Office for Advancement > Corporate and Foundation Relations

Office for Advancement
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6252
Fax: 910.521.6185
Email: advancement @uncp.edu

Location: Lumbee Hall, Room 438
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grant funding resources

What resources are available to find potential foundations to fund my project?

There are several online sources to help find potential donors, such as:

The Foundation Center's "Search Zone" — This free Web site offers some of the best general information retrieval tools on the Internet. Search nonprofit organizations and foundations by selecting organization types and specifying key words to narrow your search (e.g., "higher education" or "biological sciences").
Foundation Finder — This search engine, updated monthly, allows you to search by name for basic information on more than 70,000 private and community foundations in the United States. Under a link to Grantmaker Web sites, you can search for private foundations, corporate foundations, grantmaking public charities, and community foundations. You can search by annotated links to private foundations, corporate foundations, etc., by subject or geographic keyword. Links are provided that take you directly to the Web sites of the funding sources; there also is a Grantmaker Search on the left-hand side of each page that provides detailed annotations of every site listed.
GuideStar — GuideStar generates and distributes extensive programmatic and financial information about more than 1 million American charitable nonprofit organizations. It operates www.guidestar.org, a free, public Internet service and the nation's leading source of information about nonprofit organizations.

Are there sources available to assist in writing proposals?

Yes, the following links may prove helpful:

The Foundation Center's short course on proposal writing
Guide to Grant Proposal Writing (With Samples)
How To Write A Letter of Inquiry (excellent source for proposal writing, researching funders, and useful tips for preparing a proposal)
Grant Writing Tips from the National Science Foundation
Grant Writing Tip Sheets from the National Institutes of Health
Grant Writing Tutorial from the Environmental Protection Agency
The Art of Writing Proposals by the Social Science Research Council
Grants.gov allows organizations to find and apply electronically for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is the single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that will have an unparalleled impact on the grant community.

Updated: Tuesday, May 29, 2007