 

Nolo Press
2007
How To Form a Nonprofit Corporation
Nolo Press
2007

How To Write A Grant Proposal

New, Cheryl Carter & Quick, James Aaron

2003

Periodicals

 

 

Chronicle of Philanthropy

 

Current

Databases

 

 

Foundation Center's Foundation Directory Online: Professional

This inlcudes four comprehensive databases: grantmakers, companies, grants, and 990s. Professional's interactive maps and charts show a foundation's grants geographically — right down to the ZIP code — and by recipient type or primary subject with three levels of detail.

  • More than 96,000 foundations, corporate donors, and grantmaking public charities
  • Over 1.4 million recent grants
  • More than 480,000 trustee, officer, and donor names — fully indexed
  • Over half a million IRS 990s — fully keyword-searchable
  • 39 search fields plus keyword search

Foundation Center's Foundation Grants to Inividuals Online

This online database has more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.

AGM's Grant Makers Directory

This easy to use local database provides access to information on about 400 funders who include Massachusetts in their coverage area.

 

Other Print Resources

Grant Resource Network - Martha's Vineyard also has a Core Collection of Foundation Center publications and a variety of supplementary materials and services in areas useful to grantseekers including:

  • After the Grant: the Guide for Responsible Grantees (2009 - working title)
  • America's Nonprofit Sector, 3rd ed. (2009)
  • Board Member's Book (2003)
  • Directory of Celebrity Foundations (2009 - working title)
  • The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing, 5th ed. (2007)
  • The Foundation Directory (2009)
  • The Foundation Directory, Part 2 (2009)
  • The Foundation Directory Supplement (2009)
  • Foundation Fundamentals (2008)
  • Foundation Grants to Individuals (2009)
  • Foundations and Public Policy (2009)
  • Foundations Today Series
    • Foundation Giving Trends (2009)
    • Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates (2009)
    • Foundation Yearbook (2009)
  • Guía para escribir propuestas (2008)
  • The Grantseeker’s Guide to Winning Proposals (2008)
  • Guide to Funding for International and Foreign Programs (2008)
  • International Grantmaking IV (2008)
  • National Directory of Corporate Giving (2009)
  • Philanthropy Annual (2009)
  • Securing Your Organization's Future (2001)
  • Social Justice Grantmaking II (2009)
  • The 21st Century Nonprofit: Managing in the Age of Governance (2009)