The University is committed to continue to enhance research capacity of its faculty and students. As such, a concerted effort is being expended on increasing our level of extramural funding for research, scholarship, and creative projects. The recent establishment of the Center for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship is designed to help facilitate this process. . If you need additional help in identifying funding in your discipline or need some individualized support to develop a competitive grant proposal, please do not hesitate to contact us by visiting our contact form or by calling the ORSP at 898-5005.

SPINPlus:
This web-based service has three components:

• SPIN: Funding Opportunities Database
• GENIUS: A flexible curriculum vitae and biosketch database
• SMART: Automated alert system that matches investigators with grant and contract announcement based on their user profile

To sign up to receive targeted emails about request for proposals relevant to your research or scholarship interest areas, CLICK HERE to create a profile.

Grants.gov:
This website allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies.

The Foundation Center:
Founded in 1956, the Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy and a repository of funding available through over 80,000 private foundations. It is dedicated to serving grant seekers, grant makers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public.

The Foundation Directory Online:
The University has recently acquired access to this on-line database which provides information more than 1,500 leading foundations; detailed application guidelines for over 7,200 foundations; and sponsoring company information for corporate givers. This service also includes a searchable file of more than half a million grants. The Trustees, Officers, and Donors search field and its corresponding index allow users to search among over 350,000 trustee, officer and donor names. PLEASE CONTACT THE ORSP TO SEARCH THIS DATABASE.

National Endowment for Arts:
NEA is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation's largest annual funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases.

National Endowment for the Humanities:
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

U.S. Department of Education:
The mission of this department is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation. This department’s  4,500 employees and $71.5 billion budget are dedicated to:

• Establishing policies on federal financial aid for education, and distributing as well as monitoring those funds
• Collecting data on America's schools and disseminating research
• Focusing national attention on key educational issues
• Prohibiting discrimination and ensuring equal access to education

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development:
Grants are provided to support the HUD’s mission to increase homeownership, support community development and increase access to affordable housing free from discrimination. To fulfill this mission, HUD will embrace high standards of ethics, management and accountability and forge new partnerships--particularly with faith-based and community organizations--that leverage resources and improve HUD's ability to be effective on the community level.

H-Net – Humanities and Social Science Online:
An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. H-Net is committed to pioneering the use of new communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of academic ideas and scholarly resources.

National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) Awards and Grants:
Describes the Grant for the Enhancement of Geographic Literacy, Fund for the Advancement of Social Studies Education Demonstration Project, and Christa McAuliffe Reach for the Stars Award.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Behavioral and Social Research:
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) is launching a new e-mail service for announcing NIH funding opportunities in the behavioral and social sciences. On a monthly basis, OBSSR will distribute a listing of and hyperlinks to recent funding announcements (Program Announcements, Requests for Applications, Notices) published in the NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts.

National Science Foundation - Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences:
The National Science Foundation makes grants and awards for social, behavioral, and economic research that builds fundamental knowledge of human behavior, interaction, and social and economic systems, organizations and institutions.

National Science Foundation - Social and Economic Sciences/Law and Social Science Program:
The Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors. These can include, but are not limited to, research designed to enhance the scientific understanding of the impact of law; human behavior and interactions as these relate to law; the dynamics of legal decision making; and the nature, sources, and consequences of variations and changes in legal institutions. The primary consideration is that the research shows promise of advancing a scientific understanding of law and legal process. Within this framework, the Program has an "open window" for diverse theoretical perspectives, methods and contexts for study. For example, research on social control, crime causation, violence, victimization, legal and social change, patterns of discretion, procedural justice, compliance and deterrence, and regulatory enforcement are among the many areas that have recently received program support. In addition to standard proposals, planning grant proposals, travel support requests to lay the foundation for research, and proposals for improving doctoral dissertation research are welcome.

Social Science Research Council Fellowships:
SSRC fellowship programs are widely known in social science communities in the U.S. and abroad. These prestigious and highly competitive awards cover graduate training, dissertation work, postdoctoral training and research, professional foreign travel, and institutional support. While eligibility requirements vary, many awards are open to non U.S. citizens.

Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships:
Residential fellowships are available to individuals in the social sciences and humanities with outstanding project proposals on national and/or international issues. For academic applicants, eligibility is limited to the postdoctoral level and, normally, to applicants with publications beyond the Ph.D. dissertation.

Grant Foundation (William T.) Scholars Program:
The Grant Foundation supports original research designed to further the understanding of the factors that influence the well-being and healthy development of adolescents and young adults. The foundation's William T. Grant Scholars Program supports, over a five-year period, promising post-doctoral researchers from diverse disciplines. Priority research areas are youth development; improving programs, policies, and institutions affecting young people; and adults' use of evidence and their views of youth. The foundation focuses on young people ages 8-25, and is particularly interested in research that is inter-disciplinary; examines young people in social, institutional, community, and cultural contexts; and addresses questions that advance both theory and practice.

Guggenheim Foundation (Harry Frank) Research Grants:
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. The foundation awards research grants to individuals for individual projects and does not award grants to institutions for institutional programs. Typically, the range for research grants is $15,000 to $30,000 a year, for a period of one to two years. The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase the understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Applications must be received by August 1 for a decision in December. Ten or more dissertation fellowships of $10,000 each are awarded annually to individuals who plan to complete their dissertations by the end of the year. The fellowships are designed to contribute to the support of doctoral candidates in the final year of Ph.D. work so that they can complete their theses in a timely manner.

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (John Simon) Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. Fellows are selected on the basis of two separate competitions, one for the United States and Canada, the other for Latin America and the Caribbean.