The Foundation Center helps grantseekers succeed by providing in-person information and educational services through our five regional centers and more than 340 Cooperating Collections around the country. Thousands visit our web site every day for the latest news, information updates, and trend analyses, as well as online training and database tools. The demand for our assistance is accelerating as new nonprofits spring up to serve important public purposes and as achieving financial sustainability for all kinds of organizations and institutions becomes more difficult.

The Center is poised to respond by dedicating staff, harnessing technology, bringing grantmakers and nonprofits together, and creating new programs to help individuals and nonprofits across the grantseeking landscape achieve new levels of fundraising proficiency. One key strategy to help nonprofits is the growth of our network of Cooperating Collections nationwide. Our goal is to ensure that many more grantseekers will have access to facilities where they can use our expanding resources on philanthropy and attend our core instructional programs on the fundraising process.

How You Can Help

Let us know about organizations in your area that might be interested in hosting a new CC. These may include public, academic, or special libraries, nonprofit resource centers, technical assistance providers, United Way agencies, or foundations. With your help, more grantseekers around the country will have some place to go for free access to online subscription databases and print publications, thus expanding the geographic reach of our free services. Use the Nominate a CC form to make a recommendation.