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Last full update on September 3, 2014.

Finding Grant Opportunities] Finding Government Funding] Finding Corporate Funding] Finding Foundation Funding] National Programs by Subject] Grants for Individuals] Grants for Libraries] Grants for Classrooms] Statistics Data and Numbers] Education Information] Utah Specific Information] Online Grant Writing Tutorials] Proposal Writing Guides and Guidelines] Examples of Successful Proposals] Budget] Sustainability] Review] Rejection] Program Planning]

Finding Grant Opportunities

 * Grantsmanship Center: A foundation partnership to "strengthen community-based organizations by training nonprofit leaders to plan more effective programs and produce compelling proposals for funding". Check out the //Resources// and //Funding Sources// links. This is a good resource to find Utah-based funding opportunities.
 * Fundsnet Services Online: grants by topic (e.g. education & literacy grants, curriculum and lesson plans, latino grants)
 * The Scholastic Funding Connection
 * Teachers Count grants
 * 100% For Kids This site is for Utah and has Grants and Mini Grants.
 * Free grants database for education grants (sponsored by Houghton Mifflin)

Finding Government Funding

 * Federal Register: The daily source for federal grant announcements if you want to catch grant announcements when they first come out.
 * Grants.gov: A great website to find federal government grant information. Much easier to go here than the FR.
 * Fundsnet Services Government Funding:
 * Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA): Good place to search for federal grants and contracts.
 * Department of Agriculture has a grants page
 * Department of Education has a grants page
 * Institute of Education Sciences (IES) funding opportunities
 * [|Department of Health and Human Services] has a grants page
 * Institute of Museum and Library Services
 * National Archives and Records Administration
 * National Endowment for the Arts
 * National Endowment for the Humanities
 * National Science Foundation
 * Small Business Administration
 * Small Business Innovation Research

Finding Corporate Funding

 * Corporate Giving Online database (requires subscription)
 * [|Grants Alert Directory]

Finding Foundation Funding

 * The Foundation Center Cooperating Collections are free funding information centers that provide a core collection of Foundation Center publications and a variety of supplementary materials and services in areas useful to grant seekers. Offers detailed information on foundations. Cooperative collections in Utah (and other states) can be found here.
 * Funding sources by state
 * Fundsnet Services Foundation Directory: Alphabetical list of foundations that you can search by category as well.
 * Common Grant Application Format Sponsored by Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania

National Programs by Subject

 * National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (main page) Their list of Grant Writing Guidelines and Tips . Do a search for grants on their page.

Grants for Individuals

 * Michigan State University Libraries Grants for Individuals
 * AERA Dissertation Grants Program

Grants for Libraries

 * Institute of Museum and Library Services:
 * Utah State Library grants page
 * American Library Association's awards, grants & scholarships page
 * American Association of School Librarians grants & awards page (grants listed in the left margin)
 * Margaret E. Edwards Trust. T he purpose of the MAE Trust is to award grants to librarians who "promote the free reading of teenagers." The Trust prefers to be contacted by snail mail or phone: Julian L. Lapides, Esquire, Trust Manager; 600 Wyndhurst Ave., Suite 246; Baltimore, MD 21210; tel: 410.464.0100
 * The Follett Library Resources company Grants & Funding page. For funding to buy Follet software check the funding alignment page.
 * Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program (LSL)
 * Yes You Can! Library Girl’s Tips for Getting That Grant!
 * The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation Library Grant Program

Grants for Classrooms

 * Donors Choose. Post your classroom needs here and perhaps a group of generous donors will contribute towards your cause. You can also donate money of course!
 * Teachers Count Contains link to various grants for teachers.

Statistics, Data, and Numbers

 * United States Education Dashboard The "U.S. Department of Education presents the //United States Education Dashboard//. The //Dashboard// is intended to spur and inform conversations about how to improve educational results."
 * The U.S. Census Bureau
 * National Center for Education Statistics
 * National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
 * Utah Data
 * Utah Educational Data
 * North Central Regional Education Laboratory provides survey tools to gather qualitative data about your school in Making Good Choices: A Guide for Schools and Districts and Making Good Choices: Sustainable School Improvement.
 * Annie E. Casey Foundation's Kids Count Data Center has a special section on Utah.
 * Library Statistics Program by the National Center for Education Statistics

Education Information

 * Education news state and national news about education collected by stateline.org - note that this website has an RSS feed so you can subscribe
 * Best Practices information from the U.S. Department of Education
 * What Works Clearing House source of scientific evidence for what works in education
 * Library Resources related to Education and Family and Consumer Sciences
 * Nation's Report Card from The National Center for Education Statistics
 * Promising Practices Network

Utah Specific Information

 * News from the State of Utah - Stateline.org collects news items (including news about education) by state, among which Utah
 * Utah Data
 * Utah State Office of Education
 * Utah Educational Data

Online Grant Writing Tutorials

 * The Foundation Center Proposal Writing Short Course

Proposal Writing Guides and Guidelines

 * UNC Grant Proposals Handout
 * Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal by Joseph (Michigan State University)
 * University of Michigan Proposal Writer's Guide by Don Thackrey
 * University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants General Proposal Guidelines
 * Developing and Writing a grant proposal The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
 * W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook

Examples of Successful Proposals

 * Schoolgrants.org has a list of sample proposals that is very useful to look at
 * Library of winning grant proposals search by category and click on link to see short abstract of each proposal.
 * Colorado Grants provides several grant examples for different kind of funding agencies
 * Scholastic's sample grant components (Note: only the link to Goals and Objectives is working)
 * American Philanthropy Review provides a grant example and a template grant proposal for general operating support (both links require the WayBackMachine to reach an archived copy of these pages).

Budget

 * Budget writing tips by S. Joseph Levine from Michigan State University
 * Proposal Budgeting Basics short online course by the Foundation Center
 * The Society for Human Resource Management has [|real budget examples]

Sustainability

 * Beyond the grant: planning for sustainability from grant prose.inc
 * Writing the sustainability section on about.com
 * Strategies for Sustainability of Grant-funded Programs by Kathleen Riggs, USU Extension Professor

Review

 * The National Science Foundation's merit review criteria on the merit review page
 * The Institute of Museum and Library Services has a reviewer 101 guide. Check out p. 15 Reviewer 101: section five, Comments to Applicants. Page 17 shows examples of good and poor reviewer comments in this reviewer 101 guide
 * Proposal Checklist and Evaluation Form by Norton J. Kiritz
 * Grant Self-Assessment Tool by the U.S. Department of Energy
 * Maryland State Department of Education Grant Review Handbook

Rejection

 * University of Michigan Proposal Writer's Guide by Don Thackrey - Why Proposals are Rejected
 * Chronicle of Higher Education article: Rejection and its Discontents
 * Chronicle of Higher Education article: How to Fail in Grant Writing

Program planning

 * K.F. Kellogg Foundation's Logic Model
 * Developing a Logic Model: Teaching and Training Guide from the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension