Trying to search for grants from home? You can access Candid’s (candid.org) Foundation Directory Online through the University of Nebraska Lincoln Libraries with this link. UNL Trainers can also assist you with funding searches directly. Contact us here for help: ask-a-question@unl.edu
Candid provides two databases for grant seekers. Love Library makes both databases available to the public from the library website. Access is free but limited to the Love Library building.
Candid, the new name for a merger between Foundation Center and GuideStar, is a public website which provides excellent source of information for grant seekers. A paid service, it provides access to foundation web sites, 990-PF tax returns of private foundations, and government grant programs, as well as offering free tutorials, webinars and videos on foundation research and grant writing.
FC Funding Information Network
The Foundation Center is supported by a Funding Information Network of Network Sites in libraries and other nonprofit agencies in all 50 states. These agencies have core collections of Candid publications and a variety of supplementary materials and services. The CCs can help you:
Network Site at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Love Library at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a Network Site, serving the citizens of Nebraska and the region. The Libraries provides access to two Candid databases: Foundation Directory Online Professional (Organizations) and Foundation Grants to Individuals.
To schedule individual or group training, contact the Point of Contact for the Network Site, Toni Anaya, at tanaya2@unl.edu or (402) 472-4199.
Tutorials and webinars on writing grant proposals are available on the Foundation Center public website and from the Purdue Online Writing Lab Introduction to Grant Writing
Unfortunately, library staff are not able to help with the preparation of proposals. While we cannot refer people to grant writers, the Grant Professionals Association maintains a list of local freelancers which is available free of charge.