Looking for more prospects? Look no further than FDO's new Power Search tool. Professional subscribers can now search across nine Foundation Center databases at once to identify more opportunities than ever before!

Power Search produces a summary of all matches from anywhere within the Foundation Center's vast knowledge base on the field of philanthropy. You'll see results from FDO's grantmakers, companies, grants, and 990s databases, as well as from our unique databases of philanthropy news, RFPs, nonprofit jobs, foundation publications, and nonprofit literature.

For a limited time, Power Search is available to all subscribers as a "beta." Just log in to FDO and click the "Preview" link from the FDO Home Screen. Then, type any keyword or key phrase into the Power Search field to see a list of all matches that contain your exact search criteria. Searches can be further refined from the results screen by choosing one of the nine Foundation Center databases where your matches appear. Whether you're researching a potential donor, looking for new prospects in a particular subject area, or just want to learn more about an issue that's important to your organization, Power Search delivers more than you ever imagined!

This new functionality represents one of the most significant enhancements to Foundation Directory Online to date. But it doesn't replace FDO's multi-field, indexed search screens. When your research calls for targeted searching using advanced search strategies, our original Search Grantmakers, Search Companies, Search Grants, and Search 990s screens can be accessed via tabs at the top of any page.

Take some time to preview the new FDO and then tell us what you think about Professional Power Search by taking our short, seven question survey.

Along with the introduction of our new Professional Power Search tool, we've improved FDO's search functionality in other ways, too. Now, all subscribers can modify their searches in an intuitive new way. With every search, you'll see an instant recap of matches by key data fields. We call it "guided search," and it's a quick and easy way to refine your prospect list by the subset of results you're most interested in.

For instance, perhaps you've used the Fields of Interest search field on the Search Grantmakers Screen to search for funders with a known giving interest in health. From your results screen, you can use the guided search feature to fine-tune your search by Grantmaker State, Geographic Focus, Type of Grantmaker, Total Giving, or whether applications are accepted or not. It's a whole new way of searching, directly from the search results screen!

You can also unselect previously chosen criteria to "back-up" a single step, or multiple steps, at a time. We're confident that after using our new guided search feature just once, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.

In addition to guided search, we've also added some other nifty search-related features to FDO, including:

• The ability to search within results
• "Did you mean?" hints for misspelled keywords
• The ability to turn off the guided search feature to conserve screen space

As with our new Professional Power Search tool, all of these new features can be accessed as a "beta" by clicking the "Preview" link from the FDO Home Screen.

Philanthropy In/Sight is the Foundation Center's new data visualization platform for global philanthropy. Designed specifically for grantmakers, policymakers, researchers, and anyone else interested in the impact of philanthropy around the world today, In/Sight is the only interactive mapping tool that enables you to:

• Plot the locations of grantmakers and grant recipients and view detailed information about their activities and grants awarded or received;
• View aggregated grantmaker and grant data; and
• Assess impact, funding needs, and effectiveness with layered demographic and other thematic data

October is Funding for Arts Month at the Foundation Center and we're celebrating by hosting special events and offering free classes. If you're an artist or work for a nonprofit arts organization, be sure to visit our Focus on Funding for the Arts page and check the events schedule for the location nearest you.

Plus, on October 30, join us for a free online webinar on funding trends in arts and culture. A panel of distinguished leaders in the field will present the latest data on both foundation and public support and explore the arts and culture funding outlook. For more information, or to register, please visit our web site.