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In 2000, some 50,000 active private and community foundations in America awarded some $23.2 billion in grants to nonprofit organizations in the US and abroad. This resource is a starting point for grantseekers looking for foundation, corporate, and other charitable support for libraries and information services. It contains 799 entries, including 727 grantmaking foundations, 17 direct corporate giving programs, and 55 public charities that have shown interest and support in libraries or information services. Entries give information on contacts, foundation type, assets and expenditures, and applications, and offer statistics of dollar value and number of grants and loans paid. Recent grants for libraries and information services awarded in 1998-2000 are listed. This edition uses more precise Grants Classification System (GCS) terminology, a change which results in more information on international giving. c. Book News Inc.

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• Introduction: Foundation and Corporate Support for Libraries and Information Services(p. v)
• More Precise Indexing(p. v)
• What Is a Foundation?(p. vi)
• Grantseeking from Foundations(p. vii)
• Grantseeking from Corporations(p. viii)
• Sources of Information(p. viii)
• How to Use the National Guide to Funding for Libraries and Information Services(p. xi)
• Glossary(p. xv)
• Bibliography of Funding for Libraries and Information Services(p. xix)
• Resources of the Foundation Center(p. xxi)
• The Foundation Center Cooperating Collections(p. xxxiii)
• Descriptive Directory(p. 1)
• Indexes
• Index to Donors, Officers, Trustees(p. 169)
• Geographic Index(p. 185)
• Types of Support Index(p. 189)
• Index to Grantmakers by Subject(p. 197)
• Index to Grants by Subject(p. 199)
• Grantmaker Name Index(p. 205)

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Library Journal Review

This reference (the first edition appeared in 1991) contains important information on 574 grantmaking foundations and 28 direct corporate-giving programs that have shown a ``substantial interest'' in libraries. Grants totaling over $103 million in support for a variety of libraries and information services are listed for 274 of the foundations in the volume. Entries, which include up to 32 basic data elements, are arranged alphabetically by state and, within state, by foundation name. Five indexes to the work are provided, as are a glossary of terms used by grantmakers and grantseekers and a bibliography of publications on funding for libraries and information services. Although the guide contains a wealth of information useful to libraries seeking outside sources of funding, its cost, unfortunately, may prohibit small libraries in financial need from purchasing it.-- Carolyn A. Sheehy, North Central Coll. Lib., Naperville, Ill. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Provide descriptive entries on foundations, corporate giving programs, and public charities that have shown substantial interest in K^-12 education or in libraries or information services, either by stating it as an area of interest or by giving more than $10,000 to the area in the last reported year.