Foundations in Wisconsin Directory

Annually, Marquette University's Raynor Memorial Libraries' Funding Information Center publishes the Foundations in Wisconsin directory. The online and print directory provides information on 1,286 private, corporate and community foundations in the state and documents almost $508 million in total grants paid in the last year – a 7 percent increase. Both forms of the directory are available for purchase online here.
The online directory, with its custom-designed search engine, is a helpful tool for identifying potential Wisconsin funding sources. Foundations in Wisconsin profiles include street and Web addresses, telephone/fax numbers, contact person, officers and directors, donors, financial information, purpose statement, application information, geographic focus, sample grants, and grant-making interests.

Are you about to be Red Flagged by the FTC?
By June 1, 2010 all organizations that send invoices and/or do not require full payment at the time of service must have written policies in place to prevent and detect identity theft under the Federal Trade Commission’s “Red Flags Rule”. If you've never heard of, or know very little about, the Red Flags Rule, please read Grant Thornton LLP’s white papers, “The Red Flags Rule: What You Need to Know” and “The Red Flags Rule: What Healthcare businesses need to know”. 
An RDS Committee member recommended the book, Let's Have Lunch Together, by Marshall Howard, ISBN 0-9773954-0-5.
 National Council of Nonprofits

The National Council of Nonprofits has a new page of information devoted to the economic stimulus package, with several reports, including:
Federal Economic Stimulus Legislation: Nonprofit Grant Opportunities
 
http://www.councilofnonprofits.org/files/Special%20Report%201%20-%20Overview%20(Feb%2023%20FINAL).pdf 
 
Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF)
Nonprofit Finance Fund: Recession Recommendations
The Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) works to create a strong, well-capitalized, and durable nonprofit sector that connects money to mission effectively, supporting the highest aspirations and most generous impulses of people and communities. Visit the NFF website to read the section on Dealing with Tough Times. 
 
Free E-Newsletter Explores Rural Housing Issues
Housing Assistance Council
The mission of the Housing Assistance Council is to improve housing conditions for the rural poor, with an emphasis on the poorest of the poor in the most rural places. HAC News, the Council's free bi-weekly e-newsletter, provides essential information on affordable rural housing. Each issue includes national program and policy updates, summaries of Federal Register filings, findings from recent research reports, etc. Visit the website listed above to subscribe to HAC News,and to learn more about the Housing Assistance Council. 
 
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Commission to Build a Healthier America
Commission Offers Recommendations for Good Health - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America recently issued ten cross-cutting recommendations for improving the nation's health. According to the Commission, how long and how well Americans live depend more on where we live, learn, work, and play than on medical care, which accounts for only an estimated 10 to 15 percent of preventable early deaths. Good health begins with personal responsibility, but the Commission notes that the nation's health will not improve unless individuals do more to incorporate health into all aspects of everyday life, and unless leaders do more in their decision-making to support healthier decisions—from education to child care to community planning to business practices. To read the Commission's recommendations visit the website.