FOUNDATION/GRANTS, March 2000; Internet Prospector

March 2000
Internet Prospector

FOUNDATION/GRANTS

CONTENTS:
It's a Mega World Out There
Meet NED
Index Deutscher Stiftungen
NGONet

IT'S A MEGA WORLD OUT THERE

I'm a mega-site kind of woman. I like to bookmark Web sites that resemble superstores like U.S.-based Costco -- everything you want in one well-organized place -- you might say, "pallet-ized." This is my preference for two reasons: I can go to that one place to find what I need and I can expect the mega-site creator to keep the links updated and freshly stocked, so I don't have to. Let's look at a few international grant and foundation mega-sites this month.

MEET NED

You'll be happy to shake the virtual hand of NED. The National Endowment for Democracy is a grant-making organization created to support democratic organizations around the world. The NED site includes a great resource for those building lists of international funders: the 1999 Guide to Sources of Funding in International Affairs. The links you find here will give you contact information, purpose, geographical limitations and even sample grants. A link to each grantmaker's Web page (when there is one) is the final tasty piece of this global pie.

http://www.ned.org/resource/funding/fundmain.html

INDEX DEUTSCHER STIFTUNGEN

That would be "Index of German Foundations" to us gringos. Despite the language problem here for many of us (don't forget to use FreeTranslation.com to translate entire Web pages), this index is very easy to use because it's an A-B-C arrangement. So, your prospect is a descendent of Alexander von Humboldt? You'll find a link to his foundation here. And -- lucky you -- it has an English version, too, once you get there.

http://www.stiftungsindex.de/deutschland.htm

NGONET

Here's an interesting resource for those of you looking into foundations and organizations -- non-government organizations (NGOs) in Central and Eastern Europe. Let's jump to what will be useful to researchers. Choose NGO Locator: Information & Links from the homepage. There you'll find links to Central Europe NGOs and Eastern Europe and Asian NGOs. Now you've reached the pallets to the ceiling. Scroll through the hot links here and you are bound to find many intriguing Web links. One of my favorites during this visit was the Environmental Organization Webdirectory (http://www.webdirectory.com/), where I discovered "the Earth's biggest environment search engine." There is much more to explore at NGONet. If this part of the world -- or international causes in general -- is drawing your attention, you'll be happy to add this resource to your collection.

http://www.ngonet.org/

Cecilia Hogan

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