your first step to organisations and sites providing advice, guidance and support for funding applications and applicants&
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Other subportals focus on sources of funds:
- Awards
- Competitions
- Culture Programme (2007-2013) - information on the EU's funding programme for culture
- Deadlines - for EU and UK finding programmes in the next 9 months
- Foundations - foundations providing funds or organising projects
- Funding from the European Union (EU)
- Sponsorship
- UK / Funding - selected links to UK funding opportunities
- CUPID -an online database of cultural projects that have received funding from European Union funding programmes
Information on this page is grouped under the following headings:
Publications (print & online)
International / General
Worldwide Fundraiser's Handbook (fundraising for the developing world)
Europe
Community Philanthropy Initiative (from European Foundation Centre)
Cultural Cooperation in Europe: What role for Foundations? (report)
Data on Foundations (from European Foundation Centre)
Directory of European Grantmakers (book)
EU Funding: The Comprehensive Guide 2005 (Welcome Europe) (book)
Europa International Foundation Directory 2005 (book)
European Foundations and Grant-Making NGOs (book)
Foundation Facts & Figures Across the EU (from European Foundation Centre)
Foundations in Europe (analysis rather than a directory)
Funding Directories (from European Foundation Centre)
Fundraising from Europe (book)
Fundraising in Europe (article)
Guide to Fundraising Research (from Funders Online)
Ten Key Issues for Fundseekers (from CEREC, European Sponsorship Network - also have case studies & bibliography)
Toolkit to create websites for fundraising (from Funders Online)
Tools for Fundraising (from Welcome Europe)
Working with Foundations in Europe Why and How? (from European Foundation Centre)
UK
Complete Fundraising Handbook - scroll down (book)
Effective Fundraising: an informal guide to getting grants and donations (book)
Fundraising from Grantmakers (book)
Fundraising Management analysis, planning and practice - scroll down (book)
Successful Fund Raising for Arts and Cultural Organizations (book)
Writing Better Fundraising Applications - scroll down (book)
Associations, networks and online advice
International
Search the world's largest database of funding opportunities available for research, collaborative activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, post-doctoral positions, equipment acquisition. Email alerts available. Updated daily.Grantseekers Checklist (1999)
International Society for Third-Sector Research
Africa
Southern African Grantmakers Association
Americas
Canada
USA
Alliance for Non-Profit Management
Association for Research on Non-Profit Organisations and Voluntary Actions
Council on Foundations (leadership expertise, legal services and networking opportunities for grantmakers, also many publications)
Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Groundspring (internet fundraising)
Asia
Pan-Asian
Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium
Pakistan
Europe
Pan-European
European Association for Planned Giving (EAPG)
European Citizen Action Service (ECAS)
European Foundation Centre (gathering point for independent funders active in and with Europe)
European Foundation Centre: Community Philanthropy Initiative (development of community philanthropy organisations) +EN
Network of European Foundations for Innovative Cooperation +EN
NGONet (network of non-governmental organizations active in Central and Eastern Europe)
Austria
Verband der Fundraising ManagerInnen Austria (FMA) (Austrian Fundraising Managers Association) +EN
France
Centre français des fondations
Germany
Deutscher Stiftungen (Association of German Foundations)
Portugal
Portuguese Foundation Centre (CPF) +EN
Switzerland
UK
Association of Arts Fundraisers
Association of Charitable Foundations (support for grant-making trusts and foundations)
Businesses & Charities (helping charities get more from business)
Caritas: Data on Charities (financial information on charities)
Charities Aid Foundation (services to charities)
Charities Aid Foundation (Charity Account for donors)
Charities Direct (database of over 10,000 charities)
Charities Choice(encyclopaedia of charities)
Charity Commission (regulator and registrar for charities in England and Wales)
Corporate Community Investment (CCInet) (helping companies and communities work together)
Directory of Social Change (DSC) (websites and publications to help fundraising)
efundraising (how to raise funds online)
Just Giving ("fundraising made easy")
National Council for Voluntary Organisations (help for voluntary organisations)
UK Fundraising (information and resources for fundraisers)
Ukraine
Ideas and options for alternative financing
You may also wish to view the list of funding sources for the creative industries.
International
International Association of Investors in the Social Economy
Europe
The following study may be of interest: Banking on Culture
Belgium
Denmark
JAK (Jord-Arbejde-Kapital)
Merkurden Almennyttige Andelskasse
France
Institut de DEveloppement de liEconomie Sociale
Germany
Italy
Luxemburg
Netherlands
Sweden
JAK (Jord-Arbejde-Kapital)
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Industrial Common Ownership Finance
