Find out why SPNI has become the latest FoundationSearch-IsraelGrants Subscriber
By
Donny Kligman, Director of Research, IsraelGrants.com
As Director of Research it is my job to seek out and match
up the appropriate foundations with our clients. The giving interests of the
foundations and the objectives of Israeli organizations must sync. Therefore it
is imperative that I, the researcher, use the most powerful cutting edge technology
at my disposal. This is where FoundationSearch.com thunders in.
I use FoundationSearch in order to find foundations that have
funded organizations similar to our clients. I used to use Foundation Center’s
search engine and database. Foundation Center is OK if you want to approach
grant seeking with the basics. There is however a plethora of advantages that
Foundation Search offers which Foundation Center severely lacks. For example,
Foundation Search gives you access to nearly three times the number of the
amount of grants made to Israeli nonprofits. Foundation Search has more than
twice the number of searchable giving interests allowing me to hone in on the
most specific and detailed criteria with which to match up an Amuta with
the appropriate foundations while saving hours of time.
With Foundation Search you can search through more than
100,000 foundations in the US, over 1000 of which give to nonprofits in Israel
or to their American or Canadian “Friends” organizations. Unlike Foundation
Center, Foundation Search can provide me with contact and grant information for
foundations in Canada and on the charitable giving of Fortune 500 Corporations
in both the U.S. and Canada with the accompanying service Big On Line! What
more could a researcher ask for?
Besides Foundation Search being the most powerful foundation
search tool around it also has its own unparalleled features. One of these is
"My Prospect Manager." My Prospect Manager is an innovative donor
prospect manager system that allows me to add prospects (foundations) I have
found using Foundation Search and link them to fundraising projects that I have
personally created and defined. Within these projects I am able to easily and
swiftly keep track of foundations. The
system allows me to set up email alerts that will notify me of changes related
to recent grants, deadlines, financial information, 990's which list all grants
made during a given year, and news related to specific foundations.
While clearly I’m sold on Foundation Search, but there are reasons
why it may not be the best option for you. If you're a small organization on a
limited budget then you probably don’t need a subscription yourself. That’s
where I come in for you. You can benefit from all that FoundationSearch has,
and IsraelGrants’ “expertise” in using it. If you’d like to order from IsraelGrants
a pinpointed foundation search appropriate for a specific project or if you’d
like specific information on a real time basis.
Each subscription to Foundation Search comes with a tech
support package from IsraelGrants.com during Israel working hours as well as
tech support and on line tutorials offered by FoundationSearch.com and
Metasoft, its parent company based in Vancouver, Canada.
For subscription information and other details please
contact Donny at Donny@IsraelGrants.com
or 02-5636629 Monday – Thursday.
