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HELPFUL LINKS

FEDERAL ONLINE RESOURCES

Grants.gov
This site allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 billion in federal grants and register for email notification of grant opportunities.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
This is the federal government's listing of all of its grant programs. Grant seekers can search all of the CFDA's grant programs by keyword or by CFDA number.

Federal Business Opportunities - FedBizOpps
Lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, contract awards, and other procurement information.

Federal Register
The Federal Register is the government's daily newspaper.

Congressional Record
Provides the day-to-day proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives.

Code of Federal Regulations
This is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government.

Listing of Federal Depository Libraries

OMB Circulars
These grant management circulars produced by the federal Office of Management and Budget outline grant related accountability standards.

United States Government Manual
This is the handbook of the government. It describes all federal agencies and provides names of officials.

GrantsNet
This grants network from the Department of Health and Human Services contains information on HHS and other federal grant programs. Grant seekers also can search laws, regulations, and policies affecting HHS grants by keywords. In addition, the service contains directories of HHS employees, federal granting offices, grants management staff, and grant program personnel.

FedWorld
The National Technical Information Service's FedWorld links users to many federal agency bulletin boards. With the click of the mouse or the touch of a key, users can be hooked to any of the bulletin boards that provide a wealth of information on all facets of the federal government.

Thomas
This site, named for Thomas Jefferson, provides legislative information.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Home Page
NTIA's site provides information, guidelines, and answers to the most frequently asked questions about its grant programs and contains information on past grantees and contacts for similar federal K-12 grant programs.

FastLane
This is the National Science Foundation's electronic grant submittal system.

e-Grants
This is the Department of Education's portal site for electronic grants. From e-grants you may access all of the Department's web-based grant systems.

Community of Science (COS)
This Web site provides information on federally-funded research in the U.S.

Federal Agency Internet Mailing Lists

Several federal agencies have internet mailing lists to electronically disseminate news about their activities and services. Subscribing to these listserves will help you keep up to date on federal funding opportunities. The following is a list of some of the federal agencies that provide this type of service.

• MyNSF - National Science Foundation's notification service.
• National Institutes of Health NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts ( listserv name NIHGDE-L) and its table of contents (listserv name NIHTOC-L) To subscribe send the message subscribe to listserv@list.nih.gov
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  You can subscribe to several CDC mailing lists including Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vaccine R&D, and National Interview Survey
• U.S. Department of Justice's JUST INFO To subscribe send the message subscribe JUSTINFO to listproc@aspensys.com
• U.S. Department of Education's EDInfo To subscribe send the message subscribe EDINFO to listproc@inet.ed.gov
• U.S. Agency for International Development Subscribe by sending the message subscribe USAID-CBD-L to listproc@info.usaid.gov
• National Institute for Standards and Technology's NIST Update To receive a copy of the report by e-mail send the message subscribe nist_update to listproc@nist.gov
• U.S. Department of Energy's ER News To subscribe send the message subscribe ERNEWSLIST to listserv@listserv.pnl.gov
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration To receive NASA's press releases and other selected documents via e-mail send the message subscribe press-release to domo@hq.nasa.gov

STATE AND GOVERNMENT RESOURCES ONLINE

PRIVATE-SECTOR GRANT RESOURCES ONLINE

Foundation Center
The Foundation's Center's online service provides resources helpful in the grant seeking process, including information on its resources and services, its philanthropy news digest, and basic guidelines on how to research funding opportunities. It also provides links to grant making foundations, corporations, and local funders on the Internet.
http://www.fdncenter.org

Foundation Center Library's Regional Collection
http://fdncenter.org/collections/index.html

Foundations On-Line
http://www.foundations.org/page2.html

Council on Foundations
http://www.cof.org

Fundsnet Online Services
http://www.fundsnetservices.com

Corporate Information
http://corporateinformation.com

Grantmaker Web Sites
http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/index.html

Sample of Some Professional Organizations, Service Clubs and Nonprofit Organizations that Award Grants

National Science Teacher's Association
http://www.nsta.org
Kiwanis
http://www.kiwanis.org
National Tree Trust
http://www.treetrust.org
Teaching Tolerance
http://www.teachingtolerance.org/teaching tolerance/tt-index.html

Internal Revenue Service
To obtain information from tax returns of private foundations (IRS forms 990-PF and 990-AR) try the following sites.

• http://www.irs.ustreas.gov
• http://www.guidestar.org
• http://www.nonprofits.org
• http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantsmart/index.html

GENERAL PROSPECT RESEARCH - RESEARCHING AND IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL DONORS ONLINE

All the Web
Millions of pages of searchable information
http://www.alltheweb.com

Guidestar
Database of more than 850,000 U.S. nonprofits including foundations.
http://www.guidestar.org

American City Business Journals This site provides information on private companies and business owners.
http://www.bizjournals.com

10-K Wizard
This site lists stock ownership information from indexed SEC filings.
http://www.10kwizard.com

Yahoo!Finance
Visit this site to see all the recent trades on a user-specified stock.
http://finance.yahoo.com

PoliticalMoneyLine
This site provides users money in politics databases.
http://www.tray.com

Prospect Research Online
http://www.rpbooks.com/

Hoovers Online
http://www.hoovers.com

INTERESTING SITES FOR NONPROFITS

Internet Nonprofit Center
http://www.nonprofits.org

Techsoup.org This site offers resources and advice to nonprofit organizations on technical assistance needs.
http://www.techsoup.org

Nonprofit Charitable Organizations
http://nonprofit.miningco.com

FUNDING SOURCE DATABASES

Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN)
Database of federal and private funding sources for sponsored research and creative activities
http://infoed.is.mcgill.ca

Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
Database of funding opportunities containing records on over 8.000 federal and nonfederal funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/iris/

GrantSelect
Database providing information on more than 10,000 funding opportunities in the U.S.
http://www.grantselect.com

Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP) Maintained by the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health, CRISP isa searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals and other research institutions.
http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/

FC Search This is the Foundation Center's database on CD-ROM. It covers over 70,000 foundations, corporate givers, and grant-making public charities. It also provides links to over 3,900 grantmaker and corporate Web sites and expanded application guidelines for 6,700 funders.
http://www.fdncenter.org/marketplace

The Chronicle's Guide to Grants
This database presents all corporate and foundation grants listed in the Chronicle of Philanthropy since 1995.
http://www.philanthropy.com/grants

Taft's Prospector's Choice Provides profiles of nearly 10,000 foundations and corporate giving programs. http://www.taftgroup.com

Big Online America
A comprehensive source for fundraising information, opportunities, and resource for charities and non-profits.
http://www.bigdatabase.com

ADDITIONAL ONLINE RESOURCES

The Chronicle of Philanthropy
http://www.philanthropy.com

National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA)
http://www.ncura.edu

Society of Research Administrators International (SRAI)
http://www.srainternational.org/sra03/index.cfm

American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
http://www.aascu.org

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
This site contains curriculum resources for educators and provides information on products to improve K-12 math an science teaching and learning. It also has links to several other grants-related resources on the Internet.
http://www.goenc.com

The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
http://www.philanthropy.iupui.edu

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