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Grantwriting
(Formulación de propuestas)

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Tools
(Herramientas)

  • AAGP Consultants Directory
    Directory of grantwriting consultants.
    Sponsoring organization: American Association of Grants Professionals
  • AFP Consultants Directory
    Serves as a database of fundraising consultants. Services covered include grantwriting, board and staff training, database and web site development and much more. Searchable by consultant specialty and state.
    Sponsoring organization: Association of Fundraising Professionals
  • Art of Grantsmanship
    Grantwriting guidelines. Produced by Dr. Jacob Kraicer.
  • Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)
    Contains information on all available federal programs including grant eligibility, application procedures, selection criteria, and program deadlines.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. General Services Administration
  • Foundation Finder
    Provide contact information and basic fiscal profiles for 70,000+ U.S. private and community foundations.
    Sponsoring organization: Foundation Center
  • Funding Information Center
    Helps organizations in Texas pursue public health funding opportunities by disseminating funding information through the Funding Alert and our website. Services are limited to clients living in Texas.
    Sponsoring organization: Texas Department of State Health Services
  • Grant Opportunities Guidebook: Private & Public Funding Sources
    Provides guidance when writing grants. Grantmaking organizations are listed that fund health related projects with emphasis on health disparities, minority populations, poverty, community development, children, youth, and families. Other criteria for listing in guidebook includes education, environment, housing, and bricks and mortar. The organizations are all possible funders in New Mexico with special attention to U.S. - Mexico border regions.
    Sponsoring organization: United States - Mexico Border Health Commission
  • Grants for Nonprofits
    Contains private funding sources directed primarily to nonprofit organizations, although some topics are of interest to individuals, such as academic support. Funding sources are arranged by topic. This tool is produced by Jon Harrison at the Michigan State University Libraries.
  • Grants.gov
    Serves as a single, comprehensive web site with information about finding and applying for all federal grant programs.
  • GrantsNet
    Includes an introduction to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grants, with information about policies governing the award and administration of grant activities.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Health Funding Watch
    Newsletter covering news, resources, funding opportunities for individuals and organizations, and job listings focused on health topics.
    Sponsoring organization: Foundation Center
  • HRSA Grants
    Provides details on HRSA's competitive grant offerings for the current fiscal year. Also known as the HRSA Preview.
    Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
  • NOZA's 990-PF Database
    Searchable database, by GrantSmart, of federal tax returns filed by non-profit organizations such as private foundations and charitable trusts.
  • Proposal Budgeting Basics
    Offers an online course covering the basics of developing a project budget. Most appropriate for those who have general knowledge of proposal development.
    Sponsoring organization: Foundation Center
  • Proposal Writing Short Course
    Online course introducing the proposal writing process.
    Sponsoring organization: Foundation Center
  • Prospect Worksheet
    Contains worksheets grantseekers can use to focus on funders whose priorities match their projects. Available in a variety of formats, including Word and PDF.
    Sponsoring organization: Foundation Center
  • RAC Funding Search
    Offers a searchable database for funding opportunities, updated daily from the Federal Register and other sources.
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
  • RAC Maps
    Provides national maps on a variety of rural health and human services topics. Maps can be customized to focus on a specified state or county and to show additional labels, boundaries and data, for use in grant applications, reports and other publications.
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
  • Reference Guides for Proposal Writers
    Offers resources on grantwriting, including links to web sites and recommended books on topics like finding a consultant, approaching a foundation, and more.
    Sponsoring organization: Foundation Center

Publications
(Publicaciones)

  • Find Your Funding: A Catalogue for Rural Health Network Resources
    Provides funding information on rural health topics, including information on grantwriting, sources of funding information, and information on health professional scholarships.
    Sponsoring organization: Georgia Health Policy Center
    Date: 2001
    Format: PDF
  • Grantee Sustainability in the Rural Health Outreach Grant Program
    Describes a study of the post-grant experiences of 99 Rural Health Outreach Grant recipients. Focuses on the extent to which programs were able to maintain or expand services after their grants ended and characteristics that helped programs succeed in the post-grant period.
    Author(s): Walter Gregg, Astrid Knott, Ira Moscovice
    Sponsoring organization: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 12 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Guide to Federal Resources for Youth Development
    A guide to help communities learn about and access federal resources. Provides organizations with the information they need to apply for federal funds. Each funding source is listed by the department that operates the program, and cross-references are made to one or more of the five key goals of America's Promise: 1) caring adults; 2) safe places; 3) a healthy start and future; 4) effective education; and 5) opportunities to help others.
    Sponsoring organization: America's Promise
    Date: 2006
    Format: PDF
  • Putting Rural Services on the Map
    Discusses the benefits of maps, particularly visual data, and mapping technology. Includes information on RUPRI/CARES, GIS, and map projects that other states are undertaking.
    Author(s): Thomas D. Rowley
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
    Journal citation: Rural Monitor Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Date: 09 / 2004
    Format: HTML
  • Rural Health Services Funding: A Resource Guide
    Contains information on rural health grantsmanship, federal and state funding sources, publications, agencies, foundations, corporations, directories, guides, and glossary. Updated December 2005.
    Author(s): Beth Blevins, Susan Marder
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Agriculture
    Date: 12 / 2005
    Format: PDF

Journals
(Revistas)

  • Chronicle of Philanthropy
    Intended for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise. Some newspaper articles are available free online, but the grants database and other tools require a subscription.
  • Federal Register
    Official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents. Among its numerous notices are notices of funding availability.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
  • Internet Prospector
    Includes reviews of web sites and other resources related to funding. Online newsletter for the nonprofit fundraising community.
  • NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
    Contains notices for new grant announcements, availability of Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and Requests for Applications (RFAs), as well as ongoing program announcements.
    Sponsoring organization: National Institutes of Health
  • Philanthropy News Digest
    Newsletter on philanthropy, including the RFP Bulletin covering new funding opportunities, and Connections, a review of new web sites related to philanthropy.
    Sponsoring organization: Foundation Center

Organizations
(Organismos)