Proposals

Locating Funding Opportunities and Collaborators

Find funding and collaborators using the following resources.

If you have additional questions, please contact your Research Administrator or the McCormick Scientific Grants Editor.

Northwestern Offices

• The Office of Research Development can help you search funding databases for opportunities related to your specific research interests or facilitate collaborative research relationships with other faculty members.
• The McCormick Office of Corporate Relations helps create research partnerships between McCormick and industry.
• The Office of Foundation Relations assists with seeking and applying for funding from private foundations.

Listservs and Bulletins

• Subscribe to federal agency listservs
• Foundation Center provides funding announcements on grantmaking foundations, corporate giving programs, and public charities in the United States.

Search Engines

• Funding Institutional
  Increase grant success rates with funding insights, discovery, and decisions.
• Pivot Funding Alerts
  Drawn from Community of Science (COS), a large funding database that contains funding appointments from the government, philanthropic, and industrial sectors in all fields.
• Foundation Directory Online (FDO) 
  Resources include a database of the entire universe of over 108,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the United States. To access, enter “Foundation Directory Online” into the search bar in the upper left corner of the Northwestern University Library’s main page.

Collaborator Databases

• Northwestern Scholars
  A searchable database for Northwestern University researchers and investigators.