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
Harvard Internal Opportunities
Federal Agencies
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]