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Funding Sources
Search Engines and Databases
The following search engines are used regularly by the Office of Grant Resources.
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Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 1,000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant making agencies.
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The Grant Advisor Plus provides information about deadline and contact information on upcoming grant and fellowship opportunities for U.S. institutions of higher education and their faculty. |
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The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance gives you access to a database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments
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GrantsAlert.com help you search for education grants and to identify new funding opportunities
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Federal Government Resources
Federal Government Reference Tools
Agriculture
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) - USDA’s "mission is to provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management."
Commerce
Department of Commerce (DOC) - DOC’s "mission is to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce" of the United States. This has evolved, as a result of legislative and administrative additions, to encompass broadly the responsibility to foster, serve, and promote the Nation's economic development and technological advancement."
Technology Opportunities Program (formerly TIIAP)
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Small Business Administration Home Page
Defense
Department of Defense (DoD) - DoD's "mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country."
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) - DARPA’s "mission is to maintain the technological superiority of the U.S. military and prevent technological surprise from harming our national security by sponsoring revolutionary, high-payoff research that bridges the gap between fundamental discoveries and their military use."
Army Research Office (ARO) - ARO's "mission is to serve as the Army's premier extramural basic research agency in the engineering, physical, information and life sciences; developing and exploiting innovative advances to insure the Nation's technological superiority."
Office of Naval Research (ONR) - ONR’s "mission is to foster, plan, facilitate and transition scientific research in recognition of its paramount importance to enable future naval power and the preservation of national security. ONR supports basic and applied research in math, computer science and electronics; ocean and atmospheric sciences; engineering, physical and material sciences; cognitive & medical human systems."
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
(AFOSR) - AFOSR's "mission is to support Air Force goals of control and maximum utilization of air, space, and cyberspace. AFOSR supports mission-relevant research in chemistry and life sciences; aerospace and material sciences; physics and electronics; and mathematics and space sciences."
National Security Agency (NSA) - NSA’s "mission: The ability to understand the secret communications of our foreign adversaries while protecting our own communications -- a capability in which the United States leads the world -- gives our nation a unique advantage. The Research Associate Directorate with NSA conducts leading-edge research to support signals intelligence and information assurance missions."
Education
US Department of Education (Ed) Grants Page - ED's "mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access." US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES) , funding opportunities and information page. The IES mission
is to provide rigorous evidence on which to ground education practice and policy. Federal Register Documents for the Department of Education 1995-present "This directory contains documents published in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Education."
Environment
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - EPA's "mission is to protect human health and the environment."
Surf Your Watershed Links
National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) - NCER's "mission is to support high-quality research by the nation's leading scientists and engineers that will imporve the scientific basis for national environmental decisions."
Geography
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) - FGDC "is an interagency committee that promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis."
Health
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - HHS "is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. DHHS includes more than 300 programs covering a wide spectrum of activities, represents almost a quarter of all federal outlays, and it administers more grant dollars than all other federal agencies combined."
HHS Grants and Funding Page
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - CDC’s "mission is to collaborate to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health – through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats."
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - NIH’s "mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability."
NIH Office of Extramural Research Standard Due Dates
National Institutes of Health -- Institutes, Centers and Offices
NIGMS -- Research Grant and Career Award Mechanisms
NIH Modular Research Grant Applications Page
NIH Office of Extramural Research - Grants
AREA Grants (Academic Research Enhancement Award)
NIMH - Training and Career Programs by Stage of Career Development
Health Resources and Services Administration
Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects, Basic Query Form (CRISP) -
CRISP "is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions."
Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security's Home Page (DHS) - DHS "harnesses our nation's scientific and technological resources to provide Federal, state, and local officials with the technology and capabilities to protect the homeland. One area of focus for the Department is catastrophic terrorism--threats to the security of our homeland that could result in large-scale loss of life and major economic impact. Research is designed to counter threats to the homeland, both by evolutionary improvements to current capabilities and development of revolutionary, new capabilities."
DHS Research Page
Housing & Urban Development
Housing & Urban Development (HUD) - HUD's "mission is to increase homeownership, support community development and increase access to affordable housing free from discrimination."
HUD Grants Pages
HUD-Office of University Programs (OUP) Funding
HUD
Policy Development and Research
(PD&R) Periodicals: Recent Research Results
Justice
Department of Justice (DOJ) - DOJ's "mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans."
DOJ Grants Page
Labor
Department of Labor (DOL) -
DOL" fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements."
Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Aeromautics and Space Administration (NASA) -
NASA's "mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research."
NASA for Educators
NASA Grants and Procurement
NASA Research Grants
NASA Grants Database
Arts
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) - NEA "is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education."
NEA Grants Page
Humanties
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) - NEH "serves and strengthens our Republic by promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons of history to all Americans. The Endowment accomplishes this mission by providing grants for high-quality humanities projects in four funding areas: preserving and providing access to cultural resources, education, research, and public programs."
NEH Grant Page
Funding for the Humanities - Texas A&M University College Station, Office of Proposal Development's Funding for the Humanities page.
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research - Current events of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University, College Station
Art Residendies and Grants - Websites and searchable databases
Science
National Science Foundation (NSF) - NSF's "mission is to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense."
NSF Funding Opportunities
NSF Staff and Organizations
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution - "In communities across the nation, our programs offer the Smithsonian experience to adults and young people alike."
Smithsonian Office of Fellowships
Social Security
Social Security - "The Social Security Administration's Strategic Plan provides a guide for meeting the goals of the President's Management Agenda and the Government Performance and Results Act, and describes how the Agency will deliver results for the American people."
Social Security Acquisition and Grants Page
State Department
State Department - The goal of the State Department is to "advance freedom for the benefit of the American people and the international community by helping to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world composed of well-governed states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread poverty, and act responsibly within the international system."
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) - "IREX is an international nonprofit organization providing leadership and innovative programs to improve the quality of education, strengthen independent media, and foster pluralistic civil society development."
Transportation
Department of Transportation (DOT) - DOT’s "mission is to serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future."
DOT Grants and Loans Page
Treasury Department
Treasury Department -
"The Department of the Treasury’s Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2007 – 2012 collectively represents our goals, objectives and strategies for the diverse activities that enable the Department to effectively steward the nation’s finances, promote economic opportunity, strengthen national security and achieve organizational excellence."
International Development
US Agency for International Development (USAID) - "USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. Our Work supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting: economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance."
Veterans Affairs
Veterans Affairs (VA) - VA's "goal is to provide excellence in patient care, veterans' benefits and customer satisfaction."
VA Research Funding Page
VA Business Partnership Opportunities
- Federal Register - The official record for government funding which is released on a daily basis and offers information for federal grant announcements, rules, proposed rules, and notices of federal agencies and organizations, as well as executives orders and other presidential documents. www.archives.gov/federal_register/
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