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."