Elizabeth Stephan Librarian for the College of Business and Economics
CBE Reference hours:
CBE Office PH45/45B
Oct 13 - Dec 2
Tuesday 1:30-3:30
Wednesday 9:30-11:30
Library Office:
Haggard Hall 226
Phone: 360-650-2061
Email: Elizabeth Stephan
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Find Books and more in our Library Use the Library Catalog to locate materials within our collection. The Library Catalog provides location, call number and bibliographic information for the books, journals, newspapers, selected government documents, microforms and other media, as well as online or electronic resources owned or accessed by the Western Libraries.
Subject Headings Books and other resources can be found in the Western Library catalog or the Summit catalog by searching by subject. Please use the following Library of Congress subject headings:
Grants.gov / Grants.gov Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies.
Annual register of grant support / Information Today • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference AS911.A2 A67
• Check Catalog This lists more than 3,500 grant-giving organizations offering non-repayable support. Organized by 11 major subject areas, this directs you to traditional corporate, private, and public funding programs, as well as to nontraditional grant sources such as educational associations and unions.
For each grant program, you’ll find information on eligibility requirements and restrictions, application procedures and deadlines, grant size or range, contact information, and much more. Annual Register of Grant Support 2005 is truly a resource that can pay its own way countless times over.
Corporate giving directory / Taft Group (Detroit, Mich.) • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HV97.A3 T29
• Check Catalog Contains descriptive profiles of over 1,000 of the largest corporate charitable giving programs in the U.S. Each company profiled makes contributions of at least $200,000 annually. Corporations are indexed by state headquarters, type of grant (including non-monetary), type of recipient, operating location, and sponsoring company.
Foundation Center Provides grant maker information, funding trends and analysis, training and seminars, the Philanthropy News Digest (archived and searchable), and Foundation Center publications. You can find a foundation using their search engine.
The Foundation directory. / Foundation Center • Location: Haggard 2 Reference AS911.A2 F65 2002
• Check Catalog This directory lists the top 10,000 private and community foundation grantmakers in terms of awards made in the last fiscal year. It is arranged alphabetically by state and is indexed by donor, officer, trustee, location, type of support, subject and foundation name. It reports on foundations with assets of $2 milion or more, or annual giving of at least $200,000.
Foundation directory. Pt 2 / Foundation Center • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference AS911.A2 F652
• Check Catalog This directory lists the top 10,000 private and community foundation grantmakers in terms of awards made in the last fiscal year. It is arranged alphabetically by state and is indexed by donor, officer, trustee, location, type of support, subject and foundation name. It acts as a companion volume to the Foundation directory, reporting on foundations with assets between $1 million and $2 million or with annual grant programs between $50,000 and $200,000.
International directory of corporate philanthropy / Europa • Location: Haggard 2 Reference HG 4028.C6 I56 2002
• Check Catalog This serves as a companion volume to Europa's International Foundation Directory. This gives an overview of international corporate giving and details company giving as well as corporate trusts and foundations. Part One provides essays on background information on giving. Part two contains information on corporate philanthropy centers and Part three is a directory providing details of more than 1000 national and multinational corporations.
Reference Works: Guides
Foundation Center's guide to grantseeking on the web / Foundation Center. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HV41.2 .F68 2000
• Check Catalog An up-to-date selective index and directory to help find funding through the Internet. All sites included in the guide "provide information and tools for finding potential funders, learning about the nonprofit sector .... and connecting grantseekers and others through electronic communications." Chapters include, among others, government funding resources, prospecting for individual donors, finding corporate givers, web-based databases, and more. How-to information is limited to the essentials.
Giving USA: the annual report on philanthropy / AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy • Location: Haggard 2 Reference HV89 G5 2006
• Check Catalog This is a survey of charitable donations from individual donors, bequests, foundations and corporations. Comparisons from other years are given as are trends in giving.
Foundations
Foundation reporter / Taft Group (Rockville, Md.) • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HV97.A3 T323
• Check Catalog This provides in depth profile of America's over 1000 largest private foundations. Foundations must have either $10 million in assets or $500,000 on record in charitable giving.
Foundation giving trends: Update on funding priorities • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HV85 .F678 2007
• Check Catalog This report analyzes the trends in giving through 2005, exploring the changes in giving interests by subject focus, recipient type, type of support, population group served, and geographic focus. It compares funding trends and includes brief reports on special topics, such as the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the tsunami disaster.
