GRANT RESOURCES

Resources available at VCSU:

Two ebooks in our netLibrary collection: How to write a grant proposal & Designing successful grant proposals
If this link doesn’t work from your computer, stop in at the library and ask for assistance accessing these ebooks.

Books available in the library:
Guide to Proposal Writing by Jane Geever
Grassroots Grants: An Activist’s Guide to Grantseeking by Andy Robinson
Successful Grantsmanship: A Guerrilla Guide to Raising Money by Susan Golden
Grant Writing for Dummies by Beverly Browning

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Grants and Funding Links!

 

Check out these sites for Grant Resources!!

Funding Sources links from Lewis & Clark College in Portland
includes a downloadable copy of Grant-Seeking Resources

Nonprofit Funding Newsletters and Current Awareness Services from Michigan State University

The Grantsmanship Center
The Grantsmanship Center Magazine Archives

Foundation Center
Foundation Center's Catalog of Nonprofit Literature

 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
www.cfda.gov
Lists sources for loans, research grants, donations and technical assistance
Grant assistance & has great grant numbers

 

National Endowment for the Humanities Funds
http://www.neh.gov/
Research and education grants in all areas

 

National Institute of Health
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm
gives grants and fellowships for research and biomedicine

 

National Science Foundation
www.nsf.gov
offers grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for research and education in science and engineering

 

Scientifically based research resources
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram
resources on scintific theme issue research in education

 

US Department of Education research
www.ed.gov/nelb/methods/whatworks/reserarch/index.html

 

APA Online - what exactly is scientific based research
http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep02/whatexactly.html

 

National Endowment for the Arts
www.arts.endow.gov
offers information on music fellowships

 

Foundation Center
www.fdncenter.org
excellent source for all types of foundation grants & another general site is www.fundsnetservices.com

 

Non-profit sites
www.ncnonprofits.org

 

GrantSmart
www.grantsmart.org
find donor tax returns & Tax Returns from Foundations

 

Government grants
www.grants.gov
excellent site for government grants

 

US DOE Forecast of Funding Opportunities
www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html
general resource for government funding

 

EPA Environmental Education Grants
www.epa.gov/enviroed/grants.html

 

Eelink North American Association for Environmental Education
http://eelink.net/pages/Grants+-+General+Information
good sources for environmental education funding

 

School Grants
www.schoolgrants.org
http://www.k12grants.org/grant_opps.htm
http://www.eschoolnews.com/erc/funding/ongoing.cfm

 

Fundsnet
www.fundnetservices.com
helpful grant services site

 

Examples of foundation sites:

BellSouth Foundation Opportunity Grants
www.bellsouthfoundation.org

 

Carnegie Corporation of New York
http://www.carnegie.org/

 

American Honda Foundation
http://corporate.honda.com/america/philanthropy.aspx?id=honda_foundations

 

The Dirksen Congressional Center
http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_overview.htm
(Review sample proposal)

 

The Chronicle of higer Education
http://chronicle.com/free/grants
(Review of online resources)

 

The NEA Foundation
www.nfie.org/grants.htm
Good source for Innovation Grants and Learning and Leadership Grants

 

GRANTS and FUNDING: LINKS & RESOURCES

Grants.gov
http://www.grants.gov/
Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 billion in Federal grants. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 1,000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant making agencies.

 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Developing and Writing Grant Proposals
http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.GRANT_PROPOSAL_DYN.show

 

National Science Foundation’s Guide to Proposal Writing (.pdf)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/gpg/nsf04_23/nsf04_23.pdf

 

U.S. Department of Education: Grants and Funding
http://www.ed.gov/fund/landing.jhtml?src=rt

 

How do I find out about grant opportunities with the Department of Education?
http://www.ed.gov/fund/landing.jhtml?src=ln

 

U.S. Department of Education: FY 2005-2007 Discretionary Grant Application Packages
http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/grantapps/index.html

 

Links for Individuals Looking for Grant &Scholarship Opportunities

Students.gov
http://www.students.gov/STUGOVWebApp/Public?topicID=15&operation=topic
Students.gov is the gateway to reliable information about education from the federal government and contains scholarship and grant information for individuals.

 

Fulbright Scholar Program: Tips for Applying
http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/tips.htm