Funding Agency Opportunity Alert Sign Up
From SIResearchInnovationOffice
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.
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[edit] Aggregated Opportunities
[edit] Community of Science
COS is a suite of Web-based products and services academics and researchers can use to promote their work, find funding, access experts, consult, and collaborate with colleagues. This includes the COS Expertise and COS Funding Opportunities databases.
COS Funding Opportunities Database
http://searchtools.lib.umich.edu/V?func=native-link&resource=UMI01267
- More than 25,000 records representing over $33 billion in funding.
- Opportunities by sponsors throughout the world for recipients throughout the world.
- Sponsors include private foundations, public agencies, national and local governments, corporations and more.
- Funds available for work in all disciplines.
- Funding for many purposes, such as research, collaborations, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisitions, capital or operating expenses.
- Updated daily, all information verified with sponsor, edited for consistency and optimized for accurate searching.
Sign up for email alerts from Community of Science to receive the best matches for your research interests. This is 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).
[edit] 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
Guides on using Grants.gov, prepared by the University of Michigan DRDA (Division of Research Administration and Development):
http://www.research.umich.edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/era/grantsgov/gettingstarted.html
http://www.research.umich.edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/era/grantsgov/index.html
[edit] Foundation Center
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/
Access to the Foundation Directory Online Professional version is provided through a University of Michigan Library subscription. Foundation Directory Online profiles over 70,000 U.S.-based foundations, describing programs, areas of funding, types of support, geographic emphasis, trustees & officers, application process, deadlines, high, low & average grants, and lists of recent grants made. It is updated biweekly.
You must be on campus to use this resource as it is restricted to local use by our licensing agreement. Find it in SearchTools as you would other databases or use the following stable URL:
http://searchtools.lib.umich.edu/V?func=native-link&resource=UMI01222
[edit] SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network)
http://searchtools.lib.umich.edu/V?func=native-link&resource=UMI01503
The SPIN directory is targeted primarily to institutions of higher education. It currently contains information from more than 2,500 different sponsoring agencies, with 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.
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, start by creating a profile.
[edit] Agency Specific Alerts
[edit] National Science Foundation
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.
[edit] Institute for Museum and Library Services
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.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
