Riding the Rainbow: Finding Grant Sources for Your Faculty

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Riding the Rainbow Finding Grant Sources for
Your Faculty

• Society of Research Administrators
• October 25, 2004

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Resources for This Workshop

• This PowerPoint Presentation
• http//www.srainternational.org/newweb/meetings/an
  nualmeeting/04/Handouts/handouts.shtml

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Finding Funding?

• Your Role

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Learning Objectives

• You will learn about
• Major multidisciplinary, Federal, private, and
  discipline-specific funding databases to use in
  funding searches
• Customizable general alert services and
  agency-specific funding alerts
• Awards made databases

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Tips for Researching Funding Opportunities

• Look for potential funders with a good fit
• Talk to the program officer
• Identify funders goals or needs
• Broaden your search
• Approach your search from different perspectives

Handout Tips for Researching Funding
Opportunities
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Suggested Steps in Conducting a Funding Search

• Define project
• Estimate funding needs and resources
• Search multidisciplinary databases
• Set up funding alert/s
• Use relevant discipline-specific databases

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Things to Consider Before Searching

• Think about
• Keywords that apply to research or project
• Categories that apply to applicant
• Type of award sought

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Community of ScienceFunding Opportunities
Database
http//fundingopps2.cos.com/
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Community of ScienceMain Search
Handout Searching Community of Science Basics
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Community of ScienceAlert Service
http//login.cos.com/ PDF Handout COS Funding
Alert Basics
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InfoEd SPINFunding Opportunities Database
http//spin2000.infoed.org/new_spin/spinmain.asp
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Saving a SPIN Search
Customizable funding alert service from
InfoEd http//spin2000.infoed.org/new_spin/save_ex
isting.asp

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Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
Database

• M\library\Workshops\Presentations\workshop
  screen captures

http//carousel.library.uiuc.edu/iris/search.html

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IRIS Alert Service
http//carousel.library.uiuc.edu/iris/alert/
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FedGrants.gov
Insert graphic of FedGrants.gov
Funding from all Federal agencies, with
electronic notification service http//fedgrants.g
ov/
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Federal Grants Notification Service
http//fedgrants.gov/ApplicantRegistration.html
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NIH Guide
Insert graphic of NIH Guide
Search comprehensive listings of published
notices, PAs/RFAs, and subscribe to weekly email
listserv http//grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/index
.html
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NSF Funding Opportunities
Search NSF funding database subscribe to
E-Bulletin or Custom News Service http//www.nsf.
gov/home/menus/funding.htm
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GrantsNet

• Funding for biomedical research and science
  education (its free, just join)
• www.grantsnet.com/ (click on Search for Grants)

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FundSource
Insert graphic of FundSource

• Funding in the social and behavioral sciences
• www.decadeofbehavior.org/fundsource/fundsource_sea
  rch-db.html

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Foundation Centers Finding Funders (free )
Search for basic info on 70,000 private
community foundations in the U.S.
http//www.fdncenter.org/funders/
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Set Up Specialized Alert Services
http//research.unc.edu/grantsource/facultyresearc
h2.htmlspecialized
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Awards Made Databases

• National Endowment for the Humanities Recent
  Grant Awards
• National Institutes of Health CRISP (Computer
  Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
• National Science Foundation Award Data
• U.S. Dept of Agriculture Current Research
  Information System
• U.S. Dept of Defense Congressionally Directed
  Medical Research
• U.S. Dept of Education
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Institute of Museum and Library Services

http//research.unc.edu/grantsource/news.htmlfede
ral
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Handouts

• Tips for Researching Funding Opportunities
  http//research.unc.edu/grantsource/rschtips.pdf
• Online Funding Databases for Faculty and Staff
• http//research.unc.edu/grantsource/DatabasesFacul
  ty.pdf

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COS Tip Sheets

• Searching Community of Science Basics
• http//research.unc.edu/grantsource/SearchingCOSBa
  sics.pdf
• COS Funding Alert Basics
• http//research.unc.edu/grantsource/COSFundingAler
  tBasics.pdf

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SPIN and IRIS Tip Sheets

• Tips for Searching SPIN
• http//research.unc.edu/grantsource/spin.html
• How to Search IRIS
• http//carousel.lis.uiuc.edu/7Eiris/www_help.html
  

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Thank You!

• Presenter
• Susan Gramling, GrantSource Librarian
• Susan_gramling_at_unc.edu
• 919-962-7766
• UNC-Chapel Hill
• http//research.unc.edu/grantsource/