USEFUL FEDERAL WEB SITES

• Administration on Aging - AoA provides grant funding to States and territories, recognized Native American Tribes and Hawaiian Americans, as well as nonprofit organizations, including faith-based and academic institutions. Individuals are not eligible to apply for AoA funding.
  
  
• CSREES (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service) - Established in 1994, CSREES is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. CSREES accepts applications from eligible entities and considers the applications for funding through a competitive peer review process. Click here for to learn more about CSREES Funding Mechanisms (PDF file).
  
  
• Department of Education (ED) - ED provides billions of dollars, primarily through formula-based grant programs, to improve elementary and secondary schools, to help strengthen teaching and learning in colleges and other postsecondary institutions, and to support rehabilitation, adult education, research and development, statistics, and assessment.
  • ED Funding Opportunities Forecast
  • Federal Register Documents (from ED)
  
  
• Department of Health and Human Services - This federal office funds grants to improve health and allied health education programs.
  
  
• Department of Health and Human Services GRANTSNET - list of other HHS Funding Agencies that are currently posting funding opportunity information on their Internet sites.
  
  
• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - HUD awards grants to organizations and groups for a variety of purposes. To participate in the HUD grants program, you need to be registered with Grants.gov. To assist with the registration process, HUD has developed a registration brochure on how to register.
  
  
• Department of Justice - current grant opportunities, applications, and handbooks from this federal department.
  
  
• Department of Labor - Employment and Training Administration - The Employment & Training Administration (ETA) provides hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and contracts each year. This area will help you understand what grants and contracts are available, and how to apply.
  
  
• Environmental Protection Agency - information on Grant Programs Administered by EPA and current opportunities.
  
  
• Grants.gov - This site allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies.
  
  
• GrantsNet - GrantsNet, your one-stop resource to find funds for training in the sciences and undergraduate science education. Through the support of HHMI and AAAS, this service is completely free.
  
  
• Homeland Security Administration - This site provides information on homeland security and public safety grant opportunities offered by agencies across the Federal government and is intended to simplify access to these grants by placing information in a single, easily accessible site. It includes grants offered by the Department of Homeland Security as well as other Federal Departments and Agencies.
  
  
• Institute of Museum and Library Services - An independent grant-making agency of the federal government, the Institute has a defined, focussed mission: to lead the effort to create and sustain a "nation of learners." A great source for grant opportunities.
  
  
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) - NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
  
  
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Established in 1965, the NEA is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education.
  
  
• National Institute of Health (NIH) - Information about NIH grant and fellowship programs, policy changes, administrative responsibilities of awardees, the Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP) database, and the numbers and characteristics of awards made by the NIH.
  
  
• National Science Foundation (NSF) - With an annual budget of about $5.5 billion, NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities in many fields such as mathematics, computer science and social sciences. NSF fulfills its mission chiefly by issuing limited-term grants - currently about 10,000 new awards per year, with an average duration of three years.