World Wide Web Resources
for Obtaining Funding

Collected by Joan Cook

Director: Instructional Computing
Department of Education
Montana State University-Bozeman

The Funding Opportunity Databases subscribed to by MSU through the Office of the Vice President for Research, Creativity, and Technology Transfer in Montana Hall, Room 207. Contains links to the following very useful resources. Call Audrey Thurlow for current passwords in order to get in (994-2891).

• Grant Advisor
  Grant opportunities from all federal agencies as well as many independent organizations and foundations, more than 300 listings of grant and fellowship programs in eight divisions:fine arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, education, international, health, unrestricted, other.
• SPIN- Sponsored Programs Information Network
• COS- Community of Science

Also contains links to helpful information for:

• federal sources
• private sources
• international sources
• state sources
• FEDIX Opportunity Alert
• NSF sources
• Custom News Service
• GrantsNet
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• Federal Register
• and a Proposal Writing Short Course.

• CATALOG OF DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE (CFDA)
• CONGRESS
• NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
• U.S. AGENCIES
• GRANT FORM
• LEGAL ISSUES
• FEDERAL REGISTER

To access information on funding by the Department of Education. Guide to Programs

Grant announcements, Discretionary Funding Applications, Grant Application Forms, Grants Forecast, Guide to Programs at the U.S. Dept. Ed, Grant Awards Database, Grant Policy Bulletins, "What I Should Know About Education Grants,"and much more.

• Private Foundations on the Internet
• Links to web sites of grantmaking public charities
• Corporate Grantmakers on the Internet
• Grantmaking Public Charities on the Internet
• Philanthropy News Digest Search

Main categories for funding field research in: Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary.