There are several methods available for identifying potential funding opportunities to support your project idea.

• GrantForward – The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs maintains a subscription to this online grant opportunities database that can accessed by faculty and staff from any Bates College computer.  We encourage faculty and staff to sign up a GrantForward account and search for funding opportunities to support their projects.  Searches are highly customizable and can be linked to automatic notifications that delivery new search results to your inbox.  
  • Curated lists of current grant opportunities by discipline are available below. These lists are only some of the possibilities available and should not be considered comprehensive.
    • Arts and Humanities
    • Interdisciplinary Programs
    • Natural Sciences
    • Social Sciences
    • Additional Funding Opportunities (institutional, cross-disciplinary, etc)
• Set up a time to chat – Let us know about your research interests and project ideas.  We’ll help you think about potential funding opportunities to look into and will notify you of any we find that may be appropriate for your research.  Contact us at sparc@bates.edu to set up a time to meet.
• Check your inbox for our weekly “Of potential interest” emails – The Director of ORSP, Shonna Humphrey, periodically sends emails noting new funding opportunities, often centered around a theme.  See below for copies of past versions of this email.
• Go directly to the source – If you have a rough idea already of what type of organization might be interested in funding your project, you can search for funding opportunities directly on the funder’s webpage. Review these profiles of major Federal funders of research at Bates to learn more about the types of projects they fund.
• The Office of College Advancement maintains a limited subscription to Foundation Directory Online, which is useful for finding private foundations with limited public information on their websites. Please note that, very often, private foundations limit the number of applications they will consider from any one organization. If you are interested in exploring private foundation funding, please contact the Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations or the Director of Research and Sponsored Programs.
• Past Issues “Of Potential Interest”

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