Grants & Grant Writing: Examples

Examples of grant proposals:

• Research Funding, grant information including sample plans and summary statements.
• Sample Grant Proposal, Low-Income Wind Power Project.
• Sample Grant Proposal, educational.
• Sample Grant Proposal, public safety.
• Additional list of grant proposals, compiled by LaGuardia Community College

RFP examples from U.S. governmental agencies:

• Department of Defense Research Opportunities
  • Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
    "serves the DoD community as the largest central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today."
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
    "the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense." Provides links to individual offices, each of which link to their own Proposer's Information Pamphlet (PIP).
  • Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDRE)
• Department of Education. Grant Application Packages
• Federal Register
  Select the Notices, type in a keyword, and find current grant information and RFPs.
• NASA. Research Opportunities
  Links to research announcements by offices of NASA, also to a review copy of their Guidebook for Proposers Responding to a NASA Research Announcement (NRA) [pdf]
• National Center for Environmental Research. Funding Opportunities - Environmental Research Grant Announcements
• National Endowment for the Arts. Grants
• National Institutes of Health. Funding Opportunites & Notices Search
• United States Geological Survey. National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program. Proposals for Grants

Examples from California governmental agencies:

• CALFED Bay-Delta Program. Grant Information
• California Department of Education Funding, Finance & Grants
• California Energy Commission. Requests for Proposals/Qualifications, Funding Programs, Program Opportunity Notices, Solicitations, and Commission Contracts Being Let