The Chippewa Valley Fund Raising Professionals (CVFRP) has partnered with the L. E. Phillips Memorial Public Library (LEPMPL) in Eau Claire to designate a selection of materials in the library’s collection in the MORE catalog  that we hope you find helpful in leading your organization. The collection features materials related to nonprofit management and leadership, board development, best practices, a comprehensive selection of fundraising related materials and much more. The collection is organized with your convenience in mind.  All you need is a computer and a library card.  Materials can be delivered to the library closest to you in Eau Claire, Dunn or Chippewa Counties.  We hope you find this helpful to you and the nonprofits you serve.  LEPMPL has tagged a growing number of materials with a unique subject heading of "CVFRP."  This will allow you to search more efficiently for the materials that will best support your fundraising and NPO management efforts.  Many other similar materials are available to you via the interlibrary loan system.

The MORE Catalog (www.more.lib.wi.us)
The MORE Consortium of 39 public libraries jointly share a computer catalog of their materials. Besides the CVFRP subject heading, the following individual subject headings work best when looking for materials on fundraising and nonprofit organizations in this catalog although other subject and keyword searches may also be helpful. You can get a free MORE library card and together with the catalog, you can search for materials, place holds, have items delivered to the library of your choice and renew items—all online.

Charities / Grants-in-Aid / Proposal Writing / Endowments / Nonprofit Organizations
Special Events / Fundraising / Philanthropy / Voluntarism

As a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center, the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library (LEPMPL) has access in-house (on-site) only to two major Foundation Center databases. Cooperating Collections are free funding information centers in libraries, community foundations and other nonprofit resource centers that provide a core collection of Foundation Center publications and a variety of supplementary materials and services in areas useful to grantseekers. There are six Cooperating Collections in Wisconsin.

Foundation Directory Online Professional (http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/fundingsources/fdo.html)
As the Foundation Center's top-tier grantseeking research tool, the Foundation Directory Online Professional provides nine comprehensive databases. In addition to grantmakers, companies, grants and 990s, Professional's new Power Search tool lets you search RFPs, news, jobs, foundation-sponsored publications and nonprofit literature. 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.

• Over 100,000 foundations, corporate donors, and grantmaking public charities
• Over 2.4 million recent grants
• More than half a million trustee, officer, and donor names—fully indexed
• Over 700,000 IRS 990s—fully keyword-searchable
• 54 search fields including keyword search

Unique to Professional:

• Power Search  nine Foundation Center databases and use guided search to refine your search instantly without leaving your results list.
• Map of Cross-Border Giving: See grants from U.S. grantmakers to non-U.S. recipients on interactive maps
• Interactive maps with roll-over giving summaries. See a foundation's grants by county, city, ZIP code, even congressional district; international grants by country.
• Interactive charts on giving. See a foundation's total grant dollars, number of recipients, and number of grants. Drill down for details by recipient type or primary subject.
• ‘Search Companies’ database with ability to search the corporate profiles of sponsoring companies — another path to grants and in-kind donations
• ‘Search 990s’ database with ability to keyword-search across our entire universe of IRS 990s.
• Fact-filled funder portfolios. Entries are continually updated with abstracts from Philanthropy News Digest, the grantmaker's latest RFPs, job postings, social media content, publications and key staff affiliations.
• Access to Update Central.  With the Update Generator, you can create a list of new and high-growth grantmakers in any state — or view a list of grantmakers with significant changes. Sign up to receive monthly Update Alert e-mails.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online (http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/fundingsources/gtio.html)

An online database of more than 8,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers and other individual grantseekers.

Learn about grants and philanthropy by clicking on Philanthropy In/Sight a new online source to search for grants and grantmakers.

LEPMPL also has access in-house (on-site) only to:

Foundations in Wisconsin (http://www.wifoundations.org/)

Marquette University's Raynor Library annually publishes Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory. It is the only directory of its kind which covers every active grant making foundation in the state of Wisconsin. The foundation profiles include contact information, total assets, grants paid and areas of interest. It is available in both print and online formats and the Library has both formats.

 

Also check out the Grants & Nonprofits area of LEPMPL’s website:

 

Guides & Tutorials
Local Partners
Magazines & Journal Articles
PubHub
Websites of Interest
Wisconsin Grant Resources

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 (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 (www.eauclaire.lib.wi.us)

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.

Contact

L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
400 Eau Claire Street
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Telephone 715-839-5004
librarian@eauclaire.lib.wi.us