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Funding Tips Archive

Funding Tips

• Customize Your COS Funding Alert Service
• Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities
• NEC Foundation of America Refines Funding Priority

Funding Tips

Customize Your COS Funding Alert Service
The Community of Science (COS) funding alert service, provided through the GrantSource Library, notifies faculty and research staff about relevant new and updated funding opportunities from federal and private agencies. The funding alert can be customized to run specific searches—like having your own electronic “librarian.”

Many Carolina faculty and staff members with existing COS accounts have not updated their profiles in quite a few years. To ensure that you are getting the most effective results from your COS funding alert service, please take a few moments to login at http://workbench.cos.com and update your expertise profile. (If you have forgotten your username and password, please email gs@unc.edu.) Then go to the “Access Your Funding Alerts” section to modify or add new funding alerts that reflect your current research interests. By specifying more precise keywords and other descriptors, you can fine-tune your funding alert to produce more accurate search results.

New faculty or staff who wish to register for COS funding alerts first need to register with COS. Go to “Join” to activate an account, and then to “Add an Alert” to start getting your own email funding alerts.

If you are interested in learning how to customize this service to your particular interests, the GrantSource Library staff will be happy to assist you. Please contact us at 962-3463 or gs@unc.edu.

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Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities
The National Endowment for the Arts provides an online guide to federal funding available for arts initiatives through various national, state and local funding programs: http://www.arts.gov/federal.html.

This useful resource includes information about federal departments and agencies that support programs in cultural and heritage preservation, community arts partnerships, access to the arts, arts education, and youth development. Please note that not all relevant federal funding opportunities are included. The web site also provides tips on how to effectively seek support from particular federal departments and agencies.

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NEC Foundation of America Refines Funding Priority
NEC Foundation of America has announced that, effective March 1, 2003, its sole focus will be on the support of nonprofit organizations working on the development, application and use of technology by and for people with disabilities. Every grant must have national reach and impact.

NEC Foundation of America requires no special application form. Interested applicants must submit a one-page preliminary proposal in advance of a formal proposal by September 1, 2003. Preliminary proposals may be submitted online; formal proposals are not accepted online.

For more information, contact:
http://www.necfoundation.org/
Tel: (631) 753-7021
Email: foundation@necfoundation.org

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