Links to Funding Agencies and Other Sources of Grant Information

Federal and State Agencies/Opportunities

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance - searchable
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Federal Register GPO Access (various government documents)
• FirstGov
• FedWorld Information Network (search government websites)
• Government Printing Office
• Grants.gov
• National Academy of Sciences (plus National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council) fellowships in federal agencies)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Institutes of Health
• NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts (Searchable)
• NIH Office of Extramural Research
• National Science Foundation
• NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
• NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
• NSF Fastlane (NSF Award Search; other functions for registered users only: Proposal Status, Report Status, etc. To register: dvincell@richmond.edu)
• NSF Grant Proposal Guide
• NSF Grant Policy Manual
• Office of Naval Research
• Smithsonian Institution (Fellowships)
• State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV)
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Department of Education
• U.S. Department of Energy
• Department of State International Information Programs
• Virginia Resource Access System - searchable catalogue of financial and technical assistance programs administered by the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Private Funding Sources/Foundations

• American Council of Learned Societies
• American Historical Association
• Arts Edge/Kennedy Center (Linking the Arts and Education through Technology)
• Charles A. Dana Foundation
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• Howard Foundation
• Japan Foundation
• Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
• John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• International Research Exchange (IREX)
• Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
• National Humanities Center
• Research Corporation
• Russell Sage Foundation
• Sloan Foundation
• Social Science Research Council
• Woodrow Wilson Center
• Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

Links to Other Interesting Sites

• Chronicle of Higher Education (Free Version)
• Community of Science
• Council on Foundations (links to foundation Web sites)
• Edsitement - a gateway to some of the best humanities sites on the web
• EurekAlert - Global Gateway to Science, Medicine and Technology News from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• The Foundation Center - Grantmaker Information
• GrantsNet - searchable database of biomedical funding options (AAAS)
• National Council of University Research Administrators: Agency forms
• Another Agency forms site (TRAM at Rice University)
• Philanthropy Links (descriptions and links to all types of funding agencies - the Philanthropy Journal online)
• Project Kaleidoscope - focusing on faculty, facilities, national issues, curriculum, institutional issues
• Science's Next Wave - Resources for the Next Generation of Scientists - AAAS)
• University of Virginia - Office of Pre-award Research Administration
• Virginia Commonwealth University - Office of Sponsored Programs
• Web Museum (La Louvre)
• Yale Grants and Contracts (links to sponsor sites)

Readers, if you have any problems connecting with any of these sites, or have suggestions for additions to the list, please notify fcgr@richmond.edu.

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