ENGL 4060: Grant Writing
Databases of Grant Opportunities
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GrantForwardSearch for grants by keywords and advanced filters, save favorite searches for new grant alerts, and save your favorite grants to keep track of them. Create a profile to receive grant recommendations that align with your research interests, past publications and other profile information.
NOTE: Use your WMU email address to create your profile.
Online Grant Writing Resources
General funding sources
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AAUW Fellowships & Awards AAUW helps women from around the world break through barriers and pursue their dreams of obtaining graduate degrees or making an impact in their communities.
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Academic Fundraising Web Resources Long list of Web resources compiled by Michigan State for grants, foundations, fundraising, and proposal writing from an academic point of view.
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Bread for the Journey For twenty years, Bread for the Journey’s model of grassroots micro-granting has helped to make communities more just, vital, and whole. Bread for the Jouney provides one-time only seed grants to people who have a dream and believe that what they are doing is an important offering or service to the community.
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Chronicle of Philanthropy A newspaper for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and nonprofit organizations. You must subscribe to get to the premium content.
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The Grantsmanship Center- Search for local and federal funding opportunities.
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Foundation Center The Center maintains a comprehensive database on U.S. and, increasingly, global grantmakers and their grants. Provides information for grantseekers and grantmakers. You need to create a free trial account. We do have access to companion Foundation Directory print version in Waldo Library.
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Institute of Museum and Library Services An independent federal grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners by helping libraries & museums.
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Community of Science Offers several databases for approximately 25,000 private and federal funding sources. Grants in the non-science areas are included. You need to create a free account in order to start searching with a free 30 day trial.
General Information on Non-Profits
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Charity NavigatorCharity Navigator evaluates and compares nonprofit charities for potential donors. Ratings include financial health, accountability and transparency. In addition to rating information sign up for a free login account to access past ratings, IRS information, including current and past IRS 990 forms and links to news articles about the charity.
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GuideStar National Database of Nonprofit OrganizationsRequires free registration.
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National Center for Charitable StatisticsA project of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (CNP) at the Urban Institute, the NCCS provides brief information on nonprofit organizations including financial information, recent 990 forms and programming information. Search for nonprofits by name or by location or by National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code.
Also find profiles of the U.S. and individual state nonprofit sectors and search for information on nonprofits by state, county or zip code. -
Kresge Business Library - Guide to Nonprofit Organizations & NGOsResources compiled by librarians from University of Michigan Kresge Business Library. Categories include links to nonprofit organizations, nonprofit databases, and freely available resources related to financial management, regulations, board governance and fundraising.
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Foundation StatsThe Foundation Center provides this free database where you can find data on grants given per year, including dollar value of those grants, by subject areas. This database also allows you to view data by population groups and recepient location. Additional statistics include aggregate grant fiscal data and top grant givers.
