Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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Offers a tool that lets students and parents compare loan options.

This site provides information on current research projects in the European Union and gives access to documents concerning the EU Framework programmes as well as to other EU sites.

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Fastweb and the College Board offers scholarship searches for parents and students.

Provides information on federal loans.

Resources on loans, scholarships, and financial aid of every kind; also on calculating needs, application forms, etc.

GrantForward is a funding opportunity database and recommendation service built by academics for researchers

Grants.gov is a central storehouse for information on over 1,000 U.S. Government grant programs offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies and provides access to approximately $500 billion in annual awards.

Langson Library Reference, LB2338.G7
Science Library Reference, LB2338.G76

A comprehensive company database, powered by Dun & Bradstreet. All of the same company data as Hoovers, but allows for downloading. Includes 70+ million private and public US Businesses, and 245+ million global companies.

NIH's official publication of notices of grant policies, guidelines, and funding opportunities.

The U.S. National Science Foundation offers hundreds of funding opportunities — including grants, cooperative agreements and fellowships — that support research and education across science and engineering.

Explains how parents van borrow for their childrens's education.

Contains information on federally funded biomedical research projects. The database is maintained by the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health.

SPIN is a searchable database made available by the UCI Office of Research that indexes approximately 8,000 opportunities. SPIN and IRIS include some overlap. Spin Userguide

For Undergraduates-These listings are identified by the program name, which is linked to a summary of the program and the program's official Web site.

For biomedical investigators applying for NIH research project grants. Maintained by its National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Free, online course.

Free, online course.

Free; must register in advance.

Useful for applying for federal grants. By the staff of the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.

Well organized site on proposal writing. Includes an overview, inquiry and cover letters, standard components of a proposal, a sample proposal, advice from funders, and more. An excellent section on researching funding opportunities is included also.

Some good, clearly-stated tips from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which reviews hundreds of proposals a year.

Includes Developing a Grant Proposal, terminology proposal writing links, links to application packages, grantmaking agencies, types of grants, and more.

Information for how to write specific grants for nonprofits, how to find appropriate funding sources for nonprofits and how to get grants from nonprofit organizations. Lots of easy hints.

Written by S. Joseph Levine of Michigan State University. Offers excellent advice on all parts of the proposal. Includes a sample proposal and links to other proposal writing sites.

Excellent advice from the ASME: American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Outline by Janet M. Radtke on writing a mission statement for an organization. A site of the Los-Angeles based Grantsmanship Center.

This common grant application form is accepted by a number of foundations. It can also be useful in organizing the information needed in a project proposal. (pdf)

A site maintained by the University of Michigan's Division of Research and Development Administration.

An excellent outline by Donald Thackrey for academic faculty and staff. Especially useful. A site maintained by the University of Michigan's Division of Research and Development Administration.

Outstanding. Provides essential links for university scholars and researchers needing more than here on research funding in particular.

Proposals from the Idea Bank's Grant Writing Course. Most are successfully funded, and are for funding for fire departments.

Offers a number of education-focused, successful, sample proposals. Most are directed to corporate or government funding sources and are downloadable in PDF format.

Provides funded grant proposals for sale in a variety of categories. Particularly well-stocked with federal grant proposals. A site from the Grantsmanship Center, a Los-Angeles based proposal training center.

An excellent and thorough guide for writing grant proposals, from the Minnesota Council on Foundations. FAQs include pros and cons of hiring a professional grantwriter and what to do if a proposal is funded.