finding grant opportunities

FINDING GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

Workshop Overview1. Types of Awards

2. Identify Funding Opportunities

3. How to find grant opportunities from resources available to Cooperative Extension, UW-Extension, Universities, and on the Web.

Types of AwardsFederal, State, & Private Awards Federal Awards:

A federal grant is an award of financial assistance from a federal agency to a recipient.

Carry out a broader public purpose or economic stimulation.

Guided by political agenda. Has strict, formal guidelines and procedures for

applying for and administering grants. Applications are peer reviewed for merit and

technical aspects. You will receive their comments. Budgets can change when federal priorities change.

Types of Awards Federal Awards

Categorical grants may be spent only for narrowly defined purposes, and recipients often must match a portion of the federal funds from their own funds. Project grants are grants given by the government to

fund research or outreach projects. An individual must have certain qualifications before applying for such a grant and the normal duration for project grants is three years.

Formula grants provide funds as dictated by a law. Block grants are large grants provided from the

federal government to state or local governments for use in a general purpose.

Earmark grants are explicitly specified in appropriations of the U.S. Congress. They are not competitively awarded.

Types of Awards Federal Awards

There are over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies. These programs are the more common ones that Coop sees: Agriculture Community Development Education Environmental Quality Food and Nutrition Family and Youth Health Justice Natural Resources Science

Types of Awards How do they keep track of Federal grant programs?

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) The CFDA is a government-wide compendium of Federal

programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public.

Now published electronically on-line at http://www.cfda.gov The database is searchable and uses a ##.### numbering

schema. Programs are indexed by federal government agency.

Ex. 10.### is the US Department of Agriculture Ex. 93.### is the US Department of Health and Human

Services

The CFDA is useful for when you want to find the authorization for the grant opportunity you’re applying for, and Uses and Use Restrictions.

UW-Extension is required to record the CFDA#s of their federal grants.

Types of Awards

Types of Awards State Awards

A state grant is an award of financial assistance from a Wisconsin State Agency, County, Municipality, or Local Govt. Unit.

The source of funding can be:

Federal; we call those “federal pass-through”. State GPR Funds (tax dollars). Non-Federal funds received from Wisconsin

Counties in partnership with Cooperative Extension

Other than above.

Types of Awards

There also can be Non-Federal funds from sanctioned support groups. The following organizations qualify as sanctioned support groups:

County-based support organizations (i.e. 4-H Foundations)

University of Wisconsin Foundation Leadership Wisconsin

Types of Awards Private Awards

A private grant is an award of financial assistance from a private non-profit organizations such as foundations, not-for-profit corporations or charitable trusts.

Stable and long-term priorities. Shorter proposals in page length. Often have poorly defined guidelines and procedures

for applying for and administering grants. Awards are limited to organizations in a specific

geographical area. Proposals are often reviewed continuously or multiple

times per year by a board or staff members. Are dependent on private funds and donations.

Internal Grant Opportunities University of Wisconsin

The University of Wisconsin also offers internal grant opportunities.

A call for proposals is emailed to staff or posted on the web.

Program Innovation Fund - an institutional fund designed to encourage innovative projects and programs that foster greater collaboration among and between the UW-Extension divisions, the UW Colleges, and other UW institutions and/or community partners.http://uwex.uwc.edu/innovation/

Grants are awarded via an internal budget transfer or inter-institutional agreement.

Internal Grant Opportunities University of Wisconsin

UW-ExtensionFunding Opportunities ResourcesUW-Extension has access to three subscription-based funding opportunity databases:I. GRC – Grants Resource Center

Has 2,000 funding opportunities, mainly federal and cyclical Has access to funded proposal abstracts Can set up a monthly e-mail alert based on search criteria

II. COS/Pivot Contains 25,000 funding opportunities, including

foundations, local/state/federal agencies, foreign governments, international organizations, and corporations

Can set up a weekly e-mail alert based on saved searchesIII. Foundations in Wisconsin

Contains the profiles of 1,301 private foundations in Wisconsin with $7B in assets, funding $500K in grants in 2012.

UW-ExtensionFunding Opportunities ResourcesAccessing GRC – Grants Resource Center:

The web address is http://aascu.org/grclogin

Contact Coop’s Budget Office grants coordinator, or the UWEX OES preaward official, for the Username and Password.

UW-ExtensionFunding Opportunities ResourcesAccessing GRC – Grants Resource Center

Go to Resources1. Funded Proposal Library - examples of funded

proposal abstracts, by federal agency.

2. Grant Search You can search with these criteria: Subject, Activity, Sponsor, Deadline, and Text.


To have customized search results sent to your e-mail address on a monthly basis, fill out and return the following form to GRC: http://www.aascu.org/grc/Resources/Faculty-Alerts.pdf

To view GRC publications, go to Publications

1. GRC Bulletin – biweekly bulletin of different funding opportunities. To become a recipient, please e-mail Suzanne at [email protected]

2. Deadlines – funding opportunities with deadlines in the next 3 months

3. GrantsWeek – articles on federal agencies’ grant funding budgets and activities

Cooperative Extension Listserv Cooperative Extension has a listserv

subscription option. To receive news on GRC grant opportunities, subscribe to the list by visiting the following link:

https://lists.uwex.edu/mailman/listinfo/grc-bulletin

You can unsubscribe from the list at the same link.

UW-ExtensionFunding Opportunities ResourcesAccessing COS/Pivot

http://pivot.cos.com/funding_main

Click on “Sign Up” to create your Pivot account. Name, e-mail address, new password, and affiliated

member institution University of Wisconsin – Extension


After you receive a verification e-mail and sent a confirmation, log in to continue.

1. Search funding opportunities by text or sponsor

Can refine search (top bar) and/or results (left bar)


Can save search (top bar) & set up a weekly e-mail alert.


2. For tailored funding opportunities based on Profile Detail, go to Profiles


Example of funding opportunities tailored to a profile:

UW-ExtensionFunding Opportunities ResourcesAccessing Foundations in Wisconsin:

The web address is http://wifoundations.org

Contact Coop’s Budget Office grants coordinator, or the UWEX OES preaward official, for Username and Password. Limit is 2 users at same time; please log out when done.

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Funder DatabasesYou can also go directly to the Funder’s database to review their grant opportunities.

For example, the next slide is the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Grants and Other Funding Opportunities website.

The databases are free, and often include useful grant writing resources such as example proposals, FAQs, and tutorials.

Funder Databases

finding grant opportunities

Documents

federal grants

federal agency

federal government agency

project grants

large grants

earmark grants

formula grants

block grants