Philanthropic Giving By and For Women on the Rise, Study Finds
6/23/09 
Foundation giving targeted to benefit women and girls has surpassed the rate of overall foundation giving in recent years, and women's funds are a rapidly growing and influential force in philanthropy, according to a new report released today by the Foundation Center and the Women's Funding Network.
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Foundation Center and Library of Congress Release New Funding Guide for Preserving Historical, Cultural Collections
6/8/09 
Just released, the second edition of Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums is designed to help the preservation community ensure that the nation’s at-risk historical and cultural artifacts in libraries, archives, and museums are saved for future generations.
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Foundation Center Focuses on Funding for Education
in June
6/1/09 
Throughout June, the Foundation Center is offering free events, classes, and online resources designed to help nonprofits and scholarship seekers become more effective grantseekers and find new funding prospects.
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Community Foundation Giving Increased 6.7 Percent in 2008 Despite Economy,
New Foundation Center Report Finds
5/28/09 
Community foundations raised their giving by an estimated 6.7 percent in 2008 to a record $4.6 billion, according to the Center's new report, Key Facts on Community Foundations, 2009 ed. However, these foundations will undoubtedly have to reduce giving in 2009.
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Foundation Center Partners With Grantmakers for Effective Organizations to Offer Members New Philanthropy In/SightTM Mapping Tool
5/18/09
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) will serve as the Center’s exclusive beta site for its new mapping tool, Philanthropy In/SightTM, leading up to the product's release later this spring. Philanthropy In/Sight is a next-generation mapping application that uses Google maps to plot the location of foundations and their grantees, providing grantmakers with tools to be more strategic and increase the impact of their grantmaking.
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Corporate Foundation Giving Remained Flat in 2008, Foundation Center Report Shows; Declines Expected
in 2009
5/11/09
 Charitable giving by the nation's nearly 2,500 corporate foundations remained virtually unchanged in 2008, according to Key Facts on Corporate Foundations. Giving totaled an estimated $4.4 billion last year. Corporate foundation giving in 2009 will most certainly decline; 51 percent of corporate foundations responding to the Center's survey said they expect to reduce their giving this year.
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New Foundation Center Map Guides Nonprofits to Stimulus Dollars and Other Resources
5/5/09
 The Center's new MapShot: Best ARRA Funding Resources by State displays funding opportunities and other information on how nonprofits may be able to access stimulus package funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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More Than a Third of Family Foundations Are Either Uncertain About Lifespan or Expect to Spend Down, New Report Shows
4/30/09
 While existing in perpetuity is the norm for the majority of family foundations, more than a third say they are currently undecided about lifespan or plan to limit their lifespan, according to the first large-scale study of family foundation lifespan plans, jointly released by the Foundation Center and the Council on Foundations. The report benchmarks the intentions, practices, and attitudes of nearly 1,100 family foundations active in 2008.
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Foundation Center Provides Research for Global Philanthropy Forum
4/28/09 
At the recent Global Philanthropy Forum conference, the Foundation Center provided the information platform for its five key issues: poverty at home and abroad, access to health care, access to education, global climate change, and reconstruction and reconciliation in post-conflict countries.
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Foundation Center Expands Resources for Spanish-language Grantseeekers
4/23/09
At a time when nonprofit organizations are being hard hit by an economy in crisis, the Foundation Center is extending its reach to Spanish-speaking grantseekers and nonprofits serving Latino communities, a part of the nonprofit sector that often has been under-resourced even in the best of economic times.
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Close to Two-thirds of Foundations Expect to Reduce Their Grants in 2009
4/20/09
 A new Foundation Center research advisory, Foundations Address the Impact of the Economic Crisis, examines how U.S. foundations are coping with the crisis, based on recent survey responses of more than 1,200 U.S. foundations. In addition to the expected reduction in giving, over half of the funders surveyed said that they will rely on more non-grantmaking activities in their support for nonprofits.
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