Office of Grants,Sponsored Research, and Strategic Initiatives
Grant Writing and Funding Resources for Faculty and Staff
We are happy to help you look for funding sources if you provide us with details of your project and funding needs. You may also want to investigate some of the grant writing resources, funding sources, and search sites listed below.
Internal Grant Opportunities
Grant Writing Assistance and LISTSERVs
- About.Com Guide to Charitable Organizations
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
- Grants.gov (federal funding opportunities)
- Grant Proposal.com
- Innonet
- Philanthropy New Digest
Federal Funding Sources
Not sure where to start? Try searching Grants.gov or sign up for automatic notification of federal deadlines and funding opportunities.
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Education
- Department of Justice
- Department of the Interior
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
- National Institutes of Health
- Smithsonian Office of Fellowships
- United States Institute of Peace
- US Web Portal - FirstGov for Non Profits
State Funding Sources
Arts and Humanities
- Humanities and Social Sciences Net Online
- American Association of University Women
- American Historical Society
- American Music Center
- American Political Science Association
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
- European Science Foundation
- Global Fund for Women
- Institute of International Education (Fulbright)
- J. Paul Getty Trust
- John Carter Brown Library
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships to AssistResearch and Artistic Creation
- National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
- National Humanities Center (post-doc. fellowships)
- Newberry Library (fellowships)
- Open Society Institute
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard (post-doc. fellowships)
- Wenner-Gren Foundation (anthropology)
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Health-Related Funding
- End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center (EPERC)
- Med Web
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institutes for Health
- US Department of Health and Human Services
- US National Library of Medicine
K-12 School Grant Sources
- ESchoolNews
- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
- Florida Department of Education
- School Grants
- US Department of Education
Sciences: Natural and Physical
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (chemical sciences; young faculty)
- Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
- European Science Foundation
- Human Frontier Science Program
- International Foundation for Science (supports developing country scientists)
- Life Sciences Research Foundation (post-doc. fellowships)
- National Academy of Sciences
- US Department of Energy/Office of Science
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- Whitaker Foundation (biomedical)
- Whitehall Foundation (neurobiology)
Other Sources for Finding Funding and Philanthropy News
- Association of Fundraising Professionals
- Benton Foundation
- Charity Channel
- Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription required but "deadlines" section is free)
- Council on Foundations
- E Business
- Foundation Center
- Foundations Online
- Fundsnetservices.com
- Grant Station
- Guidestar - The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations
- Internet Nonprofit Center
- Internet Prospector
- Nonprofit Gateway
