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Foundation Center

Search the Foundation Center Directory. 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: 07/01/2009

 

 

 

Author of the Month:
M. F. K. Fisher

M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992) was among the first American writers to take food seriously, and although she never enjoyed a best-selling readership, her works spoke to an intelligent audience who shared her perception that the preparation and consumption of what nourishes the body is anything but mundane. She made no effort to conceal the autobiographical nature of her writings, revealing to readers details of her upbringing in California and the early marriage that took her to Dijon, where she first became a serious gourmand. Later books include stories of her second and third husbands, accounts of traveling through France with two young daughters, and reflections on living in the wine region of California--in all of these cases using food as a metaphor for the joys and tribulations of life. Fisher writes, "Increasingly, I saw, felt, understood the importance, especially between people who love and trust one another, of a full sharing of one of our three main hungers, which are for food, for love, and for shelter. ... Since we must eat to live, why not make the best of it and see that it is a pleasure, something more than a mere routine necessity like breathing?" Fisher spent a lifetime making the best of it.

See M. F. K. Fisher books in the library's collection