Edited from Foundation Center press release
Foundation Center’s project Visualizing Funding for Libraries won the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge on Libraries competition in 2016. The goal of the project is to help libraries find funding opportunities, increase understanding of funding sources, and track funding trends through a data visualization tool and capacity-building training.
The data tool allows users to search and see funding sources at the national, state and local levels and answer key questions about regional funding trends. Data visualizations such as maps, network connections and partnership pathways highlight key networks of funders and recipients as well as individual grants. Foundation Center will also deliver grant-seeking training, in-person and online, to build libraries’ capacity to effectively tap new funding sources.
Explore the Visualizing Funding for Libraries data tool.
Register for upcoming training sessions on grant-seeking.
