Links to funding databases and sponsors
Databases
SPIN: proprietary database for funding searches and receiving funding alerts.
Grants.gov: primary governmental website portal to announce Federal grant opportunities
Grant Advisor Plus: proprietary database for funding information
Foundation Center: the leading association of private sponsors
Federal BizOpps (Commerce Business Daily): information on federal contracts including broad agency announcements
Federal Register: a daily federal publication announcing all grants issued by federal agencies.
SRA: another research administrators' organization with similar on-line resources.
Sponsors (Federal)
Agency for International Development (USAID)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Environmental Protection Agency
Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sponsors (Private)
Local and Regional
Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts
Grantsmakers Managers Advisors Foundation
Greater Worcester Community Foundation
National
American Council of Learned Societies
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Carnegie Foundation of New York
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Program)
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Howard Hughes Medical Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation