Library Guides: Funding Sources: Grants

Research Grants --Directories

These sources in this box are geared specifically for faculty/staff researchers.

Pivot (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Pivot is a database of announcements for grants, fellowships, and awards in all disciplines including the physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health and medicine, arts and humanities. Pivot allows scholars to search the world's most comprehensive funding resource, with thousands of grants and other funding sources worth over $33 billion. Click the blue Advanced Search link to do more precise searching. Need help using Pivot? Try these Pivot YouTube Videos.
Note: Please create a user account on the COS Pivot homepage, then use that user account to login from off-campus.

GRC GrantSearch Database
From the Grants Resource Center of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). A targeted database of approximately 2,000 funding opportunities that are recurring and have a national/regional scope. UWL access provided by the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs (ORSP).
User ID and password are required. Please contact ORSP at mailto:grants@uwlax.edu.

Assistance Listings
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A successor to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance and CFDA.gov, provides detailed, public descriptions of Federal assistance listings available to State and local governments; Federally recognized Indian tribal governments, Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi- public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups, and individuals.

Grants.gov
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, managing partner.
A searchable directory of all available Federal funding opportunities.
CDFI Fund's Searchable Award Database
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Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, U.S. Department of the Treasury

These are books available in the Murphy Library reference area.

Annual register of grant support: a directory of funding sources
Call Number: AS911.A2 A67 Reference
Current ed.
From Information Today, Inc. Covers approximately 2,500 grant-giving organizations supporting 3,900 grant programs, including traditional corporate, private, and public funding programs, plus other sources such as educational associations and unions.
The Grants Register by Palgrave Palgrave Macmillan (Editor)
Call Number: LB2338 .G7 Reference
From Palgrave Macmillan. Over 3,500 awards intended for students at or above the postgraduate level, or those who require further professional or advanced vocational training.