Researching Grant Opportunities
On Thursday, September 23, the Grant Center hosted a webinar to provide a tour of the new website. Stacey Karp, APTS Communications Director, showed participants the new APTS website, and Ellen Holloway, Amie Miller and Karen Spitzfaden discussed what resources the Grant Center offers and how to research funding opportunities using the site.
APTS recently redesigned its website, and as you may have noticed, this change also affected the Grant Center website. The content in the Grant Center website is the same, but there are a few new features:
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Grant Center Search: On the new website, users can search for a grant or foundation by entering specific criteria. To get started, click "Search the Grant Center" in the right navigation bar on the Grant Center homepage. Here, you can search for profiles by their status, federal agency or topic. When searching by status, remember that it can be helpful to browse closed and rolling grants, in addition to currently open programs. Grant programs and foundations that are closed are not currently accepting applications, but they may open again in the future. Having an understanding of what grant programs have existed before can help you get an idea of what is required from certain agencies and foundations. Most foundations have rolling deadlines and will appear in the results of a search for grants with a rolling status.
Fewer search criteria will yield more search results.
From the right navigation bar, users can also search grant profiles by topic. Clicking on one of the topics listed will direct you to a list of federal grant and foundation profiles related to that topic area.
- What's New: As new content is added to the Grant Center website, it will appear on the front page. Make sure to check this section each time you log into the Grant Center, so that you're aware of any new grant profiles or news articles.
- RSS Feed: In order to receive updates when new content is added to the Grant Center website, you can subscribe to the Grant Center RSS Feed.
