Note: Lists Are Not Comprehensive

GRC Funding Guide

Note: Lists are not comprehensive.

Sources of Funding Information

Websites

To find grant programs on sponsor websites, look for tabs or links labeled “Funding,” “Grants,” etc., to browse or (when available) search. Many sites also display links to sign up for email funding alerts (more at Email below).

Federal Agencies

·  Administration for Children and Families (ACF)

·  Administration on Aging

·  Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

·  Agency for International Development, U.S. (USAID)

·  Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry

·  Agriculture, Department of

o  National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) (formerly the Cooperative State Research, Education & Extension Service, or CSREES)

·  Air Force Office of Scientific Research

·  Army Research Laboratory

·  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

o  Application forms

o  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health(NIOSH)

·  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

·  CFDA — Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

·  Commerce, Department of

·  Corporation for National & Community Service (CNS)

o  AmeriCorps

o  Learn and Serve America

·  Defense, Department of (see also Air Force, Army, Navy)

o  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (solicitations)

o  DARPA Information for Universities

·  Education, Department of (short name is ED; DOE is the U.S. Dept. of Energy)

o  Staff Directory

o  Discretionary Grant Application Packages

o  Federal Register Announcements

o  FIPSE Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education

o  Guide to Department of Education Programs (GTEP)

o  Programs and Services Overview

·  Energy, Department of (DOE)

o  Office of Science

·  Environmental Protection Agency

o  Science at EPA

·  Federal Government Contracts: FedBizOpps.gov

·  Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

·  Health & Human Services, Department of (HHS)

o  Directory

o  Administration for Children and Families (ACF)

o  Administration on Aging (AoA)

o  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

o  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

o  Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

o  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

·  Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

o  HRSA Grants and Contracts

·  Homeland Security, Department of

·  Housing & Urban Development, Department of (HUD)

o  Directory

·  Institute of Museum and Library Services

o  UpNext, the Official IMLSBlog

·  Interior, Department of

·  John E. Fogarty International Center

·  Justice, Department of

o  National Criminal Justice Reference Service

o  Office of Justice Programs

o  National Institute of Justice

·  Labor, Department of

o  Employment & TrainingAdministration

·  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

o  NASA's Office of Procurement

·  National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

·  National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

o  NEH Grant Information

·  National Institute of Standards and Technology

o  Directory

o  NIST Programs

·  National Institutes of Health (NIH)

o  AREA Grants Home Page

o  Award Mechanisms (e.g., K30, R21, P50, etc.)

o  Center for Scientific Review

o  CRISP (Awards database)

o  Forms (PHS 398, PHS 416, PHS 2590, etc.)

o  Funding Opportunities

o  Grants Policy Statement

o  Guide to Grants and Contracts

o  Office of Extramural Research

·  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

o  Directory

·  National Research Council

·  National Science Foundation (NSF)

o  Award Data

o  E-mail updates from NSF

o  Funding Opportunities

·  National Telecommunications & Infrastructure Administration

o  Grants

·  Navy

o  Naval Research Laboratory

o  Office of Naval Research

·  Small Business Administration

·  SBIR/STTR — Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Research Program (STTR)

·  State, Department of

·  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

·  Transportation, Department of

o  Grant Information and Policy

o  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

·  Treasury, Department of

·  U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

·  U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

o  Contracts and Grants Information

·  U.S. Institute of Peace

·  U.S. Trade and Development Agency

·  Veterans Affairs, Department of

Private Foundations

·  Some of the major foundations:

o  Annenberg Foundation

o  Carnegie Corporation of New York

o  Ford Foundation

o  W. K. Kellogg Foundation

o  Pew Charitable Trusts

o  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

·  GRC member California State University, Bakersfield provides a long list of foundations on its funding sources page, at http://www.csub.edu/grasp/funding%20sources.shtml.

·  The Foundation Center provides links to a great many private sponsors’ websites, divided into the following categories:

o  Private Foundations

o  Corporate Grantmakers (for contracts, as opposed to grants, see “Corporate Contracts” below)

o  Requests for Proposals (RFPs)

Browse the Foundation Center’s list of the top 100 foundations by assets, at http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/topfunders/top100assets.html.

·  GuideStar (database of private foundation tax records)

Corporate Contracts (not grants)

·  Database of about 67,000 businesses, with summaries and Web links: ThomasNet

Funding Related Web Resources

·  GRC Funding Guides:

o  Advancing a Civic Engagement Agenda

o  Funding Sustainability Projects

o  Economic Development Funding

o  Guide to Foundation Funding

o  NSF’s Education Related Programs: Background on Funding

·  Grant Space

·  H-Net online — Humanities and Social Sciences Funding and Fellowships

E-mail Notices and Subscriptions

GRC’s E-mailed Resources

·  Bulletin http://www.aascu.org/grc/pubs/

·  Deadlines http://www.aascu.org/grc/pubs/

·  GrantWeek http://www.aascu.org/grc/pubs/

·  Faculty Alert System: sends faculty monthly notices tuned to their individual needs. Alerts may include federal and private funding opportunities with application deadlines extending three months out. Search criteria can be based on curriculum or funding type, e.g., education, humanities, fellowships or research grants. Search criteria can be revised at any time. If your institution is interested in the Faculty Alert System, please contact Serina Freeman at . ?

Government E-mail Subscriptions

Subscribe to these electronic message services to receive e-mail alerts about funding opportunities and related news:

·  Grants.gov Subscriptions — Federal Grants Notification Services (E-mail and RSS)

·  Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) (E-mail)

o  RSS

o  Twitter

·  National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (RSS)

·  National Institutes of Health (NIH) (E-mail)

·  National Science Foundation (NSF) (E-mail)

·  U.S. Department of Education (ED) Newsletters and Journals (E-mail and RSS)

NGO E-mail Subscriptions

·  Foundation Center’s RFP Bulletin (Look for "Subscribe" on the vertical menu at left.)

·  Miner and Associates, Inc. Newsletter — Subscribe at http://www.minerandassociates.com/.

Funding Databases

·  Foundation Center — Private foundations; basic information is free, full information requires paid subscription

·  GRC GrantSearch — Funding opportunities are prescreened for relevance to IHEs; GrantSearch QuckGuide

·  Grants.gov — Grants.gov lists all current discretionary funding opportunities from 26 agencies of the United States government, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and many others — in other words, all the most important public funders of research in the United States

·  GuideStar — Nonprofits database; basic information is free, full information requires paid subscription

·  National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research — The largest funder of biomedical research in the world, NIH funds research in just about every area that's remotely related to human health and disease. This page includes extensive information about NIH grants, as well as a place to search NIH funding programs. NIH also has an advanced search page, which offers a wide range of search options.

·  National Science Foundation (NSF) — An independent federal agency, NSF funds approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted at America’s colleges and universities. This is a good place to search for NSF funding programs because it’s current, complete, and provides links to related programs and useful information.

·  ResearchResearch — Based in London, ResearchResearch provides an international option for people seeking research-funding programs. A paid subscription is required for access.

Social Media

It’s easy to become overloaded with funding information, especially if you receive the same information from several sources. If information overload is a problem for you, try to determine which source(s) work best for you and eliminate the rest.

·  Facebook — Facebook usage is growing quickly, and some sponsors are using it for funding announcements (among many other items). Facebook may make funding news more readily available to frequent Facebook users, but for others it makes the information a step or two less readily available.

·  Twitter — A number of federal agencies and some other types of sponsors distribute information via Twitter. By one measure, however, fewer than 1% of private foundations currently Twitter (source: LinkedIn / Foundation Center). Twitter delivers information in real time and can deliver it to your cell phone wherever you are (if you have a compatible phone). Twitter also allows you to receive information only from certain sources.

Ways to Disseminate Funding Information

Best Practices

·  Disseminate funding information via multiple conveyors. Different delivery methods reach different people, and an individual reached by e-mail on one occasion might on another occasion be reached by a flyer, a newsletter, or a webpage. However, while redundant means of delivery can be helpful, redundant iterations of delivering the same information risks annoying recipients.

·  Because multi-channel dissemination is time-consuming for the research administrator, s/he might want to use only those delivery methods that work best on his/her campus.

·  What works best? Ask your clients. Periodic surveys of PIs and potential PIs are a good, precise way to determine both what your clients need and the effectiveness of particular methods of information delivery. Online survey programs like Survey Monkey and QuestionPro offer free limited-length survey development and execution. Less formally, you can make a habit of encouraging feedback through all the ways you connect with clients.

·  Make use of GRC’s array of tools and assistance.

·  Compare your practices to those at other institutions. Conveniently, member institution names in the online GRC membership list are links to those schools’ research administration offices/pages.

Targeted E-mail

Send individual funding announcements to appropriate faculty/staff, or to departments, etc. Here are some ideas that might be useful:

·  Let GRC send topic specific e-mail announcements for you by making use of the Faculty Alert System.

·  If you don’t have a readily available source of faculty research interests at your institution, try searching your university website using topical key words.

·  You can build your own database of funding interests using your preferred database software, but if you use Microsoft Outlook contacts as a database (it’s searchable), you have quick access to e-mail and you can conveniently make distribution lists.

·  Distribution lists can target departments, colleges, research centers, or faculty from various disciplines who share a common interest, such as biomedical research, geospatial investigations, informatics, or undergraduate research.

·  Building a database takes time: make regular backups of your contacts data and keep an off-site copy.

Blogs (Web Logs)

GRC member Ball State University’s Sponsored Programs Office offers a good example of a blog.

·  Some advantages of posting funding information in a blog on your institution’s website:

o  A blog can have a URL that doesn’t change, offering easy access for investigators.

o  A blog doesn’t have to involve a lot of formatting.

o  A number of other resources can be linked on the same page with the blog.

·  Some disadvantages of blogs:

o  Investigators and potential investigators have to take the initiative to get to it.

o  Limited formatting might hamper a blog’s capacity for drawing readers in.

o  Repeatedly uploading material to a website can be time consuming.

Newsletters

GRC member University of Southern Mississippi’s Sponsored Programs Administration has a magazine-style newsletter that makes use of GRC resources, among others. Normally, it’s accessible only on campus, but here are some accessible examples: June 2012, February 2012, November 2011.

·  Some advantages of distributing funding information in a newsletter:

o  A newsletter (or an access URL) can be e-mailed to investigators and potential investigators, actively calling their attention to it and providing one-click access.

o  Newsletters can be designed/formatted like a magazine in order to attract readers (especially those faculty/staff who are inexperienced at grant seeking) and provide examples of how external funding can enhance research and other scholarly activities.

o  An online newsletter doesn’t require repeated uploading like a blog .

·  Some disadvantages of distributing funding information in a newsletter:

o  A fully developed newsletter probably requires more time than a blog.

o  If access is restricted to the campus(es), users have to download the newsletter to take it with them.

Social Media

Before investing much time and effort developing social media platforms to channel funding information from various sources to faculty/staff, it might be worthwhile to determine whether there is a demand for it and, if so, how much. Online survey programs like Survey Monkey, QuestionPro, and others offer free limited-length survey development and execution.