Grants and funding: Marriage and family counseling

Grants: primary resources

• Grants.gov - Grants.gov encompasses over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies
• Foundation Directory online (subscription)
• Grant Select (subscription)
• Administration for Children and Families
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Grants: secondary resources

• Charity Channel - Don Griesmann's Grant Opportunities (subscription)
• Council on Foundations - 2,000 foundations are represented
• CRISP - Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects
• Federal Register
• Grants & Funding - list compiled by Emory University MedWeb
• HSRProj - a database from NLM providing access to ongoing grants and contracts in health services research
• IRIS - database of federal and private funding opportunities in all disciplines (subscription)
• National Institutes of Health Grants & Contracts
• National Science Foundation - Social Psychology research grant awards from the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division
• Penn State - list compiled by Penn State's Social Science Research Institute
• SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (DHHS)  

Statistical sources and government agencies

• American Fact Finder - U.S. Census Bureau
• CDC Wonder - reports and numeric public health data from the CDC
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
• Counting California - California social science and economic data
• FedStats - gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
• FirstGov - official search engine of the U.S. government
• Librarian's Index to the Internet
• Riverside County
• Riverside County Department of Public Health
• San Bernardino County
• San Bernardino County Department of Public Health
• State of California agencies index
• Statistical Abstracts of U.S.
• Statistical Resources on the Web - University of Michigan
• Thomas - federal government legislative information

Sample topic: Associations on children's issues and foster care

• Child Welfare League - Foster care fact sheet
• Children Now - provides annual statistical reviews on the status of California's children at both state and county levels
• First 5 - children's and families commission of San Bernardino County
• Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care - launched May, 2003
• Voices for America's Children
• William T. Grant Foundation - "helping the nation value young people"

"How-to": grant writing, submitting, and review process

Books:

• Guide to effective grant writing: how to write a successful NIH grant application. Otto O. Yang W 20.5 Y22g 2005
• Grant application writer's handbook. Liane Reif-Lehrer. W 20.5 R361w 2005
• Models of proposal planning and writing. Jeremy T. Miner and Lynn E. Miner. HG 177.5 U6 M558 2005
• Grant writing in higher education: a step-by-step guide. Kenneth T. Hinson LB 2336 H46 2004
• Successful Grant Writing. Laura N. Gitlin. WZ 345 G536S 2004
• Proposal writing. Soraya M. Coley & Cynthia A. Scheinberg. HV 41 C548 2000
• Winning strategies for developing grant proposals. Editors: Lisa Hayes, Don Hoffman, Denise Lamoreaux. HG 177 W56 1999
• Applying for research funding: getting started and getting funded. Joanne B. Ries & Carl G. Leukefeld. HG 177 R53 1995

Articles and web sites:

• "Debunking Some Myths about Grant Writing" - a 2003 article from the Chronicle of Higher Education
• Developing and Writing Grant Proposals - Catalog of Domestic Federal Assistance
• Foundation Center's Proposal Writing Short Course
• Social Science Research Council - The Art of Writing Proposals
  

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