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GRANTS: USEFUL LINKS

The National Council of University Research Administrators site has links to other college and university grants pages. For the persistent, an incredible amount of information about funding opportunities.
http://www.ncura.edu/resources/sponsored.htm

GrantsNet is a free site sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The site concentrates on funds for biomedical science and projects for undergraduate science education.
http://www.grantsnet.org/

Facts about Southwestern:
http://www.southwestern.edu/about/about-profile.html

INFORMATION ON FEDERAL FUNDING SOURCES

The Federal Register is the official instrument of the U.S. Government for announcing new programs. A searchable database.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance is another searchable federal database that gives overview descriptions of all federal grant programs.
http://www.cfda.gov/public/faprs.htm

Louisiana State University maintains updated links to all government agencies. If you are researching a federal grant, the easiest way may be to go straight to the sponsoring agency - for example, the Department of Education. This list will take you there.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

NEWS, NOTES AND DEADLINES

News, Notes and Deadlines - Monthly grants newsletter listing current opportunities. NOTE: you will need your Southwestern User ID and password to download this file. News, Notes and Deadlines is provided in Adobe PDF format & requires the FREE Adobe Reader to view/print.

GENERAL INFORMATION ON GRANT SEEKING AND ON-LINE GRANT WRITING TUTORIALS

The EPA grant writing tutorial leads novice grant writers through the process.
http://www.epa.gov/seahome/grants/src/msieopen.htm

The Foundation Center helps you search for foundations by name and provides direct links to many foundations, corporations and charities. The free version has some basic information about the agency in question and a link to its most recent 990 tax forms. The site also has grant writing information and tutorials.
http://www.fdncenter.org/funders/

Guidestar is another good site for getting tax information. After free registration you can view the 990 tax forms of all foundations. Useful information on these forms includes the names of the foundation's trustees and a listing of all grants the foundation made in the year in question - to whom, for what, and how much.
http://www.guidestar.org/

"All About Grants" tutorials help biomedical investigators, especially new ones, plan, write, and apply for the basic NIH research project grant, the R01. Good information on planning scientific proposal writing in general.
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/default.htm

Non-profit Guides are free web-based grant writing resources with a complete overview of the proposal process. Includes sample proposals. Useful when writing a proposal to a foundation for the first time.
http://www.npguides.org/

"Writing a Successful Grant Proposal" is another step-by-step guide that demystifies proposal writing. This excellent overview was produced by the Minnesota Council on Foundations. Though a few of the references are specific to Minnesota, the advice and the questions that help you define a project are universally useful.
http://www.mcf.org/mcf/grant/writing.htm