1. KASSIE M. OBELLEIRO FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM COORDINATOR Using E-media to Find Funding Opportunities April 25, 2012

2. Finding Funding Opportunities Check your university’s Office of Research website Search on funding resource websites Directly on the sponsoring agency’s website Subscription sites (paid and free): Find out what campus subscriptions are available to you Sign-up for regular email updates or RSS feeds from funding sources 2 Tips for Identifying Funding Opportunities

3. National Institutes of Health

4. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Parent Announcements fund investigator-initiated projects and have no specific solicitations. Program Announcements (PA, PAR, or PAS) are relatively general and fund investigator-initiated projects. Request for Applications (RFAs) solicit specific types of research and have set deadlines. Grant Program Types 4

5. National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1.Determine the Institute(s) that may be appropriate for your idea 2.Identify the relevant Institute(s) priority areas Each Institute has identified priority areas that can be found on their website. 3.Identify the corresponding/relevant Parent Announcements Submitting to a Parent Announcement 5

6. NIH: Identifying Institutes 6

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8. NIH: Determining Relevant Priority Areas

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10. NIH: Finding Parent Announcements 10

11. NIH: Determining Relevant Parent Announcements 11

12. NIH: Program Announcements Two Ways to Find Program Announcements o Search from the relevant Institute’s web page o Search all Funding Opportunities and Notices http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/ Funding Mechanisms 12

13. NIH: Finding Program Announcements 13

14. NIH: Program Announcement Search 14

15. NIH: All Program Announcements 15

16. NIH: Program Announcement Search Results 16

17. NIH: Request for Applications (RFAs) 17

18. NIH: RFA Search Results 18

19. NIH: Advanced Search 19

20. NIH: Advanced Search 20

21. NIH: Advanced Search Results 21

22. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Email Subscriptions and RSS Feeds 22

23. Grants.gov

24. Grants.gov Funding Search 24

25. Grants.gov Funding Search 25

26. Grants.gov: Basic Search 26

27. Grants.gov: Basic Search Results 27

28. Grants.gov: Browse by Category 28

29. Grants.gov: Browse by Category - Health 29

30. Grants.gov: Advanced Search 30

31. Grants.gov: Advanced Search Results 31

32. Grants.gov: Funding Updates 32

33. E-media Tools for Finding Funding Opportunities Resources and Other Helpful Links

34. Funding Opportunity Resources and Helpful Links National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants Guide: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html Parent Announcements: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/parent_announcements.htm Activity Code Definitions: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/funding_program.htm National Science Foundation (NSF) http://nsf.gov/funding Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov Foundation Center http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/fundingsources/rfp.html 34 Publically Available Sites

35. Funding Opportunity Resources and Helpful Links Foundation Directory Online http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/ infoEd SPIN Funding Opportunities http://infoedglobal.com/solutions/grants-contracts/spin-funding- opportunities/ IRIS http://www.library.illinois.edu/iris/ Pivot http://pivot.cos.com SciVal Funding http://www.info.scival.com/ 35 Paid Subscription Sites