Grant Writing Toolbox and Funding Sources

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Grant Writing Toolbox and Funding Sources

• Inhye Kim Son
• Health Sciences Library
• March 22, 2005

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Important Steps in Grant Writing

• Research Search for past and present research
• Funding Search for grant funding
• Forms Find forms you need
• Writing Tips Get tips for writing your grant
• UVa approval Obtain the necessary University
  approval

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Toolkit for Grant Seekers
http//www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/libr
ary/ collections/grant/
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Search for Past and Present Research

• CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on
  Scientific Projects) a searchable biomedical
  database of federally-supported projects
  conducted at universities, hospitals, and other
  research institutions.
• Includes projects funded by
• the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
  (SAMHSA)
• Health Resources and Services Administration
  (HRSA)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP)
• Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
  (AHRQ)
• Office of Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH)
• http//crisp.cit.nih.gov/

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CRISP
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COS Funded Research

• COS version of CRISP and for more complex CRISP
  searches
• Features data from
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
• Medical Research Council, UK (MRC)
• Somewhat out of date some databases were updated
  in 2000.

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Search for Past and Present Research

• NSF award data
• MEDLINE

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Search for Past and Present Research
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Search for Grant Funding
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Search for Grant Funding

• Grants.gov
• Community of Science
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) 15
  types of assistance available including surplus
  equipment, training, guaranteed loans, and, of
  course, grants. The CFDA provides a short summary
  of each grant program, as well as contact
  information for Federal agencies that award
  grants.
• The NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts official
  publication for NIH medical and behavioral
  research grant policies, guidelines and funding
  opportunities.
• Individual Agencies
• Online Commercial database searching such as
  Foundation Directory, Grants, or Foundation
  Grants Index.

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Grants.gov

• Allows you to electronically find and apply for
  competitive grant opportunities from all federal
  grant-making agencies.
• THE single access point for over 900 grant
  programs offered by the 26 federal grant-making
  agencies.
• An initiative that will have an unparalleled
  impact on the grant community (350 billion per
  year).

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Automatic Alerts

• You may set up to get automatic e-mail to notify
  you when new grant opportunities are added to the
  Grants.gov database.
• Selected Notices based on Funding Opportunity
  Number
• Selected Agencies and Categories of Funding
  Activities
• Selected Interest and Eligibility Groups
• All Grants Notices

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• The following grant opportunity postings were
  made on the Grants.gov Find Opportunities
  ("FedGrants") service
• NSF
• Office of Budget, Finance and Award Management
  Headquarters
• DDDAS Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems
  Grant http//www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/NSF/OIRM
  /HQ/05-570/listing.html
• HHS
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  Procurement and Grants Office Academic Partners
  Public Health Training Grant
• Modification2
• http//www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/CDC/PGO/CD
  C-RFA-05045/listing.html

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Grants.gov one stop shopping?

• Need to check other federal resources to be
  comprehensive.
• Check www.cfda.gov (Catalog of Federal Domestic
  Assistance) Include U.S. federal funding from
  the lesser-known agencies.
• Listing to this site is voluntary.
• If you know the name of the agency, contact the
  agency directly to get the funding details.

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Grants Database in Development

• Private funding sources
• The Health System Development Office is
  creating a searchable funding opportunities
  database that will provide a calendar of
  deadlines and an alphabetic list of funding
  organizations.  School of Medicine personnel will
  be able to sign up for a monthly e-mail
  notification of deadlines in focused research
  areas.  Anticipated roll-out  late winter 2005.

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Non-Federal Grant Sources

• There is no one "best way" to find non-federal
  opportunities.
• Use many sources--databases, books,
  acknowledgements in research papers, colleagues,
  etc.

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Commercial Database Searching

• Foundation Directory A comprehensive directory
  providing descriptions of more than 41,000 U.S.
  grant makers, including private grant-making
  foundations. community foundations, operating
  foundations, and corporate grant makers.

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Commercial Database Searching

• Foundation Grants Index Contains records
  describing grants that have been awarded to
  nonprofit organizations by the larger
  independent, corporate, and community
  foundatiaons located in the United States.

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Commercial Database Searching

• Grants Provides information on more than 10,000
  available grants offered by federal, state, and
  local governments, commercial organizations,
  associations and private foundations.
• Very expensive

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Specific to NIH Grants

• NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
• Each week (usually on Friday afternoon), the NIH
  transmits an e-mail with Table of Contents (TOC)
  information for that week's issue of the NIH
  Guide, via the NIH LISTSERV. The TOC includes a
  link to the Current NIH Guide Weekly Publication
  as well as links to each NIH Guide RFA, PA and
  Notice published for that week.

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Community of Science

• Federal, private foundations, and corporate
  funding sources.
• It is updated continuously
• The most comprehensive source of funding
  information available on the Web, with more than
  23,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding
  opportunities, worth over 33 billion.

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Forms
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Writing Tips
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UVa Approval
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More on COMMUNITY OF SCIENCE

• The Community of Science is a collaborative
  worldwide network of scientists and their
  institutions that provides
• access to a variety of databases and services of
  interest to researchers, such as
• finding funding,
• promoting their research
• collaborating with peers worldwide
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COMMUNITY OF SCIENCE
www.cos.com

• Largest Web Network
• of its kind comprised of detailed professional
  information for nearly 400,000 scientists and
  scholars worldwide.

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COMMUNITY OF SCIENCE

• Built in collaboration with more than 700 leading
  research universities, societies, government
  agencies and other RD organizations from around
  the world.

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COS Workbench

• Customized workspace for individual users to
  create a personalized profile
• Your profile will enable you password access to
  COS from any computer - at home or at work.

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Your COS Profile ..

• You will be able to create an expertise profile
  and a comprehensive bibliography of your
  publications.

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Your COS Profile ..

• Having a COS profile will allow others to access
  your potential contributions as a research
  collaborator.
• Corporations and RD Companies also search COS
  (for a fee) to seek development opportunities for
  researchers.

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Your COS Profile ..

• Your profile will automatically construct a
  weekly funding alert tailored to up to 5
  customized queries of your choice.

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COS Databases

• COS Expertise
• COS Expertise is a richly featured knowledge
  management system for individuals and
  institutions, containing more than 480,000
  first-person profiles of researchers from over
  1,600 institutions worldwide
• COS Funding
• The most comprehensive source of funding
  information available on the Web, with more than
  23,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding
  opportunities, worth over 33 billion.

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COS Expertise

• Enables research institutions to
• promote their research
• track current research
• find collaborators
• identify peer reviewers.

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COS Expertise

• Research-driven companies, government agencies,
  and private foundations who gain read-only
  access on a subscription basis use COS
  Expertise to identify prospective collaborators,
  license new technologies and leverage RD efforts

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Public View of Expertise (PVE)

• COS Public View of Expertise (COS PVE) is a
  turnkey solution for publishing information about
  your faculty and staff research expertise on your
  public web site.

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Generate a Curriculum Vitae

• COS Quick Form for Online CV will generate a
  curriculum vitae (CV) using information from your
  COS Expertise

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Generate a PHS 398 BioSketch

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) require this
  form in all proposal submissions.

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COS Funding Database

• Largest source of grant information on the Web
• Creating or updating your Expertise portion of
  your COS record automatically stores your
  personalized Funding Alert profile
• Grant information is updated daily

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Funding Alerts

• Will receive weekly email messages of funding
  opportunities linked directly to a record in the
  COS Funding Opportunities database
• Description
• Deadline
• Eligibility requirements
• Contact information

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• SEARCH 1
• SEARCH TITLE bioinformatics
• NUM. RESULTS 4
• ALERT URL http//fundingalert.cos.com/modalert
  /701100
• Results
• TITLE Physical Anthropology Program Grants
• SPONSOR National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and
  Economic Sciences
• (SBE)
• Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
  (BCS)
• DEADLINE July 01, 2005
• August 16, 2005
• December 01, 2005
• February 09, 2006
• URL http//fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/4337
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