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Search Tips Click here for information on search fields, views, and sort options. Basic searching You can search using a single word: education or a combination of words: higher education Phrase searching If you want your terms to appear next to each other in a specific order, enclose them in quotation marks. For example: "higher education" will find only those listings with that exact phrase. (Note: If you search by phrase, none of the special characters -- asterisks, tildes, plus or minus signs -- described below will work within the quotation marks.) Query expansion You may wish to expand your search in order to find more results. The primary way to do this is to use a comma between words and phrases. For example: college, university, teaching, "higher education" will find grants with either college OR university OR teaching OR higher education in them. You can also use the wild card character, an asterisk (*), to expand your search. For example: teach* will find listings with the words teach, teacher, teachers, or teaching in them. (Some plurals are automatically found by the search engine, but the wild card character can expand this further.) To expand your search even more, use the expansion character, a tilde (~), in front your search term. For example: ~educate will find listings with words such as school, training, instruct, teach, teacher, etc. (Note: Expansion searching can be time consuming and the results will not necessarily be helpful.) Using the find similar link below a relevant listing may help you find new terms to expand your search. Query refining You can refine your search in other ways. You may have found, for example, that the above search (college, university, teaching, "higher education") retrieved too many irrelevant results. You could approach this problem in a couple of ways. The plus (+) sign indicates that a term or phrase MUST appear in the search results. For example, a search for: college, university, teaching, +"higher education" means that the search results must contain listings that have the phrase "higher education" and must include EITHER college OR university OR teaching. You may also use the minus (-) sign to indicate that a term or phrase must NOT appear in the search results. A search for: college, university, teaching, "higher education" -elementary will retrieve your listings (with EITHER college OR university OR teaching OR higher education) but without the word elementary. Search fields The boxes at the top of the search page are used to enter words and phrases for searching grant listings in the Guide to Grants database. The searchable information is broken down by four fields: Keyword: Subjects and description of grant Grant Maker: Grant maker name, city, and state Recipient: Recipient name, city, and state Publication year: Year grant was published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy* Use list of subjects and list of grant makers links to browse or search from lists of subjects and grant maker names. (Once you select a grant maker's name, all subsequent searches will be limited to that particular grant maker. Click on the clear grant maker link to erase that grant maker's name and reset your search.) *Note:Guide to Grants subscribers may also search through our database of grants awarded from 1995 through 2000. Those grants are in a database that has fewer searching options, but you should be able to find what you need. Views The displaying of search results can be customized by clicking on one of the three different view tabs: Grant Maker: The main default view for searching. The listings appear as they do in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, headed by the names and addresses of grant makers. Clicking on show detail while in this view provides complete contact information for each grant maker. Recipient: This view is for grant seekers interested in finding out who is receiving grant money and for what purposes. Each listing is broken out by names of grant recipients and their locations. Subject: Use this view to browse a list of grants by subject. These subjects have been chosen by Chronicle of Philanthropy editors, and since each grant may be assigned up to three subjects, grants could appear on this list up to three times. Sort options Search results can be sorted in a variety of ways. Choose from lists next to the sort and subsort tags, then click on the Go button. The order of results will change based on the fields you have chosen. The information in these fields will be in bold type to help you spot them more easily. (Words and phrases from your search are also highlighted.) Here is a brief description of how the grants will be organized if the following fields are chosen: Grant Maker: Alphabetically by name of grant maker (last name first if applicable) Grant Maker Location: Alphabetically by state, then city, of grant maker Recipient: Alphabetically by name of recipient Recipient Location: Alphabetically by state, then city, of recipient Subject: Alphabetically by subject (main subject only while in the Grant Maker or Recipient view) Grant Amount: Descending order by amount of grant (larger amounts first) Relevance: Descending order by relevance rank as determined by the search engine (most relevant first) Date: Descending order by date published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy (most recent first) If you have any questions or experience any problems with searching, please send an e-mail message to gtg@philanthropy.com Copyright © 2009 The Chronicle of Philanthropy