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University Online Resources

• Educational Technology Minigrants
  The Educational Technology Minigrant Program, which has been seeding projects for over 10 years, encourages faculty to apply for funding to promote technology-centered educational innovation. This site provides access to summaries of the funded projects since the program's inception and can be accessed by principal investigator, school or format.
• The Foundation of UMDNJ
• Office of Research Administration, Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ), Camden Medical School.
• Office of Research and Sponsored Programs , New Jersey Medical School.
• Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, RWJ Medical School.
• UMDNJ Funding Sources
  This is a portal to research funding resources, includes InfoEd International (SPIN, GENIUS).

UMDNJ Links Highlighting Funding Sites

• From Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS)

http://gsbs.umdnj.edu/funding.htm

• From New Jersey Medical School (NJMS)

http://njms.umdnj.edu/research/ orsp/funding_search.cfm

• From School of Osteopathic Medicine (SOM)

http://som.umdnj.edu/ research/funding.htm

• From School of Public Health (SPH)

http://sph.umdnj.edu/for_fac/ index.htm

Federal Resources

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• Commerce Business Daily
• Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP)
• Federal Register
• Grants.Gov
• GrantsNet from Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• National Science Foundation Grants and Awards
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants and Fund Opportunities
  • NIH Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI)
  • NIH Contracts
  • NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
  • NIH Office of Extramural Research
  • NIH Research Training Opportunities
  • NIH Center for Scientific Review
• U. S. Department of Education Grants

Private Resources

• Big Online America [Fee-based]

Free twenty minute tour of product via Web and plus phone communication available. If you subscribe, use this site to search for funders from over 22,000 U.S. and Canadian foundations. Other site offerings include geographic analysis of where grant funds are being distributed, pie charts on size of grants awarded from certain foundations, proposal writing tips and a searchable pdf "bank" of IRS Form 990 from foundations.

• Community of Science [Fee-based]

Use this research and development oriented site to locate funding sources, researchers from different institutions working in a certain area and to advertise an/or showcase your research expertise to the scientific community.

• Delaware Valley Grantmakers [Fee-based]
• The Enterprise Foundation [FREE]

  This site allows a search/focus specifically on grants covering health, mental health, minorities and a host of other subjects.

• Foundation Center [Fee-based]

This subscription site offers links for grantmakers and individual grantseekers. Once logged on you can search the Foundation Directory Online by state, topic and by typing in a specific foundation name. The Foundation site also provides a "Quick Link" accomodating users with a disability. No trial is available for Foundation Directory Online. However, you may "trial" their product, which is updated annually, at a library possessing the Online Directory software. The link below will allow you to explore this. http://www.fdncenter.org/collections/

• Fundsnet [FREE]

This site is very much a portal on funding--books, grant sites and a host of other "active channel" links are available such as "Women Grants" and an alphabetical list of foundations online.

• The Granstmanship Center [Fee-based]

This site links to Federal Register, federal, state, and international funding sources.

• GrantsNet [FREE]

This site is brought to you free courtesy of HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) and AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). It includes funding opportunities for those in biomedical research and the sciences (including math, engineering and technology). The site's focus is funding for those in training in the above areas such as medical students, graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty.

• Grants and Related Resources Links [FREE]

This site is a compilation of funding links from University of Michigan Libraries. See two highlighted links below from this site. Also visit the above site link to see a listing of more World wide Web Resources on funding. Check out the Grantmaker Affinity Groups link, which is a portal to many specialty funding sites such as Africa Grantmakers, Funders Concerned About AIDS, Hispanics in Philanthropy and Grantmakers in Health.

• Grants for Individuals

This site is geared for individuals rather than organizations
seeking grants and funds. Funding opportunities are broken down
by academic need ranging from pre-college to postdoctoral funding,
by population group (e.g. gay, minorities, women) and by subject
(e.g. chemistry, medicine, nursing, sciences to name a few).

• Grants for Nonprofits: Health

This site includes a subject list of grant areas including Chemistry, Medicine, Nursing, Sciences.

• GrantSelect [Fee-based]

This site offers grants and funding information in many areas. One may purchase access to individual areas such as "Biomedical and Health Care" which covers funding opportunities for nursing and medicine, health professionals and organization. Funding sources in this area range from association to corporations to goverenment sources.

• GrantStation [Fee-based]

This one-stop-shopping site is provides news on grants, funding source and conference information. There is an area where one can search for funders--by name, area of interest and an advanced search option. The GrantSeeker's Toolkit provides links to state grants, resources on grants and federal grant deadlines. Other major sections include information on proposal writing and grant research.

• GuideStar: The National Database of Non-Profit Organizations [FREE]

This is a nonprofit database that boasts over three million IRS form 990 images. Though the site offers products and services, most items such as those in the GuideStar Report, including recent 990 IRS forms are frely accessible. Register for free access to GuideStar.

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) [FREE]

This institute awards two categories of grants--to indivuials and to research organizations supporting science education. Grants are competitive and must fit specific criteria from HHMI. Do check out the Awards Database to see what categories of grants have been awarded and the monies to support that grant.

• InfoEd International

This is a research and development portal with clickable icons that can link you to search such resources as SPIN, GENIUS SMARTS Search, U.S. Patents, USDA's Agricola and even Medline. Access to resources requires a user name and password.

Journals and Newsletters

• The Chronicle of Higher Education*
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy*
• Fund$Raiser Cyberzine [FREE]
• Philantrophy News Digest(PND) [from Foundation Center][FREE]
• The New York Times* [FREE]
• The Wall Street Journal*

*Some years available in full-text for Chronicles of Higher Education and Philanthropy in Academic Search Premier through New Jersey Knowledge Initiative (NJKI). Both The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are searchable through Academic Search Premier, but no full-text availability, just reference citations. Also, please note The New York Times is currently free through the Internet, while the Web version of The Wall Street Journal is only offered free for an initial trial period.

On Grant Writing

• Center for Urban Mental Health

  This Chicago State University site offers a "Useful Research" area which includes links to many grantwriting and NIH grant resources. NIH grants]

• Fundsnet Grants/Proposal Writing

This is a private site created in 1996 with the intent of reaching out to those in the grant world from colleges and universities. The site does offer links to some fund services, but (arguably) one of its few gems is the links to grant and proposal writing. Fundraising links are also available.

• How to Develop and Write a Grant Proposal

This resource comes from the Congressional Reseach Service. Tips for writing porposal sections--from the cover letter to the appendix are detailed. The overall grant process is also reviewed.

• Proposal Writing Short Course

This is a link from The Foundation Center providing tips and at times examples of how to do a certain proposal section. The document is short as stated, but appears valuable. It can be viewed in English, Spanish, or French.

UMDNJ Libraries Print Grant Resources**

• Annual Register of Grant Support--A Directory of Funding Sources, 39th ed. 2006

Call No. LB2338 A579
Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark)


• Demystifying Grant Seeking : What You Really Need to Do to Get Grants. 2001.

Call No. HG177 B878d
Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark)


• Directory of Biomedical and Health Care Grants.

Call No. W22 D598b
Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark) [2005], Robert Wood Johnson Library (New Brunswick) [1999], and Health Sciences Library at Stratford [2000].


• Directory of Research Grants.

Call No. LB2338 D598
Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark) [2005], Robert Wood Johnson Library (New Brunswick) [1994], and Health Sciences Library at Stratford [2000].


• The Foundation 1000.

Call No. HV97 .F65 F771
Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark) [2005/06] and Camden/Cooper Campus Library [1992/93].


• The Foundation Directory.

Call No. AS 911 F771
Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark) [2004 and 2004 Suppl.], Robert Wood Johnson Library (New Brunswick) [1994], and UMD/Coriell Library (Camden) [1992 and 1992 Suppl.]


• The Foundation Directory Part 2.

Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark) [2003 and 2004] Call No. AS911 F771g
Title held at: UMD/Coriell Library (Camden) [1991/92] Call No. AS911 F771d


• The Foundation Directory Part 2, A Guide to Grants Programs 25,000 - 100,000.

Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark) [1995] Call No. AS911 F771g
Title held at: UMD/Coriell Library (Camden)[1991/92] Call No. AS911 F771d


• The Foundation Grants Index.

Call No. AS911 F773
Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark) [2001] Call No. AS911 F773
Title held at: UMD/Coriell Library (Camden) [1992] Call No. AS911 F771g


• Foundation Grants to Individuals. 2005.

Call No. LB2336 F771
Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark)


• The Grants Register. The Complete Guide to Postgraduate Funding Worldwide. 2006.

Call No. LB2338 G764
Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark)


• The "How to" Grants Manual: Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants 2003.

Call No. HG177 B344h
Title held at: George F. Smith Library (Newark)

**Latest edition of books highlighted above, if available will most likely be found in the respective library's reference book section.