Grant Writing Resources
Psychology Department - Research Committee

University of Arizona

• Pivot: Funding opportunity search engine. You can log in and receive periodic emails with list of new grants.
• Advice and Tips for writing different types of proposals and for searching funding databases (from the Office for Research and Discovery).
• Grant writing seminar and workshops at UA.
• UA Experts: Helps you find UA individuals with specific expertise for collaborations (from the Office for Research and Discovery).
• Faculty Seed Grants

Grant Writing Workshops

NSF

• NSF Grants Conference: You can sign up for automated notices, and see slides/materials from previous conferences.

NIH

• Seminars and Webminars sponsored by NIH.
• Requesting a presenter from NIH's Office of Extramural Research.

Private (listed here if there was positive feedback from a faculty who attended)

• Grant Training Center.
• Grant Writer's Seminars & Workshops, LLC.
• Principal Investigators Association.

Grant Search Databases

• Grants.gov. You can log in and receive periodic emails with list of new grants.
• Grants from the American Psychological Foundation.

Grant Programs

Department of Defense

• DARPA Young Faculty Award.

Foundations

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Primarily for Assistant or Associate (not tenured) faculty. UA nominates 3 per Department.
• American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (new investigators). Through the UA Cancer Center.
• American Psychological Foundation - David Wechsler Early Career Grant for Innovative Work in Cognition.
• Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium - Grants in the fields of Alzheimer’s disease, related disorders or aging.
• Beckman Foundation - Young Investigator Program.
• Brain Research Foundation - Fay/Frank seed grant (early career) and Scientific Innovation awards.
• Cogito Foundation - Encourage dialog between science and engineering and Humanities and social sciences.
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Faculty Scholars Program.
• Human Frontier Science Program - Young Investigator and Program Grants.
• Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards - For early career scientists in the Neurosciences.
• MacArthur Foundation. (UA and UAF internal selection. Contact Bernadette Olson)
• McKnight Foundation (Scholar award: can apply twice, must be before 4th year of faculty appointment).
• McDonnell Foundation and the 2016 complex system scholar award.
• Moore Foundation - Inventor fellows.
• National Center for Responsible Gaming - Project grants.
• MQ charity (mental illness) - can only apply once.
• Packard Foundation (Early career 2016 awards program).
• Pew Charitable Trust - Biomedical Scholars Program.
• Russell Sage Foundation - Social Scientific Research.
• Searle Scholars Program (early career).
• Simons Foundation.
• Vilcek Foundation - Early career, for foreign-born biomedical scientists.
• Whitehall Foundation - Specific program ('Grant-in-Aid') for Assistant Professors.
• William T. Grant Foundation.

Please send comments/suggestions to Gene Alexander or Jean-Marc Fellous