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 | Finding
Grants and Foundation Information |
The
Helm-Cravens Library has a great deal of grant information. The
library is a Foundation Center Cooperating Collection. The Foundation Center is an independent national service organization
established by foundations to provide an authoritative source of
information on foundation and corporate giving. Foundation
Center Cooperating Collections provide a core collection of
Foundation Center publications and a variety of supplementary materials
and services in areas useful to grantseekers. WKU's Cooperating
Collection has the Foundation Directory Online available for public
use. The Foundation Center Website
at www.fdncenter.org/ also has a fair amount of materials available
for free.
Here
is a listing of Grant
Information shelved at Helm Reference Center, including the
Foundation Center Core Collection for Cooperating Collections. In
addition to the Foundation Center materials, there are several other
places to find grant information. Here are some resources for finding
grant and foundation information.
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| National
& International Grant Sources |
 Federal
Register Online
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The Federal
Register is a daily listing of new and proposed regulations
and programs, including new and proposed grant programs from
the Federal government. |
| The
Foundation Center |
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The Foundation
Center website contains Foundation
Finder, which has information on foundations; SearchZone,
which allows researchers to search the Web sites of more than
1,000 U.S. grantmakers; and 990-PF
tax forms. The Foundation Center also has learning
information and tutorials material on writing grant proposals; Literature of the Non-Profit
Sector, which indexes and abstracts articles about non-profits;
and the Philanthropy News
Digest. Also contains links to Coorperating
Collections such as the Helm-Cravens Library. |
Catalog
of Federal Domestic Assistance |
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The
best place to begin for Federal grants. The Catalog is a guidebook
to all kinds of grant programs that are available from the Federal
government, and contains listings of government grant programs
of all types. We have a copy at the reference desk in Helm.
The Catalog is available online at http://www.cfda.gov/. |
| Grants
For Individuals: Graduate Scholarships, Fellowships, And Loans |
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Locate grant
resources by population groups, academic levels, and subject
categories. |
| Grants.gov |
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Grants.gov
has information on 900 programs from 26 major Federal grant-making
agencies. |
| GrantSearch |
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Grant Search
provides a range of services to identify sources and solicit
funding. The Website contains free resources. The organization
also conducts paid grant research for individuals and non-profits. |
| GrantsNet |
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Offers a
free subscription service to anyone interested in learning about
grants in science and undergratudate science education. |
| GrantsWeb
from the Society of Research Administrators |
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This Website
contains resources on governmental and private grants, resources
for research administrators, policy information, and regulations
relating to the grantmaking process. |
GuideStar:
The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations |
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Guidestar
contains a search engine for funders and grantees. Guidestar
also includes a resource that many people don't think about:
the 990-PF tax forms. All foundations are required to file
a tax form which contains a lot of information, including
telling exactly which projects they have funded the year and
how much they gave. This information allows you to determine
types of recipients and amounts given so that you can write
a better proposal. |
| NIH's
Grants & Funding Opportunities |
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Research Grant
Policies, Guidelines and Funding Opportunities from National
Institutes of Health (NIH). |
| NSF's
Funding Opportunities: Guide to Programs |
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Includes descriptions
of National Science Foundation programs and activities, as
well as links to other information sources; to related publications
such as program announcements and solicitations that contain
additional proposal or eligibility information; and to the
E-Bulletin for deadline and target date information. |
| Rural
Information Center Funding Resources |
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Provides information
and referral services with over 2,500 links to current and
reliable information on a wide variety of rural
resources and funding
sources. Its grant writing resources apply to any grantseekers. |
| School
Grants and Grant |
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This site
provides a resource for those seeking to secure educational
grants for the advancement of the curriculum and technology
infrastructure. |
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This is the place to start
if you operate or are planning to start a small business. |
| US
Department of Agriculture Funding Opportunities |
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Learn about
funding programs from the U.S. Department of Agriculture site. |
| U.S.
Department of Education Grants & Contracts |
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Information
you'll need to know to apply for a grant or contract. Available
also is a brief description of the 175 grants the U.S. Department
Education administers. |
| U.S.
Department of Education Financial Aid Information Center |
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The Department (ED) will provide
more than $67 billion this year, about 70 percent of all student
aid, to help millions of students and families pay for postsecondary
education. |
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| Information
on Writing Grant Proposals |
| EPA
Grant Writing Tutorial |
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A
great interactive tutorial, available to browsers that support
frames (Netscape and MS Explore 3.0 and above.) |
| The
Foundation Center |
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The
Foundation Center website has a lot of learning
information and tutorials material on writing grant proposals.
This is a good place to learn how to write a grant proposal. |
| Grant
Proposal Guide |
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Provided by the
National Science Foundation, this guide is intended for faculty
and staff members with little or no experience in writing proposals
for sponsored activities. |
| Grant
Writing |
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Articles, Guidelines,
Tutorials, Templates and more. |
| Grant-writing
Tips for K-12 Schools |
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A page from the SchoolGrants site, which provides resources for children, teachers/educators,
and K-12 schools. |
| A
Guide to Proposal Planning and Writing |
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An article by
Jeremy T. Miner, director of sponsored programs at St. Norbert
College, DePere Wisconsin and Lynn E. Miner, PhD, associate
dean for engineering at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| Starting
a Non-Profit Organization |
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This guide
contains comprehensive advice, links, and materials for anyone
who is considering starting a nonprofit organization.The website
is found at http://www.mapnp.org/library/strt_org/strt_np/strt_np.htm. |
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| News
and Articles on Philanthropy |
| Chronicle
of Philanthropy |
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
is a newspaper for the non-profit world. Created by the publishers
of the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Chronicle of Philanthropy
provides news, commentary, analysis, and job openings for the
non-profit sector. The Web site offers the complete contents
of the latest issue, an archive of past issues and articles
published since October 1997, and two issues' worth of the most
recent grant listings -- all fully searchable. |
| Literature
of the Non-Profit Sector |
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Literature of the Non-Profit Sector
is a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy which
is updated daily. It incorporates the unique contents of the
Foundation Center's five libraries and contains more than 22,615
full bibliographic citations, of which more than 15,140 have
descriptive abstracts. The database includes the full text of
selected articles from Grassroots Fundraising Journal, NonProfit Times, Nonprofit Quarterly, Contributions,
and Stanford Social Innovation Review. |
| News
on Grants and Non-Profits |
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This is a pre-defined search through
online news sources from Moreover.com. |
| Philanthropy
News Digest |
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News stories on foundations
and grants from the Foundation Center |
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