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Established in 1956, the Foundation Center, a national nonprofit service organization, is the nation’s leading authority on philanthropy, connecting foundations and nonprofit organizations to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center provides resources and services tailored to the needs and interests of grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, and the media.

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Foundation Center
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Organizations - Non-Profit Organizations
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Established in 1956, the Foundation Center, a national nonprofit service organization, is the nation’s leading authority on philanthropy, connecting foundations and nonprofit organizations to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center provides resources and services tailored to the needs and interests of grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, and the media.

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Whether you’re an artist seeking funding for a project, a student looking for... (read more)
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June 2009

The Role of Women's Funds

Women's funds are a rapidly growing and influential force in philanthropy. In a new report jointly released by the Foundation Center and the Women's Funding Network, it was found that foundation giving specifically targeted to benefit women and girls has surpassed the rate of overall foundation giving in recent years!

The report," Accelerating Change for Women and Girls: The Role of Women's Funds," examines giving patterns and trends among larger private and community foundations as well as the distinctive contributions of women's funds to philanthropy. Women's funds are grantmaking entities that seek out and invest in women-led organizations and programs that are building solutions to core challenges in communities.

Check out highlights of the report here: http://www.foundationcenter.org/media/




May 2009

Corporate Foundation Giving Remained Flat in 2008; Declines Expected in 2009

Charitable giving by the nation's nearly 2,500 corporate foundations remained virtually unchanged in 2008, according to "Key Facts on Corporate Foundations." Giving totaled an estimated $4.4 billion last year. Corporate foundation giving in 2009 will most certainly decline - slightly more than half (51 percent) of corporate foundations responding to the Center's survey said they expect to reduce their giving this year.

Other key findings from this report:

*Inflation-adjusted corporate foundation giving has remained nearly flat in recent years.

*After inflation, corporate foundations reported slower cumulative growth in giving than other types of foundations since 1990.

*Education continues to be the number one focus of corporate foundation giving, followed by public affairs/society benefit and human services.

*The Northeast and Midwest continue to account for the largest shares of corporate foundation giving.

To read the full report at our web site, click here: http://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/pdf/keyfacts_corp_2009.pdf




Close to Two-thirds of Foundations Expect to Reduce Their Grants in 2009

A new Foundation Center research advisory, "Foundations Address the Impact of the Economic Crisis," examines how U.S. foundations are coping with the crisis, based on recent survey responses of more than 1,200 U.S. foundations. In addition to the expected reduction in giving, over half of the funders surveyed said that they will rely on more non-grantmaking activities in their support for nonprofits.

Other key findings from the new advisory include:

*Foundations will draw upon various resources to fund their 2009 giving - close to two out of five respondents expect to draw at least in part on their endowments to fund grants.

*About 14 percent of respondents either have made or plan to make exceptional grants or launch special initiatives in response to the economic crisis, largely by reallocating existing grants budgets.

*Nearly one-third of respondents made operational changes as a result of the 2000-02 economic downturn that they believe better prepared them to face the current downturn, such as changes in investment strategies or reducing operating expenses.

Click here to download a print version of the research advisory: http://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/pdf/researchadvisory_economy_200904.pdf