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We are North America's most comprehensive source of fundraising information, opportunities and resources for charities and non-profit.

Funding Resource: A comprehensive, keyword and field searchable database with detailed information and profiles on over 25,000 foundations, corporate donors, matching gift programs, in kind donations and government grant makers.

Writing Tools: Step-by-step guide and award-winning templates for the writing of highly professional funding proposals and letters of inquiry.

Client Support: Assists clients with product training and provides advice and direction for maximizing usage of the BIG Online database.

Grant Development Services (GDS): Offers a complete range of fundraising consulting services.



LATEST NEWS:  Metasoft announces the new, enhanced version of BIG Online.  Version 3.0 of BIG Online features the following important enhancements for grant seekers:

New, Advanced Search: A powerful, yet easy to use new search engine that will allow subscribers to identify more funding opportunities for their organizations. Features include:

  • Advanced, field based searching (by organization name, location, recipient, director) produces more relevant search results

  • Convenient search options such as "fuzzy logic", stemming and wildcard support intelligently ensure that no funding possibilities are missed

  • User defined sorting of results

  • Convenient highlighting of searched words
New Foundations: Over 13,000 additional US foundations have been added, over three times the number available in the previous version - BIG Online now includes 20,000 of America's largest foundations, many of which fund in Canada.

New Grants: Granting information for 22,000 of the largest American and Canadian foundations has been added - more than 1.1 million grants totaling over $40 billion from 1999 to 2003.

Grants Summary Table: Enhanced individual foundation summary profiles include summary grant information in table format. This information ranks the foundation's giving by interest area, allowing the researcher to quickly determine foundation funding priorities.

Funder News: Access to foundation and corporate funder news releases and articles is now available to subscribers. 4,500 news sources are scanned daily for granting news related to the over 35,000 funders profiled in BIG Online, keeping subscribers abreast of the latest information.

Trevor Skillen, President of Metasoft says, "This exciting new version is the culmination of many months of dedicated effort by our research and development team. Many of the enhancements and features are a direct result of the very helpful suggestions and feedback we receive from almost 6,000 subscribers. As fundraising becomes an increasingly global endeavour, we're continuing to deliver on our commitment to bringing every funding opportunity possible to our subscribers."

Click here for more information on these latest enhancements to BIG Online...


Metasoft is committed to providing products and services that best meet the current fundraising needs of you, our clients. Your feedback has been and remains vital to our business.

Metasoft has now formalized part of this process by setting up a group of clients who will make product direction and future enhancements a special focus. Our group of volunteers represents a range of sectors and many parts of North America.

Click here to see the members of our Advisory Board. For information on our client advisory board, email advisoryboard@foundationsearch.com.



  

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Introducing Metasoft Online Education, a complete series of online, self-paced tutorials designed to help you build the essential skills required to succeed in fundraising.






The Curriculum includes:

Module 1. Making the Case for Funding: How to Build a Compelling Case for Support

Module 2. Finding Funders: How to Conduct Effective Prospect Research

Module 3. Approaching Funders: How to Write a Persuasive Letter of Inquiry

Module 4: Securing Funding: How to Write a Winning Grant Proposal


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