Funding Announcements
- Funding Announcements is a weekly list of funding opportunities relevant to UNL expertise. Please subscribe here to receive the Funding Announcements newsletter via e-mail.
Internal Funding Opportunities
- UNL internal funding opportunities feature funding opportunities limited to members of the UNL community.
- Nebraska EPSCoR funding opportunities is a list of funding competitions coordinated by the Nebraska EPSCoR/IDeA office.
External Funding Opportunities
- Grants.gov is the access point for competitive funding opportunities from more than 900 grant programs offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies.
- Contract Opportunities are procurement notices from federal contracting offices. Anyone interested in doing business with the government can use this system to search opportunities. Opportunities include pre-solicitation notices, solicitation notices, award notices, and sole source notices.
- Philanthropy News Digest publishes funding opportunities and award notices for grant-making and non-profit organizations.
- H-Net Academic Announcements disseminates faculty and student grant and fellowship opportunities in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
- Nationally Coveted College Scholarships, Graduate Fellowships & Postdoctoral Awards provides information regarding competitive and prestigious undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, minority postdoctoral awards and more from national and international organizations.
- The Michigan State University Libraries’ Grants and Related Resources page provides a gateway to a range of funding opportunities (e.g., scholarships, fellowships and grants). Users may review funding opportunities in a number of categories, including subject and academic level.
- National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, New York Foundation for the Arts and Americans for the Arts are good resources for funding opportunities in the arts and humanities.
- Candid Learning provides information on a variety of grant-related topics specific to funding for the arts and humanities.
- UNL’s Coordinator of the Foundation Center Cooperative Collection can provide a variety of information, supplementary materials and services related to grantsmanship and foundation funding, including assistance with individual funding opportunity searches.
Agency Specific Search Engines
- Find Funding is a searchable database of funding opportunities at the National Science Foundation (NSF). You can also sign up here for NSF funding opportunities alerts via email or RSS.
- Search Funding Opportunities and Notices for active requests for applications and program announcements at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Also sign up here for NIH’S Weekly Update via email or RSS, or to follow NIH Funding Opportunities on Twitter.
Downloadable Databases
- Graduate Student Funding Opportunities, produced by Johns Hopkins University, is a continuously updated repository of federal and private funding opportunities that are intended for graduate students.
- Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities, produced by Johns Hopkins University, is a continuously updated repository of federal and private funding opportunities that are intended for postdoctoral investigators.
- Early Career Funding Opportunities, produced by Johns Hopkins University, is a continuously updated repository of federal and private funding opportunities that are intended for late postdoctoral investigators and early-career faculty, usually those at or below the rank of assistant professor.
Tips for Finding Funding Opportunities
- Slide Presentation: Identifying Funding Opportunities
- Webinar: Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts (49 minutes)
