Web Site Provides Data on European Grant Makers

May 20, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

A new Web site provides users with information about philanthropy in Europe and helps European grant makers use technology.

The European Foundation Centre, an association of European grant makers, located in Brussels, has developed Funders Online, a Web site that provides information about European philanthropy and links to more than 300 foundations and corporate-giving programs that are either located in Europe or that award grants to European programs.

Visitors to the site can search the links by grant-maker name, country in which it is located, types of support provided, the fund’s grant-making programs, and its geographic and demographic areas of interest.

Funders Online also aims to help European philanthropies make better use of the Internet. The site provides generic Web pages that grant makers can use to build their own Web sites, even if they have only minimal knowledge of hypertext markup language.

TO GET THERE: Go to http://www.fundersonline.org.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.