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It’s that time of year for organizations to develop annual reports. Annual reports can be a valuable tool for overviewing your organizations impact the past year to potential donors and funders. However for some, the annual report has become bland and boring. Your donors may even be able to predict what you will send out – same design, typography, and images you have been using for five years.

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 Now accessible on GrantSpace is a map of Nonprofit Startup Resources By State. This wonderful resource gives people starting a nonprofit access to numerous links they need to find local legal assistance, state filing agencies, nonprofit associations, and more!

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We’ve got some great news! Soon there will be an upgrade to our database Foundation Grants to Individuals Online, the go-to resource for finding grants for students, artists, and individuals so it’s not only better, but easier for you to find needed information.

With the new Foundation Grants to Individuals Online launching soon, you will be able to:

• Easily find what you need: A more user-friendly design, with six new ways to search!
• Get up-to-date funder information: Detailed profiles are now updated weekly.
• Take advantage of new tools: You can share search results and funder profiles with friends and colleagues, and create spreadsheets to manage your prospects.
•  Keep up with grantmakers: You can connect with funders on their social and multimedia channels. 

Foundation Grants to Individuals is available at the Central Library.  Contact Melissa Kash-Holley at mkash@tulsalibrary for more information about using this database.

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Thursday, February 2 • Tulsa Garden Center • 2435 S. Peoria Ave.

Monthly Meeting • 11:30am - 1:00pm 

“The Art of Social Media”  

Through examples, best practices and even a few secret strategies, Jeff Martin shares the story of Philbrook Museum of Art’s journey from social media novice to industry leader in less than three years time. 

Jeff Martin is the Online Communities Manager for Philbrook Museum of Art. In his spare time, Jeff is a writer and editor. His most recent book, “The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books,” was praised in The Economist, The New Yorker and selected as one of the “Essential Summer Reads” of 2011 by The Atlantic Monthly. Jeff is a longtime columnist for TulsaPeople magazine and the founder of the literary organization, Booksmart Tulsa.

For more information about AFP meetings or becoming a member, visit the Oklahoma Eastern Chapter web site at http://afpeastok.afpnet.org/content.cfm?ContentItemID=52754&navItemNumber=5318 

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Through Grantspace, you can now access a multitude of information about fiscal sponsorship, which is a formal legal arrangement in which a 501©(3) public charity sponsors a project that may lack exempt status. On this page, you will find links to FAQs, webinars, videos, articles, web sites, e-learning courses, and live chats all related to fiscal sponsorship.  Visit the fiscal sponsorship page» 

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