Grants, Loans, and Funds
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USDA Office of Rural Development Community Facilities Program
Description: The USDA Office of Rural Development's Community Facilities Program offers low interest loans for various community building projects including building or renovating child care facilities.
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Author: Hahn, Andrew
Description: A summary report of a study that examined the long-term outcomes and sustainability of community initiatives for children, youth and families. Describes what happens in the community after funding ends.
Endgames: The Challenge of Sustainability
Author: Cutler, Ira
Description: This report was created based on interviews with over 20 key informants representing foundations and community-based initiatives. Report outlines the issues related to sustainability, provides recommendations and proposes a theory of sustainability.
Non-Profit Organizational Assessment Tool: Resource Development 
Author: Lewis, Andrew (6 more by this author)
Description: A part of a series of evaluation questions to assess a non-profit's organizational capacity. This piece addresses resource development.
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Author: Hahn, Andrew
Description: A summary report of a study that examined the long-term outcomes and sustainability of community initiatives for children, youth and families. Describes what happens in the community after funding ends.
Community Development Block Grant Program
Author: Nance-Sims, Gloria
Description: An informational piece that discusses grants available for community and economic development to benefit low and moderate income people.
Coping with Cutbacks: The Non-Profit Guide to Success When Times Are Tough
Author: Angelica, Emil; Vincent Hyman
Description: A list of 185 strategies for addressing the budget reductions in a non-profit, community agency. The list is drawn from a book titled Coping with Cutbacks: The Nonprofit Guide to Success when Times are Tight published by the Amherst Wilder Foundation.
Endgames: The Challenge of Sustainability
Author: Cutler, Ira
Description: This report was created based on interviews with over 20 key informants representing foundations and community-based initiatives. Report outlines the issues related to sustainability, provides recommendations and proposes a theory of sustainability.
Enhancing Capital Access for Rural Businesses
Author: Kriz, Kenneth
Description: A review of the role and types of capital required for economic development focusing on rural areas. It includes analysis and recommendations appropriate for policy considerations.
Description: Home page for Grants.gov, which is the electronic storefront for Federal grants. It includes links to a variety of grant topics, including Education, Health, Housing, Community Development, Business and Commerce, etc.
Description: TGCI was founded in 1972 to offer grantsmanship training and low-cost publications to nonprofit organizations and government agencies. At first a local project in Los Angeles, TGCI expanded rapidly as word of its alumni's success spread across the United States. Soon organizations in other cities asked to host TGCI training programs in their own communities. By 1980, TGCI was national in scope, conducting more than 100 workshops every year.
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Resources for Nonprofit Financial Management
Description: The Wallace Foundation, in partnership with Fiscal Management Associates, has developed a new and free suite of online resources that could help you: Develop a budget and accurately track spending, accurately calculate costs of your programs, decide whether to apply for a grant or a contract, plan for periods of cash shortfall, and provide guidelines on fiduciary responsibility to your board. Developed specifically for nonprofits providing summer learning and afterschool services, these resources draw directly on lessons learned from a Wallace initiative that began in 2003 to help cities develop systems to improve quality and access to out-of-school time programming.
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Description: TGCI was founded in 1972 to offer grantsmanship training and low-cost publications to nonprofit organizations and government agencies. At first a local project in Los Angeles, TGCI expanded rapidly as word of its alumni's success spread across the United States. Soon organizations in other cities asked to host TGCI training programs in their own communities. By 1980, TGCI was national in scope, conducting more than 100 workshops every year.
LEARNING TO GIVE: Teaching the Importance of Voluntary Action
Description: Learning to Give seeks to perpetuate a civil society by educating children about the independent sector (knowledge), developing behavior and philanthropic experience (skills), and, stimulating private voluntary citizen action for the common good (behavior). This site contains lesson plans and teaching materials.
Author: Zaniewski, Jennifer; Jennifer Sirangelo (National 4-H Council)
Description: A CYFAR 2009 workshop, Mission-focused Fundraising presents information specific to 4-H programs to assist in fund raising initiatives that both meet the goals of 4-H and use the 4-H mission as a marketing tool to recruit funders.
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Community Development Block Grant Program
Author: Nance-Sims, Gloria
Description: An informational piece that discusses grants available for community and economic development to benefit low and moderate income people.
Enhancing Capital Access for Rural Businesses
Author: Kriz, Kenneth
Description: A review of the role and types of capital required for economic development focusing on rural areas. It includes analysis and recommendations appropriate for policy considerations.
Extra Resources for a Coalition: CDFS-8
Author: Smith, Penne (1 more by this author); Gregory P. Siek
Description: A fact sheet that explains how a coalition can raise programming funds.
LEARNING TO GIVE: Teaching the Importance of Voluntary Action
Description: Learning to Give seeks to perpetuate a civil society by educating children about the independent sector (knowledge), developing behavior and philanthropic experience (skills), and, stimulating private voluntary citizen action for the common good (behavior). This site contains lesson plans and teaching materials.
Author: Zaniewski, Jennifer; Jennifer Sirangelo (National 4-H Council)
Description: A CYFAR 2009 workshop, Mission-focused Fundraising presents information specific to 4-H programs to assist in fund raising initiatives that both meet the goals of 4-H and use the 4-H mission as a marketing tool to recruit funders.
Tapping Private Sector Resources, CDFS-16
Description: A fact sheet that discusses how to tap private sector resources. It also describes different types of resources.
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Enhancing Capital Access for Rural Businesses
Author: Kriz, Kenneth
Description: A review of the role and types of capital required for economic development focusing on rural areas. It includes analysis and recommendations appropriate for policy considerations.
Description: The Finance Project is a non-profit policy research, technical assistance and information organization created to help improve outcomes for children, families and communities nationwide. Its mission is to support decision making that produces and sustains good results by developing and disseminating information, knowledge, tools and technical assistance for improved policies, programs, and financing strategies.