This page consolidates sources of information about grant opportunities, deadlines, etc. For further assistance, please contact Claudia Scholz.
Search Engines & Databases
Trinity subscribes to the Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS) database of federal and private funding opportunities. Off-campus users will have to enter their Trinity ID in order to access IRIS. Funding Opportunities can be searched by keyword and delimited by type of project sponsored, citizenship, degree and other requirements.
Duke University provides a searchable database of funding opportunities.
Science Magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) maintain a database of funding opportunities in the sciences.
H-Net maintains a database of funding opportunities in the humanities and social sciences that can be searched by keyword. Access is free but users are asked to make a donation.
Grants.gov is a clearinghouse for federal funding opportunities. The site provides a search engine. However, since the database contains virtually every source of federal money, it hard to narrow results to the most relevant. Users are urged to review the instructions before trying to search this database.
Email Newsletters & Listservs
While most of these email newsletters will not generate more than one message per week, it is a good idea to set your email client to direct such bulk messages to a folder so that they do not clog your inbox.
IRIS provides a customizable alert service. Users can create automated emails of new opportunities in their area. This is a paid service. Off-campus users will have to enter their Trinity ID in order to access IRIS.
GrantsNet Express offers a weekly e-mail alert about "science funding opportunities from government agencies, private foundations, and not-for-profit organizations." Off-campus users may have to enter their Trinity ID in order to access the site.
H-Net provides an email newsletter of funding opportunities in the social sciences and humanities. Subscription to the email newsletters is free. However, users are asked to make a donation.
The Foundation Center sends out a weekly RFP Bulletin to subscribers. This email bulletin is "a roundup of recently announced Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from private, corporate, and government funding sources." Specific email summaries are available for funding in Arts, Education and Health.
The Arts Deadlines List contains announcements about art contests and competitions, art jobs and internships, art scholarships and grants and fellowships, art festivals, call for entries/proposals/projects, and other opportunities. There is a free and "premium" version of the newsletter.
Newsfeeds & Syndicated Content
In order to view the links marked with 
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Trinity's Coordinator of Research Programs (CORP) maintains a blog about research-related news, including announcements of grants awarded to Trinity faculty, undergraduate research opportunities, and upcoming grant deadlines.
Trinity's CORP also maintains a list of web bookmarks related to grants, fellowships and undergraduate research .
The Office of Proposal Development at Texas A&M University provides discipline-specific RSS feeds for active funding opportunities. Available feeds include Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Computer and Information Science, Diversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics,
Physical Sciences, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and Undergraduate Research and Education.
COS maintains databases of information for the scientific community, including funding opportunities and lists of experts. COS provides RSS feeds for general funding opportunities , humanities opportunities, and health sciences opportunities . These feeds will direct the subscriber back to the COS database, which is a fee-based service. However, there is usually enough information in the RSS summaries to allow the user to find further information elsewhere.
IRIS maintains a blog titled "Eye on IRIS", which includes news items about the grants database, as well as opportunity announcements.
Funding News is a service of Science Magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) which "provides the latest index of science research funding, scholarships, fellowships, and internships." An RSS feed for featured grant opportunities is also available . Off-campus users may have to enter their Trinity ID in order to access the site.
Grants.gov provides RSS feeds of funding opportunities, organized by category and by agency . Users are encouraged to read the instructions before subscribing.
The National Science Foundation, a major funder of science and social science research, provides RSS feeds of program announcements and upcoming deadlines .
The National Institutes of Health maintain RSS feeds for funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research . NIH's Fogarty International Center maintains a feed for opportunities in global health sciences . The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) maintains a feed for minority programs .
The Foundation Center maintains an RSS Feed for its Philanthropy News Digest, a weekly "compendium, in digest form, of philanthropy-related articles and features culled from print and electronic media outlets nationwide."
IREX is an international nonprofit organization focusing on education, media, and civil society. IREX maintains an RSS feed for its program deadlines .
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting maintains an RSS feed for CPB grant opportunities in television and radio.
Useful Websites - By Discipline
The American Historical Association maintains a list of prizes, fellowships, and awards.
The American Political Science Association maintains a list of grants, fellowships, and other funding opportunities.
