Grant-seeking Resources

Faculty are increasingly encouraged to seek external grant support for their research. This is not to say that they should distort their research just to make it more eligible for outside funds. If, however, the goals of grant-givers and College faculty coincide, then external support can be beneficial in leveraging faculty creativity and providing support for graduate students. Grants can also provide faculty release time, travel, and other support not otherwise available internally. The departments in the College vary greatly in the extent and kind of grant activity, but the Dean’s office is committed to supporting all faculty in finding support for their research and increasing the overall level of such funding. The Grants Management office assists with getting institutional approval for faculty grant proposals and provides support for actually operating the project once it is funded. The intellectual task of creating the research proposal and finding that grant, of course, is the first challenge and lies more with the individual faculty member.

It is difficult to provide one-size-fits-all advice for how best to prepare these proposals and find sources of grants. Each faculty member, with specialized knowledge of his or her field, is in the best position to know how their ideas should be expressed and how they line up with the goals of grant-givers. From time to time workshops are provided and outside consultants made available to review individual proposals. The Associate Dean for Academic Affairs can assist with information about these programs. Below are some grant information resources compiled from other sources, which generally pertain to communication and communication-related fields. These resources can be used to find contact information, the major focus of the various grant-givers and the procedures they require.

External Grant Assistance Guides

• Foundation Center
• Federal Grant Alerts
• List of Federal Agencies with Grant Divisions
• Texas Corporate Givers

Grant Writing Workshops and Assistance

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance: Developing and Writing Grant Proposals on-line guide
• Non-Profit Guides on-line grant-writing proposal
• Foundation Center on-line grant writing training
• K-12 grant writing tips
• Grant Proposal Writing Primer
• State of Texas Writing To Win Grant Guide
• Grant-Writing Workshop

UT Funding and Grant Assistance Resources

• UT limited submission programs
• UT faculty development program
• UT Big 12 faculty fellowships
• UT research alert bulletin
• UT Donald T. Harrington Fellows Program
• UT awards, fellowships, grants

Private Granting Organizations

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• National Foundation for Jewish Culture
• Skirball Foundation
• The Annenberg Foundation
• The Ford Foundation
• John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Lilly Endowment Inc.
• J. Paul Getty Trust
• The Kresge Foundation
• The William Penn Foundation
• Freedom Forum, Inc.
• The Starr Foundation
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• The Wallace Foundation
• Ford Motor Company Fund
• Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
• The Henry Luce Foundation
• The Andy Warhol Foundation
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• The New York Community Trust
• The James Irvine Foundation
• Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
• The Brown Foundation, Inc.
• The San Francisco Foundation
• Richard King Mellon Foundation
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Howard Heinz Endowment
• The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
• Gilder Foundation, Inc.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• W. K. Kellogg Foundation
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Park Foundation, Inc.
• Community Foundation Silicon Valley
• The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
• The Ahmanson Foundation
• Bank of America Foundation, Inc.
• Houston Endowment Inc.
• Open Society Institute
• The Packard Humanities Institute
• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation
• Fred P. Sloan Foundation
• The California Endowment
• Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation
• Best Buy Children’s Foundation
• The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
• The AVI CHAI Foundation
• The Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, Inc.
• The Nathan Cummings Foundation
• MetLife Foundation
• Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
• AT&T Foundation
• Comer Science & Education Foundation
• Surdna Foundation, Inc.
• Northwestern Mutual Foundation
• The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• The Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program
• The Duke Endowment
• Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Inc.
• Lumina Foundation for Education, Inc.
• The Whitaker Foundation
• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
• W. M. Keck Foundation
• Verizon Foundation
• The Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc.
• GE Foundation
• General Motors Foundation, Inc.
• Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation
• The Moody Foundation
• The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
• The Skillman Foundation
• Lucent Technologies Foundation
• The Allstate Foundation
• The Danforth Foundation
• The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
• Citigroup Foundation
• William T. Grant Foundation
• Daniels Fund
• Charles Hayden Foundation
• M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust
• Marin Community Foundation
• Irene W. & C. B. Pennington Foundation
• The J. E. and L. E. Mabee Foundation, Inc.
• Peninsula Community Foundation
• Weingart Foundation
• The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc.
• Public Welfare Foundation, Inc.
• Moriah Fund
• Turner Foundation, Inc.
• Aurora Foundation
• JEHT Foundation
• Otto Bremer Foundation
• Levi Strauss Foundation
• The Joyce Foundation
• The Educational Foundation of America
• Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Inc.
• The Overbrook Foundation
• The PepsiCo Foundation, Inc.
• Walton Family Foundation, Inc.
• Dorot Foundation

Kohlberg Foundation
111 Radio Circle, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549
914-242-2388 | Fax 914-241-1195 | Email mccabe@kfound.org

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
375 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10152
212-319-8700

Perot Foundation
PO BOX 269014
PLANO, TX 75026-9014

J. Roderick MacArthur Foundation
9333 North Milwaukee Avenue, Niles, IL 60714
(847) 966-0143

William S. Paley Foundation
1 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022
212-888-2520

The Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Inc.
545 Wisconsin Ave., Ste. 1205
Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6901
301-913-5990

W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation
11 Piedmont Ctr., Ste. 405
Atlanta, GA 30305
404-231-2340

Sheldon H. Solow Foundation, Inc.
9 W. 57th St., Ste. 4500
New York, NY 10019-2601
212-754-0284

• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Media and Communications, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Arts, Culture, and the Humanities circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Education, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for the Social Sciences, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Science and Technology, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants in the State of Texas, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Community Improvement and Development, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Philanthropy and Voluntarism, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for International Affairs, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Public Affairs, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Civil Rights and Social Action, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Human Services, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Religion, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Reproductive Health Care, circa 2003*
• Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Public Health, circa 2003*