Sponsored Programs

GRANTS RESOURCE CENTER

The Grants Resource Center (GRC) is a premium service that strengthens the competitiveness of colleges and universities pursuing public and private funding opportunities. GRC membership is open to public and private colleges and universities. You may gain direct access to GRC’s robust resources—including a Funded Proposal Library—by completing this form to request credentials through HWS’ institutional membership. HWS faculty and staff can access the recording of this virtual webinar highlighting GRC's services.

SPIN

SPIN is a web-based system that includes a database of funding opportunities, a database of investigator profiles, and a matching alert service. This database is designed to provide up-to-date information on current national and international government and private funding sources. All of the data in SPIN is obtained directly from the sponsoring agencies to ensure the integrity of the information.

To log in to SPIN for the first time, establish a SPIN profile.
Users who are logged in to SPIN can save searches and set funding alerts to be notified of new opportunities matching their criteria.
Indexed training videos can be accessed at any time in SPIN under the "Help" menu.

Please contact Sponsored Programs with any questions about the SPIN funding opportunities database.

Guide to Competing for Research Funding

New Faculty Guide to Competing for Research Funding is a thorough and comprehensive guide containing strategies to help faculty identify and compete for grants in support of their research. While it was prepared with new faculty in mind, the Guide also contains material that seasoned PIs will find useful, including: finding funding in less well-supported research areas, collaborations and team grants, the challenges of integrating multiple authors, and suggestions for incorporating a transdisciplinary research model.

RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT & GRANT WRITING NEWS

This electronic newsletter provides expert guidance to faculty on how to compete successfully for research and education funding from federal agencies and foundations as well as key deadlines across disciplines. The newsletter will be distributed to the community on a monthly basis. Through our institutional subscription, we have access to the newsletter archive dating back to 2010. You may review the listing of past articles for your topic of interest. Log in here with your HWS credentials to obtain the link and password for the archive.

GUIDE FOR WRITING LARGE TEAM GRANTS

Strategies for Planning, Developing, and Writing Large Team Grants is a step-by-step guide for writing large-scale collaborative proposals in a team environment that addresses the challenges of transitioning from smaller research grants to large team grants. Topics include strategic planning, writing the project description, writing key narrative sections, and characteristics of successful narratives.

The Grant Advisor Plus

The Grant Advisor Plus provides grant, research and fellowship opportunities for U.S. institutions of higher education and their faculty. This monthly newsletter, shared by Sponsored Programs on the faculty announcements listserv, includes featured programs as well as a listing of programs in deadline order within each academic division (Fine Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, Education, International, Health-Related and more).

Foundation Directory Online

OSP has access to Foundation Directory Online, an online resource maintained by Candid that includes information on more than 300,000 foundations. This database is an excellent resource to help efficiently identify funding opportunities.

Grants.gov

Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than 1,000 competitive grant opportunities from federal grant-making agencies.

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