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Fundraising and Development
GrantsAlert.com:
This site's developer states, "I developed this website to help
developed this website to help America's
teachers and schools. Our mission is to help them find and capture
those resources to do their work and do it well.
Our work involves finding and sharing
information on education funding opportunities that will help our
teachers and schools. We provide teachers, schools and related
organizations with free access to up-to-date announcements of
corporate, foundation, state and federal education funding
opportunities - and only education. That's what makes us unique. In
addition, if you're like a lot of districts out there that don't have
someone on staff who can write a winning proposal, you can turn to our
Grant Writers' Directory. It's the perfect solution for schools
that have neither the staff nor the experience required to write
successful proposals."
The Grant Center:
"The
Center identifies
potential funding opportunities and qualified organizations to seek
resources that meet the needs of the Mid-South community;
provides
our customers a competitive edge in securing financial resources
through information, training and technical assistance;
promotes
confidence among funders and success for customers by assisting with
the entire grant process; facilitates
collaborative efforts that generate financial resources for community
projects; builds
our customers' organizational capacity to secure, implement, and
administer financial resources."
Tech Soup- the Technology Space for Non Profits:
This site provides articles which investigate ways to fund your
technology needs.
Marketing Your Adult Literacy Program A "How to" Manual:
This is an old resource but still provides
helpful information. Marketing is a key component of fundraising and
development. While this manual focuses on marketing in order to reach
and retain students not already served, the methods and strategies
will assist you in grant-writing and in marketing your program to
perspective sponsors and collaborators. It also includes Media
techniques for marketing your program.
Marketing - a "How to" Manual: This link offers the same manual
with a different lay out which may be helpful when searching for
particular topics in the manual.
BuildLitearcy.org: www.BuildLiteracy.org is partnership building
website designed to help libraries improve and expand literacy
services and programs. This site features a resource titled, "Capacity
Building Toolkit" with materials which may be helpful for your
Certified Literate Community Program. "The Capacity Building Tool Kit
is designed to be dynamic and content-rich. Currently, the Tool Kit
includes information about Meeting Community Needs, Demonstrating
Financial Commitment, and Supporting Partnerships and Advocacy. In
just a few months, when the Tool Kit is fully operational, you will be
able to browse and select the materials and resources you need to
build literacy @ your library and in your community. The Capacity
Building Tool Kit will include information about program design and
evaluation, outreach efforts, community collaboration, technology,
public relations, and grant writing."
Institute for the Development and Enhancement of Adult Learning:
This site is provides statistics for counties in Florida but the
creative organization and presentation of the information may assist
you to consider similar methods of data collection to help in your
own grant writing and future planning.
Building a Nation of Readers: Nonprofit Groups Struggle to Meet Demand
for Literacy Training.
(This is a pdf document. If
you don't have Adobe, you can download it by
clicking here.) This article discusses national programs
throughout the country which have received grants for their adult
literacy programs. The article concludes with a "sampling of
recent grants."