Basics: Looking for Funding Writing Your Grant Submitting Your Grant
	Beyond the Basics: Federal Funding Besides NIH Private Funding UW Services Newsletters and Alerting Services
		Funding Checklist : to Get Started

Basics: Looking for Funding

Funding Databases for Federal and Private Funding

• COS (Community of Science) Funding Opportunities Database, http://fundingopps.cos.com/
• IRIS, Illinois Researcher Information Service, http://www.library.uiuc.edu/iris
• GrantsNet is especially useful for basic science research funding, http://www.grantsnet.org
• Connecting to UW Online Restricted Resources

National Institutes of Health

• NIH in a Nutshell, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/NIH.pdf and more at http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/nih.html by the Research Funding Service, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
• Extramural Funding: funding for research that is done outside of an agency or organization. For example, National Institutes of Health (NIH) intramural research is done in its own laboratories, but  NIH's extramural funding goes to universities and labs outside of NIH.
• Program Officer: person to contact at an agency or organization to ask questions about the funding opportunity. Often called a Program Director, Branch or Section Chief, Group Leader, Vice President for Research, etc.
• CRISP lists grants already funded by NIH. Use this to test the originality of your ideas, find the best institute to fund your grant, the best study section to review it, and the most appropriate funding mechanism, http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/
• NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts is the weekly newsletter for all official NIH announcements. This is the best place to keep up with NIH and find program officers. The table of contents is available by email, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html
• Institutes and Offices lists the Web sites of all of the NIH Institutes and Centers, http://www.nih.gov/icd/
  

UW Funding

• Funding from the UW, http://www.washington.edu/research/guide/funding.html#uw
• RFS Funding Bulletin and Late-Breaking Opportunities include School of Medicine internal deadlines and instructions, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/fb/, and http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/lb/
• Grants & Funding Information Service provides funding services to graduate students,
  http://www.lib.washington.edu/gfis/
  

Basics: Writing Your Grant

• NIH Grant Applications PHS 398 (Rev. 5/01) for most applications and PHS 416-1 (Rev. 12/98) for fellowships, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms.htm#applications
• How to Write a Research Grant: A Two-Part Workshop, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/wkshp/index.html#gww
• Grantwriting Resources, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/gw/

  Basics: Submitting Your Grant

• Internal UW Form The GC-1 form must accompany any UW grant or contract proposal. As of July 1, 2003, all grant proposals must use the electronic GC-1 (eGC-1) instead of the paper version.
• School Requirements: School of Medicine Grant Submission, http://www.washington.edu/medicine/research/grants/processing.html
  
• Grant and Contract Services (G&CS) does the final processing of grants. Please allow at least two weeks for internal processing of your grant application. In busy months, G&CS may process as many as 600 proposals in one month, http://www.washington.edu/research/gcs/
  

Beyond the Basics:

 Federal Funding Besides NIH

• Federal agencies besides NIH are of interest to health professionals, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/federal.html
• COS Funding Opportunities Database is a good place to start searching for Federal funding. It is a good place to find difficult-to-track funding sources like the military, http://fundingopps.cos.com/
• COS Federally-Funded Research tells you what some Federal agencies have already funded, http://fundedresearch.cos.com/

 Private Funding

• There is no one "best way" to find nonfederal opportunities. Use many sources--databases, books, acknowledgements in research papers, colleagues, etc.
• Don't worry if a grant source says it doesn't fund individuals. You are part of the University of Washington, so you qualify in those situations.

 University of Washington Services

• Researcher's Guide, http://www.washington.edu/research/guide/
• Research Funding Service (RFS), http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/
  • Individual consultation appointments
  • Monthly Funding Bulletin newsletter
  • Late-breaking opportunities announcement service with School of Medicine local instructions
  • Grant$ For Lunch noon seminar series and Grantwriting Workshop

 Newsletters and Alerting Services

• Funding Bulletin is a monthly newsletter available electronically or in print. Includes UW School of Medicine deadlines and instructions, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/fb/
  
• NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts Email Alert will send the table of contents each week via email, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/listserv.htm
• COS Funding Alert offers a personalized weekly e-mail newsletter. Customize your Funding Alert through your COS Workbench, a "workspace" that provides access to all COS services, http://www.cos.com/services/funding.shtml
• Grants Newsletter is especially helpful to basic science researchers, http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/awards.dtl

Sign up for:

___ Monthly newsletter and late-breaking funding opportunities
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/fb/

___ Grant and Contract News at the University of Washington
http://www.washington.edu/research/guide/subscribe.html

___ NIH Guide Table of Contents
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/listserv.htm

___ Email funding alerts from COS (Community of Science)
http://www.cos.com/services/funding.shtml

____ Grantwriting Workshop or Database Searching Classes
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/wkshp/index.html

____ Individual Funding Consultation,
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/forms/consult.html

Search Funding Databases:
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/sources.html

____ CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
NIH-funded research

____ COS (Community of Science) Federal and nonfederal opportunities

____ IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service) Federal and nonfederal
opportunities

____ GrantsNet for basic science researchers

Talk to:

____ Colleagues/Mentor

____ Program Officer at NIH or Other Funding Agency

____ Expert at Grant$ for Lunch
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/services.html#events

Online Class Evaluation Form (class use only)

The Research Funding Service is a joint project of the School of Medicine and the Health Sciences Libraries, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Location: Room T-311 Health Sciences Library
Web: http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/
Email: rfs@u.washington.edu
Phone: 206-685-8036
October 21, 2003