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Allavida
http://www.allavida.org
Allavida brings together grant making, training and capacity building, and research and publishing involving NGOs in South East Europe, Central Asia, and the NIS, and expanding to Africa and Asia. It also maintains a database with links to other donors and support organizations.

America's Development Foundation (ADF)
http://www.adfusa.org
ADF works with civil society organizations in a variety of areas, including resource mobilization, in Eastern and Central Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central America, and Africa.

British Library for Developmental Studies
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/
This website provides access to detailed information on national/government aid agencies, regional aid agencies and development banks, the World Bank Group, United Nations Agencies, NGOs as donors, volunteer supplying aid agencies, and other development aid sources.

Bundesverbandes Deutscher Stiftungen
http://www.stiftungen.org/
This the portal website for a network of German foundations, many of which fund projects overseas (in German).

Charity Village
http://www.charityvillage.com/
This Canadian website serves as a 'information kiosk' for both Canadian and international NGOs. It contains links to online databases and directories of Canadian funding agencies, many of whom fund abroad.

Communication Initiative
http://www.comminit.com
CI's website contains links to a number of multi- and bilateral donor agencies and also contains information on strategic thinking, planning models, and monographs on a wide range of development topics.

Council on Foundations (COF)
http://www.cof.org
Primarily directed toward the trustees and staff of U.S.-based donor institutions, this website provides information, ideas, analysis and commentary relevant to effective grantmaking.

Deutsches Spendeinstitue Krefeld (German Charities Institute)
http://www.dsk.de/
In German and English, this website provides information on philanthropy in Germany and more than 5,200 German not-for-profit organizations. It also includes links to the websites of a number of German donors working internationally.

Development Gateway
http://www.developmentgateway.com
The Development Gateway of the World Bank is designed to help communities, organizations, and individuals build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty. Its database contains comprehensive information on a broad variety of development topics. The website also serves as a portal to a significant number of resource and specialized technical assistance organizations.

Development Initiative
http://www.devinit.org/index.html
The DI is a portal with links to websites containing information on bi- and multilateral aid agencies. It also has links to NGO service providers worldwide.

Directory of Development Organizations
http://www.devdir.org/right.html
This website provides an online guide to micro-finance organizations, small enterprise development organizations, development agencies, private sector organizations, development banks, and government ministries.

European Foundation Centre's Funders Online (EFC)
http://www.fundersonline.org/
The EFC has incorporated a useful search mechanism for identifying potential foundation and corporate funders active in Europe and elsewhere.

European Forum on International Cooperation (EUFORIC)
http://www.euforic.org/
EUFORIC contains information on official and non-governmental donor agencies in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Eurongos
http://www.eurongos.org/
Eurongos has a search function to identify where the 16 European Official Development Assistance Agencies are working and what areas they are funding.

Fondsen In Nederland (FIN)
http://www.verenigingvanfondsen.nl/
The Association of Foundations in the Netherlands (FIN) provides information on foundations in the Netherlands. The 'Fondsenboek', a directory which is published every two years by the FIN, provides information on approximately 600 Dutch foundations.

Fundsnetservice
http://fundsnetservices.com/internat.htm
This gateway website provides links to the websites of numerous non-U.S.-based foundations.

Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF)
http://www.philanthropyforum.org/roadmap/
GPF brings together foundation leaders, NGOs and individual donors to learn more of international philanthropy. The Forum maintains several searchable databases with portals to regional and thematic networks of donors and to intermediaries that support organizations and projects in other countries.

Grants Development Office
http://www.calpoly.edu/~grants/3_FoundSubj.html#international
The Grants Development Office of the California Polytechnic State University maintains a website containing numerous links to U.S. based donors who give grants internationally to NGOs.

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
http://www.geofunders.org
Not a grantmaking organization, but a consortium of 600+ foundations that make grants to NGOs to strengthen their organizational effectiveness.

Grantmakers Without Borders
http://www.gwob.net/
Grantmakers seeks to expand international philanthropy and serves as a clearinghouse on giving internationally.

Guidestar
http://www.guidestar.org
Guidestar is another gateway website with a search engine that can be used to identify U.S.-based donors interested in specific countries. The site also includes news on the world of philanthropy. Grant seekers can also post funding requests online.

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
http://www.iccwbo.org
This is a 'first stop' website for identifying companies located in any region of the world that could be approached for funding and collaboration.

International Youth Foundation (IYF)
http://www.iyfnet.org
IYF's website contains information about its global network of country partners that provide financial and technical assistance to local youth-led and youth-serving programs in some 60 countries.

National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
http://www.ned.org
The NED offers a portal to over 80 donors worldwide that fund projects dealing with human rights, democracy building, and conflict resolution.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/dac/
The OECD's website contains linkages to the home pages of the member countries of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), including Australia, Canada, European Commission, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States.

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
http://www.deza.admin.ch/mainportal.php?userhash=602953&l=e
This website gives an overview of the programmatic and geographic priorities of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Transatlantic Community Foundation Network (TCFN)
http://www.tcfn.efc.be/
TCFN's website contains the 'Community Foundations Worldwide' section that provides a portal to the international community foundation field, providing links to foundations, support organizations, and other institutions that serve as portals and resource centers within their national context.

United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
http://www.undp.org
The UNDP's website contains detailed information on its geographical and programmatic priorities.

United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS)
http://www.www.un-ngls.org/
This is the website of the UN agency responsible for coordinating dialogue and cooperation between the UN system and NGOs. Also included is a list of numbers for NGO liaison officers at the various divisions of UN headquarters in New York.

United States International Grantmakers (USIG)
http://www.usig.org
The purpose of this site is to facilitate international grantmaking by providing access to country reports and laws governing nonprofits and other informational materials and resources. The site serves both grantmakers and grantseekers by supporting and facilitating the process of making grants overseas.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
http://www.usaid.gov/
USAID's website provides detailed information on each of the agency's programmatic and geographical priorities and application procedures.

Virtual Foundation
http://www.virtualfoundation.org/
The Virtual Foundation is an online philanthropy program that supports grassroots initiatives around the world. Community improvement projects in the fields of environment, health, and sustainable economic activity are posted on its website where they can be read and funded by online donors.

World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/civilsociety/
http://www.worldbank.org/participation/
Both sites provide extensive information on how CSOs can work in partnership with the World Bank. It also provides linkages to the Bank's priority themes and issues, its policies and guidelines for working with the civil society sector, and contact information of key staff.
Many of the Bank's Country Offices also have websites for CSOs that are country specific. See the following website for more information: http://www.worldbank.org/countries/

WINGS
http://www.wingsweb.org/
This website is maintained by the European Foundation Center and provides numerous hyperlinks to national and regional grant making associations, philanthropic centers, donor consortia, advisory groups, and other types of organizations providing specialized services to grant makers in specific countries throughout the world.


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