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The University of Michigan has a subscription for University members to use their Foundation Directory Online.  [DONNA - HOW CAN PEOPLE ACCESS THIS?]]
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===SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network)===
SPIN is a directory targeted primarily to institutions of higher education.  It currently contains information from more than 2,500 different sponsoring agencies, for a total of more than 11,000 separate opportunities.  To ensure integrity, all SPIN information is obtained directly from the sponsoring agencies.  Funding opportunities are updated on SPIN as the sponsoring agency releases revised information, typically on an annual basis.
SPIN is a directory targeted primarily to institutions of higher education.  It currently contains information from more than 2,500 different sponsoring agencies, for a total of more than 11,000 separate opportunities.  To ensure integrity, all SPIN information is obtained directly from the sponsoring agencies.  Funding opportunities are updated on SPIN as the sponsoring agency releases revised information, typically on an annual basis.

Revision as of 23:45, 9 December 2008

Many agencies have alert systems that provide either email or RSS feed alerts specific to your research interests. The Research Office encourages you to sign up for alerts through specific sponsor resources or the Community of Science site to ensure you are getting notifications customized specifically for you. If you come across an opportunity that you think might have broader appeal to SI Faculty please pass it along to si-ori at umich dot edu. We'd appreciate all the help we can get to populate our Current Funding Opportunities resource. Below is a list of ways you can take an offensive approach to learning about funding opportunities in your area of research.

Contents

Aggregated Opportunities

Community of Science

http://www.cos.com/

Signing up for email alerts from Community of Science is your best bet for the best matches for your research interests. This is also the best source for information about opportunities from the Department of Defense branches. As they do not have their own listservs (as far as I can tell - but correct me if I am wrong).

DONNA - what more could I say about this resource?

Grants.gov

http://www07.grants.gov/applicants/find_grant_opportunities.jsp

Personally, we recommend searching on this site it you want to do a search to find funding for an opportunity to support an idea you are trying to find funding for rather than signing up for an RSS feed from grants.gov. But you can if you want... http://www07.grants.gov/help/rss.jsp

For a guide on using Grants.gov, prepared by DRDA (Division of Research Administration and Development), take a look at the following pages: http://www.research.umich.edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/era/grantsgov/index.html

http://www.research.umich.edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/era/grantsgov/gettingstarted.html


Foundation Center

http://foundationcenter.org/

This is a fantastic website that prepares you and guides you to the world of Foundation and even Corporate support for projects. I encourage anyone interested in seeking support from foundations to browse their site. They even have a short course in proposal writing for support from foundations. http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/shortcourse/

The University of Michigan has a subscription for University members to use their Foundation Directory Online. [DONNA - HOW CAN PEOPLE ACCESS THIS?]]

SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network)

SPIN is a directory targeted primarily to institutions of higher education. It currently contains information from more than 2,500 different sponsoring agencies, for a total of more than 11,000 separate opportunities. To ensure integrity, all SPIN information is obtained directly from the sponsoring agencies. Funding opportunities are updated on SPIN as the sponsoring agency releases revised information, typically on an annual basis.

http://searchtools.lib.umich.edu/V?func=native-link&resource=UMI01503

InfoEd, the company that maintains the SPIN database, also offers a funding opportunity alert service called SMARTS. SMARTS will send you e-mail messages whenever there is a match on your SPIN searches. Anyone with a "umich.edu" e-mail address can use SMARTS. To sign up for SMARTS, you must create a profile.


Agency Specific Alerts

National Science Foundation

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/

NSF's Funding website allows you to sign up for email notification of opportunities, RSS feeds (narrows to specific topics) or even search right on their site by topic areas.

Institute for Museum and Library Services

http://www.imls.gov/rss.shtm

Sign up to receive notices from IMLS via their RSS feed or sign up to receive their newsletter "Primary Source" which contains alerts to their latest funding opportunities. On the lower right-hand side of the linked page is the primary source sign-up link.

National Institutes of Health

To sign up for their listserv: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/listserv.htm

To search for current opportunities: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html#desc

Ann gets the weekly Guide notice which contains all new funding opportunities through NIH and posts the ones those relevant to SI on the Current Funding Opportunities page on this wiki

National Endowment for the Humanities

http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/rss.html

They have an RSS feed that sends you notifications regarding current grant opportunities and other NEH news.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/grantix.htm

At this site you can view current opportunities and sign up for email alerts. For those faculty interested in Health IT this might be a good page to frequent.

National Historical Publications and Records Commission

http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/apply/program.html

This site contains current funding opportunity information but does not have any email alert or RSS offerings.

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