Title: Riding the Rainbow: Finding Grant Sources for Your Faculty
1Riding the Rainbow Finding Grant Sources for
Your Faculty
- Society of Research Administrators
- October 25, 2004
2Resources for This Workshop
- This PowerPoint Presentation
- http//www.srainternational.org/newweb/meetings/an
nualmeeting/04/Handouts/handouts.shtml
3Finding Funding?
4Learning 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
5Tips 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
6Suggested 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
7Things to Consider Before Searching
- Think about
- Keywords that apply to research or project
- Categories that apply to applicant
- Type of award sought
8Community of ScienceFunding Opportunities
Database
http//fundingopps2.cos.com/
9Community of ScienceMain Search
Handout Searching Community of Science Basics
10Community of ScienceAlert Service
http//login.cos.com/ PDF Handout COS Funding
Alert Basics
11InfoEd SPINFunding Opportunities Database
http//spin2000.infoed.org/new_spin/spinmain.asp
12Saving a SPIN Search
Customizable funding alert service from
InfoEd http//spin2000.infoed.org/new_spin/save_ex
isting.asp
13Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
Database
- M\library\Workshops\Presentations\workshop
screen captures
http//carousel.library.uiuc.edu/iris/search.html
14IRIS Alert Service
http//carousel.library.uiuc.edu/iris/alert/
15FedGrants.gov
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Funding from all Federal agencies, with
electronic notification service http//fedgrants.g
ov/
16Federal Grants Notification Service
http//fedgrants.gov/ApplicantRegistration.html
17NIH Guide
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Search comprehensive listings of published
notices, PAs/RFAs, and subscribe to weekly email
listserv http//grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/index
.html
18NSF Funding Opportunities
Search NSF funding database subscribe to
E-Bulletin or Custom News Service http//www.nsf.
gov/home/menus/funding.htm
19GrantsNet
- Funding for biomedical research and science
education (its free, just join) - www.grantsnet.com/ (click on Search for Grants)
20FundSource
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- Funding in the social and behavioral sciences
- www.decadeofbehavior.org/fundsource/fundsource_sea
rch-db.html
21Foundation Centers Finding Funders (free )
Search for basic info on 70,000 private
community foundations in the U.S.
http//www.fdncenter.org/funders/
22Set Up Specialized Alert Services
http//research.unc.edu/grantsource/facultyresearc
h2.htmlspecialized
23Awards 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
24Handouts
- 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
25COS 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
26SPIN 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
27Thank You!
- Presenter
- Susan Gramling, GrantSource Librarian
- Susan_gramling_at_unc.edu
- 919-962-7766
- UNC-Chapel Hill
- http//research.unc.edu/grantsource/