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Grant Resources

Online Resources

General Information Web Sites

U.S. Department of Education
Contains information on grants and contracts including: http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp

Oregon Department of Education
Contains a "grants" link that includes timely grants of statewide interest.
http://www.ode.state.or.us//

Education Service Districts
Your regional Education Service District may have grant information online. Check this listing of Oregon ESDs for contacts and Web sites.
http://www.open.k12.or.us/oaesd/openesd1.html

Grants and Other Funding Sources
NASA's Internet in the Classroom includes specific grant information plus links to other public and private funding sources.
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/top/grants.html

Pacific*Bell Grant Opportunity Resources
A useful site for locating grant information.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/grants/

The Grantsmanship Center
A comprehensive site of training and funding information for non-profits. Daily Federal Register grant announcements are listed. Users can query the Catalog of Federal and Domestic Assistance and link to grantmaking foundations.
http://www.tgci.com/

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Contains useful links to a wide variety of grant information sources for educators.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/business/grants.html

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Targeted Web Sites

The Foundation Center
A commercial site that contains a wealth of free information on private funding organizations.
http://fdncenter.org/

Resource Guide for Technology in Education
Contains federal and non-federal resources for technology funding.
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/resources.html

National Science Foundation
Contains grant and award opportunities, program deadlines, application forms, projects funded, and other information.
http://www.nsf.gov/home/grants.htm

National Endowment for the Humanities
Takes you directly to "applying for a grant" and contains all the necessary information.
http://www.neh.fed.us/

Justice Information Center of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service
A source of information for schools looking for partnership grants with law enforcement and the criminal justice system.
http://www.ncjrs.org/

CRC Publishing
A commercial site that includes directory information on grants for Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans.
http://crcpub.com

* Note: Use the search engines such as YAHOO and Alta Vista to find specific funding organizations. Most of them now have their own home pages on the Web.

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Print Information

Grant Directories

Print directories can be quite expensive and school districts may want to limit their acquisition to only a few. The ones listed are in order of their usefulness for Oregon schools.

1999 Oregon Foundation Data Book,
$100, C & D Publishing, 1017 S. W. Morrison, #500, Portland, OR, 97205.
Also available on disc for $250. A complete reference on Oregon foundations including necessary information and grants awarded.

Guide to Oregon Foundations 1999, Ninth Ed.
$46, GuideLine, Inc., 621 Alder St., Portland, 97205.
This directory also includes necessary information and sample grants. The introductory pages are helpful for working with foundation grants.

National Guide to Funding for Elementary and Secondary Education,
5th Ed., $140, The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Ave., NY, NY, 10003
A useful national directory for school grantseekers. For online information and ordering, see The Foundation Center (http://fdncenter.org).

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Subscriptions

Subscription information can be more timely than print directories. Weekly newsletters are the most up-to-date. These are listed in order of their usefulness to Oregon schools.

Education Grants Alert,
$329/ yr., is a weekly report from Capitol Publishing Inc. on funding opportunities for K-12 programs. An occasional column "Funding Today" by Jaqueline Ferguson is helpful. For information call 1-800-655-5597.

Aid for Education Report,
$329/ yr., is a bimonthly report on news, views, federal and private grants. It is more useful for higher education than K-12. See the CD Publications Web site (http://www.cdpublications.com/) or call 1-800-666-6380.

School Technology Funding Bulletin,
$165/ yr., 7920 Norfolk Ave., Suite 900, Bethesda, MD 20814 (1-888-394-2551).
A monthly newsletter focusing on funds for technology.

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CD-ROMs

These usually contain a great amount of searchable information, are designed for a wide range of non-profits, and include the entire United States. It is sometimes difficult to narrow the search as much as one would like. These are getting better but are still very expensive. For a preview of one in the single-user $300 price range, see The Foundation Center (http://fdncenter.org).

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Oregon Libraries and Education Service Districts

Most Oregon public libraries will contain some grant information.

Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, Pacific Non-Profit Network (see below), Multnomah County Library in Portland, and the Oregon State Library in Salem, are all Foundation Center sites.

The Pacific Non-Profit Network (http://www.sou.edu/ecp/business/pnn.html) in Medford has a library of grant materials available for the use of school personnel without charge. It is located in the Rogue Valley Mall, 1600 N. Riverside, #1094, Medford, OR 97501.

Education Service Districts may also be a source of grant information and directories.

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