In addition to helping you develop new skills during the training, The Grantsmanship Centersm helps you put those skills to work. Our exclusive Membership package offers an array of valuable services and special benefits to alumni of The Grantsmanship Training Program®, the Research Proposal Workshop, and Competing for Federal Grants:

• Your training entitles you to one complete proposal review - a full professional critique by a trainer from The Grantsmanship Centersm - at any time during the year following your training and available only to alumni of The Grantsmanship Training Program.
• As a Member, you are entitled to one half-price tuition for The Grantsmanship Training Program® for anyone in your organization. Members and others from their organization may also attend Social Enterprise for Nonprofits for $50 off the regular tuition.

Alumni Membership also allows you full access to our exclusive databases of government, foundation, and corporate funding sources. (Hundreds of organizations pay $495 annually to access these same online databases through our GrantDomain subscription service --and many GrantDomain subscribers have told us that they consider that to be an incredible bargain!)

Click on the "Federal," "Foundation," and "Corporate" tabs for more information about each of the database components, which include sample funder profiles and guided tours.

Government agencies offer new grant opportunities every working day. Our staff of professional researchers identify and post these grants in our federal grants database as soon as they are announced. You can search the database by:

• Announcement date
• Funding agency
• CFDA number
• Program area
• Program title
• Keywords

The summary information is clear and easy to use, so you'll quickly know if this is a grant worth pursuing. And every grant listed is keyed to a continually updated calendar of proposal deadlines-making it much more convenient to plan ahead. You can easily see which competitions are still open or scan through closed competitions to anticipate when programs will be announced again. In addition, you'll have access to our extensive network of quick-links, connecting you directly with the key pages at federal and state funding sites. (No need to search through hundreds of websites, bookmarking pages on your own.)

As a bonus feature, you'll get daily updates with new program announcements, news of changes in the federal grantmaking process and other important issues that impact grantees. Other grantseekers pay thousands of dollars annually for comparable government grant information services.

Searching for foundation grants can be time-consuming and expensive. Reference books covering foundations often cost hundreds of dollars each. The annual fees for online reference services range from $350 to $1,000-and up. Unlike other grant information services, we pre-screen foundations to ensure that they have a staff, issue RFPs, or otherwise indicate an interest in receiving proposals. In other words, we've targeted those foundations that will actually consider your application for funding. You won't come up with dead-end leads. And you won't have to plow through mounds of useless data from small family foundations that give only to pre-selected recipients and never make grants to organizations like yours. You can search our foundation database by:

• Foundation name
• Geographic giving preference
• Keyword
• Program area
• Types of support

In addition, we provide new foundation RFPs, posted daily. And our foundation news updates will keep you abreast of changing priorities and new initiatives at the foundations in which you and your organization have a special interest.

The corporate giving database is the only one of its kind, covering more than 1,200 corporations and another 1,000 corporate foundations. Corporate giving is usually based on location, so this database helps you target all the major companies located, or with interests in your community. You'll find out who they are and what kinds of charitable programs they have, including:

• Direct corporate giving
• Matching gifts
• Donations of goods and services
• Volunteering

With our geographic search function, you'll discover companies you may not have even know had operations in your community. You can search by:

• Company name
• Keywords
• City, county, or zip code to find companies with headquarters, branches or subsidiaries in your area