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Public Health — UNR

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Duncan Aldrich

Updated 1 February 2005

Grant Writing

Public Health 495

Grant Sources (Selected Examples)

  • GrantsWeb
    • Maintained for the Society of Research Administrators, GrantsWeb contains links to most major government and private grants information.
  • Foundations On-Line (foundations.org)
    • A directory of charitable Grantmakers provided as a service of the Northern California Community Foundations, Inc.
  • GRANTS.GOV
    • This site allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Navigation of the site is simple.
  • Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
    • A comprehensive catalog of all federal government grants and grant programs. Fully searchable online.
  • FedGrants
    • This site gives grantors a means to post solicitations for grants. It also gives applicants a single site for obtaining these solicitations.
  • GrantsNet U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
    • GrantsNet is an Internet application tool created by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Grants Management (OGM) for finding and exchanging information about HHS and other Federal grant programs.
  • CDC Preventive Practice Grant Program
    • Describes the CDC grant programs aimed at preventive practive..
  • Grants for Nonprofits: Health
    • An extensive compilation of Web resources and books useful to non-profits seeking grant opportunities.
  • National Science Foundation
    • Where discoveries begin.
  • SPIN Search
    • Search government and private funding sources - great stuff.
  • McGregor Fund
    • An illustrative example of one private foundation.
  • Children's Health Grants — United Nations
    • An example of an International Governmental Organization foundation.

Some Local Flavor

  • Nevada Native Plant Society
    • The Nevada Native Plant Society (NNPS) Margaret Williams research grants program will annually award up to two grants of not over $500.
  • Nevada Women's Fund
    • These grants will address issues that face today's women and children in rural as well as urban communities of northern Nevada.
  • Sierra Pacific Grants
    • SPPC Distributes Grants to Non-Profit Agencies.
  • Nevada's Top 50
    • Top 50 Recipients of Foundation Grants in the State of Nevada, circa 2001.

Grant Seeking and Proposal Writing

Sources for Journal Literature, Including Articles on Grantsmanship

  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
    • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles.
  • Health Reference Center Academic
    • Citations, abstracts, or full-text access to 700+ general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books, and pamphlets. Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers. 1980- present.
  • Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis )
    • Index and full text to news, business, legal, medical, and reference materials and links to congressional and statistical information.

Selected Government Agency Web Sites

Critically Evaluating Information Sources

When working on any research project it is important to assess critically the information resources you use to assure that your research conclusions are well supported. Simply put, can the source be trusted? And why? Is the source reliable and authoritative?

Several Web based pages provide insight into critical evaluation of source materials, see: