Resources

 

Research Resources

Email Alerts
Grant Writing Tips & Guides
Sample Proposals

External Funding Agencies

National
State
Private/Local

NWACC Resources

Regulations

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Research Resources

Email Alerts

Grants.gov
Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 billion in Federal grants. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant-making agencies.

MyNSF
MyNSF is an email- and web-based alert service, designed to help anyone with an interest in NSF news and publications find out quickly about new publications and information.

NIH Guide
The NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts is the official publication for the NIH medical and behavioral research grant policies, guidelines and funding opportunities.

EPA
NCER runs competitions for STAR grants, graduate and undergraduate fellowships, research contracts under the Small Business Innovative Research Program, and other research assistance programs.

NIH Roadmap
The NIH Roadmap provides a framework of the priorities NIH as a whole must address in order to optimize its entire research portfolio. It lays out a vision for a more efficient and productive system of medical research. The NIH Roadmap identifies the most compelling opportunities in three main areas: new pathways to discovery, research teams of the future, and re-engineering the clinical research enterprise.

 

Grant Writing Tips & Guides

Finding Grants and Fellowships in the Humanities from John Hopkins University.

Proposal Writing Essay by Christina M. Gillis is a essay from her personal experience advising humanities scholars in proposal writing.

Seeking Funding A Manual for faculty in Theological Education from The Association of Theological Schools.

What Do Grant Reviewers Really Want, Anyway? by Robert Porter, Ph.D, is a paper that presents the finding of interview with sixteen senior Virginia Tech faculty with extensive experience on review panels.

NFS' Guide for Proposal Writing  Advice often given to inquirers. These suggestions for improving proposals were collected from a variety of sources, including NSF Program Directors, panel reviewers, and successful grantees.

Hints for Writing a Successful NIH grant  Link to the many NIH divisions such as the National Cancer Institute. On the individual websites are materials for grantwriting directly related to the divisions.

Proposal Writing Short Course a short, on-line proposal writing guide.

Elements of a Grant Proposal

Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal by Joseph S. Levine, a printable pdf version of Levine's proposal writing guide, and examples of various parts of a proposal; also contains links to other proposal writing resources and books.

A Grantsmanship Tutorial from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine's Office of Grant Support. 

The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. provides the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated; an on-line resource.

FIPSE: "Funding Your Best Ideas: A 12 Step Program" by Joan Straumanis

EPA Grant Writing Tutorial

Sample Proposals

NIH Sample Proposals

Sample Proposals from the U.S. Department of Education

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External Funding Agencies

Federal

Grants.gov

Department of Agriculture

Department of Defense

Department of Education

Department of Energy

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Justice

Department of Labor

Department of State

Department of Transportation

Department of Veterans Affairs

Environmental Protection Agency

Foundation Center

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Institutes of Health

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

National Science Foundation

State

Arkansas Department of Career Education

Arkansas Department of Education

Arkansas Department of Emergency Management

Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality

Arkansas Department of Health

Arkansas Department of Higher Education

Arkansas Department of Human Services

Arkansas Department of Labor

Arkansas Department of Workforce Services

Arkansas Economic Development Commission

Arkansas Energy Office

Arkansas Office of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act

 

Private/Local

American Association of Community Colleges

American Council on Education

AT&T Foundation

Care Foundation

Met Life Foundation

Northwest Arkansas Community Foundation

Second Nature

United Way of NWA

The Walmart Foundation

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NWACC Resources

Office for Grants
Dr. Shauna Sterling	Ex. Director of Grants & Effectiveness	ssterling1@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-3136
Dr. Ricky Tompkins	AVP for Research & Planning	rtompkins1@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-4325
Jennifer Post	Coordinator	jpost1@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-3142
Finance Office
Denton Weddle	Restricted Funds	dweddle@nwacc.edu	(479) 986-4083
Gulizar Baggson	Director of Budget	gbaggson@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-2203
Diane Gower	Travel Accountant	dgower@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-4378
Tileana Waterman	Purchasing Agent	twaterman@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-3141
Staff Development/IT
Marty Parsons	Sr. VP for Administrative Services	mparsons1@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-4217
Paige Francis	AVP for IT	pfrancis@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-4337
Lynda Lloyd	Director of Staff Development	llloyd@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-4248
Marsha Woolfolk	Employment Coordinator	mwoolfolk@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-4195
Foundation Office
Meredith Brunen	Executive Director for Development	mbrunen@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-4176
Pam Nash	Administrative Assistant to Development	pnash@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-4184
Institutional Research
Lisa Anderson  Kim Purdy	Director of IR IR Program Manager	landerson7@nwacc.edu kpurdy@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-2227 (479) 619-4399
Jacob Oliver	IR Research Coordinator	joliver3@nwacc.edu	(479) 619-4339

 

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Regulations

OMB Circular A-21: Cost Principles for Educational Institutions

US Code

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)

 

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