Funding Opportunities

Funding Databases and Resources

• Grants.gov - Search database of all grant opportunities offered by Federal Agencies, and sign up for email alerts
• AAAS GrantsNet.org - Listings of funders and funding opportunities in the Sciences
• SPIN - Search funding database and sign up for email alerts
• Community of Science (COS) - Search database of funding opportunities in all fields
• Foundation Center - Search database of private foundations
• NCURA - List of Research Funding Agencies and Nonprofit Research Administration Organizations

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Harvard Internal Opportunities

• Provost's Office Funding Opportunities
• Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program
• The Clark Fund and the Cooke Fund
• The Tozier Fund
• The William F. Milton Fund
• University Committee on Biological Sciences (UCBS) Fellowships
• More faculty funding sources from the finance office

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Federal Agencies

• Grants.gov - Search database of all grant opportunities offered by Federal Agencies, and sign up for email alerts
• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Department of Energy
• Department of Education
• Department of Defense
  • Defense Avanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
  • Director, Defense Research and Engineering (DDRE)
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• U.S. Agency for International Development(USAID)
• Department of Commerce
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• State Department - Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

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Private Foundations

• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Offers grants in higher education, scholarly communication, museums and art conservation, performing arts, information technology, and the environment.
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Supports research in global development and health, and education in the United States.
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation - Offers grants in conservation and science, population, children, families and communities
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Supports education, training and researched aimed at improving health and health care in the United States.
• Rockefeller Foundation - Funds research in agriculture, arts and culture, health, employment, housing, education, and globalization in eastern and southern Africa, southeast Asia, and North America.
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Supports research and teaching in the Biomedical sciences.
• Human Frontier Science Program - Research grants and fellowships in the Life Sciences
• Ellison Medical Foundation - Supports research in aging and global infectious diseases
• American Cancer Society - Supports cancer research
• Smith Richardson Foundation - Funds research in International security, foreign policy, and domestic public policy.
• James S. McDonnell Foundation - Supports scientific research in mind/brain/behavior, complex systems, and brain cancer.
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Funds research in science and technology, standards of living and economic performance, education and careers in science and technology, and selected national issues.
• Ford Foundation - Supports programs that strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement.
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - Supports programs in education, environment, global development, performing arts, philanthropy, and population
• March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation - Programs fund research into the prevention and treatment of birth defects and prematurity, including genetics, development, and social, behavioral, and environmental hazards.
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - Funds research through four programs: global security and sustainability, human and community development, public interest media, and the MacArthur Fellows program.

[Last modified: 05/14/08]