Resources

Download a copy of the Grants Business Management Training Manual.

• The Federal Register contains announcements of federal grant opportunities.
• The Bureau of Justice Assistance provides grants that support law enforcement, courts, corrections, and other areas in the criminal justice system.
• GRANTS.GOV is an electronic grant submission portal for more than 900 grant programs of federal grant-making agencies. Search for grant opportunities here as well as register for notification of grant opportunities.
• The National Science Foundation funds grants related to science, mathematics, and engineering technology.
• The Advanced Technological Education Program (ATE) focuses on two-year colleges and supports programs that focus on the education of technicians for high-technology fields.
• Grant Proposal Guide
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration funds grants to improve health and allied health education programs.
• The U.S. Department of Education, FIPSE takes you to the Fund for the Improvement of Secondary Education program, the Comprehensive Program. FIPSE MOBIS provides descriptions of past FIPSE grants.
• The U.S. Department of Education, Title III Strengthening Institutions Program 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.
• The U.S. Department of Education Trio Programs features 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 post-baccalaureate programs.
• The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration funds workforce development grants.

• The Ohio Arts Council funds grants to support the arts in Ohio.
• The Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services funds grants to support law enforcement agencies in Ohio.
• The Ohio Humanities Council funds grants to support the arts in Ohio.

• The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance is a government-wide compendium of federal programs, projects, and grants.
• Foundations Online is a directory of 100’s of foundations and grant makers.
• GuideStar offers information about more than 700,000 IRS-registered501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
• GrantsNet is a one-stop resource to find funds for training in the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education.
• The Council on Foundations works to support foundations by promoting knowledge, growth, and action in philanthropy.
• The Grantsmanship Center conducts some 200 workshops annually in grantsmanship and proposal writing.
• The Foundation Center offers some of the best general and specialized information retrieval tools on the Internet.
• The Foundation Directory Online is for Sinclair faculty and staff only and contains information about foundations nationwide that are potential sources of sponsorship for Sinclair projects and programs.

• The Federal Demonstration Partnership is a cooperative initiative that reduce 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.
• Federal Register
  • Document Search
  • Part 200—Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards.
• The U. S. Census Bureau allows you to conduct extensive demographic research.
  • Demographic Profiles
  • U.S. Census Guide: How to Get the Most out of Census.gov
  • American Community Survey
  • Mapping America gives a distribution of racial and ethnic groups per census tract
• The National Science Foundation Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide provides excellent guidelines for preparing and submitting unsolicited proposals.
• The U.S. House Of Representatives website provides information on U.S. Representatives and allows you to search for legislation.
• The U.S. Senate website allows you to send e-mail to U.S. Senators and to search for legislation.
• The White House website allows you to send e-mail to the White House and to conduct research.
• U.S. Department of Labor Guide to State and Local Workforce Data
• U.S. Department of Labor Internet Links for State and Local Employment Projections

• Visit the Ohio Auditor of State’s website to search the online database of audits of Ohio state and local governments such as schools, cities, counties, etc.
• The Ohio Department of Education Report Card Data is the source for a variety of educational data, including the Ohio School District Report Cards.
• The Labor Market Information website is a source for reports and data about employment levels, unemployment rates, wages and earnings, employment projections, jobs, training resources and careers.
• 2018 Ohio Job Outlook for the Southwest Central Ohio Economic Development Region 4

Visit the City of Dayton website to find a variety of local data including census data for Dayton neighborhoods.

• This site provides resources to strengthen the evaluation of National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education programs.
• This Online Evaluation Resource Library was developed for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations. OERL is funded by the National Science Foundation.
• The Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) 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.
• The free Western Michigan Evaluation Center Checklists can help you develop evaluation plans.
• This User Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation is a National Science Foundation publication that 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.
• This User-Friendly Handbook for Mixed Method Evaluations is a National Science Foundation publication that presents information on mixed method evaluations which combine quantitative and qualitative techniques.
• The National Center for Educational 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.

Proposal Development Tool Kit

Use these tools to help transform your project ideas into fundable proposals:

1. Researching Funding Sources
2. Defining Project Need
3. Creating Goals, Objectives and Activities
4. Identifying Project Resources
5. Creating the Management Plan
6. Designing the Evaluation Plan
7. Sustaining and Institutionalizing Your Project

Proposal Development through Compression Planning® with Storyboarding

Over the past 25 years, the Sinclair Grants Development office has been involved in more than 2,800 projects generating more than $137 million in grant funding. Over the past three years that averages 189 projects per year with $7.9 million per year funding. A great deal of the success is because we use Compression Planning® with storyboarding to help faculty and staff to develop proposal ideas.

Why storyboarding? Because this small group process permits us to develop better project ideas and plan projects more effectively and efficiently. To learn more about Compression Planning® with Storyboarding,® visit the website of the McNellis Company,a small business that provides training in this technique and sells the needed materials.

Portals

• Gongwer News Service Ohio
• Grants.gov
• National Science Foundation: Fastlane
• Ohio Arts Council
• Ohio Department of Education: Comprehensive Continuous Improvement Planning (CCIP)
• Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
• Research.gov-NSF login
• United Parcel Service
• U.S. Department of Justice: Bulletproof Vest Partnership

Collaborative Work Spaces

Click on a link below to enter the Grant Team’s work space.

• Adobe Connect
  • Adobe Connect Test Meeting Connection
• Microsoft Office Live
• Sinclair Forms Central
• Doodle Poll
• Amplifund
• Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc.