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Foundation Center

foundation centerSearch the Foundation Directory Online Professional. The fully searchable database includes detailed profiles of all active U.S. foundations, as well as an extensive file of recent grants awarded by the nation’s top funders.

The Rochester Public Library is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center (http://fdncenter.org). As a member of this nationwide network of libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies, the Rochester Public Library provides patrons with free public access to grantmaker directories, books on fundraising and nonprofit management.



Last updated: 02/01/2010

 

 

Author of the Month:
Sarah Vowell

Sarah Vowell is best known for her monologues and documentaries on public radio's This American Life. Vowell is also a bestselling author of five Sarah Vowell photononfiction books on American history and culture. By examining the connections between the American past and present, she offers personal, often humorous accounts of everything from presidents and their assassins to colonial religious fanatics, as well as thoughts on American Indians, utopian dreamers, pop music and the odd cranky cartographer.

Her book Assassination Assassination Vacation book coverVacation is a haunting and surprisingly hilarious road trip to tourist sites devoted to the murders of presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. Vowell’s most recent book, The Wordy Shipmates, examines the New England Puritans and their journey to and impact on America.

Vowell has made numerous Wordy Shipmates book coverappearances on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She is the voice of teen superhero Violet Parr in Brad Bird’s Academy Award-winning The Incredibles, a Pixar Animation Studios film.

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