Quick Links

Federal Agencies

Official Federal Government Websites
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)
Department of Agriculture
Department of Justice
Department of Transportation
Department of Energy
Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Library of Congress
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
NTIS (Government documents)
Office of Justice Programs
SBIR Solicitations from SBA
Small Business Administration
Smithsonian Institution 
United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
back to top

U.S. Department of Defense

Department of Defense 
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFO)
Army Research Office (ARO)
Army Research Laboratories
Construction Engineering Research Laboratories 
Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) 
Defense and Technical Information Center 
Defense and Technical Information Web 
Defense and Technical Information Web Locator 
Defense Information Systems Agency 
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) 
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Naval Command Control & Ocean Surveillance Center
Naval Research Laboratory
back to top

U.S. Department of Commerce

Department of Commerce 
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 
back to top

U.S. Department of Education

Department of Education 
What Should I Know About ED Grants? 
Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR)
Grants and Contracts Information
Guide to Education Programs
back to top

U.S. Department of Energy

Department of Energy
Argonne National Laboratory 
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Fermilab 
National Energy Technology Center
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory 
National Renewable Energy Laboratory 
Oakridge National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest Laboratory 
Sandia National Laboratory
back to top

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

HHS Home Page
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Welcome to GrantsNet - HHS
Health Resources and Services Administration
HIV-AIDS Bureau (HAB) - HRSA
HRSA Funding Opportunities
Office of Personnel Management
Public Health Services Agencies
Office of Research Integrity - HHS
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
back to top

U.S. Department of Interior

Department of Interior
Bureau of Reclamation
National Park Service 
United States Fish and Wildlife 
United States Geological Survey (USGS) 
back to top

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA Grants and Fellowship Information
EPA Research Programs and Offices
back to top

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Ames Research Center 
Current Funding Opportunities
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center 
Glenn Research Center 
Goddard Space Flight Center 
Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
John C. Stennis Space Center 
John F. Kennedy Space Center 
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center 
Langley Research Center  
Mission to Planet Earth (at HQ)
NASA Acquisition Internet Service
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 
NASA Headquarters 
Office of Space Science (at HQ)
back to top

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NIH Award Trends Data
eRA Commons
NIH Guide - Weekly Funding Announcements
NIH Forms and Applications
NIH - Institutes and Centers
NIH Extramural Programs
NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts 
NIH Modular Grants Page
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
National Eye Institute (NEI)
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Study Section Rosters 
back to top

National Science Foundation (NSF)

NSF Policies and Procedures
Grant Proposal Guide
Guide to Programs
NSF Bulletin
NSF Fastlane 
NSF Funding Opportunities and Awards
back to top

Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Office of Management and Budget
OMB A-21 Circular
OMB A-110 Circular
OMB A-133 Circular
Updates/Supplements:
Appendix A: Data Collection Form (Form SF-SAC)
Appendix B: 2005 OMB Compliance Supplement Update
March 2004 Compliance Supplement
back to top

International Organizations

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
IREX International Exchange
Pan American Health Organization Home Page
Doing Business with USAID - Acquisition and Assistance
United Nations
WHO/OMS: World Health Organization
The World Bank
back to top

Local Government

DC Government
back to top

Associations/Private Foundations

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
American Cancer Society 
American Chemical Society (Petroleum Research Fund) 
American Council of Learned Societies 
American Diabetes Association
American Geophysical Union 
American Heart Association 
American Institute for Cancer Research
American Music Center
American Physical Society 
American Philosophical Society
American Psychological Association
American Society for Engineering Education
Aspen Institute
AT&T Foundation
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Ben & Jerry's Foundation
Benton Foundation
The John Carter Brown Library
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
Cancer Research Institute
Carnegie Corporation of New York 
U.S. Civilian Research and Development Fund (CRDF) 
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
The Commonwealth Fund
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Council for European Studies
Council on Library and Information Resources
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
Charles A. Dana Foundation 
Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Edward Lowe Foundation
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Earthwatch Center for Field Research
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Foundation Center Homepage
The Energy Foundation 
The Eurasia Foundation
European Science Foundation
European Space Agency 
Ford Foundation 
The Freedom Forum
Gas Research Institute
George Lucas Educational Foundation 
Glenn Foundation for Medical Research  
HEI Charitable Foundation  
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation,  
J. Paul Getty Trust 
Global Fund for Women
Irvine Health Foundation
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Sage Foundation
Surdna Foundation, Inc.
Twentieth Century Fund
Wellspring Foundation
William T. Grant Foundation
Whitaker Foundation
WHO Foundation
Wilburforce Foundation
Wray Trust
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation 
The William Randolph Hearst Foundations
Hewlett-Packard Company 
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation
Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
IBM Corporation 
Inter-American Foundation
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) 
The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 
W. Alton Jones Foundation 
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Life Sciences Research Foundation
The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation 
The Henry Luce Foundation
Lymphoma Research Foundation of America
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 
James S. McDonnell Foundation 
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Muscular Dystrophy Association
National Academies of Science 
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) 
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
National Geographic Society
National Humanities Center
National Research Council 
North American Treaty Organization 
Oak Ridge Associated Universities/Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education 
Open Society Institute 
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation  
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Population Council
Research Corporation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund 
Rockefeller Foundation
Russell Sage Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 
Social Science Research Council
Space Telescope Science Institute
The Spencer Foundation 
The Stanford Humanities Center
Turner Foundation, Inc.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) 
Universities Space Research Association (USRA) 
Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation
The Wallace Foundation
Andy Warhol Foundation
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Y-12 National Security Complex
back to top

Funding Search

Community of Science
Foundation Center
Foundations On-Line
Federal Register
FedBizOps/Commerce Business Daily
The Grantsmanship Center/Daily Federal Register
The Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
ARL Announcements
ARPA Solicitations
CDC Funding Opportunities
CERL Contracting Opportunities
Community of Science (COS) Alert Service
Community of Science (COS) Alert Service
Department of Education Funding Opportunities
Grant Advisor Plus
GrantsNet
Ingenta
NASA Research Announcements for Space Life Sciences
NEH Programs
NIH Guide to Program Announcements
NRL Broad Agency Announcements
NSF Bulletins
ONR Research Funding Opportunities
Searle Scholars Program

Proposal Writing Resources

Common Grants Management Terminology
Grantwriting Basics: Fundamentals that Drive your Grantwriting Success
Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal (from Michigan State University)
A Guide to Proposal Planning and Writing (Jeremy and Lynn Minor, Oryx Press)
A Guide to the Preparation of NIH Grant Applications
Internet Resources for Institutional Research 
National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA)
NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Guide for Proposal Writing
Proposal Writer's Guide(Don Thackrey)
The Science Coalition
Society of Research Administrators (SRA's Grants Web)
Tips for Preparing Proposals (University of Manitoba)

Regulatory References

Cost Principles of Educational Institutions
Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements With Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations
Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations
American Institute of Certified Public Accounts
Cost Accounting Standard Board
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Code of Federal Regulations
Federal Acquisition Regulation
Financial Accounting Standards Board
Federal Register
Governmental Accounting Standards Board
Government Printing Office
General Services Administration
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Internal Review Board Guidebook
Internal Revenue Service
Office of Management and Budget
Office of Research Integrity