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Funding Places To Research Funders & Strategy Helping.org is an easy-to-use, one-stop online resource designed to help people and nonprofits find volunteer and giving opportunities in their own communities and beyond. The first place to do research is the "Finding Technology Funding" which provides extensive links and funding news (even upcoming deadlines). TechSoup offers an excellent section on funding that covers grants, online fundraising, and fundraising software. There are articles, nonprofit stories, places to post questions, and fairly lengthy list of technology funders organized by state. Techsoup has one of the more comprehensive list of inkind and discounted software resource lists around. Foundation Center's mission is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. You can do quite a bit of research on the Web site. The Philthantropy News Digest is a weekly email publication that includes news briefs and upcoming deadlines. If you search the PND archives using the words "technology," you'll turn up lots of leads. NPower's Links and Resources includes an excellent list of links and resources for technology fundraising, including links to sample technology proposals. Technology Affinity Group is a technology forum for professionals working in philanthropy. While you have to be funder to access the private area, there is a public library articles and presentations from the funder's perspective. Charity Channel has a large list of forums on npo and fundraising topics, including a technology and cybergifts forum. You can search the archives or join the forum post a question. Want to learn more about online fundraising? Part of SpiderSchool's "Solving the Puzzle." Articles IT Resource Center's article "Enabling Technology Funding" is available on TechSoup. Nonprofits' questions about tech funding have answers By Shane Thacker on the Philanthropy News Network Journal. Open Studio's Digital Canvas magazine August, 1999 issue published an article titled Casting the Net -- Creative Fundraising for Communications Technology which provides the lay of the funding landscape, shares fundraising advice and provides resources. Fundraising Strategies for Technology offers real world strategies for finding long-term support.
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