As a graduate student, receiving funding is an important part of career development especially if you intend to pursue a career in academia.
I. Identifying grant sources
On the Clark University Web Site
The Grants and Research Office also emails grant information through the Federal Grants & Contracts Weekly and Foundation Grants Alert.
Other Sources
Arisnet Student Funding Sources Grantsnet (science) Cornell University Graduate Fellowship Notebook Brown University Career Center Environmental Protection Agency National Endowment for the Humanities National Endowment for the Arts National Research Council National Science Foundation Social Science Research Council Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation II. Preparing the Proposal
- On campus Services to develop successful grant writing capacity
- Check with your department for Research Design and Methodology courses
- The Writing Center – offers one on one feedback on proposals
- Online resources for guidelines in proposal writing
Clark University COPACE Department offers a spring seminar in Fundraising and Grant Writing for Non-Profit Organizations. The course examines a wide variety of fundraising approaches; sources for federal, state, and local grants; the process of grant writing and interaction with the grant-giving agency; and local, regional, and on-line resources available to find grant funding.
Also refer to resources online such as:
The Foundation Center, proposal writing course
The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits: Fund raising and grant writing