IRIS Database

• IRIS Home Page
• Search page

Federal Agencies

• List of all federal agencies
• List and guide to some federal agencies from OSPR
• Department of Health and Human Services
  • List of all agencies
  • National Institues of Health and list of all institutes
    • Guide to Grants and Contracts
    • Office of Extramural Research
         Standard Application Guidelines (PHS398)
    • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
         NIMH Program Announcements including dissertation fellowships and minority dissertation fellowships
• Department of Education funding page

Federal Register

• Government Printing Office (GPO)
     Today's table of contents
• Northwestern University Library

Nonprofit Resources

• Philanthropy Journal Online
• Independent Sector homepage
• Nonprofit Resources Catalog
• The Society for Nonprofit Organizations
• The Grantsmanship Center includes daily Federal Register funding notices
• Join Together Online has funding resources for public-health programs
• Yahoo's grant listings

Foundations

• Donor's Forum of Chicago
• Foundation Center--the best place to start
• Council on Foundations and their list of foundation homepages
• Spencer Foundation
• Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Grant-writing Tips

• Foundation Center course
• An article titled "On the Art of Writing Proposals"--the focus is on research proposals in particular, but it applies to all types of proposals.
• Guide to Proposal Planning and Writing
• A collection of how-to articles from agencies

Assignment

Suppose you're submitting an NIH research proposal. Find out who will be reviewing it by finding the roster of the appropriate study section. A good place to start is the NIH Office of Extramural Research.

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Last Updated: April 15, 1998