The Foundation Directory Online Platinum
Wisconsin Library Holdings (WISCAT)
AskAway (A free statewide online chat service.)
Libraries and Information Centers
The Foundation Directory Online Platinum (L. E. Phillips Memorial Public Library) The Foundation Center’s Foundation Directory, both in print form and online, provides information on the finances, governing bodies and giving interests of some of the nation's largest grant making foundations. 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 grant makers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The print version, located both in the nonfiction collection (Oversize 061 F82) and in Ready Reference (behind the Information/Reference desk) is arranged alphabetically by state, and, within states, by the foundation name. Each foundation profile includes the foundation's name, address, financial data, a description of funding interests, the foundation's IRS Employer Identification Number and officers and trustees. Many of the profiles also include restrictions on the giving program by geographic or subject area, application procedures and deadlines and a list of up to ten grants awarded during a given year. Seven indexes are included to assist potential grant seekers in using The Foundation Directory: Donors, Officers and Trustees, Geographic, International Giving, Types of Support, Subject, Foundations New to the Edition and the Foundation Name Index. Available only on Internet workstations at the library, the Foundation Directory Online is the most comprehensive resource for private funding research on the Internet. Included in the database are over 80,000 foundations, corporate giving programs and grant making charities as well as a searchable database of over 500,000 recently awarded grants.
BadgerLink (www.badgerlink.net) Full-text articles and information from thousands of magazines and journals, hundreds of local state, regional, national and international newspapers, wire services and more. It is available in-house or with any computer in Wisconsin with Internet access. A free service to all Wisconsin citizens. (For example, the Chronicle of Philanthropy is available full-text.)
Wisconsin Library Holdings (WISCAT) (www.wiscat.net) Discover and request items you are not finding locally by searching in the collections of over 1,200 Wisconsin libraries. Find out more about this free service through your local library.
ReferenceUSA (L. E. Phillips Memorial Public Library) A frequently updated electronic directory of address and telephone listings from more than 14 million United States businesses and 210 million residents that allows a wide variety of customizable searching and is useful for finding both people and businesses by name, address, city, state, phone number or type of business. It is available in-house or, through the library’s website (www.eauclaire.lib.wi.us), with any computer with Internet access.
AskAway
http://www.eauclaire.lib.wi.us
A free statewide online chat service. The shared chat service is available 24/7 providing live on line reference service to library customers. This service is staffed by the 24/7 Reference Consortium, a group of hundreds of libraries across the country that work together to provide chat service. Each of the participating libraries also offers direct email reference service.
Libraries and Information Centers
Three Wisconsin libraries belong to a network (Foundation Center Cooperating Collections) of more than 200 reference collections providing information on foundation and corporate giving. These collections were established by the New York-based Foundation Center, an independent national service organization in New York, to provide an authoritative source of information on foundation and corporate giving. The Wisconsin locations for these resources include the following:
Grants Information Collection Madison, Wisconsin
http://grants.library.wisc.edu/
Located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the collection is available to all and at no charge. Its web pages are extensive and are very much focused on funding information resources for both organizations and individuals.Funding Information Center
http://www.marquette.edu/library/fic/
Located at Marquette University (the publication site of Foundations in Wisconsin in both print and electronic format). Offers regular orientation programs and is a must-see particularly for Milwaukee-area nonprofits. The Wisconsin Common Application Form is at this site, along with an online outline, How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in Wisconsin (including links to necessary forms).Foundation Collection: Stevens Point, Wisconsin
http://library.uwsp.edu/depts/foundation/
Located at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Library. Resources and services similar to the other libraries described above. Visitors may also schedule appointments for assistance.
