These no-cost tools will help you identify potential funding opportunities and collaborators from your desktop.
Grant Forward
ORCA subscribes to and provides Grant Forward to UNO faculty, staff, and students. Grant Forward (formerly IRIS) is a search engine dedicated to helping institutions and individuals find grants to fund their research. It is focused on on improving the inventory of foundation, federal, and other funding sources while providing an intuitive, powerful search and flexible management experience. Grant Forward videos on YouTube.
The Funding Opportunity Search function allows users to:
- Create a free profile by using their @unomaha.edu email address
- Search for funding opportunities spread across 39 subject areas and 2,009 categories
- Review its large database of sponsors comprising foundation, federal, and institutions
- Set up alerts and get opportunities delivered straight to your inbox
- Share funding opportunities with colleagues
- Save funding opportunities for future use
- Search researcher profiles within UNO and across all institutions
Research Nebraska
The Research Nebraska collaborative search tool is being supported by all University of Nebraska campuses and Boys Town National Research Hospital to more rapidly connect biomedical, engineering, informatics, and life sciences investigators for new research collaborations. Overview of Research Nebraska.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Funding Search
The National Science Foundation funds research and education in most fields of science and engineering. Search for NSF funding opportunities, awards and more.
Grants.gov
The Grants.gov program management office was established in 2002, as a part of the President's Management Agenda. The office was chartered to deliver a system that provides a centralized location for grant seekers to find and apply for federal funding opportunities.
Today, the Grants.gov system houses information on over 1,000 grant programs and vets grant applications for 26 federal grant-making agencies. This free public resource provides the following key benefits to the grant community:
- Centralizes more than 1,000 different grant programs across all 26 federal grant-making agencies awarding more than $500 billion annually
- Provides grant opportunity research with improved search capabilities from a simple keyword search to advanced searches over numerous grant opportunity categories, including agency and grant category
- Sends grant opportunities directly to grant applicant desktops through custom search profiles, potential applicants can be notified via email or RSS feeds of future grant opportunities as they are posted by federal agencies
- Anyone can create a profile for free
For information on getting started with navigating the site, searching for grants and much more, check out Grants.gov online help here.
For more information on using these tools, please email Kim Balkovec.