Locating Grants
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In order to expedite your search, those sites that include a search engine of some sort are listed first. Next are hotlists and other sites which require a little bit more digging. Finally, we've listed sources for newsletters, updates, listservs, or other interactive information sharing sources. If you think we've missed something, please use the KNE Feedback form to tell us about it.
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- US Department of Education: The Find Grants: Apply page starts off with Editor's Picks or choose the View All link. The Discretionary Grant Application page lists what's currently open. There is a Announcements; Application Notices page which pulls from the Federal Register and features education-related grants.
- Grants.Gov is a multiple government agency list. There is a basic search, category search, agency search, and advanced search. You can even sign up to receive email updates, find out what's "New This Week," or read the quarterly newsletter online.
- Browse the National Science Foundation (NSF) Funding Opportunities page. There's a lot here including multiple pags for locating grants and a page for K-12 educators. See also recent opportunities.
- Finding Funders from
the Foundation Center, includes a variety of free and subscription tools including the 1) Foundation Finder , 2) grant statistics,
3) Philanthropy News Digest, trends, and more.
- GrantSmart is an operating non-profit 501(c)3 foundation. Its purpose is to facilitate communication between grantmakers and grantseekers by making public records filed by grantmakers available for public view. You can search by: Name, Location, or Assets; Employer Identification Number (EIN); or keyword.
- techLEARNING.com has a Grants and Contests page that lets you browse through a list of grants, browse by grant or contest type, or use keywords to search.
- eSchool News Grants and Funding page is a searchable directory divided into Equipment Donations, Federal, Fundraising, Private, Resources, and State.
Browse Hotlists (links, links, links)
- A somewhat dated list of 35 grants including some of interest to faculty and instructional development specialists from the National Teaching & Learning Forum. There is a search but currently not working at http://www.ntlf.com/html/grants/grants.htm (bottom of page).
- The Society of Research Administrators International offers two resources: Grants Web, a resource for researching available public, private and Government grants; and the Resource Guide,
comprehensive list of public and private funding assistance resources.
- Los Angeles County Office of Ed has a nice long list of grants available from their Educational Information Resources Search Page.
- Directories, provided by the major search engines, have
lists and may contain some unusual entries that won't probably be found anywhere
else:
- U.S. Government Grant Information Sources from About.com
- Grants and Opportunities for K-12 Schools from SchoolGrants.
- Funding Your Technology Dreams by Sheryl Abshire. A good hotlist of resources.
- Fundraising for Libraries links and resources.
- Education World Current Grants
Announcements/Newsletters
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