Finding Grant Opportunities

If you are searching for funding for a particular project and have some long-term goals, let Susan Gallagher know, and she'll keep an eye out for possible resources as they come into her office or the Advancement Office.

Regularly check The Chronicle of Higher Education and your professional journals and newsletters for grant announcements. The weekly e-newsletter Fridays @ the Center regularly posts grant opportunities of interest to faculty across the disciplines. Other suggestions of funding sources are available at http://advance.spu.edu/corporations/sources.asp

SPU subscribes to two data bases that are good places to begin any search:

• The Grant Advisor Plus can be accessed through on-campus computers at http://www.grantadvisor.com/tgaplus. This service includes a monthly grant advisor newsletter, containing 20-25 full program reviews and over 300 listings of grant and fellowship programs, organized into eight academic divisions (fine arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, education, international, health related, unrestricted/other). Faculty can also conduct on-line database searches by area and keyword, access over 200 links to funding sources, and consult The Grant Works, a series of articles providing advice and tips for grant seeking.

• LexisNexis: The Advancement Office subscribes to this data base, which faculty can search from a computer located in the Advancement Office. Contact Kathryn Mier, kmier@spu.edu , to arrange such a search.