Grants available on the web

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General:

Federal Register Announcements : You must click on the announcements for grants link. This lists nearly all of the grants available from the government!

Internet resources for grant writers: This site is a general starting point for grant writers. Links for grants and foundations as well as links for tips on writing grants are available at this one stop shop. The site was created by Truckee Meadows Community College.

For Administrators: Funding Sources Grant Writing: This page is geared with educational technology in mind, but it contains general starting links for grants.

Polaris Grant Central: This is a huge site with a plethora of sources from beginner's to advanced grant writers.

US NonProfit Gateway: Welcome to Grants & Non-Financial Support: If you know the agency that you are looking for this place will the homepage. Extensive support for government links.

Welcome to GrantsNet: Grantsnet is a website set specifically catering to funding opportunities for training in the biological and medical sciences. Warning: in order to use the SEARCH option you must register and obtain a user id and password. However, if you click on funding news, announcements are available for funds and grants without having to register.

Looking for grants for first timers :

Grant Opportunity Resources: The website is an excellent source, and describes all of its links so you can eliminate certain databases or websites.

HFG: Research on Violence and Aggression: "The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. (HFG does not support institutions, programs, or pure interventions.) In addition, the foundation sponsors small, interdisciplinary conferences on various topics falling under the heads of violence, aggression, and dominance." Source: HFG, index page.

Community of Science: This website is geared toward funding for the area of science.

Getty Grant Program Home Page: This program gives funding support for the arts.

(COPS) Community Oriented Policing Services:   "The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) is the Federal office responsible for advancing community policing, including the adding of 100,000 additional community policing officers. COPS is promoting community policing through a variety of initiatives. . " Source: Webpage intro.

EDUCAUSE Home Page: "EDUCAUSE is an international, nonprofit association whose mission is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management.  EDUCAUSE membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and other related associations and organizations. EDUCAUSE programs include professional development activities, print and electronic publications, strategic/policy initiatives, research and development, and a wealth of online information services." Source: EDUCAUSE, define.html

Government General

Federal Register Announcements : You must click on the announcements for grants link. This lists nearly all of the grants available from the government!

FedWorld Information Network Home Page: "In 1992, FedWorld was established by The National Technical Information Service( NTIS), an agency of the U.S Department of
Commerce, to serve as the online locator service for a comprehensive inventory of information disseminated by the Federal Government. This new service assisted agencies and the public in
electronically locating Federal Government information, both information housed within the NTIS repository and information we made accessible through an electronic gateway of more than 100 Government bulletin boards." Source: Fed World Site, about.htm.

Specific Government Agencies:

Rural Health Policy Funding: A guide to funds from the Rural Health Policy
U.S. Department of Education (ED) Home Page: The general homepage.
U.S. Department of Education (ED) -- Funding: Specific to funding provided by the Dept. of Education.
U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Science: Click on the "Grants & Contracts" button on the lower left side to access their funding opportunities.
Bureau of Justice Assistance: "Supports [ing] criminal justice systems and communities with funding, technical assistance and training." Source: BJA, index.page.
Health Resources and Services Administration: To access the list of their available grants please click on "Grants & Contracts."
Dept. of Health and Human Services : Grants Net courtesy of them.

Government Databases:

Search Multiple Databases: Courtesy of GOP.
Notices of Funding Availability: "Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs) are announcements that appear in the Federal Register, printed each business day by the United States government, inviting applications for Federal grant programs. This page allows you to generate a customized listing of NOFAs."
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance : "The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance is a government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activities which provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It contains financial and non financial assistance programs administered by departments and establishments of the Federal government." Source: Intro to the CFDA.

State Funds for Grants:

Texas Department of Economic Development: Click on "Business Resources" to find funding opportunities.

TRAM : Texas Research Administrators Group developed this website/service to provide information on research opportunities and funding opportunities. The database is a bit tricky to work with, and you need some patience and good word combinations.

K-12 for Grant Opportunities

General:
School Grants: Grants and Opportunities for K-12 Schools - Welcome
Government:
Title II HEA Teacher Quality Programs

Foundations

The Foundation Center
Specific foundations:

Feedback
Trusts and Funds:

The Wray Trust: "The Wray Trust is a small family foundation which focuses predominantly on environmental projects in Texas, including work on pollution control, natural    resources protection, sustainable technologies, and population stabilization. We also    support environmental projects in Mexico, but to a much lesser degree. Finally, we make trustee-initiated grants to arts organizations." Source: Wray Trust Homepage.

Wallace Global Fund: "The Fund welcomes proposals that advance the search for sustainable solutions to current global challenges. We are responsive to new ideas, new research, and new approaches, recognizing that such innovation carries with it uncertainty and risk. Support from the Fund is not limited to particular issues. Grants have been made to a wide range of projects that address obstacles to a sustainable future." Source: Wallace Global Find website, program_criteria.html Global Fund for Women: "The GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN makes grants to seed, support, and strengthen women's rights groups around the world. We envision a just and democratic world, where women and men can participate equally in all aspects of social, political, and economic life." Source: Global Fund for Women, index page. 

Disclaimer: The Office of the Vice President for External Affairs at The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College provides the following links for their informational use only. The websites that we link to on this page were NOT CREATED by the External Affairs office. We provide these sites and links for their informational use only for our division.