# Join the Foundation Center's

***Associates Program***

## Meeting the needs of development professionals and prospect researchers since 1974

Count on us for research support to help find ▪ foundation giving ▪
individual donors

answers to your fundraising questions \-\-- ▪ corporate philanthropy ▪
public charities

**Why join the Associates Program?**

Associates program membership is a cost effective way to supplement your
staff with additional fundraising support services. Let our researchers
save you time by accessing the most up-to-date information in the
Foundation Center's publishing and 990-PF databases. Our staff are
expert at searching our databases, and can find just the information you
need in our extensive library of CD-ROM and print resources, in the
current literature of the field, or on the Internet.

**When you join the Associates Program, you can take advantage of:**

-   Cost effective online, telephone and in-person research support
    services.

-   Research consultations with Foundation Center information
    specialists who can help you develop initial

> prospect lists of foundation funders.

-   Individual or small group orientations on fundraising research
    skills. \[Available to all members in

our New York and Washington, D.C. libraries, and by appointment in our
Atlanta, Cleveland and

San Francisco field offices.\]

-   Biographical information on trustees, officers, and prospective
    donors.

-   Document delivery option for the most recent and previous foundation
    IRS 990-PF returns from

> the Foundation Center's in-house database of 990-PFs, the most
> comprehensive such public
>
> database in the country, and our national collection of annual
> reports. Additional fees apply.

-   Custom reading lists on a wide range of fundraising topics. Ask us
    to find articles of interest to you.

-   No pre-payment required for books and CD-ROMs. Order now, and be
    billed later.

-   Discounted custom computer searches on Dialog for prospect research
    identification, and labels for annual report mailings. Additional
    fees apply.

-   The chance to learn from experts and network with colleagues at an
    annual Associates-only conference at

our headquarters in New York.

### *Introducing* *Associates Program Online and AP Talk!*

Members have access to the Associates Program Online, a Foundation
Center extranet site that connects Associates

to membership services, numerous e-resources and the program staff who
facilitate your research. Associates Program Online pulls together
important areas of the Center's web resources, and concentrates them in
one easy to navigate

site. Use Associates Program Online to find out about special premiums
and other online services for members only.

AP Talk is a members-only bulletin board where Associates can network in
an online area. Read about what your colleagues and Foundation Center
staff think, respond to current postings, or post your own topic.

**Two free monthly e-reports on new and emerging foundations and
grantmaker updates**

Members can sign up to receive two free e-mail reports each month; one
lists new and emerging foundations

recently added to our database, and a second lists updates to our
current grantmaker profiles.

**As a member, you will also receive: Membership fees:**

The *Associates Program News*, a quarterly newsletter \$595 one-year
membership fee

Additional fees apply for document

A free *Grant Guide* of your choice (for new members only 25 delivery of
990-PFs and annual reports.

funding areas available; value = \$75) Additional fees apply for
computer

searches and mailing label services.

A free subscription to the *Foundations Today Series* (for new

members only; value = \$95) Questions? Call 1-800-752-3514 or

send e-mail to: sgs@fdncenter.org