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Funding Resource: A comprehensive, keyword and field searchable database with detailed information and profiles on 25,000 foundations, corporate donors, matching gift programs, in kind donations and government grant makers. Writing Tools: Step-by-step guide and award-winning templates for the writing of highly professional funding proposals and letters of inquiry. Client Support: Assists clients with product training and provides advice and direction for maximizing usage of the BIG Online database. Grant Development Services (GDS): Offers a complete range of fundraising consulting services, from strategic analysis and comprehensive assessments, to prospect searches, proposal writing and evaluation.
New, Advanced Search: A powerful, yet easy to use new search engine that will allow subscribers to identify more funding opportunities for their organizations. Features include:
New Grants: Granting information for over 22,000 of the largest American and Canadian foundations has been added - more than 1.1 million grants totaling over $40 billion from 1999 to 2003. New advanced "Data Visualization" capability has been added to most foundation profiles. Pie-charts illuminate foundation giving by area of interest, number of grants, value of grants, average value of grant and maximum value of grant. These new tools remove the guesswork that is usually necessary in determining the size of grant to request. Geographic Giving Analysis: Grants information has been organized geographically, allowing subscribers to easily see where grants are being given. This information is presented visually on a map of the US. Users can "drill down" on any state to view actual grants. Grants Analysis Table: Enhanced individual foundation summary profiles including full grant analysis information in table format, including total number and value grant amounts; as well as minimum, maximum and average grant values by funding area (arts & culture, education, health, community, religion, human services, sports & recreation, international, environment). Funder News: Access to almost 200,000 funder news releases and articles is now available to subscribers. 4,500 news sources are scanned daily for granting news related to the over 35,000 funders profiled in BIG Online, keeping subscribers abreast of the latest information. Searchable IRS Form 990 information: All foundations now include a link to their latest IRS Form 990. Unlike other sources, BIG Online has OCR'd these filings to make them completely keyword searchable in the Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Trevor Skillen, President of Metasoft says, "This exciting new version is the culmination of many months of dedicated effort by our research and development team. Many of the enhancements and features are a direct result of the very helpful suggestions and feedback we receive from almost 6,000 subscribers. We believe that this important new version of BIG Online will allow grant seekers to better understand and capitalize on the most significant grant opportunities available to them". Click here for more information on these latest enhancements to BIG Online... Metasoft is committed to providing products and services that best meet the current fundraising needs of you, our clients. Your feedback has been and remains vital to our business. Metasoft has now formalized part of this process by setting up a group of clients who will make product direction and future enhancements a special focus. Our group of volunteers represents a range of sectors and many parts of North America. Click here to see the members of our Advisory Board. For information on our client advisory board, email advisoryboard@foundationsearch.com.
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