The Foundation Center is a national nonprofit organization established in 1956 to help grant seekers identify foundations and develop grant proposals. The Center publishes books, conducts seminars, and staffs five libraries in New York, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Atlanta, and San Francisco.

The Foundation Center's web site at www.foundationcenter.org is an excellent source of information for grant seekers. It provides links to foundation web sites; 990-PF tax returns for private foundations; the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance; tutorials on foundation research and grant writing; and other resources for grant seekers.

The Center is supported by a network of "Cooperating Collections" in libraries and other nonprofit agencies in all 50 states. These agencies have core collections of Foundation Center publications and a variety of supplementary materials and services.

Love Library at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a Cooperating Collection, serving the citizens of Nebraska and the region. Foundation materials are in the reference section on 2nd floor and are available to the public whenever the library is open. Although staff at the Reference Desk can answer many questions, the Coordinator of the Cooperating Collection can give more extensive assistance. To make an appointment, contact Jeanetta Drueke at mdrueke1@unl.edu or (402) 472-2525, Room 225C Love Library, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-4100.

LOVE LIBRARY COOPERATING COLLECTION RESOURCES

Foundation Center Core Collection
Love Library has the following core titles published by the Foundation Center.

• Foundation Directory Online Professional, a comprehensive database of foundations that is available on workstations in Love Library.
• Foundation Grants to Individuals, a comprehensive, searchable database of foundations giving grants to individuals that is available on workstations in Love Library.

Print FC titles in the Love Library reference collection Love Ref AS911...

• The Foundation Directory 1 and 2, and supplement
• Foundation Fundamentals
• Foundation Grants to Individuals
• The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing
• Guide to U.S. Foundations, Their Trustees, Officers and Donors
• National Directory of Corporate Giving
• Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates
• Foundation Giving Trends
• Foundation Yearbook
• Guide to Funding for International and Foreign Programs

Other Sources
To supplement the FC core collection, Love Library provides other reference books with information about foundations and grants.

Foundation Annual Reports
Love Library owns many annual reports of foundations. They are listed under the name of the foundation in the UNL Libraries Catalog.

Last updated September 7, 2007. Send your questions, comments or suggestions about this page to Jeanetta Drueke at mdrueke1@unl.edu.