Associate Vice President for Research and Federal Relations

Foundations

• FOUNDATION DIRECTORY
  
  The Foundation Directory Online Professional is the library’s newest source for locating external funding for research, faculty and staff development, projects, events, programs, equipment and more.
  
  This database contains information on more than 88,000 foundations, corporate donors, and grant making public charities; over 900,000 recently granted awards; more than 400,000 trustees, officers, and donors; and over 360,000 IRS 990s. What’s a 990, you say? See Demystifying the 990-PF at http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/demystify/index.html to learn how use tax files as a means of locating complete grant lists and application information for smaller and mid-sized foundations.
  
  A nice feature of this database is the clickable index for each searchable field that helps you fill in the search boxes if you don’t know where to begin, or they can be used to browse the database. For example, clicking on “Grantmaker Name” will provide a list of all foundations in the database. Click on “Fields of Interest” to find which grant makers are likely to support your project.
  
  Sign up for monthly e-mail Alerts if you want to keep track of new and high growth grant makers, and changes to grant maker profiles. You can also keep abreast of the latest Requests for Proposals in their Philanthropy News Digest.
  
  Guided tours on using this database are highly recommended and available at http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/fdoguidedtour/. The link to this guided tour is not within the database itself, so be sure to keep this URL handy.
  
  
• THE FOUNDATION CENTER
• NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION
• ALKEK LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR FOUNDATION FUNDING
  • The Foundation Directory (electronic on one computer)

    Search for funding prospects from among the largest 10,000 foundations — the same set of funders that appear in the print Foundation Directory. Inlcudes a searchable index of 65,000 trustees, officers, and donors. Search for funding prospects using up to 12 search fields (Grantmaker Name; Grantmaker State; Grantmaker City; Fields of Interest; Types of Support; Trustees, Officers, and Donors; Geographic Focus; Grantmaker Type; Total Assets; Total Giving; Establishment Date; Text Search) See also the online database, GrantSelect.  Available only in Alkek Library

  • The Foundation Directory (print)

    AS911.A2 F65
    Latest edition (2006), including supplements in Reference Stacks, 2nd floor
    Check URL for updates to holdings: http://catalog.library.txstate.edu:80/record=b1237167a

  • Grant$elect (database available from any computer to TX State student, staff, faculty through library’s website)

    http://libproxy.txstate.edu/login?url=http://72.3.247.11/gs/cgi-bin/welcome.pl
    GrantSelect complied and edited by The Oryx Press, contains over 10,000 funding opportunities provided by more than 4,000 sponsoring organizations. Funding opportunities range from pure research grants to arts programs, biomedical and health care research, community services programs, children and youth programs, and K-12 education funding.

  • The Europa International Foundation Directory

    AS911.A2 I68
    Latest edition (2006) available in Reference Shelves, 2nd floor
    Check URL for updates to holdings: http://catalog.library.txstate.edu:80/record=b1608136a

  • Annual Register of Grant Support

    AS911.A2 A67
    Latest edition (2007) available in Reference Shelves, 2nd floor
    Check URL for updates to holdings: http://catalog.library.txstate.edu:80/record=b1237166a

  • Directory of Texas Foundations

    HV98.T5 H65 
    Latest edition (2006) available in Reference Shelves, 2nd floor
    Check URL for updates to holdings: http://catalog.library.txstate.edu:80/record=b1436740a

  • Directory of Research Grants

    LB2338 .D57 
    Latest edition (2006) available in Reference Shelves, 2nd floor
    Check URL for updates to holdings: http://catalog.library.txstate.edu:80/record=b1028105a

  • Directory of Grants in the Humanities

    AZ188.U5 D56
    Latest edition (2006) available in Reference Shelves, 2nd floor
    Check URL for updates to holdings: http://catalog.library.txstate.edu:80/record=b1347848

 The library also has other resources in writing grant proposals, including books and ebooks on writing proposals.