The Russell Ruby Resource Room provides up to date print resources and access to cutting edge online resources.  Our print library includes books, articles, and periodicals on various topics such as starting a nonprofit, grant writing, board development, strategic planning, fundraising, financial management and accounting for nonprofits, strategic communications, and public policy for nonprofits.

The Nonprofit Resource Center is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center. As a member of this nationwide network of libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies, we provide visitors with free public access to grant maker directories and books on fundraising and nonprofit management published by the Foundation Center, as well as the Foundation Center’s electronic databases, The Foundation Directory Online and Foundation Grants to Individuals Online. The fully searchable databases include detailed profiles of all active U.S. foundations, as well as an extensive file of recent grants awarded by the nation’s top funders. Training in the use of the Foundation Center online resources is offered quarterly. See our events page for information about the next training.

Foundation Center Core Collection

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

• Foundation Directory Online Professional
• Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
• Foundation Center Cooperating Collection Databases and print materials

PRINT PUBLICATIONS

• After the Grant: The Nonprofit's Guide to Good Stewardship (2010)
• America's Nonprofit Sector, 3rd ed. (2010)
• Board Member's Book (2003)
• The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing, 5th ed. (2007)
• The Foundation Directory (2010)
• The Foundation Directory, Part 2 (2010)
• The Foundation Directory Supplement (2010)
• Foundation Fundamentals (2008)
• Foundation Grants to Individuals (2010)
• Foundations and Public Policy (2009)
• Foundations Today Series
  • Foundation Giving Trends (2010)
  • Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates (2010)
  • Foundation Yearbook (2010)
• Guía para escribir propuestas (2008)
• The Grantseeker’s Guide to Winning Proposals (2008)
• Guide to Funding for International and Foreign Programs (2010)
• International Grantmaking IV (2008)
• National Directory of Corporate Giving (2010)
• Philanthropy Annual (2010)
• Securing Your Organization’s Future (2001)
• Social Justice Grantmaking II (2009)
• The 21st Century Nonprofit: Managing in the Age of Governance (2009)

Click here for a categorized listing of our complete collection.

If there is a resource you would like to see added to our collection, email your request to Rebecca.

The Russell Ruby Resource Room is open to the public Monday through Friday 8:30am –5:00pm.