In View Grant Makers, users of this website are able to browse profiles of grant makers listed in alphabetical order of their names for each category of grant maker (i.e., Foundations, Corporations, and Civil Society; Government Organizations; and International Organizations). Browsing can be an important discovery process for individuals who have the time and patience to engage in it.
Alternatively or in addition, Search Grant Makers helps users of this website to select grant makers according to a few key criteria. Search Box
As a supplement to the browse and search options above, the top frame of this website includes a search box ("Search Site"). The
search box is able to find unique subject words (e.g., water, solar,
climate change, fisheries, etc.) across the website, including in the
profiles of grant makers and in the funding news.
The
search box is effective for finding profiles and news items which
mention specific countries (e.g., a search for all items which have the
word “Vietnam” anywhere in the text).
To narrow and refine a search, words and phrases can be combined (e.g., fisheries Vietnam; fisheries worldwide).
Users
should scan a range of the profiles to learn which words and phrases
typically appear there, and adapt their searches accordingly. Searches
should be kept simple. Users can search in progressive stages to broaden or narrow their results as they go along.
Additional Guidance
We use “international” for the principal offices of international organizations and of certain network organizations. A search will not show the EC in Belgium, or the World Bank in USA.
Several organizations comprise multiple countries at a regional level (e.g., for Latin America, for the Persian Gulf countries, for Southeast Asia, etc.). In the Terra Viva Grants Directory, we define these regional organizations as having principal offices which are “international.”
Regarding where grant activities occur, we use “worldwide” when grant makers are not specific, or when they truly pursue a global approach in their grant making. Thus anybody interested in finding grant makers for a particular region or country should also search under “worldwide.”
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