Includes Commerce and Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Fine and Applied Arts, Humanities, Library sciences, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences. This is a strong database to identify funding information related to research, collaborative activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, post-doctoral positions, equipment acquisition, and operating or capital expenses, among others. Funding sources are federal and regional governments, foundations, professional societies, associations, and corporations. Updated daily and can be searched by sponsor, amount, deadline, eligibility of applicant, funding time and area of interest.

Foundation Center

This site provides grantmaker information, funding trends and analysis, Philanthropy News Digest, training and seminars, libraries and locations, fundraising process, Foundation Center publications, and a list of cooperating libraries. There are annotated searchable links to more than 160 private, community, and corporate foundations, plus federal grants and public charities. Also ranks foundations by assets and total giving. An online librarian is available to answer your e-mail questions.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) 

Want to know about funding opportunities for your museum or library? Want to know how libraries and museums use federal funds to expand their services? This is a new site on the Internet designed especially for you. It connects users to complete grant information, best practices, publications, and research, and it features new interactive tools, such as a map of grants by state and the IMLS electronic newsletter, The Primary Source.

Internet Resources for Grants and Foundations

Hilary Sternberg's links originally published in the May 1997 issue of College &     Research Libraries News (v. 58, No. 5). 1. Starting Places: CARDE's Other        Grant and Funding Pages on the Web, Charity Village, Community of Science Funding Opportunities, Financial Aid Information Page Grant Information, Nonprofit Resource Catalogue for Fundraising and Giving; 2. Organizations: Council on Foundations, Foundation Center, The Grantsmanship Center; 3. Directories: Foundations Online, IAN Web Resources for Grant Opportunities, U.S. Foundations and Fundraising Coalitions; 4. Government Funding: Federal Information Exchange Inc., Federal Register Online, Federally Funded Research in the U.S., Grants and Awards, Money Matters, TRAM Research Funding Opportunities; 5. Grant Writing: Corporate and Foundation Funding, How to Write Successful Grant Proposals, Proposal Development, A Proposal Writing Short Course, Tips for Success; 6. Electronic Journals/Magazines;7. Other interesting sites.

Research Sponsors

Professor Gabriel Robins (Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering at the University of Charlottesville VA) links to research sponsors. Includes government agencies, foundations and associations, other world wide web links, searchable grant databases, and gopher resources.

Technology Grant News 

Technology Grant News covers the up and coming grant announcements by government, technology funders, trade associations and private sector foundations around the country and provides them to you in presentable form.