Write down this page address:
www.mlclv.com/grants
Links to resources for Grant writing Class Attendees
The purpose of the Federal Service Desk (FSD.gov) is to help visitors get the information and assistance they need for the systems (websites) that the FSD supports. Note: There are NO fees associated with any FSD supported systems.Supported Systems:
- System for Award Management (SAM),
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA),
- Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS), Federal Business Opportunities (FBO),
- Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS-NG),
- FFATA Subaward Reporting System (FSRS) and
- Wage Determinations OnLine (WDOL)
Get notified when your name appears in google search engines. Great for gathering information for your credibility file. Also, enter the types of grants you are looking for and google will send you an email when they appear on the internet.
Grant Notification Companies
Your underground connection to available grants for nonprofits!
GrantStation offers nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies the opportunity to identify potential funding sources for their programs or projects as well as resources to mentor these organizations through the grantseeking process. Free if you join GPA. http://www.grantprofessionals.org/
http://www.grantwriters.net/grant-siren.php
Grant Siren – Grant RFP’s and announcements released every day. Subscribe to get weekly alerts of new federal, state, and foundation grant releases, detailed information on large, upcoming grant opportunities. This company wants you to hire them to write your proposals, but the newsletter is free if you can resist their sales pitches.
Fee based grant information
Fee based grant information
eCivis is a grant management software system used by 1000+ state, local and tribal governments in 45 states across the United States.
Instrumentl automates the grant search for nonprofits and academics. Fee.
Resources for Grant Seekers
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5257
https://www2.ed.gov/programs/iduesmsi/index.html
Business Related
Small Business Innovation and Research – The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a highly competitive program that encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) that has the potential for commercialization.
https://www.sbir.gov/about/about-sttr
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) is another program that expands funding opportunities in the federal innovation research and development (R&D) arena. Central to the program is expansion of the public/private sector partnership to include the joint venture opportunities for small businesses and nonprofit research institutions. The unique feature of the STTR program is the requirement for the small business to formally collaborate with a research institution in Phase I and Phase II.
https://www.missionmainstreetgrants.com/
Small business grants from Chase JP Morgan
https://www.nav.com/resource/small-business-grants/ Small business grants
Federal Business Opportunities for businesses seeking to sell goods or services to federal agencies.
First Responders
Powered by PoliceOne, PoliceGrantsHelp.com, a comprehensive resource for Police Grants information and free grant assistance, features the most extensive law enforcement grant database ever created, with a library of information not only for federal grant programs, but also state, local and corporate grant opportunities.
https://www.bja.gov/ProgramDetails.aspx?Program_ID=59
DOJ Justice Assistance Grants (JAG) Formula Grants that go to every state.
http://www.firstrespondergrants.com
Grants for police & fire
http://www.firehousesubs.com/Foundation-Overview.aspx
K-9s
http://www.Nationalpolicedogfoundation.org
https://www.universalk9inc.com/
Resources for Nonprofits
Good360 accepts new corporate product donations that can be used by our network of nonprofits. We also accept monetary donations from individuals to help cover the cost of shipping and distribution of product donations to the nonprofits that need them most. Fee
TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. As part of that goal, we provide technology products and information geared specifically to the unique challenges faced by nonprofits and libraries. Great prices on software and hardware for non-profits
We encourage companies and individuals to donate computers and other technology coming out of their first place of use directly to pre-screened local partner groups registered in the Cristina Network. These partners are non profit organizations, schools and public agencies in all 50 states, and Canada.
Companies donate their excess merchandise to NAEIR. Uncle Sam gives them a tax deduction and we give all the stuff to schools, churches and non-profits for FREE. NAEIR members can use all those extra supplies and tools to help teachers give better lessons, shelters take care of more people and churches provide more help for the needy. Everyone wins!
When a donation shipment comes in to NAEIR’s warehouse in Galesburg, Illinois, the merchandise is sorted, organized and photographed for our website and catalogs. Each month our members receive NAEIR catalogs filled with all sorts of things they need to operate their organizations. Toys, clothes, books, office supplies, tools, toiletries, DVD’s, crafts…even things like copy machines and flat screen televisions! All the merchandise is FREE—members only pay a small fee to cover the cost of shipping* and handling.
On average, our members receive $18,000 worth of free merchandise each year**. Some of our Premier members are able to collect up to $40,000 in free products and supplies! There’s absolutely no limit on how much a member can request and we say, “The more the better!”
Merchandise must be used for the care of the ill, needy or minors and cannot be bartered, traded or sold. The merchandise can be given directly to the qualifying individuals an organization serves or used in the administration of the organization.
$59.00 Basic Fee
$9.00 Teachers
Teacher Grants
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/archives/grants.shtml
http://www.kinf.org/Free school supplies nationally to students most in need.
Crowd Funding for Teachers
Digital Wish is on a Mission to Solve Technology Shortfalls in Classrooms! Since August 2009, Digital Wish has granted over 24,000 classroom technology wishes and delivered over $10 million in technology products to American classrooms.
Here’s how it works: public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class. Then, you can browse project requests and give any amount to the one that inspires you. Once a project reaches its funding goal, we deliver the materials to the school.
Universities and Colleges
Software to support Electronic Research Administration.
National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP) – Research Development professionals support the efforts of faculty to secure extramural research funding and initiate and nurture critical partnerships throughout the institutional research enterprise, among institutions, and with external stakeholders.
Online Evaluation Resource Library – This library was developed for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations. The purpose of this system is to collect and make available evaluation plans, instruments, and reports for NSF projects that can be used as examples by Principal Investigators, project evaluators, and others outside the NSF community as they design proposals and projects. OERL also includes professional development modules that can be used to better understand and utilize the materials made available.
Health Care Grants
Rural Assistance Grants. Providing communities across the USA with co-ordinated access to health-related programs, funding and research. RAC helps rural communities and other rural stakeholders access the full range of available programs, funding, and research that can enable them to provide quality health and human services to rural residents.
National Association of County and City Health Officials. Non-profit association serving 3000 local health departments. Contains information and resources for those interested in public health
https://hsric.nlm.nih.gov/hsric_public/display_links/723
Links to healthcare related fellowships, grants, and other funding opportunities.
Medicine and medical supplies to nations in need
Natural Resources Management
Serves the needs of individuals and organizations engaged in collaborative natural resources management. Securing adequate funding for your collaborative or other environmental problem-solving effort just got easier! Includes funding Database where you can search by state, funder, or interest area.
Native American
Partnership with Native Americans
PWNA serves 60 reservations in 12 states throughout the Northern Plains and Southwest regions of the United States. We focus on underserved and geographically-isolated Native American communities with limited employment opportunities, addressing both immediate relief and working towards long-term solutions.
Faith Based Resources
http://www.catholicpurchasing.org/
Catholic Purchasing Services helps religious institutions throughout the United States save time and money on a wide variety of equipment, furniture, supplies, and services by consolidating the buying power of over 40,000 Catholic institutions. We negotiate with quality suppliers to obtain substantial volume discounts for religious institutions.
Our mission is to aid, equip, and empower those in need around the world. Food, water, medical equipment, education, etc
Military, Federal Government Agency Surplus
http://www.dla.mil/DispositionServices.aspx
DLA Disposition Services (formerly known as the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service) is part of the Defense Logistics Agency. Our mission is to anticipate needs and deliver great performance to our customers through the reuse, transfer, donation, sale or disposal of excess property. 1033 Program
The 1122 Program offers states and units of local government access to federal sources of supply, to purchase equipment in support of counter-drug, homeland security and emergency response activities.
http://www.govliquidation.com/
Government inventory sold to anybody.
Government inventory sold to anybody.
Government inventory sold to anybody.
A Business to Business /Business to Consumer online auction consignment house, offering assets from the United States Bankruptcy Court, corporate lenders, municipalities, universities, hospitals, and other businesses. Buy laboratory and technological equipment, electronic test and measurement equipment, telecommunications equipment, dietary and food service equipment, office furniture systems, power generation equipment, printing and copying equipment, vehicles, and recyclable materials, and more.
U.S. Communities is the leading national cooperative purchasing program, providing world-class government procurement resources and solutions to local and state government agencies, school districts (K-12), higher education institutions, and nonprofits looking for the best overall supplier government pricing.
Internet and Website Resources
Free website builders
Free custom websites. Within a couple of hours, any cause can have a website up and running to help create more awareness about its program.
http://myhosting.com/web-hosting/non-profit/
Canadian-based company provides free Web hosting to registered US-based 501(c)3 nonprofits and Canadian charities as well as educational and governmental organizations. Unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, and unlimited hosted sub-domains.
Internet companies offering benefits to nonprofits
$10,000 in free ad words through google for nonprofits
https://www.paypal.com/givingfund/#
PayPal Giving Fund connects donors and charities through PayPal and eBay. PayPal Giving Fund offers charities of all sizes access to customer giving programs across PayPal, eBay, and more. It’s a network of good that can put your organization in front of millions of potential donors. Participation in PayPal Giving Fund is free and enrolling is easy.
Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice.
Data Sources
Data on kids. KIDS COUNT The Casey Foundation provides funding and technical assistance for a nationwide network of KIDS COUNT grantee projects. They collect data on and advocate for the well-being of children at the state and local levels.
Health data. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy.
The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program is a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin. The annual County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income, and teen births in nearly every county in America.
A collection of data from numerous sources to create complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities.
DataPlace is your free online source for housing and demographic data about your community, your region, and the nation.
Information on Cities, Counties, Towns & Communities
Portal to U.S. Data Supported by the U.S. Economic Development Administration
United States Census data.
Survey Tools
SurveyMonkey is the world’s most popular online survey tool. It’s easier than ever to send free surveys, polls, questionnaires, customer feedback and market research. Plus get access to survey questions and professional templates.
Qualtrics. Sophisticated assessments made simple. Qualtrics’ online survey platform keeps you in the know.
Cloud Storage
These are cloud storage options. Save your files in the cloud.
https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/
https://www.wetransfer.com/ Transfer Large files
Staying in Contact with those you serve and cultivating potential donors.
http://www.constantcontact.com
25% discount for nonprofits
http://www.verticalresponse.com/
10,000 free e-mails month for nonprofits
Store up to 2,000 subscribers. Send up to 12,000 emails per month for free. No expiring trials. No contracts. No credit card required. As long as you’ve got less than 2,000 subscribers managed across all lists in an account, you can send up to 12,000 emails per month without paying a dime. You don’t have to be a nonprofit to take advantage!
Electric newsletters and event flyers
Contact your customers donors through text and voice.
Online invitations for events.
Collecting Money
- 2.75% per swipe for all cards
One simple rate, all major credit cards. Next-day payout Automatic direct deposits to your bank account.
Free reader, free app. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Fast setup. Take your first credit card payment in minutes.
https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader
Credit card reader from PayPal. 2.7% per transaction.
Crowd Funding for Cool Ideas, Projects and Causes
Kickstarter is a site where creative projects raise donation-based funding. These projects can range from new creative products, like an art installation, to a cool watch, to pre-selling a music album. It’s not for businesses, causes, charities, or personal financing needs. Kickstarter is one of the earlier platforms, and has experienced strong growth and many break-out large campaigns in the last few years.
Indiegogo. While Kickstarter maintains a tighter focus and curates the creative projects approved on its site, Indiegogo approves donation-based fundraising campaigns for most anything — music, hobbyists, personal finance needs, charities and whatever else you could think of (except investment). They have had international growth because of their flexibility, broad approach and their early start in the industry. Campaigns must set a goal and select between fixed and flexible accounts. If you set up a fixed account and don’t hit your goal, any money raised is returned to the donor. If you set up a flexible account and don’t hit your goal, you keep the money raised but Indiegogo keeps a higher percentage of your funds. Registered 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) do receive discounts, but you’ll want to crunch the numbers.
Gofundme . Online Charity fundraising
Crowdrise is a place for donation-based funding for Causes and Charity. They’ve attracted a community of do-gooders and and fund all kinds of inspiring causes and needs. A unique Points System on Crowdrise helps track and reveal how much charitable impact members and organizations are making.
Razoo . Crowdfunding platform for causes
http://www.benevolent.net/index.html
Benevolent makes it easy to give directly to help one person when it matters most
Individuals with one-time needs post narratives and videos about themselves and their needs. Each of these needs has a correlating validating statement and video posted by a nonprofit professional who knows the person and his or her need.
Rally. A user-friendly site with an appealing presentation and there’s no minimum donation.
HopeMob. This site boasts a community of 10,000+ members. There are plenty of great success stories on this site, including the more than $5,000 raised for The Supply, a nonprofit that builds schools in Nairobi.
Start Some Good. In addition to an easy-to-use platform, this site offers Crowdfunding 101, a free nine-part email course for non-profits and social entrepreneurs. Plus, the site only charges fees if your campaign reaches its tipping point.
Causes. Billing itself as the world’s largest online campaigning platform, Causes currently only allows registered 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits to fundraise on its site. In addition to fundraising, campaigns can be used to create petitions and ask people to take pledges, such as Toyota’s campaign to make child passenger safety a priority.
First Giving. With over a decade of fundraising, FirstGiving boasts some big names in the nonprofit sector, such as Habitat for Humanity, the Special Olympics and The Humane Society.
RocketHub. Television network A&E now searches RocketHub for crowd-funding projects that it wants to feature in its new “Project Startup.”Fees vary based on whether or not you meet your goals.
CauseVox. Boasting the ability for non-profits to easily change the look of their fundraising page without a developer, CauseVox makes it easy to embed multimedia – like videos or Flickr slideshows – just by pasting a link. Case studies include the Autism Science Foundation and Change for Kids. It has a unique fee and pricing system as well.
http://thepollinationproject.org/
The Pollination Project believes in the power of ordinary people to do extraordinary things. We make $1,000 seed grants to individual change-makers every day of the year.
Get it done starting at $5.00
Fiverr – Stuff People will do for $5.00. The world’s largest marketplace for services, starting at $5. Great place to get logos, voice overs, video introductions, etc. very inexpensively.
Business Related Crowd Funding
Manage Your social media
Manage social networks, schedule messages, engage your audiences, and measure ROI. Any you send out will end up on all your social mndia sites.
Save time managing your social media
Volunteers
http://www.charity-charities.org
http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov/
Advertise volunteer opportunities. Find volunteers seeking opportunities to serve.
Save time with online sign up sheet, volunteer scheduling software, and volunteer management software at schools, churches, sports leagues, and nonprofits.
Value of volunteer time
https://www.verifiedvolunteers.com/
Volunteer pre-screening service. Necessary when working with youth.
Day of Giving Events
Find formal day of giving events in your area.
Writing Aides
http://www.naturalreaders.com/
Listen to your proposal draft being read out loud by your computer before you submit it.
APA and MLA style software
Grammarly is an automated proofreader and your personal grammar coach. Correct up to 10 times more mistakes than popular word processors.
Plagiarism Checkers
Free Bibliography Generator – MLA, APA, Chicago styles
http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/
http://www.citationmachine.net/
Citation services.
Daily writing prompts to encourage you to write.
Miscellaneous
PerformWell provides measurement tools and practical knowledge that human services professionals can use to manage their programs’ day-to-day performance. Information in PerformWell leverages research-based findings that have been synthesized and simplified by experts in the field. By providing information and tools to measure program quality and outcomes, PerformWell helps human services practitioners deliver more effective social programs.
Look through 1000s of annual reports, white papers, studies etc through the foundation center and get some ideas for creating your own annual report.
Course in Logic Models
https://fyi.extension.wisc.edu/programdevelopment/logic-models/
Help a Reporter – Make your expertise available to reporters who may be covering a story you have expertise in. Sharing your expertise may land you that big media opportunity you’ve been looking for. Build your credibility file!
BoardSource . The premiere voice of nonprofit governance, BoardSource is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations by strengthening their boards of directors. Its highly acclaimed programs and services mobilize boards so that organizations fulfill their missions, achieve their goals, increase their impact, and extend their influence.
Council on Foundations . This is a membership organization of more than 2,000 grantmaking foundations and giving programs worldwide. They provide leadership expertise, legal services and networking opportunities among other services to members and to the general public.
Chronicle of Philanthropy
GrantCraft collects practical wisdom from grantmakers like you. Then we turn it into guides, workshops, videos, and other tools to help you hone your craft. We offer frameworks to help organize your work, make it more strategic, and benchmark your effectiveness.
http://www.grantnavigator.com/
Grant management Tools and Software
Software that helps you organize your data and manage your donors
Free online organizer – Highly recommended by a lot of people in my workshops.
Plan and manage every detail of executing your event, conference, or show: due dates, task completion status, budget, and actual spend. Easy to share and update with event team, remote colleagues, and key vendors.
http://www.nonprofitcommons.org/
Your one-stop source for blog posts and news from the world of non-profit organizations making a difference in Second Life. The mission of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is to create a community for nonprofits to explore and learn about virtual worlds, foster connections, and discover the many ways in which nonprofits might utilize the unique environment of Second Life to achieve their missions.
Help for nonprofits wanting to tap into online charitable giving
http://www.biddingowl.com/about.cfm
Free non–profit charity auction software! Company takes 5%.
Raffle packages offered to nonprofits for raffle fundraising
http://www.opm.gov/combined-federal-campaign/
Federal Employees Charity – List of charities federal employees can donate to. See if you can get your organization on the list.
Online scheduling tool
Free online meetings
What donations to charities are tax deductable?
Good article http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/overpromising-tax-deductions-65348.html
Find or Become a Freelancer
Freelancers
Promoting your Fundraising
Manage and market your event!
Eventbrite is a platform that allows event organizers to plan, promote, and sell tickets to events and publish them across Facebook, Twitter and other social-networking tools directly from the site’s interface.
Look for grantwriting jobs, (or any job for that matter)
Downloads
Instructions for Obtaining CEU credits
These are the instructions for obtaining CEU credits for the grant writing class.
http://download.cnet.com/Grindstone/3000-2076_4-10862725.html
Grindstone Time Tracking and Billing Software (Free)
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html
Great, easy to use video editing software. 30 day free trial. If you ever need to do a video as part of your proposal, this is inexpensive, easy to use and very good software.
In Class Powerpoint
Powerpoint Presentation from Class
Hey grant writers. Send me any other online resources for grant seekers/writers and I’ll post them here for everybody to see!
Thanks,
Andy Anderson
Grant Writing Instructor
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