Search for grants for free via PSU's Lamson Library

PLYMOUTH — Are you connected with a nonprofit organization that may be looking for grant funding? If so, you’re in luck.

Gary McCool, coordinator of reference services at Lamson Library, Plymouth State University, has announced that, thanks to a recent grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Lamson Library will continue to be a partner in the Funding Information Network of Candid (formerly the Foundation Center). This means that people representing NH nonprofit organizations will be able to access a database for free from home to search for grants.

The database that can be searched from home is called Foundation Directory Online Essential. It is a somewhat smaller version of the FDO Professional database that can only be searched from within Lamson Library, which is now closed to the public. Both versions allow users to search for grants from over 200,000 foundations. The databases include detailed profiles on these foundations which users can email to themselves.

To request access to FDO Essential, send an email to the Lamson Library Reference Desk at psu-library-reference@plymouth.edu and supply the following information: Date; Name; Town; Email address; Nonprofit organization you are representing; What do you want to fund?

Gary McCool will then send you information about how to search the database along with the URL to access it.