Last update: July 2000
To find books, government documents and other materials (not journal articles) owned by Maag Library for Grants, search MaagNet, the Library's online public access catalog (OPAC). MaagNet is searchable by subject, keyword, author or title. If you have difficulty locating the correct subject heading, it may help to consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings, a set of large red books located behind the Reference Desk. You may also want to search the OhioLINK Central Catalog for materials owned by other libraries in OhioLINK.
Sample SUBJECT searches:
Grants-in-aid; Fund Raising; Federal Aid to Education
Sample WORD searches:
Proposal Writing; Grants; Grantsmanship
To locate articles from newspapers, journals or magazines, refer to the section below dealing with Electronic Resources.
General Sources for Proposal Writing
Ref. HG177 .B 38
Bauer, David G.
The "How to" Grants
Manual: Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and
Private Grants.
Oryx Press, 1995.
Ref. LB2336 .B 38
Bauer, David G. The
Complete Grants Sourcebook for Higher Education. Oryx Press, 1995
LC243.A1 .B36
Bauer, David G. The
Principal's Guide to Grants Success. Scholastic, 1994
Federal Grants
Ref. HC110 .P63 U53A
(A copy is also in Government Documents on the Reference Shelf)
Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance
Looseleaf publication containing
descriptions of the more than 1,300 assistance programs administered by
federal agencies. Useful information about grant writing can be found
in the back of the notebook.
Note: A searchable
version of the Catalog http://www.cfda.gov/ is available
on the internet.
Ref. HE2769.2 V6F43
Federal Support for
Nonprofits: A Comprehensive Guide to More Than 750 U.S. Federal Programs
that Award Grants and Provide Assistance to Nonprofit Organizations and
Agencies.
Foundations
Ref. AS911 .A2 F65
The Foundation Directory.
Foundation
Center.
Standard reference source
published annually for information about private and community foundations
in the U.S.
Ref. HV98 .O3C48
Charitable Foundations
Directory of Ohio. State of Ohio. Office of Attorney
General.
Ref. HV97 .A3T323
Foundation Reporter.
Taft Foundation.
Comprehensive Profiles and
Giving Analyses of America's Major Private Foundations.
Corporate Sources
Ref. HG4028 .C6C66
Corporate and Foundation
Grants. The Taft Group.
A comprehensive listing
of more than 95,000 recent grants to nonprofit organizations in the U.S.
Oversize HV97 .A3T29
Corporate Giving Directory.
Comprehensive profiles of
America's major corporate foundations and corporate charitable giving programs.
Ref. HV91 .M27
Major Donors.
A listing of more than 22,190
individuals who have recently donated major gifts to America's largest
nonprofit organizations.
Research Grants
Ref. LB 2338. G7
The Grants Register.
Biennial.
Primarily for students at
or above the graduate level and for all who require further professional
or advanced vocational training.
Ref. AS 911. A2A67
Annual Register of
Grant Support.
Includes details of grant
support programs of government agencies, public and private foundations,
corporations, community trusts, union, educational andprofessional associations,
and special interest organization.
Ref. LB2336 .F598
Foundation Grants
to Individuals.
Use of the following indexes/abstracts is restricted to current students, faculty and staff or the campus computer network.
Education
Abstracts.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/edu
An electronic version of the printed Education Index. Author, title
and subject index to over 400 educational
periodicals, yearbooks and
book series since 1983.
ERIC
(1966-present).
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/eric
Provides citations to and abstracts of journal articles
from the CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education) as well as
unpublished reports, papers and other monographs from RIE (Resources
in Education).
Grants.gov
SRA International
Grants Web Resources Foundation
Center Online Federal
Grants and Awards For
other sites, see Maag Government Documents Grants.
July
2000
http://grants.gov/
Includes grant opportunities and applications from federal
grant-making agencies. Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services.
http://www.srainternational.org/newweb/grantsweb/index.cfm
An
excellent resource sponsored by the Society of Research Administrators.
Covers governmental as well as private sources.
http://fdncenter.org/
Lots
of great information on getting started with the grants process.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/topics/grants.html
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/topics/grants.html
This
site from GPO Pathway Services provides links (and site descriptions) to
the many government agencies providing grants and research awards.