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.
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 Science Foundation 
This federal agency to funds grants related to science, mathematics, and
engineering technology.
Advanced Technological Education Program (ATE)
This program has an emphasis on two-year colleges and supports programs that focus on the education of technicians for high-techonlogy fields.Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (TUES)
This program, previously called CCLI, supports efforts to create, adapt, and disseminate new learning materials and teaching strategies to reflect advances both in STEM disciplines and in what is known about teaching and learning.
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 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 Education, FIPSE
This link takes you to the Fund for the Improvement of Secondary Education program, the Comprehensive Program.
U.S. Department of Education, Title III Strenthening Institutions Program
This program helps eligible Institutions of Higher Education to become self-sufficient and expand their capacity to serve low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of eligible institutions.
U.S. Department of Education Trio Programs
The link takes you to descriptions of eight programs targeted to serve and assist low-income individuals, first-generation college students, and individuals with disabilities to progress through the academic pipeline from middle school to postbaccalaureate programs.
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 ServicesThis 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.
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 Foundations
The 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)
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.
U. S. Census Bureau: conduct extensive demographic research
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 Department of Education Report Card Data
You can get a variety of educational data and the Ohio School District
Report Cards from this site.
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)
Evaluate
This site provides resources to strengthen the evaluation of National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education programs.
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 Evaluation
This 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.
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.
