Books: Use the Library Catalog

Articles

Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

Chronicle of Philanthropy
A newspaper for the nonprofit world.

Foundation Center Literature of the Non-Profit Sector
A searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. It incorporates the unique contents of the Foundation Center's five libraries and contains more than 28,000 full bibliographic citations, of which more than 20,000 have descriptive abstracts. It is updated daily

LexisNexis News
A wide variety of newspapers with a variety of days covered. The Guided News Search can narrow searches to business, legal, medical, university, arts & sports, and non-English language news (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish).

Philanthropy News Digest
A newsletter from  the Foundation Center.

Government Information

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
The primary catalog for federal government grants.

ED.gov
The Department of Education is providing grants to students, teachers, parents, and administrators.

Grants.gov
A site to find and apply for government grants.

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Institutes of Health Grants and Funding Opportunities

National Science Foundation-Finding Funding
Find grant opportunities and that are being funded now. Biological sciences; computer science; information science; engineering; education; human resources; geoscience; integrative activities; polar programs; mathematics; physical sciences; social, behavioral and economic sciences; and international programs are included.

Specialized Sources

Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal
Has a nice example of a completed grant proposal.

IRIS Database
Contact the Grants Office 660-785-7245 to search this database. From University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. IRIS Database contains active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.  In addition to funding opportunities for faculty, the IRIS Database also contains fellowships and scholarships for grad students and undergrads. 

Non-Profit Guides: Grant Writing Tools for Non-Profit Organizations

Proposal Writing Short Course
By The Foundation Center. This site offers excellent tips and strategies for grant writing.

What Do Winning Proposals Have in Common?
Ten of the common elements found in winning proposals.

Web Sites

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Foundation Center
This comprehensive site has: a Foundation Finder, for finding basic information about foundations; news about grants including the Philanthropy News Digest, and the Foundation Directory Online (although to search the Foundation Directory Online you need assistance from the Truman State University Office of Grants and Foundation Relations 660-785-7459.)

Grant Advisor Plus
A newsletter in Acrobat PDF format, database searches, deadline listings with extensive hyperlinks by discipline.

Grants By Subject or Geographic Area

Grants for Non-profits

GrantsNet
From AAAS.  This  site provides information about new grants.