Foundation Center  Cooperating Collection

The Foundation Center (http://fdncenter.org) is an independent national service organization established by foundations to provide an authoritative source of information on foundation and corporate giving.  Primary reference collections are located in New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Cleveland, and San Francisco.   These offer a wide variety of services and comprehensive collections of information on foundations and  grants.

Cooperating Collections are libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies that provide a core collection of Foundation Center publications and a variety of supplementary materials and services in areas useful to grant seekers.

Anderson County Library is one of just 250 locations across the country, and one of five in South Carolina, that serves as a Cooperating Collection. As a member of this nationwide network of libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies, the Anderson County Library provides visitors with free public access to grantmaker directories, books on fundraising and nonprofit management, and the Foundation Center’s electronic database,  FC Search: The Foundation Center's Database on CD-ROM. The fully searchable database includes detailed profiles of all active U.S. foundations, as well as an extensive file of recent grants awarded by the nation’s top funders.  FC Search contains records for more than 80,000 active foundation grantmakers, including names of trustees, officers, and donors.

Two new databases have been added at the Main Library, Corporate Giving Online and Foundation Grants to Individuals Online. These databases are available at the Anderson County Library South Carolina Room.  Corporate Giving Online is database of corporate donors which support nonprofit organizations through grants as well as in-kind donations of equipment, products professional services, and volunteers.  Foundation Grants to Individuals Online is a database of more than 6,000 foundations and public charity programs which provide educational support and fund students, artists, and researchers.

All materials are available for use in the library.  The Foundation Center Cooperating Collection is located in the Main Library’s South Carolina Room.

For questions about the Cooperating Collection or grant writing, you may contact the Collection Supervisor, Marybeth Evans, at (864-260-4500) or by email:  communityservices@andersonlibrary.org