Funding Research Assistance Funding research is the art of locating grant funding opportunities. This entails defining the needs of your program and seraching for a grant that fits your needs, not fitting a program to a grants criteria. Your decision should be based on the contents of your program and abilities to carry out the program with the aid of the selected grant. We at the SGMS have access to the Foundation Center's Database , federal funding notices and other resources that aid in locating federal and private funding opportunities.

Useful Funding Research Web Links

• Lousiana Assistance Resource Center - OCD's Funding Research Database
• Federal Register - This site will enable you to sign up to receive the federal register table of contents daily. The table of contents will allow you to see what technical assistant meetings are being held, how much money is being proposed for a specific program, and different grant opportunities.
• Grants.gov - Federal Government's Grant Research and Application 'One-Stop Shop'
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance - This site is updated once a year. It is a good site to go to in order to find out the summary of programs. It will not have current due dates.
• White House Faith Based Initiatives - The current administration allocates a lot of money to faith based initiatives.
• Public Education Newsletter - A great resource for schools.
• Channing-Bete - This list serve will provide a comprehensive list of current grant opportunities for all subject areas.
• Grant Station - This web page has Hurricane Katrina funding opportunities and continuous funding opportunities.
• School Grants - This newsletter is a great newsletter for your local educational agencies to receive.
• American Library Association Washington Office Newsline - This website has different funding sources for private and public libraries.
• Foundation Center Homepage - An organization dedicated to strengthening the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge of U.S. philanthropy (An excellent resource with information on every part of the grant process)