UMBC

Getting To Know…
Professional Subscription
Dr. Michael Walsh
Grants and Contracts Manager
Office of Sponsored Programs

– FDO contains information on 108,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grant making public charities in the U.S.
– The database consists of over 4,000 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate funders;
– The database contains over 3 million recently awarded grants;
– FDO offers a keyword-searchable database of over 1 million recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF (filed by exempt organizations -- i.e., private foundations and private charities).

• Log into myUMBC
• Click on Topics Tab
• Click on Human
Resources and Finance
• Scroll to the bottom of the page to the heading
Financial Application-click on link “Foundation
Directory Online”. Note:
You can ONLY access
FDO while on UMBC’s
Campus

Additional FDO Access Point http://www.umbc.edu/research/OSP/proposals/funding_opportunities.html

NEW FOR 2013: FDO FREE
FDO Free is a new, improved way to quickly look up basic information about foundations by name, EIN, or location.
FDO Free CAN be accessed off-campus through the web. No log-in or subscription needed. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/
Click Here for FDO Free Search!

• Manual Funding Searches
• Power Search
(9 databases at once)
• Update Central
• Cross-Border Giving
(U.S. Grant-makers to non-U.S. recipients)
• Posted RFPs
• Newsletter
(Sign up for funding watch, job bulletins, RFP bulletins, etc.)
• Archived Webinars & Blogs
• Chat Now
• Training
• Online Tutorials
(Highly Recommended)

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Advantages In Using Foundation Directory
Online?
Search across a funder's grants (using search criteria and indexes)
Map a funder's grants for any given year by recipient type or primary subject/the ability to view disbursements by county, city,
ZIP code, or congressional district
Chart a funder's grants for any given year by recipient type or primary subject.
Receive funder-specific e-mail alerts
Ability to search across all four Foundation Directory Online databases as well as the Foundation Center's philanthropy news, nonprofit jobs, RFPs, foundation publications, and nonprofit literature databases simultaneously
User-friendly interface
IPhone & Android Compatibility
Constant and consistent updating of database (weekly updates)

• Searching by grantmaker
– Will list all foundations who have distributed grants in the past
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Search Types : Grantmaker name, field of interest/geographic focus, grantmaker state and total giving, grantmaker city, establishment year, trustees/officers/donors, and keyword or a combination thereof.
• A Company search
– Will list all companies who distribute grants.
• Search Types : Company name, state and business type, subsidiary state/country, subsidiary city, total sales, directors/officers congressional district, and keyword.

• A grant search
– Will list all organizations who have received foundation grants and from who.
• Search Types : Grantmaker name & state, recipient type and types of support, recipient state and grant amount, and/or recipient city, congressional district, types of support, year authorized, and keyword
• A 990s search
– Will list all organizations who have filled a 990 within the criteria selected.
• Search Types : Grantmaker name, fiscal year and grantmaker zip and/or grantmaker state, EIN (tax ID), and keyword

• Select what you want to search
– Grantmakers
– Companies
– Grants
– 990s
• The Grantmaker-Specific Search Grants
Screen is used to search for records of recently awarded grants specific to a particular grantmaker while the main
Search Grants Screen is used to search for records of recently awarded grants across our entire database.
• Enter any and/or all information
– The more fields entered the more narrower the search

• Additional search option
– Clicking on the link
“view index” under each search criteria.
– Select field you want to search
• Indexes included on the Grantmaker-
Specific Search Grants Screen contain fewer entries than the indexes on the main Search Grants Screen because these indexes are specific to the grantmaker whose grants you are searching.

A sample search by City, County, State Sample search results on UMBC as Recipient

Results
Grant Details:
• Recipient
• Grant
• Grantmaker
• Contact/Email
Grantmaker Profile includes :
• Background
• Fields of Interest
• Donor
• Contact
• Financial Data
• Types of Support
• Map & Chart

Mapping & Charting
Grants

Links to Social Media

The Power Search
One-Stop Search :
• Grantmakers
• Companies
• Grants
• 990s
• News
• Jobs
• RFPs
• IssueLab Reports
• Nonprofit Literature

Your Turn To Practice A Search!
• Log-in to myUMBC
• Access Foundation Directory
• Let’s Try a Search :
• Power Search
&
• Using one of the four search databases

• For questions about Foundation Directory
Online , including questions about search strategies, e-mail fdonline@foundationcenter.org
or call (800) 424-9836.
• For general questions about foundations, philanthropy, and fundraising research, please refer to the Foundation Center's Online Librarian page
( http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/askus/ ).
The
Online Librarian page has search tutorials and search examples accessible and available to the grant seeker for their perusal.

Office of Sponsored Programs ospa@umbc.edu
410-455-3140 www.umbc.edu/ospa
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Dr. Michael T. Walsh mwalsh3@umbc.edu
410-455-3037
**Please feel free to contact your college’s specific Grants and
Contracts Manager and Specialist**

Mr. Cameron McAdams
Grants & Contracts Specialist
Office of Sponsored Programs

• Concept originated in the Federal Financial Assistance Management
Improvement Act of 1999.
• E-Grants Initiative; Established as a Governmental Resource
– Part of President George W. Bush's FY 2002 Management Agenda to Improve Government Services to the Public
• Congress enacted legislation to provide an online connection between grant seekers and federal grant makers. It has been specifically and purposefully designed to make grant research, application, processing and management more efficient.

• Simplifies the grants application, management and awarding processes by reducing paperwork through downloadable and fillable forms, auto-populated data, error checks, email notifications and online support.
– Creates a centralized, online process to find and apply for over
1,000 grant programs from the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. Designed to be the one-source access to standardized grant information, application packages and processes.
– Over $500 billion in annual funds to state and local governments, academia, not-for-profits and other organizations.
– Saves time and expense that is associated with traditional paper-based grant applications

For Grantors
– Post Grant Opportunities
– Post Related Application
Packages
– Retrieve Application
Packages
– Assign Tracking
Numbers
For Grantees
– Search for Grant
Opportunities
– Download Application
Packages
– Complete Application
Packages Offline
– Check Application
Errors
– Submit Completed
Application Packages
– Track the Status of
Submitted Applications

Visit www.grants.gov
Note: Accessing Grants.gov is permitted off-campus.

• The exploration of Grants.gov and subsequent downloading of grant applications is allowed without PI registration; institutional registration has been completed for UMBC.
• OSP personnel are the Authorized
Organization Representatives (AORs) that will submit the applications to the federal agencies.

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Use the search options available on the Find Grants Opportunities page.
– Email notification service is also available.
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Perform a basic search, browse by category, browse by agency, or conduct an advanced search. Sign up for emails as well.
• Complete search and click submit.
The results will display all applicable grants.
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As soon as grant programs are announced by the agencies, they are posted on Grants.gov and available for review. After you receive your results, you can link to the synopses of the grant opportunities that provide important information about each grant and links to the full announcements and application packages.

– Basic search allows search by Keywords,
Funding Opportunity # or CFDA #
– Allows sorting by Status of opportunity (Open,
Closed or Archived)
– Enables editing which instrument type desired
(Grant, Cooperative Agreement, Contract,
Other)
– Sorts by who is eligible for the award (e.g.
Public and State controlled institutes of higher education)
– Sort by category (arts, education, health etc.)
– Allows selection of specific government agencies

Shows a quick glimpse of grant details:
– Funding Opportunity #
– CFDA #
– Posted and Closing
Date
– Program funding
– Award Ceiling and
Floor
– Cost share requirement
– Eligibility
– Brief Description of the program

Click the download button on the right to get the grants.gov package. You will be asked to optionally give your email address so that grants.gov may email you any updates to the package.

– All required documents are already attached
– To add optional forms click the checkboxes
– Clicking on the name of the document will jump you to that page
– All the yellow boxes are required
OSP is available to help you fill in any information you may not be sure about.

• Grants.gov Help Desk is available 24/7, except federal holidays.
• Email: support@grants.gov
• Phone: 1-800-518-4726
(local toll-free)
• Please also see Help page for general inquiries

Office of Sponsored Programs ospa@umbc.edu
410-455-3140 www.umbc.edu/ospa
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Mr. Cameron McAdams cameron2@umbc.edu
410-455-3187
**Please feel free to contact your college’s specific Grants and Contracts Manager and Specialist**

Mr. Chad League, J.D.
Grants & Contracts Specialist
Office of Sponsored Programs

What Is Grant Forward?
This pre-award funding search database includes a diverse inventory of more than 8,000 federal funding opportunities and more than 6,000 Foundation opportunities, spanning diverse academic fields including the arts, medical sciences, education, humanities, social sciences, business, engineering and technology, physical sciences, law, and many more.
• Over 39 subject fields including:
Energy Agriculture
Area Studies Engineering
Environmental Sciences
Arts
Behavioral Sciences
Biotechnology
Ethnic and Racial Group
Studies
Foods and Food
Business Administration
Communication
Science
Gender Studies
Computer Science
Earth Sciences
Geographic Locations
Home Economics
Humanities
Education
Information Science
International Studies
Law
Leisure Studies
Library Science
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Medical Sciences
Military Sciences
Museology
Natural Sciences
Nuclear Sciences
Opportunity Restricted to
Minorities
• Over 2,009 categories
Institutions
Opportunity Restricted to Women
Opportunity for Junior Faculty
Physical Sciences
Plant Sciences
Population Studies
Rural Studies
Science
Social Sciences
Space Sciences
Technology
Transportation
Urbanism
Grant Forward also offers several assistance aids on their website:
1. Grant Forward Home Page: http://www.grantforward.com/
2. Educational materials: http://www.grantforward.com/education
3. Overview Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSriw2YIj4E
4. Knowledge base: http://feedback.grantforward.com/knowledgebase

Accessing Grant Forward
• Grant Forward can be accessed directly from a campus computer, or from an off-campus computer by setting up an account using your
UMBC e-mail address. Grant Forward can be accessed DIRECTLY at http://www.grantforward.com/ .
• OSP Website Access: http://www.umbc.edu/research/OSP/pr oposals/funding_opportunities.html
• Also Note the Link to “How To Use
Grant Forward” published by
Cazoodle

Grant Forward: FAQs & Web Demos

Grant Forward Registration
• Go to www.grantforward.com
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Click on Sign Up on the Home
Page
• Enter your UMBC E-mail Address
• Enter your Password and confirm your Password
• Click on “Institution Member” in the
“Select Account Type” Field.
• UMBC should populate in the
“Institution” Field.

Finding Grant Forward Opportunities
Basic Search
• Can conduct a basic broad search using
‘keywords’ or ‘categories’
• If you are unsure of a specific category to use, click on ‘select from list’ and Grant Forward will provide a list of available categories from which to choose.
• If you have a more specific topic of research in mind, click “Advanced
Search” to bring up more detailed query fields.

Finding Grant Forward Opportunities
Advanced Search
• Advanced searches are helpful when trying to narrow down your research topic.
• You can search funding opportunities by sponsor, deadline, sponsor type, grant/award type, status, etc.
• You can select multiple sponsors and options in the various fields so that you do not have to do separate searches for each sponsor, sponsor type, etc.

Grant Forward Search Results
The search results provides the following information:
• Submission Deadline
• Funding Amount
• Eligibility
• Submission Info
The yellow star gives you the option to mark certain opportunities as ‘favorites’ so you can come back to them later.
You can also choose to further narrow your search using the fields to the left of your search results.

Grant Forward Search Results
This page provides you with the following:
• General overview of the opportunity
• Ability to ‘Annotate’ the opportunity with notes and reminders.
• Ability to ‘Star’ as a
‘Favorite’
• Ability to Export overview to
PDF Format

OSP Contact Information
For Grant Forward
Office of Sponsored Programs ospa@umbc.edu
410-455-3140 www.umbc.edu/ospa
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Chad League, J.D.
cleague@umbc.edu
410-455-3255
**Please feel free to contact your college’s specific Grants and Contracts Manager and Specialist**

OSP Responsibilities Chart

References/Citations: Facts, figures, and other pertinent information regarding these databases were gathered from the following websites:
» http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/
» www.grants.gov
» www.grantforward