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The City Club presents "The Next Generation of Civic Leaders"

The City Club presents a great series for young professionals. The series, "The Next Generation of Civic Leaders," will present 3 programs on leadership development, fundraising and board service. Individual tickets are only $10 per program. For more information, please view the series flyer (PDF).

Foundation Center Newsletters

The Foundation Center publishes an e-newsletter that is available to anyone. It has information and articles about events, courses on proposal writing and other topics, fundraising tools, etc. The Cleveland Foundation Center Library also has its own newsletter. If you would like to subscribe to either e-newsletter, please visit http://foundationcenter.org/newsletters/

Funding Information is Available through the Harris Library

The Harris Library has acquired a new database called FC Search: The Foundation Center's Database on CD-ROM. The database contains information on more than 80,000 U.S. private funders including foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities.

In addition, FC Search lists over 334,000 recent grants by the largest foundations and includes the names of more than 360,000 trustees, officers, and donors. With FC Search you can link to the most current 990-PF tax returns available, as well as websites of more than 6,100 private funders and 3,300 corporations to help you get an overview of their funding activities.

FC Search can be used during library hours. For more information about the database or for questions related to finding information on private funders, please visit http://msass.case.edu/harrislibrary/Faculty/facgrants.htm.

Echoing Green Fellowship

Echoing Green, the world's premier funder of start-up social change organizations, has just opened its 2007 seed funding application.

For more information, please visit: http://www.echoinggreen.org or contact Jeremy Schifeling at jeremy@echoinggreen.org.

Cleveland Orchestra - Campus Club (Student Ticket Program) and Open Rehearsals

Campus Club is the Cleveland Orchestra's student ticket program. There is no charge to join the Campus Club and students have the chance to purchase tickets to Cleveland Orchestra concerts at Severance Hall for as little as $10.

In addition, students can attend open rehearsals on selected dates throughout the season free of charge.

For more information, please visit http://www.clevelandorchestra.com/html/attend/Studenttickets.asp or view the flyer for the list of open rehearsal dates for 2006-2007.