1. Intro to Grants Research
Shawnta Smith, Assistant Professor, Head of Reference The Graduate Center Library Tuesday, November 14, :30pm - 3:00pm
@ShawntaDeshawn

2. From this (Beginners) Workshop
Part 1: The Landscape of Grants Research
Define grants and sponsored research
Part 2: The Grant-Seeking Path
How to develop keywords by determining your scope
Part 3: Networks - Filling Your Own Bucket
Identify your scholarly networks
Part 4: Let’s Get Searching
Overview databases for research

3. Part 1: The Landscape of Grants Research
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Image credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

4. World of Giving Fellowships Assistantships Residencies Travel awards
Essay Contests
Post-doctoral study
Prizes and Awards
Scholarships
Early Career
Honorarium
Stipend
Gifts
Federal Grants
Commissions
Professional Development
– Graduate students received an average of $27,740 per FTE student in financial aid, including $9,300 in grants, $17,460 in federal loans, $890 in tax credits and deductions, and $90 in FWS.
Image Credit: Earth CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Kevin Spencer

5. Trends in Graduate Student Aid
From Baum, S., Ma, J., Pender, M., & Welch, M. (2016). Trends in Higher Education Series. College Board. Retrieved from

6. Grant-giving- Forms+ Institutional Grants Private and Employer Grants
Education Tax Benefits
Federal Grant Programs
Federal Work-Study
State Grants
Federal Aid
Source: Baum, S., Ma, J., Pender, M., & Welch, M. (2016). Trends in Student Aid, Trends in Higher Education Series. College Board. Retrieved from

7. Private Institution Grant giving - Perspectives
Seeking an individual with fiscal sponsorship to support their work while also promoting the institution’s mission
The Foundation Center
Scholars
Seeking financial support from a reputable institution to complete the dissertation research and/or writing
Every graduate student

8. What Others are saying
Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts.
Foundation Center. (n.d.). Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts. Retrieved from

9. What others are saying Grants for Your Education
From GICUWMad. (n.d.). Grants for your Education. Retrieved from

10. The Grant-seeking Path
Field of study
Demographics
Institutional affiliations
Peer-group
Faculty recommendations
Conference presentations
Papers in process
Research components
Geography
Activity: To determine your scope, brainstorm the above points and use results as a list for future database keywords

11. The Grant-seeking Path - Field of Study
What is the interdisciplinary nature of your field of study

12. The Grant-seeking Path - Demographics & Geography
This includes your gender, race, ethnicity, that of your parents, and your country of origin.
Geography
This may also include the demographics and of your subject, depending on your

13. The Grant-seeking Path - Affiliations & Conferences
Institutional affiliations
This includes your memberships and where you are enrolled.
Conference Proceedings
Look to the institutions for which you have presented. Who are the sponsors of these conferences? Also, are there papers for which you may apply for travel grants?

14. The Grant-seeking Path - Faculty and Conferences
Speaking to faculty directly will offer leads. Additionally, look to see which grants have been awarded to faculty and check those grant-giving entities for junior-grants.
Peer Group
Seek the grants of your peers in your cohort first, then others across the nation.

15. The Grant-seeking Path - Components of Papers
Papers in Process
What are the affiliations and grants for authors cited? What is the research question for particular papers and how does it apply to the grant-seeking path?
Research Components
What are the parts of your research? Archival research? Travel? Interviews? Specific components may be fundable.

16. Activity - People and Institutions
10 mins
Brainstorm the points on the grantseeking path
Make a list of terms that fall under different points
Create a grouping of three - five keywords that you will use when searching in a database

17. Part 2: Networks - Filling Your Own Bucket
Image Credit: Well Measurement CC-BY Dwight Sipler

18. Why Social Academic Networks
Close to home
Be where the researchers are located
Including yourself in an international conversation
Where there are researchers there is sponsored research
Many databases have come to see the usefulness of social networks such as Pivot Profiles feature

19. Evaluating your Networks
People
Authors on your course syllabus
Friend on the Academic Commons
Your professors and committee members
Colleagues
Social Media Networks
Institutions
National associations in your field
Academic Institutions that you’ve applied to aside from the GC
Co-presenters at conferences institutional affiliations
Publishers and journals
Research the grants received by the people in your networks and research the institutions in your networks for sponsored research opportunities as well as for additional people

20. Activity - People and Institutions
10 mins
Make a list of People and Institutions in your network
Use your reading lists, your bibliographies, conferences that you’ve attended
Mine through the CV of a professor or scholar that you admire or whose work closely resembles yours or someone you’ve come across in a network
Write the names of at least three - five grants that you haven’t heard of to get you started

21. Part 3: Let’s Get Searching!
Image Credit: by Sylvanus Stall in Public Domain from Internet Archive Book Images

22. Tools to getting to People and Institutions
Online Communities
Academic repositories: eg. CUNY Academic Works (
Listservs & Networks: eg. HNet (Humanities and Social Sciences Online HNet)
Author identifiers: eg. ORCID (
Non-Profit Websites
Grantspace (
Philanthropy News Digest (

23. Databases (will require institutional proxy log-in)
Pivot
Foundation Directory Online
Foundation Grants to Individuals
Grant Advisory Plus
Grant Forward
Look to library libguides

24. Evaluating Grants Eligibility Deadlines Access Points
Initial Point of Contact
Processing charges
Institutional backing or history
Acceptance rates
Application materials
Use your keywords from the grant-seeking path to further evaluate the grants as you search

25. Shawnta Smith-Cruz
Assistant Professor
Head of Reference The Graduate Center Library
@ShawntaDeshawn