I need a grant?

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Does anyone know where I need to search for grants dealing with Social Service Agencies. My company has seen a need (and I have too), to open a division within the company just dealing with gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgend... individuals in this community. The program would deal with resource management, counseling, education, assistance (medical, spiritual, social, and economical), and other issues. We do not have the funds to open this division now, and probably for some time. If anyone would know where I could search for a grant to help us it would be a tremendous help.

Answers:
Your best bet is to seek for private grants or grants from private foundations.

The best resource for this is Foundation Center http://www.fdncenter.org . They have a very good database covering all organizations giving grants and you can find foundations that are interested in supporting your type of cause. However, it's a subscription based website ($19.95 per month I think is the cheapest subscription price). But it certainly is worth the fee. You can subscribe one month, and make sure you get all the info you need and then stop the subscription.

If you want to try federal sources, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants.

CFDA has several ways to search for grants. I suggest you search by beneficiary and select Private Non Profit Organization and you can find listings of grants available http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.BROWSE_BENEF_RPT.show

You need someone who knows your community. Call or visit your public library to find
1) pre-grant funding for designing the project, especially the evaluation phase
2) grant funding sources - local, regional & national / non-profit, for-profit & govenmental / local donors & volunteers
3) a community organization that will help you to write your grant
4) local and regional groups to collaborate with

AT&T has fine little overview on the grant writing process:
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/products/grants/index.html

For US government grants - http://www.grants.gov/ , search
... http://www.grants.gov/search/basic.do
US Health & Human Services
... http://www.hhs.gov/grants/index.shtml
US NIH
... http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm

You may have access to IRIS ("for funding opportunities in every field from agriculture to zoology")
http://iris.library.uiuc.edu/~iris/search.html

Good luck - it sounds like a wonderful project!

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