For Jay Mendell's book on overcoming stigma in fund raising, please surf to http://black-sheep-library.com/order-now-black-sheep-fundraising.htm That's Black Sheep Fundraising: Obtaining Dollars Despite Stigma and Prejudice toward Abortion, AIDS, Alcoholism, Birth Control, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Drug Abuse, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Homelessness, Homosexuality, Mental Disorders, Partner Violence, Sex Education, Teenage Pregnancy, the Unemployed, the Ex-Offenders, the Illegal Immigrants, the Juvenile Offenders, the Elderly, and Other Outcast Causes .
Special workshop
AAGP Broward County, Florida Chapter
Florida Atlantic University, Davie Campus
Internet Research Workshop
24-March-2005, 3 p. m., Lab 303F in the Liberal Arts Building
Dr. Jay S. Mendell, Professor, Nonprofit Management (MendellJay@gmail.com)
I'm sorry the Internet connection was not functioning. Bt here is the promised material. I hope you find it as I described it -- interesting and useful. Do keep in touch with me.
Jay's online course materials (http://gollygrantsonline.com/jay.htm)
- See especially this term's course on grantwriting (http://gollygrantsonline.com/6233-GW-spring-2005.htm)
- See especially last spring's course on major gifts fundraising (http://gollygrantsonline.com/6206-fall-2004.htm)
Jay's reminders of good free stuff about grants and gifts for Florida NPOs (http://gollygrantsonline.com/). See especially free books on fundraising.
- Free on the Internet. Ken
Wyman, Face to Face
(http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/heritage/ComPartnE/pdfdocs/Fac2fac2.PDF) - Free on the Internet. Ken
Wyman, Fundraising Ideas That
Work for Grassroots Groups (http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/pc-cp/pubs/e/pdfdocs/Fr4grass.pdf)
| Federal Register. (changes noticeably day to day) | Use the following techniques to search the latest Federal Register. Once a week go to http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html and search on "grants OR grants" or every day, visit FR announcements at the Grantsmanship Center http://www.tgci.com/cgi-bin/Filter/ |
| Federal grants. | For the federal agencies' wish lists, go to Federal Register http://www.cfda.gov/public/faprs.htm. Also, for currently active RFPs, try grants.gov . |
| Florida grants. | See what http://welfareinfo.org has to say about grants related to Florida. This changes slightly, week to week. |
| Best for Florida grants. | For state grants, Florida Resources Directory. The Florida Resource Directory is a searchable database which can be searched by Agency, Category of Assistance, Program or Keyword as shown below. Once you have found a program in which you are interested, you can print the page or access the associated website and/or link to the program's contact for more detailed information and/or an application. |
| Florida grants (changes noticeably week to week). | Visit the Florida Administrative Weekly. |
| Grants and gifts for arts and letters. Also academic grants. | See Jay's page http://gollygrantsonline.com/grants-and-fundraising-for-Arts-and-Letters.htm |
| Corporate grants to nonprofits (keyword searches) | Visit http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_corp/corp1.html |
| Private foundations and charities (keyword searches) | Visit http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_priv/priv1.html, then http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_pubch/pubch1.html |
| Prospecting for gifts from generous people. | Visit http://gollygrantsonline.com/prospecting-for-grants-and-gifts.htm |
| Private foundations and charities (keyword searches) | The Foundation Center's complete database may be consulted at four locations in the Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. In WPB, go to the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties. In Boca Raton, a few blocks east of FAU is the Junior League of Boca Raton. In Fort Lauderdale, Nova University is the archive, and in Miami, the United Way. |
The advanced search screen for
Google, the best search engine (so far) (http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en)
Complete Planet, entry point into online databases that even Google can't google (http://completeplanet.com)
The Web page for AAGP national HQ (http://www.grantprofessionals.org/)
Send email to Priscilla Richards of the Broward chapter of AAGP (prichards@plantation.org).
The Nonprofit Management Program at FAU (http://www.fau.edu/caupa/spa/mnm/)
Send email to Dr. Nyhan, director of the MNM and certificate programs in nonprofit management (rcnyhan@fau.edu).
Jay Mendell's home phone is 954.597-0574.