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The GrantStation tour was fantastic. It was very informative and saved
me countless hours of browsing on my own. I have used the features
numerous times since the tour, and can readily find everything quickly.
What a time-saver!
Vicki Pillow
Director of Development, Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas
former Director of Development, The
Foundation of Arts
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[GrantStation] exemplifies what customer service really means.
Marte Cliff
Fundraising Copywriter
Copy by Marte
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As a Hispanic Public Relations, Public Affairs, and Marketing Consultant,
I look for information and opportunities that will benefit my clients and the
people they represent and serve. [The GrantStation Insider]
is a great resource! I look forward to receiving it, going through it, and
finding those gems of information to forward to my clients and colleagues.
As a Past President of the Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project in California,
I also understand and value the information that is out there for nonprofits
and its leaders to continue their mission and passions.
Mary Ann Gomez
Gomez Communications Group
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Thank you for the Tracks to Success article in this week's GrantStation
Insider [Revising Inquiries and Proposals: A Language-Based
Approach]. I must write an important grant this week, and the article
reminded me of an effective technique I too often forget.
Susan L. Morseth
American Red Cross of Central
Maryland
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Thank you so very much for making GrantStation.com available for $99 through
TechSoup […]. When I learned of the offer, I informed all of our United Methodist
churches in Louisiana. Several churches took advantage of the opportunity.
[…] Much of southern Louisiana remains in ruins following Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita in 2005. Grant funding is very important to our future progress. The
opportunity to access GrantStation.com at such an affordable rate is invaluable
to us. The domino effect will be far reaching. Thank you—more than you know.
Kellie Kinsland
Louisiana Conference
United Methodist Church
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GrantStation is a grantseeker's dream come true. Find-a-Funder is both
deep and wide – it contains extensive information on a broad number
of funders. And it is the most up-to-date source of funder information
that I have come across. The educational modules are informative for
beginners as well as pros – they are easy to read, yet comprehensive.
I especially love the "Hot Proposal Tips." I have referred
a number of colleagues to GrantStation to find funding opportunities
and learn how to write winning proposals.
Wendy Burtner Owens
Former Director of Grantmaker Services
GuideStar
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GrantStation is an effective tool for grantseeking because it is so centrally
located. There are so many foundations with money to give to nonprofit
groups. Finding them is the hardest part. GrantStation makes the finding
process much easier for me.
Jodie Stover
Public Radio Network
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GrantStation is an excellent website. One of the unique things we have
noticed with your website is [that] you update information throughout
the year, not just annually.
Penny Challans
Manor Grove
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I just wanted to tell someone at GrantStation how much I enjoy the GrantStation
Insider. Of all the email newsletters I receive, it's the one I read
every time. I especially like the section on funding opportunities. I often
pick out pieces to send to other nonprofit directors. It's the best listing
of progressive grant sources that I know of. Thanks so much.
Jeanette Stokes
Resource Center for Women
& Ministry in the South
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I would love to give a testimonial for your customer
service department. You are always prompt, congenial, and
very helpful.
Branden Diehl
Earth Wise Consulting top |
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Thank you again for the "Best Customer Relations" service.
Your professionalism, knowledge of your business, and promptness
is altogether refreshing . . . without you [grantseeking]
would just be impossible for a one-person company. . .Thank
you for your time, efforts, and welcoming. I look forward
to building a financially stable three years with your help.
God bless you, yours, your staff, your clients, and
all of the families involved.
Suzette Rodriguez
Hope Love
Justice Enterprises
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Thank you to all the folks at GrantStation for all the hard
work you do. I am part of a very small charity, and I pay
for the GrantStation Membership out of my own pocket as a
donation. We are working hard on getting some grants to expand
our programs and finish our building, but as of today, have
not received any. However, just for the record, your organization
makes it possible for us to even apply for grants. We’re
so small, as a single entity under the larger organization,
that we don’t have the resources to do all the research
into granting organizations. Without GrantStation, we would
not be able to even apply. Thanks again.
James Garlough
Anoka County, Civil Air Patrol
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The services you offer are unsurpassed in comparison to
other organizations’ offerings in your arena of expertise.
Doreatha Conwell-Waitman
CEO/Founder
Help Thy Neighbor Ministries, Inc.
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I can't thank you enough. I'm glad to see that the foundations
I asked about are "in process" - and I'm so pleased
with your customer service. Your site really is a gold mine
in many ways! Thanks.
Elizabeth Greville
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As a seasoned fundraiser who has worked successfully in
the non-profit world for 30 years, I can say without hesitation
that GrantStation is one of the best fundraising tools I have
ever discovered or used. I subscribe to a wide variety of
funding resources, including the Foundation Directory Online.
What I love about GrantStation is that it provides very CURRENT
NEWS of the funding world in addition to serving as a good
funding database search tool. GrantStation serves to broaden
my approach to fund seeking. It helps me be more creative
in fundraising because it offers such a spread of information
and does so in a comprehensive way that does not force me
to waste time. I have been using GrantStation for several
years now and, frankly, could not do without it!
Jennifer Conroy
Director of Development
Sunny Hills Children's Garden
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| I use your service to find prospective funders who are
interested in supporting our overall program, and for the
fourteen projects we sponsor in our small, rural community.
I teach how to use your 'find-a-funder' search capability
to the coordinators of our sponsored projects. I appreciate
the simplicity of the search format, the fact that your data
is always current, contains only those funding sources that
are actually interested in receiving proposals, that small
grantmakers are included in my state and local area, and the
Author's notes on each grantmaker. I have used a number of
searchable data bases, and yours is one of the very best because
it gets results. I keep finding grantmakers that I have never
heard of before, and I've done about 200-300 searches on other
databases over the past year. Thanks for filling a much needed
service in our industry. It's no wonder you are growing.
Bob Martin
North Kohala Community Resource Center
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| When we are approached by an organization that needs
our help in obtaining grant funds, I use GrantStation to help
determine whether federal or private funding is optimal for
the organization's needs.
Leah Lowe
Tri-County Council for Western Maryland Tri-County
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| Over the past year our business development program has expanded
from one employee working in one office...to having three business
development technicians traveling all over. This would not have
been possible without the $14,921 grant . . . to purchase 10
laptop computers for our Mobile Classroom.
Kelly Lammon
Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska
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| We received a $125,000 grant from the Paul G Allen Foundation
last spring. This money will allow us to upgrade our audio editing
system, creating greater efficiencies for our staff and the
network, and improving the quality of services to a state of
public radio listeners. The initial research of this project
was conducted on GrantStation.
Matt Rafferty
Development Director
APRN
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| I am writing to thank GrantStation for the fundraising
opportunities your service has provided to Friends of Allegheny
Wilderness (FAW). We are a relatively new nonprofit organization
working to gain additional wilderness protection in the Allegheny
National Forest - Pennsylvania's only national forest. As
you know, obtaining funding for a new organization such as
ours is no easy task. Through GrantStation, which I was fortunate
enough to become a member of last summer, I can conveniently
link to all current sources of grant money.
"The weekly Insider updates, comprehensive website,
ease of navigation within the site and other tools have made
searching for funders a much easier task. When Congress does
pass an Allegheny National Forest wilderness bill, the GrantStation
service will be among the first we have to thank for it. I
look forward to many years of assistance from GrantStation
- you are performing a great and needed function.
Kirk Johnson
Executive Director
Friends of Allegheny Wilderness
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| I have been using GrantStation for the last year and a
half and I have been very satisfied with it. By far it is
the best grant resource and funding tool I've ever used. GrantStation's
customized searching features and funding alerts have provided
a number of funding opportunities for our organization. I
highly recommend it for all who are in the fundraising and
grants researching fields.
Charles Ng
Parks Grants Officer
Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation
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| I'm just emailing to let you know that the Louden Tribal
Council received $13,435.00 from the Charlotte Y. Martin Foundation
to help with building a softball field for the community.
The people of Galena are really active in softball - there
are little league teams all the way up to 40 and over.
"We found the information on the Charlotte Y. Martin
Foundation on your database. We then contacted Ellen (with
GrantStation preferred partner, the Funding Exchange) and
got tips from her for our proposal. I just wanted to thank
you for the information and the Funding Exchange for assistance
with our proposal.
Cindy Pilot
Louden Tribal Council
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| GrantStation provides an excellent research source for
funding opportunities for local governments and nonprofit
agencies. The accessibility of the source and information
available online provides traditional and creative funding
opportunities for some of our projects.
Carol Rushmore
Economic Development Planner
City of Wrangell
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| GrantStation offers timesaving "one stop shopping"
for all who seek complete funding information. I love it!
Gregory C. Ireland
Grant Writer & Coordinator
Grand Canyon Trust
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| The GrantStation newsletter and online database are my
preferred resources for grant research. The weekly newsletter
and on-line articles always give me new ideas for funding
and project possibilities. I find the database to be comprehensive
and very easy to use. Being able to choose funders by area
of interest has allowed me to spend less time on funder research
and more time on project planning and proposal writing. Thank
you for a wonderful service!
Amber Jusefowytsch
KBRW Development
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| I think GrantStation is one of the best sources to look
for grants and foundation grants.
Peter Tuluk
KCUK Cup'ik Radio
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| I've been using GrantStation for two years. You could
say I'm part of a "small development shop," but the truth
is I'm a one-person development office. I do it all - and
I couldn't do it without GrantStation. If I could have only
one research tool to get the grants my organization needs
. . . it would be GrantStation.
GrantStation is by far the best investment any grantseeking
professional can make. It's got more information - and that
information is more up-to-date and more useful - than directories
that cost several times as much! Why buy a book or CD-ROM
that's updated annually for a couple thousand dollars, when
you can get GrantStation for a third of that . . . including
free updates almost daily!?
You can pay a lot of money for directories that are unhelpful
or even misleading about the geographic interest of funders.
GrantStation tells you right up front whether you're wasting
your time pursuing a funding source that doesn't include your
little corner of the world in its universe.
GrantStation technical support is fabulous. Someone always
responds quickly to my cries for help. And they're so friendly,
too - they make me feel like I'm part of the team.
Using GrantStation is the fastest way to do grant research
and get high quality results. Because it's online, it saves
hours of time...so you can concentrate on writing the proposals
instead of on finding where to send them.
I adore the GrantStation Insider. GrantStation does the
reading for you and distills it all into a compact and timely
publication. It never gets stuck on my 'reading pile,' where
so many other documents are languishing in oblivion.
Patti J. Saunders
Development Director
Foundation of the Arc
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| What I find especially useful about GrantStation is that
the information is frequently updated and customized for my
state.
While I use a variety of databases and Internet web directories
for funding source research, I always start with GrantStation
and generally find that it has the most useful, comprehensive,
and current information.
It is important to have accurate data on foundation contacts
and guidelines. I have been using GrantStation for four years.
It is very dependable and extremely easy to use!
Chuck Barber, MPA, CFRE
Fund Development and Grant Writing Consultant
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GrantStation allows me to access foundations and other
sources of funding much quicker than the other program I use.
It is exceedingly fast and I have found the information on
the foundations excellent in description. The featured funders
of the day have been on target for me twice. I especially
find the "GrantStation Insider" relevant to my work - it is
a feature I look forward to every Thursday.
GrantStation is an investment that has paid many dividends
in its information. I recommend it as the best source of current,
up-to-date funder information that is available.
I have found GrantStation to be well worth the cost in terms
of assisting me in finding sources of money. Keep up the good
work.
Dick Farris
Youth Leadership Foundation
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It's been only six months since I began using GrantStation
and in that short period of time, The Dream Factory Inc.,
a volunteer-based nonprofit organization, has received almost
$30,000 in grants. It was no surprise that the foundations
we've received money from deemed us a worthy organization
to support; what was surprising was using a resource that
made it easier to discover and identify foundations that could
help us. There still is so much to do, but GrantStation provides
an effective means by which we can access information appropriate
for our search. On behalf of the children diagnosed with critical
and chronic illnesses that have or will have their dreams
come true, thank you for making available this wonderful resource.
Barbara H. Franklin
Development Coordinator
The Dream Factory, Inc.
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Just a note to say Thank You! I recently purchased a donated
copy of GrantStation.com from Tech Soup. Because we are a
very small non-profit we never would have been able to afford
your wonderful services without your generous donation. I
have been using GrantStation since last week and have already
identified several funders of which I was not aware. Thanks
again for providing this great opportunity.
Jacquie Johnson
Curator
For Miami Heritage Society
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