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Friday, August 29, 2008

INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES FOR FUNDING

The following is a list of online search engines for finding Requests for Proposals (RFPs, Program Announcements, Calls for Proposals, Research Program) from both public and private grant making institutions.

TIP: the majority of solicitations will be for organizations; one of your first search criteria should be graduate-student eligibility.

Community of Science (COS): http://fundingopps.cos.com/. Updated daily, COS Funding Opportunities includes more than 19,900 grants from around the world, both government and private.

Foundation Center: http://www.foundationcenter.org/. The Search Zone takes you to internal and external funding sources at http://fdncenter.org/searchzone/.

Sciencewise / FEDIX: http://www.sciencewise.com/ This site provides information on education and research programs for potential grants from federal agencies – Dept of Defense, Dept of Agriculture, Dept. of Transportation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA, US AID, and National Institutes of Health.

TRAM Research Funding Opportunities and Administration: http://tram.east.asu.edu/ . TRAM offers a search engine, http://tram.east.asu.edu/search/sol_search.html, for locating funding opportunities from federal agencies.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA): http://www.cfda.gov/public/faprs.htm. This site provides a government-wide compendium of federal programs, projects, grants, services, and activities.

Funders Online: http://www.fundersonline.org/index.asp. This organization seeks to promote and strengthen philanthropy in Europe by facilitating access to online independent funding and information resources. The site's fully searchable Funders Online Directory contains approximately 150 profiles of funder websites and areas of interests.

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