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Central Illinois Nonprofit Resource Center Title

Located in Quincy, Illinois, the CENS provides services to nonprofit organizations to enable them to operate more effectively. They offer a wide variety of workshops, maintaining an up-to-date calendar of events with registration information on their web site.

Information about the following topics: grants resources, grants funding resources, grants links, grants publications and books, publishers, periodicals, grant sources for K-12 education, colleges, and universities, grantsmanship hints, proposal writing guidance from Polaris Grant Central.

Devoted to providing free resources for both advanced and inexperienced grantwriting staff. Includes letters of inquiry, full proposals, advice and tips.

Offers excellent guidelines for proposal writing plus links to many other sites.

Covers a broad range of philanthropy topics: proposal prospect and writing, fundraising, research, and corporate philanthropy, and more.

Offers fundraising ideas, answers to frequently asked questions and links to other fundraising information resources.

The University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Office of Grants, offers useful information in getting started and developing a grant proposal.

Online, fee-based tutorials on organizational planning, technology, communication, marketing, volunteer recruitment, fundraising and self-evaluation.

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CINRC, Brookens Library, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, MS BRK 140, Springfield, IL 62703-5407