Endowment Books

Newly revised and updated in a 2001 edition, The Foundation Center's Guide To Grantseeking On The Web is a massive, authoritative, all-encompassing reference, sporting 700+ pages densely packed with valuable information. Half of the volume is dedicated to teaching readers about how to take advantage of corporate giving information on the Web, and the second half lists countless foundations and charities on the Web that accept applications for grants and donations. Black-and-white illustrations of web sites and the like round out this unique and exceptional reference, which is a "must" for any grant-seeker in today's modern, technology-driven world.

Compiled and edited by Kief Schladweiler, The Foundation Center's Guide To Grantseeking On The Web 2003 Edition is a massively extensive, 852-page resource of 3,00 grantmaker websites, and offers up a wealth of information concerning corporate grantmaking, searchable databases, government funding sources, online journals and newsletters, guidance for seeking individual donors online, and so much more. A thoroughly accessible guidebook enhanced with screenshots, illustrations, and explicit instructions, The Foundation Center's Guide To Grantseeking On The Web 2003 Edition is justifiably a very highly recommended reference for both amateur and professional grant-seekers.

An absolutely wonderful and useful guide. Would highly recommend to anyone looking into philanthropy. How anyone can not have this is beyond me.

This is an invaluable reference work for anyone looking for information on the philanthropic world. However, there is 1 glaring omission: My brother, David G. Jacobs, is the Editor of this book, and is credited as such on the inside front cover. I don't know who this Jeffrey Falkenstein is, or why he is listed as "compiler". I felt I had to set the record straight on this item.

This book is thorough and comprehensive in scope. It tells you exactly what you need to know to apply for a grant from the many organizations it lists. A good measure of its worth is that it's in its 11th update.

Both the graduate school office and the office of career counseling at my college have this book, and the staff guard it jealously--with good reason. It clearly describes each foundation and their guidelines for the type(s) of grants they make. In perusing this book, I didn't find a guide to writing a grant (probably because I was seeking foundation information), though other excellent books on how to do so exist elsewhere. If you want to cut to the chase, and save time and energy in targeting the right foundation(s) to meet your need, the hefty pricetag is worth your investment.

All of the seafood recipes are great. The desserts are sinful. All recipes are easy to read and ingredients are easy to find. Try the Poppy Seed Chicken. This book is not out of print, Bishop England High School is currently printing their 5th edition. They also have Gracious Goodness Christmas which will be featured in a national magazine in October. Their phone number is (843)849-9599.

I borrowed this book from a friend and after trying a variety of the recipies I knew I had to have it. They were easy to follow relatively quick to make and were raved about by the family. Problem was I had to return the book and did not think I could still get it. Thank you Amazon.com! Pick up the book and be sure to try the Fruit Cobbler (fantastic) and Husbands Delight. Neither recipe is low fat but worth EVERY calorie.

As a professional archives consultant, the person to whom I turn when I have a funding question is Sarah Brophy. In this book, Sarah consolidates her wisdom on funding opportunities in an easy to read manual. Using her straightforward and approachable style, she helps the reader develop an overall perspective on what grantors want to see from grantees. For example, she notes, "to convince the donor to give anything, you'll have to approach the project and proposal from the donor's viewpoint, not just yours." But, like her other (and more recent) book "The Green Museum," Sarah also offers a balanced approach that provides information about the practical issues as well as the ideal. Sarah walks you through the steps necessary to obtain grant funding. A grant ready checklist spells out the factors that appeal to donors, making your institution stronger overall and more "grant ready." Information about different types of donors, how they give money, and how to "cultivate" relationships with them is invaluable. Proposal preparation tips and tips for project follow through take the reader through every step of the funding process. The book is rounded out with sample cases and a list of resources. It is a must read for every non-profit institution.

If your organization does not yet have a successful grant program, this is a must read book for directors and trustees. It illuminates why foundations give, what they expect from their investment in non-profit organizations, and how they build relationships with institutions. Brophy clearly articulates the steps it takes to get to the point where you can write a successful grant application and backs up her findings with specific case studies from museums across the United States and abroad. I recommend this book not only to museums but to any non-profit (cultural, educational, or social service) that needs to grow to the next level of professionalism in program design and grant writing.
-Mara Williams
Partner, Arts Bridge LLC, Vermont and New York, formerly, Director, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT (1989 - 98)

Jose Marti, Cuban apostle for the Cuban War of Independence from Spain in the late XIX Century, left a legacy of timeless thoughts. His teaching is rich. He analyzed American society with clarity and insight. He identified good with truth. He strove to reduce abstract thought to concrete formulae of conduct, and, his ability to do so was singular. How to achieve a functional accommodation of truth, self-interest and reason was the central question posed by Marti. Chapter titles: Introduction;

I. On Liberty; II. On Social Justice; III. On Government and Politics; IV. On Morality and Human Behavior; V. On Art; VI. On Miscellaneous Subjects. Sample thoughts: 1. One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army. 2. He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. 3. Man is not an image engraved on a silver dollar, with covetous eyes, licking lips and a diamond pin on a silver dickey. Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

I do not know of a better introduction in English to Cuba's national hero and preeminent cultural icon. Ripoll has captured the essence of Marti's thought. His translations manage to convey also a large measure of the originality and brilliance of his style. Marti wrote: "Man must do good even in death, therefore I write." This little book opened a new wide expanse for Marti's apostolic mission, which is no less than the regeneration of man. To paraphrase Marti, this is not just a good book but a good work.

As Carothers, et al., point out, the "rule of law" means different things to different speakers. When a government or NGO official talks about the rule of law, it's worth asking which definition he has in mind.
This collection of essays covers a lot of ground, addressing strengths & weaknesses of different approaches to this oft-cited but seldom defined touchstone of international relations.
I hope the transition team puts this on their reading list, along with almost anything else Carothers writes or edits.
The format of this book, as a series of essays, worked well with the self-directed study I am engaged in right now. I can read an essay or two in this book, a chapter or two in another related book, and come back to this one. There are some books that a reader has to work his way through before he can say he really understands it, but each of these essays can stand alone.
Carothers selected the essays well to cover the range of a broad topic.

The Rule of Law has become more and more important in international relations over the past years, with vast sums of money spent on the training of judges, the building of courts, institutions of transitional justice and the drafting of legislation. This book is the best overview of these efforts and the rationale that underlies them that I've come across. It is based on extensive research by someone with long-term experience in the field, well-written and clearly argued. Much recommended!

Gradually our mental image of Kamakura Buddhism is becoming much richer and more complex, and this excellent book makes a major contribution to that process. "Alms and Vagabonds" is indeed full of a great many intriguing insights on the development of Buddhism during this time, insights from a wide variety of perspectives, all of which Goodwin elucidates quite naturally in a study of what would at first glance seem to be a small, simple, and minor facet of Japanese Buddhist history.

The book's focus on "kanjin" turns out after all to be an incredibly fruitful one. First of all, the concrete details of this phenomenon, in which itinerant monks went about soliciting donations from rich and poor for the building, rebuilding, and maintenance of Buddhist temples and the like is interesting in its own right. How did it develop? What was its rationale? Who were these monks and how did they make their pitch? Who were the donors, and what was in it for them? There's a real story here, one that the author shares with us after a lot of careful, in-depth, original research. Second of all, "kanjin" allows us to see the socioeconomic nuts and bolts of Kamakura Buddhism in a rare fashion; religion is never cheap, after all, and here we have the story of how all those temples, icons, rituals, sutras, and such were funded--and of how they were replaced when destroyed or damaged. This in turn has the effect of placing Buddhism squarely within the context of Japanese history, both in terms of the era's convoluted record of political twists and turns and open warfare as well as in the almost imperceptibly changing textures of everyday life. However, this is hardly a reductive analysis. The very real and utterly sincere religious motivations and conceptualizations informing "kanjin" both for the monks and the donors are explored in great depth, and this in turn ties in with the spread of Buddhism among the general populace and with the revival movements (such as Shingon Ritsu) within the established Buddhist schools--overturning the misperception that Kamakura Buddhism was only about Pure Land, Nichiren, and Zen. As is doubtlessly clear, something like sociology of religion--or else cultural history of religion--is the key methodological approach here, but Goodwin also gets quite specific in describing the biographies, religious orientations, and kanjin campaigns of key Buddhist monks, especially Jokei, Chogen, and Eizon and their efforts on behalf of Kasagidera, Todaiji, and religiously-motivated public infrastructure projects and charity work.

In fact, a key characteristic of this excellent study is its flawless sense of balance. Buddhism is portrayed neither as a cynical money-making machine nor a haze of disembodied doctrines, neither as a faceless historical process nor an episodic saga of great individuals. Rather, the socioeconomic and spiritual realities dovetail in fascinating ways, monks and layfolks with their own stories to tell are in turn part of a bigger, longer story. And an easily ignored aspect of medieval Buddhist life turns out to quietly revolutionize everything we might have thought about the subject.

This register lists organizations, programs and sources of
financial support for individuals and organizations. The book
is comprehensive in that it contains approximately 1400+ pages
of grant support listings. This book would be an excellent
reference for fund raising purposes. For instance, there are
extensive research activities funded by the Arthritis Foundation
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Raphael (Rafal, Rafael) Lemkin, a Polish Jew, is well known for coining the term genocide. This classic book, published in 1944, describes genocide in a manner that departs considerably from contemporary thinking. Instead of Jewish suffering selectively repeated and elevated above that of everyone else's, and only Jews (and possibly also Gypsies) recognized as WWII victims of genocide, one almost enters a different world. In it, Lemkin's analysis of German-inflicted death and destruction juxtaposes many European nationalities, and recognizes both Jews and Poles as victims of genocide.

Most contemporary Holocaust materials, apart from being excessively Judeocentric, are also German-whitewashing. Unidentified Nazis (they may as well be aliens from another planet) arrive out of nowhere to kill the Jews (and only the Jews). Lemkin, in stark contrast, puts the blame squarely where it belongs (p. xiii): "Hitler's Mein Kampf has essentially formulated the prolegomenon of destruction and subjugation of other nations. The mere fact that the vast majority of the German people put Hitler into power through free elections is evidence that they freely accepted his program which was secret to nobody."

Hitler is quoted (p. 81) as saying: "It will be one of the chief tasks of German statesmanship for all time to prevent, by every means in our power, the further increase of the Slav races. Natural instincts bid all living beings not merely conquer their enemies, but also destroy them."

Lemkin (p. 79) elaborates: "By "genocide" we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group...Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves...The confiscation of property of nationals...may be considered simply as a deprivation of their individual property rights. However, if the confiscations are ordered against individuals solely because they are Poles, Jews, or Czechs, then the same confiscations tend in effect to weaken the national entities of which those persons are members."

To show how Lemkin recognizes Poles as victims of German-sponsored genocide, I quote his comments in reference to Poles (All caps are as in the original); (pp. 82--90) "TECHNIQUES OF GENOCIDE IN VARIOUS FIELDS...POLITICAL...In western Poland, especially, this has been done on a large scale. The Polish population has been removed from their homes in order to make place for German settlers...SOCIAL...This is especially true in Poland and Slovenia (Slovene part of Yugoslavia), where the intelligentsia and clergy were in great part removed from the rest of the population and deported for forced labor in Germany...CULTURAL...Moreover, in the Polish areas Polish youths were excluded from the benefit of liberal arts studies and were channeled predominantly into the trade schools...The occupant apparently believes that the study of the liberal arts may develop independent national Polish thinking...the population has also been deprived of inspiration from the existing cultural and artistic values. Thus, especially in Poland, were national monuments destroyed and libraries, archives, museums, and galleries of art carried away... ECONOMIC....As to the Poles in incorporated Poland, the purpose of the occupant was to shift the economic resources from the Polish national group to the German national group...the Poles were expelled from trade, and the Germans entered that field...BIOLOGICAL...the occupant is endeavoring to encourage the birthrate of the Germans. Different methods are adopted to that end. Special subsidies are provided in Poland for German families having at least three minor children...PHYSICAL...Rationing of food is organized according to racial principles throughout the occupied countries...prewar diet...Germans..93%...Poles..66%...Jews..20%...The result of racial feeding is a decline in health of the nations involved and an increase in the deathrate...Endangering of health...The transfer, in unheated cattle cars and freight trucks, of hundreds of thousands of Poles from Incorporated Poland to the Government General, which took place in the midst of a severe winter, resulting in a decimation of the expelled Poles...Mass killings. The technique of mass killings is employed mainly against Poles, Russians, and Jews...In Poland, Bohemia-Moravia, and Slovenia, the intellectuals are being "liquidated"...RELIGIOUS...Likewise in Poland, through the systematic pillage and destruction of church property and persecution of the clergy, the German occupying authorities have sought to destroy the religious leadership of the Polish nation...MORAL...According to this plan, the mental energy of the group should be concentrated upon base instincts and should be diverted from moral and national thinking...Therefore, the occupant made an effort in Poland to impose upon the Poles pornographic publications and movies. The consumption of alcohol was encouraged, for while food prices have soared, the Germans have kept down the price of alcohol, and the peasants are compelled by the authorities to take spirits in payment for agricultural produce. The curfew law, enforced very strictly against Poles, is relaxed if they can show the authorities a ticket to one of the gambling houses which the Germans have allowed to come into existence."

Other events in the CULTURAL component of genocide against Poles occurred soon after Lemkin wrote this book. These included the Germans' systematic burning of all libraries and archives (with the loss of millions of priceless, irreplaceable items) in Warsaw AFTER the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, along with dynamiting of culturally-significant Polish buildings (notably the Royal Castle). Comparable German barbarities outside of Warsaw included preparations for the blowing up of the architectural treasures of the medieval city of Krakow as well as the famous Jasna Gora monastery. Only Polish sabotage, combined with the unexpectedly-rapid advance of the Red Army, prevented the implanted explosives from being set off by the retreating Germans.

Finally, Lemkin could not have realized the lasting effects of German genocide against Poles. For example, out of the thousands of artworks confiscated by the Germans, many have not been located to this day.