The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations is happy to help faculty, students and staff find grantwriting and funding resources. Just provide us with the details of your project and funding needs. You may also want to explore some of the funding opportunities listed below. 

Internal Grant Opportunities

Faculty Professional Development Opportunities, Academic Affairs: http://www.stetson.edu/academicaffairs/profdevel.php

Grantwriting Assistance and LISTSERVs

About.com Guide to Charitable Organizations: http://nonprofit.about.com/

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance:  http://12.46.245.173/cfda/cfda.html

Grant Proposal.com:  http://www.grantproposal.com/

Innonet: http://www.innonet.org/

Philanthropy News Digest: http://foundationcenter.org/newsletters/

Helpful Grantwriting Links

The Foundation Center Web site has information on foundations and corporate donors and links to non-profits’ 990 tax forms, which show previous funding activities. Corporate and Foundation Relations has a subscription to the Foundation Center’s database that we can share with you.

The Art of Grantsmanship by Jacob Kraicer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; a very detailed guide (and timeline) for obtaining a research grant.

Measuring Joy: Evaluation at Baltimore Clayworks, Deborah Bedwell, on the National Endowment for the Arts “Outcome-Based Evaluation: A Working Model for Arts Projects” Web site.

Federal Funding Sources

Not sure where to start? Try searching www.grants.gov and sign up for automatic notification of federal deadlines and funding opportunities.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance: http://12.46.245.173/cfda/cfda.html

Department of Agriculture: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome

Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov/fund/landing.jhtml?src=rt

Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov/

National Archives and Records Administration: http://www.archives.gov/

National Endowment for the Arts: http://arts.endow.gov/

National Endowment for the Humanities: http://neh.gov/

National Historical Publications and Records Commission: http://www.archives.gov/grants/index.html

National Institutes of Health: http://www.nih.gov/

Smithsonian Office of Research Training and Services: http://www.si.edu/ofg/ofgapp.htm

United States Institute of Peace: http://www.usip.org/grants/index.html

US Web Portal - FirstGov for Non Profits: http://www.usa.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml

State Funding Sources

Florida Division of Cultural Affairs: http://www.florida-arts.org/grants/

Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission: http://myfwc.com/

General Information:  http://myflorida.com/

Arts and Humanities

Humanities and Social Sciences Net Online: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/group.cgi?type=Funding

American Association of University Women: http://www.aauw.org/education/fga//index.cfm

American Historical Association: http://www.historians.org/

American Music Center: http://www.amc.net/

American Philosophical Society: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/#eligibility

American Political Science Association: http://www.apsanet.org/

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: http://www.mellon.org/index.html

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): http://www.daad.org/

European Science Foundation: http://www.esf.org/

Florida Division of Cultural Affairs: http://www.florida-arts.org/grants/

Global Fund for Women: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/cms/

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation: http://www.hfg.org/ (violence/aggression research)

Institute of International Education: http://www.iie.org/ (Fulbright)

J. Paul Getty Trust: http://www.getty.edu/grants/

John Carter Brown Library: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation:http://www.gf.org/index.html

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research: http://www.nceeer.org/

National Humanities Center: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ (post-doc. fellowships)

The Newberry Library: http://www.newberry.org/research/L3rscholarscontent.html (fellowships)

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture: http://oieahc.wm.edu/fello.html

Open Society Institute: http://www.soros.org/grants

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard: http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/apply/ (post-doc. fellowships)

Social Science Research Council: http://www.ssrc.org/

The Wenner Gren Foundation: http://www.wennergren.org/ (anthropology)

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation: http://www.woodrow.org/

Health-Related Funding

End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center (EPERC): http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/  

Med Web: http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/SPT--Home.php  

National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/

National Institutes for Health: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm  

US Department of Health and Human Services: http://www.hrsa.gov/grants.htm

US National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

K-12 School Grant Sources

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: http://www.free.ed.gov/

Florida Department of Education: http://www.firn.edu/doe/

School Grants: http://www.schoolgrants.org/

Sciences: Natural and Physical

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (chemical sciences; young faculty): http://www.dreyfus.org/  

Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation: http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/   

European Science Foundation: http://www.eurasia.org/  

FIELD Online (funding sources related to land degradation):

http://www.gmfield.info/english/Field/main.htm

Human Frontier Science Program: http://www.hfsp.org/

International Foundation for Science (supports developing country scientists): http://www.ifs.se/

Jennifer Altman Foundation (environmental health): http://www.jaf.org/areas/index.html

Life Sciences Research Foundation (post-doc. fellowships):

http://www.lsrf.org/welcome.htm

National Academy of Sciences: http://www.nationalacademies.org/grantprograms.html

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation:

http://www.nationalacademies.org/grantprograms.html

National Geographic Society:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/grants-programs/cre.html

National Science Foundation (the Grants Office will submit your NSF application through the FastLane system): http://www.nsf.gov/funding/research_edu_community.jsp

Research Corporation: A Foundation for the Advancement of Science (chemistry and physics research): http://www.rescorp.org/ccsa/ccsa.htm

US Department of Energy/Office of Science: http://www.science.doe.gov/grants/

US Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov/epahome/programs.htm  

Whitaker Foundation (biomedical): http://www.whitaker.org/home.html  

Whitehall Foundation (neurobiology): http://www.whitehall.org/  

Other Sources for Finding Funding and Philanthropy News

Association of Fundraising Professionals: http://www.afpnet.org/

Benton Foundation: http://www.benton.org/  

Charity Channel: http://www.charitychannel.com/  

Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription required but “deadlines” section is free): http://philanthropy.com/deadlines/

Council on Foundations: http://www.cof.org/index.cfm

E Business: http://www.business.com/  

Foundation Center: http://foundationcenter.org/  

Foundations Online: http://www.foundations.org/page2.html  

Fundsnet Services.Com: http://www.fundsnetservices.com/main.htm

Grant Station: http://grantstation.com/

Guidestar - The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations: http://www.guidestar.org/ (IRS 990 forms)

Internet Nonprofit Center: http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/FAQ/Nonprofit/Home/default

Internet Prospector: http://www.internet-prospector.org/

Nonprofit Gateway: http://www.usa.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml  

Society of Research Administrators Grants Web:

http://www.srainternational.org/sra03/grantsweb/index.cfm