External Research Funding

We provide multiple research and education grants, in addition to our Regional Development Grants. Some agencies, like those found below, fund projects or programs specifically related to education or research. We've also included databases that list a broad range of funding opportunities, including:

• Economic Development-Specific
• Education-Specific
• Research-Specific

Economic Development-Specific

• NC Rural Center
  To develop, promote, and implement sound economic strategies to improve the quality of life of rural North Carolinians.

Education-Specific

• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
  Promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.
• GrantsAlert
  Provides educational grants searchable by category.
• Howard Hughes
  Medical Institute Enhancing science education for students at all levels.
• National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
  Awards grants to its member institutions to support and strengthen invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship education through curricular development and the work of Advanced E-Teams.
• Office of Environmental Education
  Provides a list of funding opportunities to get your education program or project off the ground. You can subscribe to the Funding Alert ListServ.
• Public Education Network
  Builds public demand and mobilize resources for quality public education for all children through a national constituency of local education funds and individuals.
• SchoolGrants
  Lists a variety of opportunities available to public and private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools and districts.
• TeachersCount Services tailored to the teaching profession and education. You can also subscribe to the Funding Alert ListServ.
• Teachers Network
  Series of grant opportunities for various topics in education (science, technology, etc.). For more grant opportunities, you can subscribe to the eblast list by contacting Sandy Scragg.

Research Specific

• American Chemical Society
  Developing the next generation of chemistry leaders' petroleum, alt. energy, green chemistry.
• BioFuels Center of NC
  Facilitate and support the development of a sustainable biofuels industry across the state.
• Cancer Research Portfolio
  One-stop website for information on cancer research and funding opportunities supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and participating Institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
  Promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.
• NC Board of Science and Technology
  Manages two programs. The Green Business Fund focuses on biofuels, green building and renewable energy industries. For Phase I SBIR/STTR grants, the Small Business Program provides funding to NC businesses for a portion of the fees incurred and to those who receive awards.

Broad

Provides the grant seeker the opportunity to run a funding search tailored to the project or program.

• Community Resource Information System
  Helps local communities obtain information about state government financial assistance programs and other services.
• Follett Library Resources
  Offers information about grant opportunities by category.
• FundsNet Services
  Provides grant writing and fundraising resource assistance and offers information about grant opportunities by category.
• Grant Prose Inc.
  Assist institutions, agencies and organizations expand fiscal resources and program operations by helping locate and secure grant funds matched to your interests and needs. Provides links to funding opportunities, professional affiliations, statistical databases and grant writing tips.
• GrantsNet
  Search by keyword or granting foundation to find information about specific programs. GrantsNet membership is free and enables you to save searches/grants, similar to COS. You can also subscribe to the Funding News Alert.
• Made in North Carolina
  List of grants, foundations, and venture capital funds in NC.
• Noza
  Locates funders who are giving to organizations similar to yours and can tailor to funding amounts, geographic location, etc. Search by charitable organizations and cause.

For more information about the Funding Gateway resources, contact Julie King.