State and Federal Grant Information

At the California Department of Education, find current requests for applications, contracts, apportionments and data.  To receive email notification, join the Funding Mailing List.

Grants.gov is a central storehouse for information on over 1,000 federal grant programs and is  organized by the 26 federal grant-making agencies (e.g., U.S. Department of Education).  To receive email notification, sign-up at: <http://www.grants.gov/applicants/email_subscription.jsp>.

Private and Public Foundation Grant Information

Private Foundations (http://www.fdncenter.org)

Corporate Giving Programs (http://www.corporatecharitywatch.org/)

Donors Choose (http://www.donorschoose.org/)

Grant Wrangler (http://www.grantwrangler.com/)

Grant Writing Resources

Proposal Writing Short Course: An online course by The Foundation Center that prepares you to write the various components of a funding proposal.

Proposal Budgeting Basics: Also by The Foundation Center, this online course teaches the basics of developing a project budget, including overhead costs, employee fringe benefits, and links to sample budget templates.