This Week at the Foundation Center (November 23-27)
Tuesday, November 24, 1:00-2:15 pm Finding Foundation Support for Your Education; and 2:15-3:00 pm Getting Started with Foundation Grants to Individuals Online   November Holiday Hours:   Wednesday 11/25 10:00am-1:00 pmThursday 11/26 ClosedFriday 11/27 Closed

Looking for Corporate Funding?
You may first want to learn more about corporate funding for nonprofits and we have several opportunities available. Our seminar “Securing Corporate Partnerships” is for grantseekers who want to explore various corporate/nonprofit partnership models and provides our most in-depth learning experience.  Scholarships are available to California nonprofits with budgets under $1,000,000. If you want an overview, attend

Back By Popular Demand: Webinars to Help Your Nonprofit Survive & Emerge Stronger
Now that we've lived through over a year of the economic downturn, you may be seeing the light at the end of tunnel in your nonprofit -- or maybe that light hasn't reached you yet and you're still in crisis mode. Regardless of your current position, you'll benefit from our new webinar training series, Turning Economic Crisis into Opportunity: How Nonprofits Can Survive and Emerge Stronger.

Meeting Space in San Mateo
We just got notice from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) that it's planning to open a state-of-the-art conference center in San Mateo.  SVCF anticipates opening the facility in late January and hosting an open house in February 2010. Located at 1300 S. El Camino Real, the conference center

Win a Dream Home
Maybe you've seen an announcement from a nonprofit telling you how you could win the house of your dreams--just buy a raffle ticket.  From the top of my head I can think of two recent examples:  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (I remember the ads in bus shelters this summer) and the current raffle at InnVision: The Way Home.  I wonder how these raffles work. Does the sponsoring nonprofit really raise money beyond expenses with this kind of raffle?  How many tickets does the group have to sell?