Funding Opportunity Databases
The Office of Research and Creative Activity invites you to join us online for one of our Using Grant Funding Search Tools workshops this summer!
Foundation Directory Online (FDO)
UNO's Criss Library maintains an FDO subscription for the UNO Community. FDO offers some of the most exhaustive and up-to-date knowledge and insight on the social sector. Expanded, in-depth profiles of each grantmaker plus inside looks at the grants they've awarded will add fuel to your funding fire. FDO has recently combined forces with Candid and Guidestar to bring you:
- More than 24 million grants -- including federal grants
- More than 240,000 expanded U.S. foundation grantmaker profiles
- More than two million recipient profiles
- More than a million key decision makers and leaders
- Searchable 990s and 990-PFs
- Foundation Directory Online FAQs
- Intro to to FDO Search by Phrase
Use this link (and bookmark it in your web browser) to access the library's account with FDO:
When on-campus, you will be recognized as using a computer on UNO's network. When off-campus, the link prompts you to login with your UNO credentials (NetID username or email, password + 2-factor authentication) to confirm your affiliation with UNO and eligibility for access.
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.
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.
Learn how to use Research Nebraska in this short video.
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.
Arts and Humanities Funding Databases
While ORCA makes every effort to share external funding opportunities that may be of interest to UNO researchers, as a matter of practice you may wish to regularly search for additional opportunities. The following arts and humanities sites may yield opportunities to enhance your creative activity and research:
| Nebraska Arts Council | National Endowment for the Arts |
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | National Endowment for the Humanities |