Stephen Sherman of the Foundation Center-Atlanta recently conducted a training session with 33 representatives of Coweta nonprofits to help them learn about grant opportunities available. Sponsored by the Coweta Community Foundation, the free training session was designed to familiarize Coweta nonprofits with the resources that will soon be available to them through the Foundation’s new partnership with the Foundation Center-Atlanta. One of these resources is the Foundation Directory Online, a database of more than 140,000 grantmakers.
“We exist to help you learn about funding sources,” Sherman told participants as he walked them through the steps of using the software.
Established in 1956, Foundation Center is the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. Through data, analysis and training, it connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to succeed. Thousands of people visit Foundation Center’s website each day and are served in its five library/learning centers—including the one in Atlanta—and at more than 450 Funding Information Network locations nationwide and around the world. The Coweta Community Foundation was recently approved as a new Funding Information Network (FIN) and will serve nonprofits located along the I-85 corridor.
A training opportunity with the new software was held Jan. 19 at the Newnan campus of West Georgia Technical College. Beginning Feb. 15, simply by making an appointment and going to the Coweta Community Foundation office on Hospital Road, local nonprofits will have at their fingertips the ability to research grant opportunities all over the country.
Mindy Smith, executive director of CASA, called the event an “excellent training opportunity.”
Pam Young, executive director of the Southern Conservation Trust, called the new online resource “an additional tool that can benefit our nonprofits.” She said the training was “terrific” and that Southern Conservation Trust appreciated the Foundation’s work in the community.
“We’re so grateful that Stephen was willing to come to Newnan and train our nonprofits on this wonderful software,” said Ginger Jackson Queener, Chairman of the Coweta Community Foundation Board of Directors. “We hope to see many new grants come to Coweta County and enrich our community even more.”
The Coweta Community Foundation is a publicly supported 501(c)3 organization that helps focus local philanthropy on the community’s changing needs. The Foundation manages individual gifts and bequests as an endowed pool of assets, distributing grants to a wide variety of organizations that enhance and support the quality of life in Coweta County, while maintaining the charitable intent of the donors. For more information, call the Foundation at 770-253-1833.
