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Conversation with Local Grantmakers & What's New with Foundation Directory Online Professional

03/06/2009 - 12:00pm
03/06/2009 - 2:30pm

FREE session

University of Wisconsin—Madison
Grants Information Collection
728 State St.
Rm. 126, Memorial Library
Madison, WI 53706
Directions to the University of Wisconsin—Madison, Memorial Library

12:00pm–1:30pm:Brown Bag Lunch: Conversation with Local Grantmakers
Join us for a lunch discussion with local grantmakers that will provide helpful hints and insights into their grantmaking activities. They will detail how their organization prefers to be approached by grantseekers, and what they like (and do not like) to see in submitted proposals. They will also share a few words on how they see the current economic situation affecting your grantmaking. Speakers to include Ann Flynn, Executive Director, Theodore W. Batterman Family Foundation; Marthea A. Fox, Executive Director, Alliant Energy Foundation; and Tom Linfield, Vice President, Grantmaking and Community Initiatives, Madison Community Foundation.
1:30pm–2:30pm:What's New with Foundation Directory Online Professional
This session provides an introduction to the Foundation Center's comprehensive database, Foundation Directory Online Professional. Learn how to create customized searches to develop targeted lists of foundations that will match your organization's funding needs. Free use of this database is available in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Memorial Library.

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