Grants

Finding Grants

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:05:18 -0800

Powerpoint presentation created by librarian Valery King for the workshop "Show Me the Money (or at Least How I Can Find It): Graduate Student Financial Support" and presented on January 27, 2009. This is the library resource part of the workshop presentations.

Subscription Resource

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:13:38 -0700

Federal Government Resources

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:13:57 -0700

The Federal Government is a rich source of grant funding of all kinds. Some new online tools make it easier to find government funding:

Aggregated sources

Grants.gov

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce

Individual Government Agencies

GrantsNet -- From the Department of Health & Human Services

National Science Foundation -- Find Funding

National Institute of Health -- Office of Extramural Research

Environmental Protection Agency -- Grants and Fellowship Information. Includes environmental education grants

Department of Education -- Grants & Contracts

National Endowment for the Humanities -- independent grant-making agency of the U.S. government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

Print Resources

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:14:17 -0700

General

Annual Register of Grant Support
LB2338 .A5

Directory of Research Grants
LB2338 D57.

The Grants Register
LB2338 .G7.
Geared to students and scholars at or above the graduate level and or those who require further professional or advanced vocational training.

The Foundation Directory
AS911.A2 F6

The Foundation Directory, Part 2
AS911.A2 F652

In Education

National guide to funding for elementary and secondary education, 5th Ed.
LC243.N28 1999

The complete grants sourcebook for higher education, 3rd Ed.
LB2336.B38 1995
Includes information on the process of writing successful grant applications.

Foundations

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:14:33 -0700

Council on Foundations -- a national nonprofit association of approximately 2,000 grantmaking foundations and corporations.

The Foundation Center -- nonprofit service organization and leading authority on organized private philanthropy in the U.S. A major source of grant information and news; has free training materials including a Proposal Writing Short Course

Information Portals

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:14:53 -0700

Edweek.org -- the Grants Available section, providing up-to-date information on grants in education

TGCI, The Grantsmanship Center -- A grant writing information portal

OSU Research Office -- has resources for both faculty AND students

Online Publications

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:15:11 -0700

The following open access publications are available without subscription:

The Grantsmanship Center Magazine

Foundation News & Commentary

Philanthropy Journal

Online Resources

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:15:31 -0700

Social Science Research Council Tips for proposal writing

EPA Grant Writing Tutorial

Effective Communication Skills for Writing Grant Proposal -- Indiana University Graduate School

How to Get Money from Afterschool.gov

Designing successful grant proposals -- LB2342.O75 2002eb – (An electronic book)

Print Resources

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:15:46 -0700

The first-time grantwriter's guide to success
LC243.A1 K56 2002

Grant writing in higher education : a step-by-step guide
LC241.H46 2004

Finding funding: grantwriting from start to finish, including project management and Internet use
LB2825.F522 2001

The principal's guide to winning grants
LC243.A1 B36 1999

Simplified grantwriting
LC241.B87 2002

Websites

Valery.King@oregonstate.edu (Valery King) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:27:49 -0800

At OSU: Check OSU's Financial Aid and Scholarships link on the OSU home page.

Find information for International Student scholarships on the International Students and Faculty Services website.

OSU's Graduate School can provide a lot of help! Contact them at graduate.school@oregonstate.edu, and see their website at http://oregonstate.edu/dept/grad_school/index.html.

You can also check individual OSU college websites for pages similar to this one:Women and Minorities in Engineering,http://engr.oregonstate.edu/wme/scholarships.htm

Beyond OSU:

Online Education Database has a page on minority grants: http://oedb.org/grant/minority

Minority grants at CollegeScholarships.org: http://www.collegescholarships.org/grants/minority.htm

They also have a page about grants for Women: http://www.collegescholarships.org/grants/women.htm

CollegeScholarhips.com is a similarly-named website of a private, fee-based organization called College Connection. Searching their database and applying through them requires payment, but they have also list monthly free information you can look at: http://www.collegescholarships.com/scholarships_54.html

Many Universities have websites devoted to finding and achieving minority grants. Here is the minority grants webpage at Michigan State University: http://staff.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3specpop.htm

Private funding:

Foundation Center has a Reference Guide for International Students, http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/guides/foreign.html