Possible Funding Sources for External Grants
The two major sources of grants are the federal government and private foundations. Other sources include corporate foundations, state and local governments, and other nonprofit agencies and consortia. Information about all these sources can be found at the following internet Web sites:
General Sites
- Faculty Grants
Directory of the Association of Theological Schools. (http://www.ats.edu/faculty/external/fgdirtoc.html)
This is an excellent online source of information about grant opportunities in all fields of the humanities and the social sciences (it covers much more than just religion). It includes information on more than 750 funding sources, with access by agency or by subject. Search results often include not just agency descriptions, but program descriptions, as well.
- The Foundation
Center. (fdncenter.org/)
This site has good information on many aspects of raising money from foundations through grant applications.It also has some free searchable databases on grant makers at fdncenter.org/funders/. Access is by agency or by subject. Search results produce agency descriptions, but seldom information about their specific programs.
Federal Agencies
- National Endowment
for the Humanities. (www.neh.fed.us/grants/)
The "humanities" include "language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions and history, and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life."
- National Endowment for
the Arts. (arts.endow.gov/)
Their home page has two or three links that take you straight to funding opportunities. - National Science
Foundation. (www.nsf.gov)
An overview of NSF major program areas can be accessed at www.nsf.gov/home/programs/.
They are:
Biology
Computer and information sciences
Education
Engineering
Geosciences
Math/physical sciences
Polar research
Science statistics
Social/behavioral sciences
Crosscutting programs
International programs
- National Institutes
of Health. (www.nih.gov)
There's a prominent "Grants and Funding Opportunities" link on their home page.
- Department of
Education. (www.ed.gov/)
The links "Funding Opportunities" and "Discretionary Grant Applications" lead to grant programs.
Internal to SPU
- The Fulbright
Program funds travel and research abroad for students and postdoctoral
scholars. It also funds teacher exchanges. Our on-campus representative
is Susan VanZanten Gallagher. Call her at 206/281-2152, or e-mail gallaghe@spu.edu,
or visit the Web site at www.iie.org/fulbright/.
- Northwest Academic Computing Consortium funds certain education-related computing equipment purchases. Contact Dave Tindall at 206/281-2239 or dtindall@spu.edu.
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