TCCL Foundation Center Blog

Check Out the New Books @ the TCCL Foundation Center!

• Proposal planning & writing/ Meremy T. Miner and Lynn E. Miner.
  
  Nonprofit meetings, minutes & records: how to run your nonprofit corporation so you don’t run into trouble/ by Anthony Mancuso.

• Private foundation law made easy/ Bruce R. Hopkins.

• The nonprofit handbook:  everything you need to know to start and run your nonprofit organization / Gary M. Grobman.

• Yours for the asking:  an indispensable guide to fundraising and management / Reynold Levy.

• The board book: an insider’s guide for directors and trustees / William G. Bowen.

Grant *Writing* Workshops in Your Community

The Foundation Center at TCCL provides workshops on grant seeking (next class, Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 9:30 -11:30 a.m.), which often leads to questions about grant writing.

Though we don’t have any grant writing workshops planned at this time, there are other organizations in our community that offer such classes. Following are a few upcoming opportunities. These are not presented in partnership with the Tulsa City County Library (therefore, please view this post as information, not an endorsement).

Grantwriting I - Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits

Date: Thursday, February 12
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: OSU-Tulsa, 700 N. Greenwood Ave.
Registration Fee: $60.00

The basic elements of grantwriting and guideposts to guide you each step of the way in the process. This is a two part series. You will be asked to bring a grant proposal to session II to analyze and critique. This session is for beginners.

Register

Grantwriting II - Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits

Date: Thursday, February 26
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: OSU-Tulsa, 700 N. Greenwood Ave.
Registration Fee: $60.00

This workshop will help you strengthen your grantwriting skills. Bring your own grant proposal to analyze. Specific points include: using buzz words, formatting your proposal, tailoring your case and capturing your audience. This session is more advanced and is a continuation from Grantwriting I.

Register

Do you know of other grant writing classes in our community? Let me know at mkash@tulsalibrary.org.

Now Taking Registrations for the first Grant-Seeking Workshop in 2009!

Grant Seeking for Beginners

Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 9:30 -11:30 a.m.

This workshop provides nonprofit managers, employees, and volunteers with the basic knowledge needed to seek out grant funds.  You will learn about the Foundation Center and the TCCL Cooperating Collection, learn the basics of the grant seeking process, become familiar with the resources available to you for grant seeking, and tour the TCCL Foundation Center Collection.  Basic computer and Internet search skills are needed for this workshop.

Registration is required

To register, please send an email to foundationcenter@tulsalibrary.org or call 596-7940

Location

Tulsa City-County Library, 400 Civic Center Tulsa, OK 74103
Computer Training Room, 2nd Floor
View Directions to Tulsa City County Library

New Titles in Business and Non-Profit Subjects

Finding Funding:  Grantwriting From Start to Finish, Including Project Management and Internet Use

Topics Covered:

• Grant applications
• Government and educational grants (Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, Grants.gov)
• Using the Internet to access funding resources
• Writing grant proposals

People to People Fundraising:  Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities

Topics Covered:

• Using the Internet to build relationships
• Web site benchmarking
• Social networking
• Online marketing to special groups
• Integrating offline and online fundraising

Ethical Fundraising

Topics Covered:

• Appearance of impropriety
• Donor rights
• Public privacy
• Tainted money
• Compensation
• Use of donations as intended
• Restoring public confidence
• Honesty and full disclosure
• Includes web sites for International Fundraising Codes of Ethics & Standards

The SAGE Handbook of Advertising

Topics Covered:

• History
• Brand equity
• Psychology
• Consumer memory
• Emotions and metaphors in advertising
• Planning
• Advertising environment
• Advertising analysis, tracking, and response

Knowledge Management Series:  A Handbook of Applied Technologies

Topics Covered:

• Best practices
• Document management
• Collaborative work systems
• Future technologies
• Knowledge management strategy implementation
• Knowledge map development
• Organizational memory
• Project management
• Workflows

The Tulsa City-County Library will host a free workshop on grant seeking basics for nonprofit organizations on Thursday, October 23, 2008 from 10:30am – 12:30pm.

 “Grantseeking Basics with Foundation Directory Online”

The Grantseeking Basics session will be led by Kief Schladweiler, Coordinator of Cooperating Collections with the Foundation Center (http://foundationcenter.org). The course will provide an overview of the funding research process for nonprofit organizations seeking grants from foundations, corporations, and grantmaking public charities. Mr. Schladweiler will offer tips on how best to identify funding sources for your organization, highlighting the electronic and print resources available for your free use at the Tulsa City-County Library, a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center. The workshop will include a demonstration of the Foundation Directory Online, the Foundation Center’s top-tier searchable database providing information on more than 91,000 grantmakers and more than a million grant records.

Registration is required

Registration is limited and is first come first served.
To register, please send an email to foundationcenter@tulsalibrary.org or call 596-7940

Location

Tulsa City-County Library, 400 Civic Center Tulsa, OK 74103
View Directions to Tulsa City County Library