Thank you for your interest in the European Foundation Centre (EFC). The Centre is a membership association of foundations and corporate funders that supports the work of its members.

• The EFC does not give grants or any kind of financial support
• The EFC does not provide services directly to grantseekers

Grantseekers might find the following resources useful.

EFC Advice for Grantseekers

In an effort to assist its members in receiving more targeted, relevant applications for grants, the EFC has produced this brief guide for grantseekers on how to approach foundations and corporate funders for support.
Download EFC Advice to Grantseekers (127kb)

Websites on Fundraising

• The Resource Alliance (formerly known as The International Fund Raising Group)
• UK Fundraising
• Funding Digest UK
• The Grantsmanship Center
• Tactical Technology Collective
• Foundation Center
      -Individual grantseekers
      -FAQ for individual grantseekers
      -Non-U.S. grantseekers
• Global Development Network
• Social Development Civil Society Fund (formerly known as the Small Grants Program, and, one of the few global programs of the World Bank that directly funds civil society organizations)

European Resources

• European Citizen Action Service 

Foundations and Corporate Funders: Sources of Lists & Directories

• Admical (website on philanthropy in France)
• Asociación Española de Fundaciones
• Charity Fundaraising & Support (Charities Aid Foundation)
• Centre Français des Fondations
• The Council on Foundations: Affinity Groups
• Directory of Foundations from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
• Directory of Private Foundations in Catalonia
• Finnish Council on Foundations
• Fundsnet Services
• GuideStar UK
• Human Rights Internet (HRI) - Organizations Database
• Index Deutscher Stiftungen / German Foundations Online
• IHRFG: Funders Database
• Latin America Donor Index
• Philanthropy Ireland 
• Portail des Fondations et du Mécénat
• Social Edge (A Program of the Skoll Foundation)
• Terra Viva Grants (Funding in the field of environment)
• The Foundation Center: Finding Funders
• Vereniging van Fondsen in Nederland (FIN)
• Worldwide NGO directory

Guidance for non-profits

• QuickGuidesOnline
• Resources for Civil Society Organizations (The World Bank)

Resources for students

• Foundation Center
• International Student Exchange and Study Abroad Resource Center
• Higher Education Funding Opportunities in the Arab Region
• The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources


• Useful bibliographic references:
  
  Study abroad 2000+. - Paris : UNESCO, 1999. - 628 p. ISBN: 9230036064

  This directory of educational exchange opportunities contains 2,659 opportunities for post-secondary studies in all academic and professional fields, in 129 countries and territories, for the years 2000 and 2001. Programmes are indexed both geographically and by speciality areas of study. Trilingual in English, French and Spanish.

  For the latest version of this directory (2005) or for more information, go to Unesco Education Study Abroad website

  
  
  The Educational Grants Directory 20011/12 / Sarah Johnston. - 11th ed. - London : Directory of Social Change, 2011. - 304 p. ISBN: 978 1906294 47 2