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Finding Funding

The good news is that there are an amazing number of places to find funding; the bad news is that finding the one that best matches your needs can be very difficult. The following resources can make your search easier.

Funding Databases

Although you may click on each solicitation in Funding Alerts to see if it fits your research interests, there are more efficient ways to search for opportunities. You can access two major funding databases from computers on NCA&T's campus. The funding database, Community of Science , allows you to narrow your search before you begin checking a program solicitation's details.

Federal Funding Links

You can search for federal funding opportunities and find assistance in proposal submission at Grants.gov. After you locate a relevant program title, Grants.gov can lead you to the full solicitation. (You can also use COS or SPIN to search for it.) There are three other federal sites that allow you to search in different ways or for different opportunities. You can search for federal business opportunities at FedBizOpps. The Department of Defense sponsors the Defense Technical Information Center; it gives you three different ways to search DOD's web information. The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) has a searchable database and also lists new federal programs.

• Specialized Databases

GrantsNet is a service of Science magazine and its publisher, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The Foundation Center provides a searchable database of foundation support for a fee. They offer a long list of foundations that provide scholarships (for free!) at http://youth.fdncenter.org/youth_scholarships.html.

• Federal Agencies

Finally, you can search for funding from the federal government by going directly to an agency's website. "View the list" takes you to links to federal agencies. The list covers thirteen cabinet level departments with their subsidiary units and thirteen independent agencies.

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