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Foundation Center unveils new corporate giving search.


The Foundation Center has launched an online search service, Corporate Giving Online, which enables grantseekers and other researchers to easily locate corporate giving sources.

The service offers current, detailed information on more than 2,700 company-sponsored foundations and nearly 1,400 direct corporate giving programs. Corporate Giving Online was designed to provide a variety of flexible options to search for current information on companies, their grantmaking organizations, and their grants and other types of gifts, including in-kind in-kind
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Given in goods, commodities, or services rather than money: cash and in-kind benefits. 
 donations.

The service is available through monthly, annual, and two-year subscriptions at cgonline.foundationcenter.org. It is also available for free public use at the Center's five regional libraries in New York New York, state, United States
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"The world of corporate giving has long been a challenge for nonprofits to penetrate," said Lynn Christie Christie can refer to:
  • Agatha Christie, the famous writer of mysteries.
  • Christie's, the auction house.
  • Christie, the Canadian division of Nabisco.
  • Christie (band), a UK pop band.
, vice president for business development at the Foundation Center." With this new service, a development director for a music education organization in San Francisco can search online for corporate funders that have supported music education in her area in the past. Or, a fundraiser searching for seed money for an open space project can zero in on the right staff person to contact within a home building supply company's community affairs department for a donation of lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to ."
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Title Annotation:Vendor News
Publication:The Non-profit Times
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 1, 2006
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