General Resources and Links: Grants and Loans

Local Grants Links Federal Grants Links

Miscellaneous Links Common Acronyms Resolution Examples

Local Grants

Commerce Business Daily
The Commerce Business Daily lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information. A new edition of the CBD is issued every business day.  Each edition contains approximately 500-1000 notices.  Each notice appears in the CBD only once.

Federal Grants

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Provides information about EPA, regulations, contracts, grants and environmental financing, among other things.

Federal Register (FR) Environmental Subset
Provides information about the federal register. Includes a daily table of contents on environmental issues.

Federal Register Online via GPO Access
Contains final rules and regulations, proposed rules, notices.

Project XL
Contains solicitation for innovative environmental technologies, legal and policy documents and EPA contacts.

NICE3
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sponsors an innovative, cost-sharing program to promote energy efficiency, clean production, and economic competitives in industry.  The grant program provides funding to state/industry partnerships for projects that develop and demonstrate advances in energy efficiency and clean production technologies.  Since 1991, NICE3 has sponsored 41 projects, totaling $12.3 million of DOE funding.

What's New: EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the availability of the final State Revolving Fund (SRF) Funding Framework and Policy and Guidance document. This policy becomes effective when a state prepares its 1998 SRF Intended Use Plan.

Federally-Funded Research in the U.S.
A page of information about federally-funded research in the U.S. Includes information about the USDA, NIH, NSF, SBIR, and ATP.

Research Funding Opportunities and Administration (TRAM)
TRAM is a service initially developed by the Texas Research Administrators Group (TRAM). It contains a search engine for locating funding opportunities from many different agencies. The funding information is updated daily. TRAM also contains a set of grant application forms collected from various sources, as well as standard agreement for subcontracts, non-disclosures, licenses, and links to other servers related to research funding and administration.

U.S. EPA Environmental Justice Grants
The grant programs discussed in this document are those which are specifically designed to address EJ concerns and issues. Other EPA grant programs may fund EJ projects and activities as well.

U.S. EPA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contracts
The SBIR program provides financial support to help small science and technology-based firms develop new environmental technologies and ready them for commercialization. The program targets research to prevent pollution, reduce water and air pollution, manage solid and hazardous wastes, and improve environmental monitoring.

Miscellaneous Information

A Proposal Writing Short Course (Foundation Center)
A basic overview of how to write a grant proposal. It summarizes the components required in any proposal.

Funding News
Funding News is an online publication of Join Together focusing on grant information.  This gopher provides grant announcements, funding information, and advice on obtaining public and private funding. For more information, send e-mail to Bob Curley at HN3078@handsnet.org or Chris Carter at info@jointogether.org.

United States Patent and Trademark Office
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Homepage provides general patent and trademark information as well as current announcements, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Services and Information and links to other internet sources.