Successful grantseekers are typically involved in one or more of the following activities.
1. Identifying Funding Sources:
●Federal, Foundation, Corporation
2. Planning and Developing Proposals
●Search Engines, Data Sources, Directories, Sample Federal Proposals
Sample Foundation Proposals, Reference Tools
5. Developing Proposal Budgets
6. Ensuring Regulatory Agency Compliance
The following annotated Web gems may be helpful as you pursue your broad range of responsibilities.
1.0 Identifying Funding Sources
1.1 Federal Funding Sources
· Grants.gov: www.grants.gov
The “one-stop shopping” for government grant information
· Federal Register: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html
The government’s “daily newspaper” often announcing new grant opportunities
· Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance: www.cfda.gov
The Christmas “wish book” of grants
· FedBizOpps: www.fedbizopps.gov
The source for federal contract (as opposed to “grant”) information
1.2 Foundation Funding Sources
· Foundation Center: http://www.foundationcenter.org
The best single source for free foundation grant information
· Foundation Center Cooperating Collections: www.foundationcenter.org/collections
Locations of major grant libraries in all 50 states
· GuideStar: http://www.guidestar.org
The “gold mine” of tax records for private foundations
· Start Your Own Nonprofit: http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/faqs/html/starting_nonprofit.html
Useful guidelines for starting your own nonprofit organization
1.3 Corporation Funding Sources
· Thomas Net: http://www.thomasnet.com
A comprehensive directory of U.S. manufacturing and service firms
· Corporate Social Responsibility: http://www.bsr.org/CSRResources/IssueBriefsList.cfm?area=all
An informative library of diverse aspects on corporate social responsibility
· Business.com - http://www.business.com
A directory that leads to over 65,000 business categories
· CorporateInformation: http://www.corporateinformation.com
Snapshots of free financial reports on 31,000 companies worldwide
· Hoover’s Online - http://www.hoovers.com/free
A profile database for free information on companies, industries and executives
· Yahoo! Finance (public companies only) - http://finance.yahoo.com
The Yahoo financial page, which is constantly updated
· EDGAR - http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
The SEC searchable database on most U.S. & some foreign firms
· CBS MarketWatch: http://www.marketwatch.com
One monitor of stock market activity
1.4 Combined Public and Private Funding Sources
· Fund Source: http://www.decadeofbehavior.org/fundsource/
A free source of research grants in the social and behavioral sciences
· GrantsNet: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/funding?CFID=2288360&CFTOKEN=96023753
A free resources for training grants in the sciences and undergraduate science education
· ProposalCENTRAl: https://proposalcentral.altum.com
A free e-grantmaking website for public and private funding sources
2.0 Planning and Development Proposals
2.1 Search Engines: Electronic Libraries of Internet Information
Google - http://www.google.com
Scholar Google: www.scholar.google.com
Yahoo! - http://www.yahoo.com
About: www.about.com
All The Web: www.alltheweb.com
AltaVista: www.altavista.com
Ask: www.ask.com
Complete Planet: www.completeplanet.com
Dogpile: www.dogpile.com
Excite: www.excite.com
Google: www.google.com
HotBot: www.hotbot.com
Ixquick: www.ixquick.com
Kartoo: www.kartoo.com
Librarian’s Internet Index: www.lii.org
LookSmart: www.looksmart.com
Lycos: www.lycos.com
Mamma: www.mamma.com
Metacrawler: www.metacrawler.com
MSN Search: www.msnsearch.com
Open Directory: http://dmoz.org
Scirus: www.scirus.com
Search: www.search.com
Web Crawler: www.webcrawler.com
2.2 Specialized Data Sources
· Children’s Health
· 2007 Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity, and Medical Care: http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/6069.cfm
· Children in poverty: http://www.nccp.org.
· Aging data: www.agingstats.gov/update2006/default.htm
· Logic Models: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/evallogicmodelworksheets.html
· Online Survey Tools
· Statistics Refresher: http://statpages.org
· Evaluation:
o http://www.fhi.org/en/HIVAIDS/pub/Archive/evalchap/index.htm
o http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02057/start.htm
· Outcome Measures: http://national.unitedway.org/outcomes
2.3 Directories (people, companies, reverse, and e-mail):
· Addresses.com - http://www.addresses.com
A people finder
· Freeality - http://www.freeality.com
Multiple search engines to find people
· Infobel World: Telephone Directories - http://www.infobel.com/en/world/index.aspx
An international people finder
· SearchBug - http://www.searchbug.com
A people and company finder
· The Ultimates - http://www.theultimates.com
White page, yellow page, trip planning, and email directories
· AnyWho.com - http://www.anywho.com
Another people finder
These 41 sample proposals cover a broad range of topics and federal grantmaking agencies;
they are “sample” proposals and not necessarily “model” proposals. Further, webmasters change
web addresses often; links become broken for multiple reasons. While we monitor these links regularly,
let us know if you find a broken link, or if you find a sample proposal that should be added to this list.
While sample proposals are sprinkled throughout the Web, two sites in particular have collated many
of them: www.k12grants.org and www.sinclair.edu/departments/grants.
· FEMA:
o http://www.theideabank.com/onlinecourse/samplegrant.html
· Public Housing Training Grant
o http://web.archive.org/web/20010211042541/www.npguides.org/grant/grant2.htm
· Assisted Housing for Economically Distressed Areas
o http://web.archive.org/web/20010211042417/www.npguides.org/grant/grant3.htm
· Supplemental Education Services
o http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/fbci/ses.doc
· Physical Education Program
o http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/fbci/pep.doc
· Mentoring At-Risk Youth
o http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/fbci/mentoring.doc
· Migrant Education High School Equivalency Program
o http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/fbci/hep.doc
· Community Technology Center Program
o http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/fbci/ctc.doc
· 21st Century Community Learning Center
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample2.htm#21CCLC
· Comprehensive School Reform: Improving Teaching and Learning
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/improving%20Teaching%20and%20Learning-%20apt%20-%20lcisd-2000.pdf
· Emergency Response and Crisis Management Program
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample6.htm#ERCM
· Foreign Language Assistance Grant
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample2.htm#flag
· Integrating School and Mental Health Systems
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample6.htm#MH
· Reach for the Stars
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample2.htm#reach
· Reading First
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample6.htm#TEA_Grants
· School Improvement Implementation Grant
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample3.htm#SIP
· School Repair and Renovation Grant
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample3.htm#Renovation
· School Resource Officer Program
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample4.htm#SRO
· Small Learning Communities
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample3.htm#SLC
· Teaching American History
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample5.htm#history
· Technology Literacy Challenge Fund
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample4.htm#tech_lit
· Waste Tire Market Development Grant
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample7.htm#Waste_Tire
· R01 NIH/NIAID Basic Science Proposal
o http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/app/default.htm
· R01 NIH/NIDCD Virtual Temporal Bone Dissection Proposal ---New ---
o www.osc.edu/research/Biomed/vtbone/proposal
· Criminal Justice Proposal
o http://www.ocjs.state.oh.us/Funding/OCJS%20Sample%20Grant%20April%202003.pdf
· NIH SBIR Phase I Application
o http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/files/SBIR_Phase_I_PHS_398_Application.pdf
· Physical Education Program Grant
o http://www.sportime.com/sportime-shared/pegrants/grantSample.jsp
· Historical and Cultural Landscapes
o http://www.infopeople.org/training/past/2005/grants/Sample_NEH_PLPlaceMatters.pdf
· Novel Automation for Increased Productivity and Reduced Costs in Hop Production
o http://www.sbir.dsu.edu/sbhti/home/proposal_preparation/sample_proposals/usda_sample.htm
● Miniature Solid State Sensors for Chemical Contaminants in Liquid
o http://www.sbir.dsu.edu/sbhti/home/proposal_preparation/sample_proposals/nasa_sample.htm
· Do You Speak American?
o http://echo.gmu.edu/workshops/june2005/presentations/grants/NEHSample.pdf
· Thin-Film Optical Filter for Intense Laser Light
o http://www.sbir.dsu.edu/sbhti/home/proposal_preparation/sample_proposals/nsf_sample.htm
· 3D Visualization
o http://www.bergen.cc.nj.us/documents/grants/proposals/ATEVisProp.pdf
· Health Careers Pathway
o http://www.bergen.cc.nj.us/documents/grants/proposals/HCOPProp.pdf
· Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
o http://www.imls.gov/applicants/samples/L21_4sample.pdf
· Title III Proposal: Strengthening Developing Institutions
· Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
o http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/Allocations/Friesner0299N.pdf
· NIH R21 NIDDK Sociocultural Beliefs Among Latinos with Diabetes
o http://research.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=34673
· NSF IGERT: Integrative Approaches to Bilingual Cognition and Interaction
o http://research.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=34674
· Summer Science Enrichment Academy
o http://asuweb.asurams.edu/orsp/docs/Sample%20Proposal.pdf
· NSF Proposals: http://www.sinclair.edu/departments/grants/NSFProposals/index.cfm
o Many examples are listed.
These 23 proposals cover a range of topics from faith-based funding to breast cancer and, again, are “samples,” not necessarily “models.”
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· Church Support in the former Soviet Union
o http://charitychannel.com/publish/articlefiles/1872-sample-proposal.pdf
· Anger Management
o http://www.grantproposal.com/proposal.html
· Develop Public and Private Housing Partnerships
o http://web.archive.org/web/20010129093900/www.npguides.org/grant/grant1.htm
· Anti-Abortion Public Awareness
o http://www.afterabortion.info/funds/grantsamp.htm
· New Technologies to Improve and Children and Family Services
o http://web.archive.org/web/20010216073923/http://www.charitychannel.com/GuestShare/Wendy_Norris
· Improving Cardiovascular Health
o http://www.coloradogrants.org//gcrc.html
· Expanding Talent in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
o http://www.ulm.edu/gradschool/Step_Project_Narrative.pdf
· Pedometer Usage in a Curriculum
· Healthcare for Homeless Adults
o http://www.coloradogrants.org/sfc.html
· Parents as Partners in Education
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample3.htm#parents
· PRIDE: An Outdoor Learning Laboratory
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample7.htm#PRIDE
· Ronald McDonald House Charities
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample3.htm#RMHC
· School Age Child Care Program
o http://www.k12grants.org/samples/sample4.htm#Child_care
· Request for Operating Grant Support
o http://web.archive.org/web/20001218024300/http://charitychannel.com/GuestShare/Tim_Puffer/
· Watershed Proposal
o http://www2.rivernetwork.org/library/index.cfm?doc_id=119
· Project Falcon Lore
o http://dom.com/about/education/grants/docs/sample.doc
· Comprehensive School Reform Program
o http://www.eduplace.com/grants/pdf/csr.pdf
· Camp Health Aide Program
o http://www.migranthealth.org/build_a_program/getting_funding/sample_grant_proposals.php
· Making Better Readers with Digital Photography
o http://www.apte.com/tools/funding/proposal.doc
· HIV Prevention and Care
o http://www.gillfoundation.org/usr_doc/NashvilleCARES2.pdf
· Use of complementary/alternative medicine in breast cancer patients
· Soar for Success
o http://www.eduplace.com/grants/pdf/soar_guide.pdf
· Sinclair College
o http://www.sinclair.edu/departments/grants/NonNSFSampleProposals/index.cfm
2.6 Reference Tools
To Find Professionals:
Physicians:- http://webapps.ama-assn.org/doctorfinder/home.html
Lawyers/law firms: Martindale.com - http://www.martindale.com
Planning References
Northwestern University’s Research bookmarks: - http://www.development.northwestern.edu/research/bookmark.html
A rich research reference source with multiple links
Local newspapers/magazines:
City and Regional Magazines: http://www.bibliomaven.com/citymags.html
Links to many city and regional magazines
Regional Business Journals on the Web: - http://www.bibliomaven.com/businessjournals.html
Links to local business journal newpapers
NewsLink: http://www.newslink.org/statnews.html
Links to local newspapers
Newspapers.com: http://www.newspapers.com
Links to domestic and international newspapers
News Directory: http://www.ecola.com
Broad-based links to newspapers, magazines, television and other news sources
Verifying a person’s date of death:
Social Security Death Index (tends to be a few months out of date) - http://ssdi.rootsweb.com
Legacy.com - http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp
GenealogyBank.com - http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/keyword.html
OrbitsArchive.com - http://obitsarchive.com
General reference collections
Information Please - http://www.infoplease.com
An electronic information almanac
ITools - http://www.itools.com
Quick access to useful internet tools
Library Spot - http://www.libraryspot.com
An electronic reference librarian
Refdesk - http://www.refdesk.com
An electronic fact finder
FreeTranslation - http://www.freetranslation.com
19 different foreign language translations -- free
Reservationless Free Conference Calling
· http://www.freeconference.com/Reservationless-Organize.aspx
· Click on our 26 page proposal writing and editing guidelines.
· Writing a Successful Grant Proposal: www.mcf.org/mcf/grant/writing.htm
· Online information source: www.cyberjournalist.net/supersearch/index.htm
· Web-based Bibliography Management.
· Last Minute Submissions
o Federal Express: www.fedex.com
o United Parcel Service: http://wwwapps.ups.com/servlet/QCCServlet
o U.S. Postal Service: www.usps.gov
o DHL: www.dhl.com
5.0 Developing Proposal Budgets
● NIH forms: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms.htm
· NSF forms: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=papp
· Common Application Form: many areas use one common grant application form that can be used with multiple private foundations in the region. Type “Common Application Form” in your favorite search engine and select one that is in your area.
6.0 Ensuring Regulatory Agency Compliance
● Human Subjects Research: http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp
● Biohazards: http://www4.od.nih.gov/oba/Rdna.htm
● Radioisotopes: http://www.nrc.gov/
● Animals