Find links to various contract and grant funding opportunities:

• Search tools and databases
• Federal agencies
• State/ University of California/ UCSD
• Specialized search lists
• Nonprofit agencies
• International resources

Search tools and databases:

• Community of Science (COS): Search more than 400,000 funding opportunities and create custom e-mail funding alerts.
• SURF: Search UCSD's own central repository for UCSD, UC, and local opportunities.
• Grants.gov: Find over 1,000 grant programs offered by the 26 federal grantmaking agencies.
• GrantsSelect: Search 10,000 records including many opportunities in arts, humanities, and social sciences.
• GrantsNet: Find opportunities in biomedical research for undergraduates, graduate students, medical students, postdocs, and junior faculty.
• The Foundation Center: Find information on trends, education, and training in grantseeking (with monthly or annual subscription options).
• GuideStar and Philanthropic Research: Search GuideStar’s database of more than 900,000 public charities, 118,000 private foundations, and nearly half a million other exempt organizations.

Federal agencies:

• NIH - National Institutes of Health
• NIH Institutes
• NSF - National Science Foundation
• Department of Defense (DOD)
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration- DARPA
• ONR - Office of Naval Research
• AFOSR - Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• HSARPA-Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency
• USDE - United States Department of Education
• NASA - National Aeronautics Space Administration
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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State/ University of California/ UCSD:

• GetGrants!
• Office of State-wide Planning & Development
• Caltrans
  
  
• Arts and Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Life Sciences
• Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Office of Health Affairs (UCOP)
• DOE Laboratory Programs
• CPRC - California Policy Research Center
• CIEE - California Institute for Energy and Environment
• CISI - California Institutes for Science and Innovation
• IUCRP - Industry-University Cooperative Research Program
• Multicampus Research Units
• Marine Sciences Directory
• Natural Reserve System
• Universitywide Research Center Database



• UCSD Libraries reference shelf
• UCSD Academic Senate

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Specialized search lists:

• School of Medicine Fellowship, Grants, and Prize Opportunities
• Cancer Research Funding Sources

Nonprofit agencies:

• American Heart Association
• March of Dimes
• American Cancer Society
• Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
• Muscular Dystrophy Association
• Andrew Mellon Foundation
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Whitaker Foundation
• Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
• Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation

International resources:

• US-Israel BARD
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund
• Danish National Research Foundation
• Human Frontier Science Program
• NATO
• Public Works and Government Services Canada
• The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
• United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
• United States-Israel Science & Technology Foundation
• The European Union
• World Health Organization
  
  

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Questions? Contact Mojgan Amini, (858) 534-1023.