Research Guides: NUR535 Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice: Week 7

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Grant Writing Books & Directories of Funding Sources

A Guide to the Scientific Career: Virtues, Communication, Research, and Academic Writing

Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice, 4e

The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need, 5e

Annual Register of Grant Support: A Directory of Funding Sources, 53rd ed., 2020

Writing Successful Science Proposals, 3e

Winning Grants Step by Step: the Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing and Writing Successful Proposals, 4e

Funding Sources for Children and Youth Programs, 10e

Terminology

Learn the terminology of grant seeking by learning the jargon. Here are links to various glossaries or dictionaries of terms:

Grant Terminology
Glossary of grant terms based on the Grant Policies and Grants.gov functionality.
Types of Support Terms
Candid Learning Knowledge Base
Glossary & Acronym List
National Institutes of Health central resource for grants and funding information.

Grant & Funding Resources

Gateways

Grants.gov
An electronic storefront for Federal grants.
Federal Register
The official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.

Agencies

National Institutes of Health - Office of Extramural Research - Grants & Funding
NIH central resource for grants and funding information.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - Office of Minority Health - Funding & Partnerships
Provides support to agencies and organizations in the public and private sectors to eliminate health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations. These entities include state offices of minority health and health equity; community and faith-based organizations, institutions of higher education; tribes and tribal organizations; and other scientific and research organizations dedicated to improving the health of these targeted groups.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services – Grants & Contracts
Information for prospective and current grantees about HHS grant programs, the grant application processes, and grant management.
Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health - Funding
Federal government, state, and private funding opportunities.

Programs

Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
Funds grants to cities, states, counties, and community-based groups to provide HIV care and treatment.

Anne E. Casey Foundation
Makes grants that help federal agencies, states, counties, cities and neighborhoods create more innovative, cost-effective responses to challenges facing children and young people: poverty, unnecessary disconnection from family and communities with limited access to opportunity.
The Cigna Group Foundation
Provides grants to organizations focused on improving the health and vitality of people. Its goal is to support individuals who lack basic needs, including easy or close access to health care.
Commonwealth Fund
Mission is is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, and people of color.
The Kresge Foundation
Partners with people and communities to support efforts to build and advance equitable systems of health that give everyone the opportunity to thrive.
The McKesson Foundation
Dedicated to advancing health outcomes for all. Mission is to remove barriers to quality healthcare across North America, especially for vulnerable and underserved communities.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Mission is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Program areas include childhood obesity, health care coverage, public health services, quality of health care, and vulnerable populations.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Focuses on public health, including food security, children's health, and health disparities.

Central Susquehanna Community Foundation
Invests endowment funds, large and small, to benefit the communities and residents of Columbia, lower-Luzerne, Montour, Northumberland, Union, and Snyder counties in central and northeastern Pennsylvania.
Centre County Community Foundation
Helps individuals, families and businesses pursue their charitable interests conveniently, effectively and with maximum tax benefits.
Clinton County Community Foundation
Helps improve Clinton County by benefiting youth groups, libraries, the elderly, special needs children, medical and fire groups and museums
Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers
Improves the quality of life for people living in the Twin Tiers region
Community Giving Foundation
Dedicated to the enrichment of the quality of life in the greater Berwick, Bloomsburg, Danville, Selinsgrove, and Sunbury areas through superior stewardship of enduring charitable gifts.
First Community Foundation Partnership
Mission is to improve quality of life in north central Pennsylvania through community leadership, the promotion of philanthropy, the strengthening of nonprofit impact and the perpetual stewardship of charitable assets
Textron Charitable Trust
Provides philanthropic support for nonprofit agencies that align with our giving focus and involve the volunteer efforts of our employees.