Grants

A tutorial to help you use this database exists at http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/tutorials/291--IRIS-Illinois-Researcher-Information-Service-Database

• IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service)
  IRIS currently contains over 8,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Users can search IRIS by sponsor, deadline date, keyword, and other criteria. Most IRIS records contain live links to sponsor Web sites, electronic forms, or Electronic Research Administration (ERA) portals. The IRIS Database is updated daily.
  Coverage Dates: - present

Issued annually or semi-annually. Latest edition in Valley Library is shown.

Annual Register of Grant Support 43rd ed. (2010)
LB2338 .A5

Directory of Research Grants (2010)
LB2338 D57.

The Grants Register (2010)
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 (2009)
AS911.A2 F6

The Foundation Directory, Part 2 19th ed. (2010)
AS911.A2 F652

The Oregon Foundation Data Book, 10th ed. (2010)
HV98.O7 O731

Here are a few resources with information for minority and international grant seekers:

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

There is also a page there on 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 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:

The Foundation Center has a page for International visitors at http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/international/