Information on External Sources of Funding on Library Website

The Library has a webpage that contains links to websites that contain information about grants, foundations, and charitable giving. This webiste is located at: http://www.se.edu/lib/grants8.htm.
This page has links to many different kinds of fundraising websites, including:

• Links to fundraising databases, which contain lists of organizations invovled in giving to other people or organizations.


• It also contains sources of funding from the Federal government and from the Oklahoma and Texas governments.


• A list of public foundations, of which the American Medical Association Foundation and the Gene and Jerry Jones Family/Dallas Cowboys Charities are two examples.


• Community foundations, of which the Dallas Foundation, and the Oklahoma City and Tulsa Community Foundations are examples.

Links to foundations called Independent foundations, of which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a famous example.

• Many company sponsered foundations, and other foundations located in Texas and Oklahoma listed.


• If you are looking for funding outside of the United States, there are links to websites of funding abroad.


• For those wanting to search the Internet for fundraising websites, there are links on this webpage to search tools that you can use to search


• Links to online fundraising magazines


• Links to sites that teach how to write grants proposals

Charles Darwin-The Father of Evolution

Charles Darwin is the father of the scientific theory of evolution, a theory that has stirred controversy for many years. Today marks the two hundereth anniversiry of his birth on February 12, 1809. The library has many books on Darwin and his theory, including a reference book called All things Darwin : an encyclopedia of Darwin's world

Two Hundred Years Ago A Great President Was Born

Today marks the two hundred year anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth in a log cabin in Kentucky. THrough the tradegies and trials on his life he arose to become our Nation's 16th presindent at a time when his leadership was sorely needed. HE saved the country from being split apart and also in the process freed the slaves so that one day a man of color could become the President of the United States.

The library has many books on Abraham Lincoln. A list of links of Internet Sites on Abraham Lincoln are found at the following website: http://www.se.edu/lib/alincoln.htm

Tradegy in the Skies

Sunday , February 1st, marked the sixth anniversary of the tragic Shuttle accident that took the lives of the following:

Commander: Rick D. Husband, a US Air Force colonel and mechanical engineer, who piloted a previous shuttle during the first docking with the International Space Station (STS-96)

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Pilot: William C. McCool, a US Navy commander

Payload Commander: Michael P. Anderson, a US Air Force lieutenant colonel and physicist who was in charge of the science mission.

Payload Specialist: Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force and the first Israeli astronaut.

Mission Specialist: Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born aerospace engineer on her second space mission.

Mission Specialist: David M. Brown, a US Navy captain trained as an aviator and flight surgeon. Brown worked on a number of scientific experiments.

Mission Specialist: Laurel Clark, a US Navy captain and flight surgeon. Clark worked on a number of biological experiments.

taken from the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster
Other online resources:

• NASA faults equipment in Columbia shuttle disaster


• Space Shuttle Columbia and her Crew


• NOVA: Space Shuttle Disaster