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Grants and Funding Opportunities

U.S. Government Grants and Funding Opportunities

Current grants and funding opportunities through US Government agencies. Includes grants for mental health and substance abuse services and research.

National Philanthropic and Grant-Making Organizations

Private organizations that invite applications for funding grants in the areas of mental health and substance abuse.

Arizona Philanthropic Organizations

Arizona-based organizations which provide grant funds for behavioral health issues and organizations.

Technical Assistance Centers for Grant-seeking and Grant-making

Technical Resource Centers, On-line Links and Searchable Data Bases, Mailing Lists, Publications and Software for Sale, and other resources

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U.S. Government Grants and Funding Opportunities

Service Grants and Contracts

Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Includes funding available through Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). Identifies current and anticipated grant opportunities, Commerce Business Daily announcements, and government contract Requests for Proposals. Related to mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment.

Research Grants and Contracts

NIAAA - National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - Information on the NIAAA Extramural Research Program

NIDA - National Institute on Drug Abuse - Information about various NIDA administered grants, as well as information about current NIDA Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and contracts

NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health - This section contains information on NIMH grants and contracts programs including grant applications and review process, RFAs, RFPs, ongoing program announcements, research training and career development, small business programs, program analyses of NIMH extramural research grants & applications, access to NIH Grants policy, NIH Guide to Grants & Contracts, and the CRISP database.

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National Philanthropic and Grant-Making Organizations

  • Alzheimer's Association Grants Program
  • American Psychiatric Association Research Awards and Fellowships Information and application guidelines for various research awards in psychiatry sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association.
  • Annie E. Casey Foundation - The Annie E. Casey Foundation works to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The Foundation provides grants to public and nonprofit organizations to strengthen the support services, social networks, physical infrastructure, employment, self-determination, and economic vitality of distressed communities.
  • Community Foundations are nonprofit, tax-exempt, publicly-supported grantmaking organizations. These foundations are public charities that develop broad support from many donors with a wide range of charitable interests in a specific community. This site includes links to Community Foundations in all 50 U.S. states.
  • NARSAD - The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression raises and distributes funds for scientific research into the causes, cures, treatments and prevention of brain disorders, primarily the Schizophrenias, Depressions, and Bipolar Disorders.

    • The NARSAD Research Grants Programs support scientists conducting basic research, clinical research, or a combination of both, in neurobiology.

    NARSAD's three grant programs include:

    • Young Investigator Award: supports scientists at the advanced post-doctoral or assistant professor (or equivalent) level. Awards are up to $30,000/year, for one year or two years (maximum of $60,000 for two years);
    • Independent Investigator Award: supports scientists at the associate professor (or equivalent) level. Awards are up to $50,000/year, for two years (maximum of $100,000 for two years);
    • Distinguished Investigator Award: supports scientists at the full professor (or equivalent) level. Awards are up to $100,000 for one year.
 
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Arizona Philanthropic Organizations

St. Luke's Health Initiatives Community Grants

The purpose of the SLHI Community Grants program is to provide funding that strengthens the capacity of organizations and communities to improve access to care and better health for Arizona's most vulnerable populations.
SLHI provides grants in the $1,000 -- $100,000 range over one to two years to help organizations strengthen their capacity to improve the health of vulnerable populations and communities. SLHI is primarily interested in:

    • promoting community partnerships and volunteer efforts.
    • convening people to develop better ways to address community health issues.
    • increasing public awareness and understanding of critical community health needs.
    • finding ways to sustain strong advocacy and broad-based community support and involvement.

Arizona Community Foundation

The Arizona Community Foundation has traditionally focused its grant-making efforts on both statewide and community concerns ranging from the arts, culture and humanities to public education, and from the environment to community and economic development. Priorities are largely focused on ideas and interventions that most directly contribute to the overall health, education and well-being of Arizona's children, youth, and families.

The Flinn Foundation

The Flinn Foundation fulfills its mission to improve the quality of life primarily by serving as a resource for health and health care in Arizona. The Foundation no longer awards new grants in the community health services field, but continues to honor existing grant commitments. The foundation's currently funded projects and interests are described in its web site.

Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust

The Trust funds projects in Indianapolis and Phoenix (and secondarily in Indiana and Arizona) to enrich community life and to help people in need, especially women, children, and families.

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Technical Assistance Centers for Grant-seeking and Grant-making

The Council on Foundations provides information and links for grant-makers and grant-seekers, including publications, sample documents, and numerous other tools and resources. Some materials are available to Council members only.

The Foundation Center The Foundation Center's web site features information about workshops on proposal writing and grant research and links to Web sites of private foundations, corporate giving programs, community foundations and public charities. The Foundation Center also publishes printed directories and a CD-ROM database of contacts. This information is free to the public at five regional centers and more than 200 cooperating collection libraries.

The Foundation Finder is a free lookup tool that provides basic facts on approximately 53,000 foundations. Foundation Finder is designed for those seeking quick access to core information about a foundation, possibly as a starting point for more in-depth research. To use Foundation Finder, you can start with as little as a portion of a foundation name.

The Grantsmanship Center TGCI offers grantsmanship training and low-cost publications to nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

On-line Links and Searchable Databases

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) - Comprehensive catalog of U.S. government funding, including information on over 1400 different programs.

The Foundation Center Online - information and links to 600 private foundations, corporate grantmakers, and public charities; "foundation finder" to 48,000 private US funds; online library and bookstore.

GrantsNet - American Association for the Advancement of Science site featuring a searchable database of biomedical funding sources.

University of Pittsburgh Office of Research - Comprehensive resources to assist grant-seekers and fundraisers in identifying potential sources of funding and in obtaining information about guidelines, procedures, and policies related to proposal development and submission.

Publications and Software for Sale

Federal Money Retriever - Database software enabling organizations and individuals to search for current U.S. government grants and loans.

The Foundation Directory Online - Subscription service sponsored by the Foundation Center.

Grantwriters.com - A web site for grant and proposal writers affiliated with local governments and community-based non-profit organizations. Includes free information, grant-writer's bookstore, training information, and consulting services.

All About Grants Tutorials - List of guides for researchers interested in applying for research grants from the National Institutes of Health.

The Research Funding and Resource Manual: Mental Health and Addictive Disorders (RFRM) is a compendium of information on where and how to get funding for mental health and addictive disorders research. The manual contains a comprehensive listing of funding sources available to junior and senior researchers in psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral sciences. It addresses a broad array of topics to assist investigators and trainees in developing resources to support research projects and career development activities and in responding to science policy issues. To order a copy of this publication, contact the American Psychiatric Press at 1400 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005, or by phone at 1-800-368-5777 or by fax at (202) 789-2648. Refer to the manual by title or by order number 2216.

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