Research Guides: Grants: A Guide to Resources

Foundation Directory Online
An authoritative source of information on private philanthropy in the United States, FDO Professional includes tools for locating prospective funders, instruction on funding research, help with proposal writing and more. Updated weekly, Foundation Directory Online includes details on over 108,000 funders and more than 3 million recent grants.

Introduction to Foundation Directory Online
HIghly recommend this 1-hour webinar to get full and effective use of FDO right from the start.
Philanthropy News Digest
A daily news, jobs, rfp service of Candid (parent company of Foundation Directory Online). Philanthropy-related articles and features culled from print and electronic media outlets nationwide. Customize your push notifications.
Grants.gov
“Grants.gov is your source to FIND and APPLY for federal government grants.” You can use this to set up push notifications for new grants in your research area.
Office of National Fellowships and Awards
SMU's Office of National Fellowships helps SMU students and faculty to apply for external, nationally-competitive fellowships, scholarships and awards such as the Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, Mitchell, Truman, Goldwater, Udall, Guggenheim, and many others.
The Grantsmanship Center
Funding State by State lists top grant-making foundations, community foundations and corporate giving programs for each state. Also a source for training webinars on all aspects of grant funding and information on international funding sources.

Writing for Science and Engineering by Heather Silyn-Roberts
Publication Date: 2000-10-11
Covers steps to writing abstracts, theses, journal papers, funding bids, and literature reviews, as well as preparing seminar and conference presentations. Written in a practical and easy to follow style specifically for postgraduate students in Engineering and Sciences.
Funding Your Career in Science by Ritsert C. Jansen
Call Number: Q180.55.F5 J36 2013
Publication Date: 2013
This practical guide for students, postdocs and professors offers a unique step-by-step approach to help you get the funding to start or consolidate your own research career. From preparing and writing effective career grant applications, to understanding how funding agencies will evaluate them, it provides guidance to enhance your skills and combine them with those of others who can support you on the road to success.

Writing Successful Grant Proposals from the Top down and Bottom Up by Robert J. Sternberg (Editor)
Call Number: Q180.55.P7 W75 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Includes chapter by "some of the most successful grant applicants and grant givers in the field of brain and behavioral sciences".
Proposal Planning and Writing by Jeremy T. Miner; Lynn E. Miner
Call Number: HG177.5.U6 M56 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Offers advanced writing tips highlighting technological tools that will help writers work smarter, not harder, to increase proposal persuasiveness. Includes an expanded presentation of logic models that graphically display the relationship between situation, processes, and resulting outputs and outcomes. Features a new chapter on sustainability, complete with sample language to help grantseekers answer the dreaded question, "How will your project be sustained beyond the granting period?" Shares practical tips that have enabled the authors to write winning grants for four decades

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Grant Writing for Arts
Guide for grant-writing in the arts.
Science Grant Opportunities
Guide for writing grants in the sciences.
Research Data Management Support
Information and support services at SMU Libraries for completing a data management plan and for making your data reusable and findable.

SMU Office of Research Administration
The Office of Research and Graduate Studies (ORGS) is responsible for proposal development and submission, contract negotiation, project closeout, research compliance, and facilitates the internal approval process for proposals and awards.