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- Susan Edwards
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- Office Location: Education Psychology Library, 2600 Tolman Hall
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UC Berkeley's Sponsored Projects Office provides an array of services, including a list of funding resources and subscriptions to Pivot and Grant Forward.
UC Berkeley's Scholarship Connection provides a search engine to non Berkeley awards and grants, including some for graduate students.
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Some professional organizations have their own search engines for finding funding. Some that might be relevant:
Interested in seeing what other research has been funded by a grant or granting agency? PubMed provides a very helpful search on funding support.
Pivot (formerly COS) is a for-fee database of funding opportunities and profiles of researchers. Berkeley subscribes through the Sponsored Projects Office and the database has been pre-populated for faculty and some graduate students.
You can use Pivot from any campus-based computer for basic searches without setting up an account. But if you set up an account, you will be able to log in from any location, and you will have access to the tools for managing searches and opportunities including the ability to set "alerts" -- where you are automatically notified of new opportunities that meet your search criteria.An account will also allow you to create, claim, or update a profile.
If you want to focus on funding sources for graduate students, in particular for the dissertation or thesis, go to the advanced search, scroll to the bottom and check the boxes next to Funding Type and Requirements.
Once you have a search you like, if you've created an account (free to you!) you can save the search and even receive a weekly email everytime a new funding source matches your search.
More help on using Pivot can be found from Berkeley's SPO and from Pivot's online Help.
Grant Forward, former IRIS ( University of Illinois Researcher Information Service) is a new grant funding database. Grant Forward is available to UC Berkeley through the campus subscription to the service. Grant Forward can be accessed directly from a campus computer or from an off-campus computer by first setting up an account.
Searching Grant Forward is similar to search Pivot, but the names of the "filters" are different. To find funding for research, for example, use Opportunity Type. To find funding for graduate students, use the Applicant Type.
Help is available in a variety of ways -- there is a How to Use document (pdf), a short tutorial, and a webpage with more resources.
Like with Pivot, you can use Grant Forward on the Berkeley campus even if you aren't logged in. But signing up gives you additional features (like alerts) and allows you to access from anywhere.
