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 : Get Started

Basics: Looking for Funding

Funding Databases for Federal and Private Funding

• COS (Community of Science) Funding Opportunities Database, http://fundingopps.cos.com/
• Grants.gov contains funding opportunities from the 26 federal grant making agencies, http://www.grants.gov
• GrantsNet is especially useful for career development of new invesitgators, http://www.grantsnet.org
• The Foundation Center is helpful for finding private foundation opportunities,
  http://foundationcenter.org/

National Institutes of Health

• NIH in a Nutshell, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/NIH.pdf
• 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.
• CRISP lists grants already funded by NIH, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), and Office of Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH), 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/fund.html
• Grants & Funding Information Service provides funding services to graduate students,
  http://www.lib.washington.edu/gfis/
  

Basics: Writing Your Grant

• NIH Grant Applications - transitioning from the PHS398 application to the electronic grant submission (SF424 Research and Related (R&R)) form by NIH mechansim, http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/files/NIH_Transition_Plan.pdf
  Peer review at NIH - NIH Grant Review Process Video. Center for Scientific Review, http://cms.csr.nih.gov/
  Grantwriting Workshop by Janet Rasey, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/wkshp/index.html#gww
• Grantwriting Resources, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/gw/

  Basics: Submitting Your Grant

• Internal UW Form is called the eGC-1 via SAGE (System to Administer Grants Electronically) https://ucs.admin.washington.edu/sage/
• Check with your School and Department for eligibilty and requirements
• Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) does the final processing of grants. OSP requires new deadlines as a result of electronic submissions. Check your department's timelines as well as OSP's recommendations, http://www.washington.edu/research/osp/gg/timeline_outline.html
• OSP training classes, http://www.washington.edu/research/osp/gg/timeline_outline.html
• NIH Submission deadlines, http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/files/NIH_Transition_Plan.pdf
• University of Washington electronic guide to filling out the SF424 R&R, http://depts.washington.edu/sf424vq/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm
  

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/

 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
• The Foundation Center's database is accessible from within the Health Sciences Library. The Foundation Center also has many resources available on their website for free, http://www.foundationcenter.org/
• There are many types of private funding sources:
  
  National Foundations: e.g., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  Special Interest Foundations: e.g., Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation (for mental retardation)
  Alliances of Organizations: e.g., NABCO (National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations)
  Professional Societies: e.g., American College of …(Some administer grants for others.)
  Corporate Foundations: e.g., Microsoft Corporation (Keep in mind that funding is different from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation).
  Family Foundations: e.g., Ford Foundation (Started by the Ford family and has no connection with the Ford Motor Company.)
  Community Foundations: e.g., Seattle Foundation
  Community Groups/Private Interest Groups: e.g., Elks, sororities, MG Car Club, etc.

 University of Washington Services

• Researcher's Guide, http://www.washington.edu/research/guide/
  University of Washington electronic guide for faculty, staff and students
• Research Funding Service (RFS), http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/
  • Individual consultation appointments
  • Grantwriting and Funding workshops
  • Grant$ For Lunch noon seminar series

 Newsletters and Alerting Services

• RFS Listserv announces funding opportunities and RFS events, http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/fb/index.html#FundingB
• 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://www.grantsnet.org

Sign up for:

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

____ The Foundation Center database contains grant information from private foundations

____ 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.
Bonnie McTaggart, M.L.I.S.
bmctag@u.washington.edu
Location: Room T-311 Health Sciences Library
Web: http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/
Email: rfs@u.washington.edu
Phone: 206.685.8036
January 2007