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Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. Improving Our Future by Degrees in Oklahoma ’ s Second Century. Search and Select Funding Sources (Summary) Dr. Linda Mason. Categories of Resources. Categories of Support
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Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Improving Our Future by Degrees in Oklahoma’s Second Century Search and Select Funding Sources (Summary) Dr. Linda Mason
Categories of Resources Categories of Support • Special Project – new project or project with limited timeframe • Operating – running program to meet community needs • Capital/Equipment – specified amount for construction, renovation, expansion, purchase land or equipment • Endowments - planned gifts, will or trust
Categories of Resources What categories of resources can I find? Government - Federal, State, Local – 26 Federal Agencies (900 programs) Foundations - Second-largest source – 900,000 Direct Corporations Philanthropists
26Federal Grant Resources • Institute of Museum and Library Services - http://www.imls.gov/ • National Aeronautics and Space Administration - http://www.nasa.gov/ • National Archives and Records Administration - http://www.archives.gov/ • National Council on Disabilities - http://www.ncd.gov/ • National Endowment for the Arts - http://www.nea.gov/grants/ • National Endowment for the Humanities - http://www.neh.gov/ • National Science Foundation - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/research_edu_community.jsp • Small Business Administration - http://www.sba.gov/ • Social Security Administration - http://www.socialsecurity.gov/
26Federal Grant Resources • US Agency for International Development -http://www.usaid.gov/ • US Department of Agriculture -http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/funding.cfm • US Department of Commerce - http://www.commerce.gov • US Department of Health and Human Services -http://www.hhs.gov/ • US Department of Defense - http://www.defenselink.mil/ • US Department of Education -http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edpicks.jhtml?src=ln • US Department of Energy - http://www.energy.gov/ • US Department of Homeland Security -http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/homeland/index.html
26Federal Grant Resources • US Department of Housing and Urban Development -http://www.hud.gov/ • US Department of Interior -http://www.doi.gov/ • US Department of Justice - http://www.justice.gov/ • US Department of Labor - http://www.dol.gov/ • US Department of State - http://www.state.gov/ • US Department of Transportation - http://www.dot.gov/ • US Department of Veterans Affairs - http://www.va.gov/ • US Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov/epahome/grants.htm • US Institute of Peace - http://www.usip.org/
Formats of Information What kinds of information should I look for? Websites – each foundation or agency Websites – clearinghouse of information Data Bases – lists of information Newsletters – regular publication of articles and information Personal Experience of funded PIs
Formats of Information Grant Information Sources • Annual Reports • Budget Requests (eg. NSF - http://www.nsf.gov/about/performance/) • Funder Guidelines • Agency Website • Contact the Funding Agency in person, by email, videoconference, or phone • Blogs(eg. http://sphhs.org/blogs/researchaccelerator/)
Websites: Grant Resources • All Federal grants -www.grants.gov • Oklahoma State Regents –http://www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/ • Oklahoma Foundations – ww.grantmakersofoklahoma.org • Foundation Data Book (all foundations by state)- www.foundationdatabook.com/
Websites: Grant Information Resources • Federal Register Notice -www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/frcont07.html • Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance -12.46.245.173/cfda/cfda.html • IRS Form 990 – www.grantsmart.org • Foundation Directory – foundationcenter.org • OKGrants - https://grants.ok.gov
Websites: What? • Latest grant announcements – • Projected new upcoming grants – • Dependable stable grant availability - • Trends - Examples: Obama Supports Black Males http://philanthropy.com/article/Obama-Announces-91-Million/147833/?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en Ted Stanley Support Mental Illness Research http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/650-million-gift-aims-to-spur-research-on-mental-illness/88345?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en
Websites: What? • Trends - Examples: • Obama Supports Black Males http://philanthropy.com/article/Obama-Announces-91-Million/147833/?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en • Ted Stanley Support Mental Illness Research http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/650-million-gift-aims-to-spur-research-on-mental-illness/88345?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en • Child Refugees http://philanthropy.com/article/Philanthropy-Must-Step-Up/147849/?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en
Websites: What? • Trends - • https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4186 - Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology Act of 2014 or FIRST Act of 2014 - Strengthens NSF policy of awarding funds for science.
Data Bases • NSF Award Search - http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/ • RePORT – NIH Research Portfolio Online Report Tools - http://report.nih.gov/ • Most funding sources list previous grant on website
Grant eNewsletters What is a grant eNewsletter? All funding agencies and most foundations send eNewsletters with their grant information.
Grant eNewsletters • Grant Opportunities for Oklahoma Higher Education – www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/ (weekly announcements, monthly news articles) • Grants.gov - notifier@grants.gov • Philanthropy News Digest – www.foundationcenter.org • Philanthropy News Network Online – www.pnnonline.org • Chronicle of Philanthropy - http://philanthropy.com/section/Home/172 • Norris Consulting Group - http://www.norrisconsultinggroup.com/pages/news.htm
Grant eNewsletters • Christian Foundation Grants info=christianfoundationgrants.com@mail87.us1.rsgsv.net • Good Search - http://www.goodsearch.com/(contributes to your selected charities) • Chronicle of Higher Education – chronicle.com/ • Education World Grants Desk - http://www.educationworld.com/maillist.shtml • eSchool News - eschool.news@eschoolnews.com] • Don Peek (k-12 schools) – www.schoolfundingcenter.com • Teacher Planet – grants4teachers http://www.grants4teachers.com/
Grant eNewsletters • Faith Based and Community Initiatives Digest – c._lyn_larson@hud.gov (email) • Institute for Youth Development: Federal Grants eNewsletter - cdcta@youthdevelopment.org • One Source- info@nyswtwrn.com • GuideStar - http://www2.guidestar.org/
Personal Experience: Qualitative Research Resources • Seek interviews of individuals or organizations that are examples of the beneficiaries • Ask funded PI’s for a resource list
Personal Experience: Blogs & Consultants • Bloggers upload their personal ideas • Bloggers may or may not document their sources • Interesting and sometimes useful Wild Woman Fundraising YOU can change the world through fundraising - http://wildwomanfundraising.com/ - Mazarine Treyz Best 10 Fundraising Blogs - http://fundraisingdetective.typepad.com/fundraising-detective/best-5-fundraising-blogs-and-other-ones-i-follow.html Everyday Giving’s Top 10 Fundraising Blogs - http://www.blogs.com/topten/everyday-givings-top-10-fundraising-blogs/
Internet Communication • Creative use of the internet to find funds - • Crowdfunding, i.e. RocketHub - http://www.rockethub.com/ Use of the internet to share financial needs for creative projects – finding lots of small contributors rather than a single grant or gift
Kinds of Information What kinds of documents should I look for? Request for Proposal (RFP) Request for Application (ROA) Proposal Solicitation Grant Guidelines Grant Proposal Guidelines Previously Funded Projects Principal Investigators or Directors of Previously Funded Projects
Foundation Centers • Oklahoma City University Library – Foundation Center Cooperating Collection- http://www.okcu.edu/library/center.aspx Susan Small ssmall@okcu.edu(405)208-5071 • Tulsa City-County Library – Foundation Center (at Central Library http://www.tulsalibrary.org/foundation_center/ Jennifer Greb jgreb@tulsalibrary.org (918) 596-7940 • Southeastern Oklahoma State University Kathryn Plunkettkplunkett@se.edu(580)745.2302 • Public Library of Enid and Garfield County - http://www.enid.org/library/ Michelle Mears(580) 234-6313 Source -http://foundationcenter.org/collections/ccok.html
Faith Based Grant Resources • HUD.gov – US Department of Urban Developmenthttp://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD/program_offices/faith_based • White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships – http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ofbnp/offices/federal • 12 Federal Agencies give grants to Faith-Based and Neighborhood Agencies
Search Engines What are search engines? • a data base that you may use to find information by using key identifying terms • some free – some subscription fee • Tip: keep track of your search terms • Tip: use their key terms
Search Engines • COS ($1000 to $12,000/yr) – Community of Science @ www.cos.com • SPINPlus – InfoEd @ www.infoed.org • IRIS – University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana • Foundation & Corporate Funding Advantage ($240/yr) - http://www.fcfaonline.com/?ur=1U2PSW76 • Foundation Directory Online – http://www.fconline.fdncenter.org/ • Foundation Grants to Individuals - http://gtionline.fdncenter.org/
General Grant Websites • Grant Opportunities for Oklahoma Higher Education – www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/ (click on Grant Resources) • Cleveland State University - www.csuohio.edu/uored/FUNDING/other-fs.html • National Endowment for the Arts - http://arts.endow.gov/federal.html • Grant.gov (all federal grants)- www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/frcont07.html • University of Wisconsin at Madison - http://grants.library.wisc.edu/organizations/proposalwebsites.html • AASCU Grant Resource Center - http://www.aascu.org/ofpopen/ • Council on Foundations - http://www.cof.org/ • University of South Florida - http://www.research.usf.edu/ • University of California Berkley - http://www.berkeley.edu/research/
Kinds of Searching: Homework Who at my institution has received funding from this funder? Who knows about this funder? What can I find from the funder’s website or a company report or a IRS Form 990?
Search Strategy • Commit the time! • Pick an appropriate federal agency(s) • Pick 3-6 appropriate foundations • Develop relationships - visit • Constantly scan – ½ hour/day – lists, eNewsletters • Regularly review a list someone else has produced. (OSRHE) • Search with focus – direct to the agency or using a search engine • Work in a team – meet regularly
Search Stragegy Become familiar with your chosen grant funders before you actually ask them. Search locally first.
Search Strategy Search Locally First • What companies are in my locale? Phone book, Chamber of Commerce list • What Oklahoma foundations fund what I want to do? Data bases, libraries • Who among my peers has had funding? • Where is a good model of what I want to do?
Search and Select Dr. Linda Mason Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 405-225-9486 IP: 164.58.250.178 lmason@osrhe.edu