Friday, April 29, 2011

Connecticut Grantmakers Online

Connecticut Grantmakers Online (CGO) is an online subscriber database containing more than 2,200 Connecticut foundations and corporate grantmakers. The database is run by the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy.

Entries contain contact information, descriptions of the funder’s interests, types of programs they fund, the populations they target for support (e.g., youth ages 14-19), types of support they offer (e.g., capital funds, operating support), financial and application information, key staff, and brief examples of grants they have funded with amounts.

Free Access to CGO
Public libraries and non-profit resource centers that offer free access include the Bridgeport Public Library, the Welles-Turner Memorial Library in Glastonbury, the Greenwich Library, the Groton Public Library, the Connecticut State Library, the Hartford Public Library, the Russell Library in Middletown, Newington’s Lucy Robbins Welles Library, the Nonprofit Resource Center located in the New Canaan Library, Connecticut College’s Shain Library in New London,the New Milford Public Library, the Norwalk Public Library, the Ridgefield Library, the Wallingford Public Library, and the Connecticut Community Foundation’s Nonprofit Assistance Initiative in Waterbury.

CGO Search Criteria
The database offers nine search criteria for searching:
Grantmaker Name, Area of Interest (there are 23 major areas), Geographic Focus, Type of Support, Beneficiary, (e.g., the population groups who have received funding), City, County, Organizational type, and word/phrase/text searching.

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