Grant Resources

Finding Funding:

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) - federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions.
• Grant Select
• IRIS Database - over 8,000 federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• NIH Office of Extramural Research - includes funding opportunities, awards data and and receipts data.
• National Science Foundation
• RICHS: Rural Information Center Health Service

Many organizations such as the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association also include funding opportunities on their web pages.

Writing Proposals:

• Grant Writing Resources -an excellent list of proposal writing Internet resources for writing effective proposals.
• GrantProposal.com - well organized site on proposal writing. Includes an overview, inquiry and cover letters, standard components of a proposal, a sample proposal, advice from funders, and more.
• Writing Federal Grants Proposals - a must-read for those applying for federal grants. By the staff of the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.
• Grants and Grant Proposal-Writing - an excellent guide especially for the junior faculty member looking for a research grant. Covers all the basics. By John O'del. Best viewed with Adobe Acrobat format.
• Winning Grant Proposals Online - provides funded grant proposals in a variety of categories. A site from the Grantsmanship Center, a Los-Angeles based proposal training center.