The following resources will help you search for funding sources and prepare proposals for your projects. For assistance, contact the Sinclair Grants Office.
Federal Grant Sources
State of Ohio Grant Sources
Other Grant Sources
Federal Governmental Information
State of Ohio Governmental Information
City of Dayton
Project Evaluation Resources
Federal Register
This site contains annoucement of federal grant opportunities.
FedWorld
This site will launch you into a large variety of grants related sites
across the country.
Bureau of Justice Assistance
This site provides grants that support law enforcement, courts, corrections, and other areas in the criminal justice system.
GRANTS.GOV
This is the electronic grant submission portal for over 900 grant programs of federal grant-making agencies. You can search for grant opportunities here as well as register for notification of grant opportunities.
National Endowment for the Arts
This federal agency funds grants in the arts.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
This federal agency funds grants in humanities disciplines.
National Science Foundation 
This federal agency to funds grants related to science, mathematics, and
engineering technology.
Advanced Technological Education Program
This program has an emphasis on two-year colleges and supports programs that focus on the education of technicians for high-techonlogy fields.
National Science Foundation Forms
A link to forms needed to prepare NSF proposals.
National Science Foundation Grants Proposal Guide
A link to the National Science Foundation that provides excellent guidelines for preparing and submitting unsolicited proposals.
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications
and Information Administration
This federal office funds grants in telecommunications.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and
Services Administration
This federal office funds grants to improve health and allied health
education programs.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Servicest
Grant information for current and prospective HHS grantees.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Health Resources and Services Administration
This site lists grants awarded in health-related areas with special emphasis on low-income and special populations.
U.S. Department of Education, FIPSE
This link takes you to the Fund for the Improvement of Secondary Education program.
U.S. Department of Education, Title III
This link takes you to the Strengthening Institutions Program.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
This link takes you to the Office of University Partnerships.
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
This federal office funds workforce development grants.
State of Ohio Grant Sources (Back to Top)
Ohio Arts Council
This state office funds grants to support the arts in Ohio.
Ohio Board of Regents
Search the Ohio Board of Regents site for grant opportunities available
only to colleges and universities in Ohio.
Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services
This state office funds grants to support law enformacement agencies in Ohio.
Ohio Humanities Council
This state office funds grants to support the arts in Ohio.
Other Grant Sources (Back to Top)
Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance
The Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance is a government-wide
compendium of federal programs, projects, and grants.
e-Funding Solutions
This site is dedicated to helping educators locate every funding source available to them in the United States.
Federal Register Access Center This site contains links to various sites with access to the Federal Register.
Foundations Online
Foundations Online is a directory of 100's of foundations and grant makers.
GuideStar
This site offers information about more than 700,000 IRS-registered501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
GrantsNet
This site is a one-stop resource to find funds for training in the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education.
The Council on FoundationsThe Council works to support foundations by promoting knowledge, growth, and action in philanthropy. It contains links to current grant opportunities.
The Grantsmanship Center
This organization conducts some 200 workshops annually in grantsmanship and proposal writing.
The Foundation Center
This site offers some of the best general and specialized information retrieval tools on the Internet.
GOVERNMENTAL INFORMATION
The following resources will help you conduct research on legislation,
census data, and other topics. Also note that the Sinclair Grants Office
subscribes to the Hannah Online Services for researching legislation in
the state of Ohio. Contact the Sinclair Grants Office for assistance.
Federal Governmental Information (Back to Top)
U.S. Federal Government Agencies
This excellent site at the Louisiana State University Library contains
links to all federal agencies.
U.S. Census Bureau Home Page
You can conduct extensive demographic research in the Census Bureau.
U.S. Census, State and County Quick Facts
The White House
This site allows you to send e-mail to the White House and to conduct
research.U.S. House Of Representatives
This site provides information on U.S. Representatives and allows you to
search for legislation.U.S. Senate
This site allows you to send e-mail to U.S. Senators and to search for
legislation.
State of Ohio Governmental Information (Back to Top)
Ohio Auditor of State
Online database of audits of Ohio state and local governments such as schools, cities, counties, etc.
Ohio Capital Connection
This database focuses on the Ohio Legislature and legislative issues.
Ohio Department of Education
You can get a variety of educational data and the Ohio School District
Report Cards from this site.
Ohio Department of Education Office of Career-Technical and Adult Education, Grant Applications
You can get forms needed to prepare grant proposals.
Adult Basic and Literacy Education information
State of Ohio Front Page
This site contains links to all Ohio state agencies.
Labor Market Information
Source for reports and data about employment levels, unemployment rates, wages and earnings, employment projections, jobs, training resources and careers.
City of Dayton Governmental Information
City of Dayton Homepage
Visit this site to find a variety of local data including census data for Dayton neighborhoods.>
Project Evaluation Resources (Back to Top)
Online Evaluation Resource Library
This library was developed for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations. OERL is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG)
This free site is designed for instructors of all disciplines who would like feedback from their students about how the course elements are helping their students to learn.
Western Michigan Evaluation Center Checklists
This site provides free checklists to help you develop evaluation plans.
User Friendly handbook for Project EvaluationThis National Science Foundation publication describes the types of evaluations principal investigators/project directors may be called upon to perform over the lifetime of a project. It also includes the development of evaluation questions and the collection and analysis of appropriate data to provide answers to these questions.
User-Friendly Handbook for Mixed Method Evaluations
This National Science Foundation publication presents information on mixed method evaluations which combine quantitative and qualitative techniques.
Federal Demonstration Partnership
This cooperative initiative reduces administrative burdens associated with grants and contracts through the creation of a Model Subagreement for all A-110 recipients and subrecipients of grants and cooperative agreements.
National Center for Educational Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics, located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
