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When you’re ready to conduct a foundation or corporate funding search, the place to turn to is Candid (https://candid.org/). This center's resources and online grant-research database (Foundation Directory Online by Candid) provide grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public with up-to-date information on grant funding and other nonprofit-related issues.

Through the Foundation Directory Online by Candid, you can download profiles of foundations whose interests, priorities, and types of funding support match your funding needs. These profiles include the foundation’s address, website, contact person, funding priorities, award range, preferred method of initial approach, and much more. To conduct your search, you can either subscribe to the directory (varying levels of subscriptions are available, beginning at as little as $31.58 per month for a locked-in, two-year contract) or use Candid’s website to locate a Funding Information Network (FIN) near you that has a subscription to the directory.

When you start using the Candid’s resources, you see several information fields for entering your keywords. Keep it simple. If you’re looking for money to provide housing for the homeless, first search for “housing” and screen the results. For the second search, type in “homeless” and again screen the results, eliminating duplicate funders found in the first search. I use this search approach, and it yields far more potential grant sources than typing in a search string made of two or more words. Be sure to check the box to exclude foundations that don’t accept unsolicited grant proposals to save yourself considerable time and disappointment. (Refer to Chapter 6 for more about foundation and corporate grants.)

To find out more about researching foundation or corporate funding sources located outside the United States, visit the Fundsnet Services website (http://fundsnetservices.com). It’s accessible, free of charge, and has pages of international funders listed.