Funding Alert Services

A number of electronic services are available free to researchers who wish to automatically receive e-mail notices of funding opportunities and other important news in their research areas. For assistance with any of these services, please contact funding@research.ucsb.edu.

Customized Alert Services

• Grants.gov is a recently launched, centralized clearing-house for federal grants. Four e-mail registration options are available: selected notices based on solicitation number; selected agencies and categories of funding activities; selected interest and eligibility groups; or all grants notices.
  
  
• IRIS (UCSB only) Your search profile will be run automatically at specified intervals (daily/weekly/monthly) and will alert you (via e-mail or web interface) to upcoming funding opportunities in your areas of interest.

Alert Services from Agencies

• National Science Foundation Update provides a customized notification of NSF program announcements.
• National Institutes of Health includes the full text of all Requests for Applications, Program Announcements, and Notices.
• U.S. Department of Education (EDInfo) sends two e-mail messages a week that feature new reports, budget updates, research and statistics, and funding opportunities.
• U.S. Department of Energy Reminder (ER News)
• NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS)
• NASA Office of Space Science
• U.S. EPA receives grant and funding announcements as they are posted to the National Center for Environmental Research and Quality Assurance (NCER) site.
• National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST Bimonthly Reports)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Reports)
• U.S. Department of Justice biweekly newsletter.
• Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. Users can sign up for their publication listserv.
• The Foundation Center is a resource for nonprofit agencies and provides users the opportunity to sign up for several e-mail newsletters including the Philanthropy News Digest and a weekly RFP Bulletin that includes recently announced Requests for Proposals from private, corporate, and government funding sources.