How To Get Grant Money For Your Charity Organization
Obtaining grant money for your charity can be a very difficult task if you don't know where to start
. Doing a general search inside your favorite search engine is going to leave you clicking through page after page for a while. But please don't let this discourage you. There are a lot of really nice resources all with their own information that can help your organization. Once you know the way it will become a breeze to get the grants to make your organization successful. So lets get started
Being that you are probably reading this from your computer screen, the next website you should intend to visit is called Foundation Center. Each state has their own foundations, but this is where all of the states are listed together, so you can filter by zipcodes and cities. Foundation Center offers directories that you can access for a price, but if you are wanting to save your organization a lot of time it is well worth the pricing. You need to think of it as timing. The amount of time that it would take to try not just pay is not worth it. The lowest pricing is $19.95/month.
Foundation Center is not an organization that I am affiliated with. I simply want to provide you with the best possible information so that you and your organization can make an informed decision when trying to find grant money.
Things to do from here would be to find one of the resource centers nearest you and spend a couple hours going through the information that is contained in the grantmakers directories.
Accessing the information from the comfort of your home or office is ideal. But this is not the case with a lot of the libraries around the country. A good majority of libraries you will have to take a trip down to and spend the afternoon going through their directories.
Most important thing once you actually do get a chance to go over the grantmaker directories is to look at their requirments and submit by dates. Make a list of them if you can and put them in a spreadsheet so that you can get a good enough jump on them to make sure you are one of the first applications they process.