GRANTMAKERS FORUM
OF NEW YORK
Philanthropy Forum
GOT GRANTS?
Diversifying
Your Funding Resources
March 27, 2006 1-4 pm
RIT Inn & Conference Center, 5257 W. Henrietta Rd.,
West Henrietta, NY 14586
minutes from the NYS Thruway and downtown Rochester
Register Today!
Download and print the (PDF):
Sessions
Directions to RIT Inn & Conf. Ctr.
Contact Us:
Grantmakers
Forum of New York
919 Winton Road South
Rochester, NY 14618-1633
Monday, March 27
12:30 - 1:00 pm, RIT Inn & Conference Center Lobby
Registration
Grantmakers & Grantseekers
1:00-4:00 pm
Leveraging Limited Resources for Greater Impact
Sandra
Lopacki , Deputy Director, Local
Initiative Funding Partners, a national program office of The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Princeton, NJ
Ms. Lopacki will speak about partnerships between national and local grantmakers to leverage limited resources for greater community impact. In 2007 up to $6 million in matching grants will be awarded through the Local Initiative Funding Partners program to fund innovative, collaborative health projects.
Grantmaking in New York State
Sara Ogger, Ph. D., Senior Program Officer, New York Council for the Humanities, New York, NY
Ms. Ogger will describe the grantmaking program and process of this statewide grantmaker supporting the arts and humanities to enrich our lives.
Finding Federal Funding
Michele Bernier, Operations Specialist, Buffalo Field Office, US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Ms. Bernier will talk about finding federal funding, the federal grants portal called Grants.gov, and guidelines and information to assist grantseekers, using the HUD grants as an example.
Kevin Williams, Director of Research and Resource Development, Institute for Human Services, Bath, NY
Mr. Williams is a star grantwriter for the Institute -- a non-profit providing management support, information/referral, organizational development, and research/technology services to planners, funders and providers serving the Southern Tier of New York -- who will speak on what makes a winning grant.
Online Philanthropic Tools
Bernadette Brinkman, Librarian, Business and Social Sciences Division, Rochester Public Library; Supervisor, Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center, New York, NY
Ms. Brinkman will demonstrate online grants database tools for grantseekers seeking funding, and grantmakers investigating collaborations or expert knowledge for their grant programs.
Cooperating Collections are libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies that make accessible a collection of Foundation Center print and electronic publications, as well as a variety of supplementary materials and education programs in areas useful to grantseekers. The Rochester Public Library Cooperating Collection offers Foundation Directory Online Professional, and Foundation Grants to Individuals Online. The Foundation Center is an independent national service organization established by foundations to provide an authoritative source of information on foundation and corporate giving.
The Rochester Public Library also offers the Grantmakers Forum of New York's Online Guide to Grantmakers.
Other speakers to be announced.
Please report any broken links or errors to webmaster@grantmakers.org