Resources: Grants
RESOURCES: UCSD and UCSF
- UCSD Office of Contract and Grant Administration (OCGA)
Located on the second floor of the Torrey Pines Center North building. Telephone: (858) 534-3330; mail code: 0934. OCGA issues monthly electronic bulletins and maintains a WWW site:
http://ocga2.ucsd.edu
- UCSD Biomedical Library (858-534-1201)
Presents occasional classes on "Getting at Grants Information" and other related topics; also has maintains a page of useful links on grantwriting (http://scilib.ucsd.edu/bml/grants.htm)
- UCSF Division of Contracts and Grants (C&G), Office of Research Administration (ORA)
C&G is located at the Laurel Heights campus at 3333 California Street, Suite 315, San Francisco. Shuttles are available from the Parnassus campus as well as other campus locations, and schedules can be obtained from Parking and Transportation. Telephone: (415) 476-2977; address: 3333 California Street, Suite 315, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0962.
http://www.ucsf.edu/ora/cg/index.html.
SOFTWARE / EMAIL
- OCGA Briefing.
The briefing is a bi-weekly newsletter that contains summaries of funding opportunities, contracts and grants announcements, and helpful hints. If you would like to subscribe to the briefing, send an email to ocga@ucsd.edu with "subscribe to briefing" as the subject and include your email address, first and last name, mail code and phone number in the text.
WEB SITES - GENERAL
- UCSD Office of Contract and Grant Administration (OCGA)
OCGA is UCSD's office for contracts & grants. OCGA collects and disseminates information about funding opportunities, and advises prospective PIs. All contracts and grants from PIs at UCSD officially emanate from this office, and so OCGA must examine and approve all proposals to all extramural agencies. Their WWW page on Funding opportunities and agency information [ocga.ucsd.edu/funding_opps.html] has a large number of links to other WWW sites and is a valuable starting point.
http://ocga2.ucsd.edu
- The Community of Science Web Server
"The Community of Science is designed to help you identify and locate researchers with interests and expertise similar to your own. It contains an on-line inventory of researchers, inventions, and facilities at leading U.S. and Canadian universities, and other R & D organizations. The Community of Science contains over 40,000 first-person expertise records, 5,000 inventions records, and 2,000 facilities records. " [From WWW page]
http://www.cos.com
- National Council of University Research Administrators
Links to research funding agencies (http://www.ncura.edu/resources/agencies.htm)
http://www.ncura.edu
- On-Line Funding Search Tools (Univ. of Illinois)
Univ. of Illinois page with links to many on-line search tool for finding both public and private funding sources.
http://www.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/ors/fundsrch.html
- IRIS Funding Opportunities Database
Univ. of Illinois on-line database of funding opportunities.
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/iris
- The CRISP Database
"The CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) System is a major biomedical database containing information on research ventures supported by the United States Public Health Service (US-PHS). CRISP also contains information on intramural research programs of the NIH and FDA. The research is conducted by scientists employed by the FDA and the various institutes of the NIH. This full text Searchable version of the CRISP database is updated weekly. Retrieval of scientific information for each project in CRISP is made available by project title, principal investigator's abstract, and term descriptors assigned by Technical Information Specialists in the Research Documentation Section, Information Systems Branch, Division of Research Grants." [From WWW page]
http://www-commons.cit.nih.gov/crisp
- YAHOO Search Engine for Grants
YAHOO is a WWW-search engine which classifies WWW & Internet resources into a variety of categories, and then permits searching for specific keywords. The Education-Grants area is a search tool for information about public and private grants, as well as other funding-related tools, software, products, and consultant services.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Financial_Aid/Grants
WEB SITES - FEDERAL
WEB SITES - PRIVATE
- The Foundation Center
"The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse established in 1956. The Center's mission is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. The audiences that call on the Center's resources include grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. " [From WWW page.] Excellent starting point for information about private foundations. Contains links to many sites, as well as practical tips and suggestions about raising money from private sources.
http://fdncenter.org
- Private funding sources (Commercial and Non-profit foundations, corporations, & associations)
Univ. of Illinois page listing many private funding sources.
http://www.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/ors/private.html
- Foundations On-Line
A directory of charitable organizations and foundations. Also includes pointers to fund-raising software; fund-raising consultants; books; other products.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Brewer E, Achilles, C,. Fuhriman, JR (1998). Finding Funding: grantwriting from start to finish. Corwin Press BML Library LB 2342.4 U6 B847f
- Miner LE, Miner JT, Griffith J (1998): Proposal Planning and Writing. 2nd edition, Oryx Press, Arizona.
- Ogden TE (1991): Research Proposals: A Guide to Success. New York: Raven Press.
- Pequegnat W, Stover E , eds. NIMH Handbook on Developing a Successful Research Application. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (out of print)
- Reif-Lehrer L (1995): Grant Application Writer's Handbook. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston.
- Ries J B, Leukefeld CG (1995): Applying for Research Funding: Getting Started and Getting Funded. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications.
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