Rarely does a concert event pay for itself, but the grant seeking and gift extracting necessary to cover deficits is an industry in itself.

Lifeline Energy is grant seeking and relies on contributions from individuals, family foundations, corporate funding and government-sponsored programmes.

The IRG reviews grants seeking public funding for scientific and technical merit in the area of injury prevention and control.

Use this website to find national, state, community and corporate foundations, learn about the grant seeking process, find guidelines on writing a grant proposal, and link to other useful websites.

More broadly, city officials say they are looking at such administrativefunctions as grant seeking, press operations, legal and accounting services and intergovernmental affairs to determine how much overlap there is among agencies.

Gateway to information about private funding sources, the grant seeking process, guidelines on writing a grant proposal, addresses of state libraries with grants reference collections, and links to other useful Internet websites.