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Nonprofit Resource Center
Collection Policy
The Nonprofit Resource Center is located in the Government Documents room on the 2nd floor of Central Library. This collection of materials primarily serves nonprofit organizations seeking funding.
The Nonprofit Resource Center at Central Library provides comprehensive coverage of local and national grantmakers and some coverage of foreign grantmakers. The Multnomah County Library is a cooperating collection of the Foundation Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to gathering, analyzing and disseminating information on philanthropic foundations. The Nonprofit Resource Center contains directories and indexes of grantmakers and grants published by the Foundation Center as well as other publishers. The collection is supplemented with major periodicals, statistical sources, and technical assistance manuals for nonprofit management. The collection contains current reference materials. Circulating materials on proposal writing, grants research, fundraising, and nonprofit management are heavily purchased.
As a cooperating collection, the library provides access to the Foundation Directory Online at Central Library. This database is available from every computer station in the building, with two dedicated machines located near the Nonprofit Resource Center in the Government Documents room.