Search for Funding:
Current Awareness & Alerts

Keep Up With Deadlines & New Resources

Once you have located current opportunities and identified likely sources of funding, you can arrange to receive email notification of new funding opportunities in your area of interest. Receiving these notices even before you are ready to begin a research project will keep you informed of the range of requirements and funding "hot topics" in your field.

Use AISR's current awareness search service to set up your interest profile.

While these resources alert interested parties to new funding opportunities, the descriptions they provide may be incomplete. Applicants should read the full RFP at the grantmaker's Web site for complete program guidelines and eligibility requirements before submitting a proposal.

You Are Not Alone

The Grants Information Staff at AISR are happy to work with you to set up a current awareness service.

In addition, when individuals involved in grants on campus become aware of new resources, they may search the Faculty Expertise database to find researchers who may be interested in the topic. To increase your chances of receiving such notification,

1. Enter your research interests in the Faculty Expertise database
   
2. Contact Aveniel DeLorenzo of the Office of Faculty Affairs and describe your research interests (215-503-8990 or aveniel.delorenzo@jefferson.edu). She will forward suitable new opportunities that she becomes aware of to you.

Funding Alert Resources

Community of Science Funding Alerts
Jefferson's subscription to the Community of Science Funding Alerts service allows you to receive weekly announcements via email from the most comprehensive funding resources database on the Web. It is possible to have multiple alerts on different topics.

GrantsNet
Primarily directed at biomedical researchers in the early stage of their careers (graduate students, medical students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty).

• GrantsNet allows users to save and rerun searches of grant topics, and create customized weekly email notifications of any new opportunities in their fields of interest or any updates on individually selected grant programs.
  
  
• GrantsNet New Award and Program Information Funding News monthly updates of new graduate and undergraduate opportunities and a Deadline Watch feature. Available via Web or email.

Grants.gov Federal Grants Notification System
After registering your email address for this free current awareness service, you may choose notification options. Choose to receive notification:

• for selected notices based on funding opportunity number;
  
• from selected agencies and categories of funding activities;
  
• from selected interest and eligibility groups; or
  
• on all grants notices.

Be selective when you sign up for it! A full alert to all announcements through this system would result in over 600 email messages per month.

NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
The NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts is the official publication for NIH medical and behavioral research Grant Policies, Guidelines and Funding Opportunities.

Each week (usually on Friday afternoon), the NIH transmits an email with Table of Contents (TOC) information for that week's issue of the NIH Guide, via the NIH LISTSERV. The table of contents includes a link to the Current NIH Guide Weekly Index as well as links to each NIH Guide article published for that week.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Small weekly list of upcoming deadlines taken from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Every February and August, The Chronicle also publishes "Events in Academe," a special supplement that lists deadlines for the following six months.

The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center offers both electronic newsletters and customized interest profiling.

• Subscribe to their range of newsletters (RFP Bulletin, Philanthropy News Digest, and specialized Funding Watch newsletters for the Art and Education).
  
  
• Subscribe to the RFP Bulletin
  The RFP (Request for Proposals) Bulletin is a free electronic newsletter published every Friday. The weekly email lists recent Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from private, corporate, and government funding sources;
  
  
• Customize a profile
  Register to receive a My PND profile and you will view a customized news page with information about your state and topical areas of interest. News is arranged by topic (Aging, Higher Education, etc.).

Other Foundation Notification
Individual foundations may maintain an electronic mailing list for individuals interested in their activities. Review foundation Web sites for any information on these mailing lists.