Research Resources
Funding Opportunities
InfoED
InfoED provides a one-stop availability to funding opportunity information, custom formatted vitae, and potential collaborators worldwide.
Grants.gov
Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 billion in Federal grants. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant-making agencies.
MyNSF
MyNSF is an email- and web-based alert service, designed to help anyone with an interest in NSF news and publications find out quickly about new publications and information.
EPA
NCER runs competitions for STAR grants, graduate and undergraduate fellowships, research contracts under the Small Business Innovative Research Program, and other research assistance programs.
Writing Tips and Guides
Writing Proposal for ACLS Fellowship Competitions by Christina M. Gillis is a essay from her personal experience advising humanities scholars in proposal writing.
What Do Grant Reviewers Really Want, Anyway? by Robert Porter, Ph.D, is a paper that presents the finding of interview with sixteen senior Virginia Tech faculty with extensive experience on review panels.
NSF's Guide for Proposal Writing Advice often given to inquirers. These suggestions for improving proposals were collected from a variety of sources, including NSF Program Directors, panel reviewers, and successful grantees.
Hints for Writing a Successful NIH grant Link to the many NIH divisions such as the National Cancer Institute. On the individual websites are materials for grantwriting directly related to the divisions.
"The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr. provides the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated; an on-line resource.
Non-Profit Guides Non-profit guides are free web-based grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations, charitable, educational, public organizations, and other community-minded groups.
FIPSE: "Funding Your Best Ideas: A 12 Step Program" by Joan Straumanis
