FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
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Last updated on February 22,
2008
- Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance
- Describes federal programs providing funds to individuals, private organizations, and state and
local governments
- Searchable by keyword or agency
- Provides name of program, agency, laws and regulations, purpose
of grant, application process, sample grants awarded in past, and
contact name
- Community of
Science (UMich Only)
- Education
Department Grants
- Grants, contracts, and other funding opportunities from the U.S.
Department of Education
- Searchable by subject, applicant eligibility, type of assistance,
and level of education
- Information includes program description, legislative authority,
eligibility, appropriations, and contact information
- A subset of the larger Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance
- Federal Register
- New regulations, proposed regulations, notices of grants and agency hearings
- Can be used to updated the Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance
- Federal Register via
Congressional Universe (UMich Only)
- Approach by date, agency, type of information, keyword, and
CFR citation
- Covers 1980+
- Federal
Register
via GPO Access
- New regulations, proposed regulations, and notices of grants and agency hearings
- Updates the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
- Keyword searching only
- Best public source of Federal Register
- Grant
Resources by State (The Grantsmanship Center)
- Arranged by state with links to that state's top foundations,
community foundations, and corporate giving programs
- Grants
and Related Resources (MSU)
- Extensive annotated guide to print and electronic resources for
grants at the Michigan State University Libraries
- Includes grants by subject, grants for individuals, and grantsmanship
- Search MIRLYN/Web
for the location of materials at the University of Michigan
- Part 2 covers web resources, both government and non-government
- Grants.gov
- Extensive list of downloadable grant application packages
- Green
Book (GPO)
- Overview and statistics on federal government entitlement programs
- Hypertext version of annual House Ways and Means Committee Print
- Searchable only
- Guide to
Funding Resources (USDA)
- Types of grants and how to develop a proposal
- Bibliography of grant resources, including comprehensive sources and
funding targeted to different groups (elderly, disabled)
- Guidestar
(UMich Only)
- Database of 1.5 million non-profit organizations in the United
States, including 10,000 foundations
- Covers arts, the environment, communities, and health services
- Searchable by organization name, subject, place, and category
- To search for grant-providing foundations, use the IRS code:
501(c)(3)
- Provides purpose of the organization, program reports and
considerable financial information, including 990 reports from the
mid-1990s
- The Guidestar public
version is searchable but only provides the address and
phone number
- How to Locate Small
Business Grants, Government Grants, and Other Grant
Money
- Free videos illustrating searchs for the Foundation Center,
Guidestar, and grants.gov
- Non-Profit Gateway
- Search for federal grants and non-financial assistance by agency or
keyword
- Links to laws, regulations, and budgets for federal assistance
- Rural Development Grants
(USDA)
- Describes business and economic development grants from the Rural
Development Administration
- Scholarship,
Loan, Grant and Fellowship Resources (UMich)
- Annotated guide to educational financing
- Government and private sources
- Students.gov
- Sections on planning post-secondary education from freshman to
graduate level as well as study abroad
- Annotated guide to government grants and loans
- U.S.
State
and Local Gateway / Competitive Grants
- Competitive grants for state and local governments
- Government
Benefits
- Select your personal (homeowner, child, victim, senior, veteran, etc.)
- You can choose to view all of the federal programs in that category or
fill in a 60-question sheet further defining your characteristics
- Search results provide a list of federal programs for which you may be
eligible with a brief description, a related web site, and application
contacts
- Michigan
Assistance and Referral Services
- Fill in a questionnaire with your personal information
- The web site will suggest programs for which you may be eligible
- In addition, there are income estimators for determining eligibility
and application assistance
- Federal Assistance
Award Data System
- Quarterly reports since 1996 on government grants and assistance programs for individuals,
organizations, and state and local governments
- Summary files available for each county in the nation
- Detailed files for entire state give information on each individual award
- Detailed tables must be downloaded by state and decompressed
- ASCII files can be manipulated by spreadsheet and include CFDA program number, recipient,
geographic codes (state, county, city, zip
code, Congressional District), starting date, ending date, amount
- A complete list of table headings appears in the FAADS
Guide
- Consolidated
Federal Funds Report
- Federal grants, contracts, and entitlements to states, states and individuals
- Viewable/Downloadable Data is arranged by state and then county
- The On Line Query System is searchable by state or county and program
- Covers 1996+
- Government Loans
- Browse all government business, disaster, education, housing, and
veteran loans to determine eligibility
- You can also determine the loans for which you are eligibile by
answering a question
- Contract
Award Types (DARPA)
- Types of contracts awarded by the Defense Department based on
price
- Federal
Government Contract Overview (FINDLAW)
- Overview of the types of contracts, aquisitions methods, bidding,
and handling disputes
- Commerce Business Daily
- Daily bid requests (RFPs) for goods and services to be purchased by the
federal government
- Covers December 2, 1996 through January 2, 2002
- Replaced by Federal Business
Opportunities
- Community of
Science (UMich Only)
- Federal
Acquisitions Jump Station (NASA)
- Lists web sites of government procurement agencies
- Federal
Acquisitions Regulations (GSA)
- Current purchasing rules for the federal government
- Web site also includes updating circulars and forms
- Federal Business Opportunities
- Daily publication of government contract notices over $25,000
- Browsable by agency and searchable for the past eight weeks by keyword, set-aside, broad
type of product
- Information about the contracts also includes name of awardee when available
- Replaces Commerce Business Daily
- Federal Electronic Commerce
- Web site on electronic transactions between the federal government
and business
- Links to federal and a few state agency web pages providing for
electronic transactions
- Includes monthly statistics on electronic transactions by federal
agency since January 1996
- Federal Marketplace
- Numerous free services include Federal Acquisitions
Regulations; lists of federal, state and selected foreign
acquisition web sites; SIC and FIPS codes
- Additonal subscription services assist businesses in obtaining
federal contracts
- Procurement
Laws
- Links to federal laws and public contracts
- Acquisitions regulations of the Executive Branch
- Specifications
- Consolidated
Federal Funds Report
- Federal grants, contracts, and entitlements to states, states and individuals
- Viewable/Downloadable Data is arranged by state and then county
- The On Line Query System is searchable by state or county and program
- Covers 1996+
- DOE Research and Development
Project Summaries
- Searchable index to 12,000 current energy contracts
- Includes recipient, award monies and project summaries
- Federal Procurement Data
Center (GSA)
- Statistics since 2000 on government contracting by state
- Includes the top government contractors and the top awardees (civliian
and defense contracts) per state,
- Description of special reports which can be purchased from the FPDC which describe
who bought what from whom for how much and when
- Initial registration required
- Federal R&D Project
Summaries (Dept. of Energy)
- Project summaries of contracts given by the Department of Energy,
National Science Foundation, and National Institutes of Health
- Most are dated in the 1990s
- Very brief project summary, funding, person and organization
responsible, web site if available, and project completion date
- Funded
Research/National Science Foundation (Community of Science)
- NSF research indexed since 1986 and updated weekly
- Approach by subject, institution, researcher's name or geographic
area
- Government
Contracts Won
- Searchable database of defense contracts awarded since 2000
- Search by contractor (e.g. Boeing), product, or keyword
- Data includes the amount awarded each year, name of the weapon
system, and a link to additional information
- Military
Contracts
- Describes records at the National Archives for military
contracts, FY1966-FY1975
- National Technical Information
Service
- NTIS publishes government-contracted reports
- Use pulldown menu to search NTIS Technical Reports
and type in keyword
- Search results list publication, contractor, and agency providing
funds but not the award monies
- Top 200 Government
Contractors
- Search names of top 200 defense and civilian contractors by name,
agency, contract category, and rank
- Listing provides the organization's percentage share of
contracts
- GovSales
- Federal government auctions arranged by type of product (e.g.
jewelry, computers
- Provides description, number of bids, bid price, and closing
time/date
- Shopping
and Auctions (Firstgov)
- Federal and state auctions by agency and type of good (e.g. real estate, cars)
- Federal shopping by agency for items such as souvenirs, national park guides, Census
data, posters, investments
- State and
Local Surplus Property
- Links to state web sites selling surplus property (e.g. computers,
furniture)
- Treasury
Auctions
- Government auctions for property seized by the IRS and for
criminal seizures
- Links to other federal auction pages (e.g. housing, small
business)
Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
Ankur Mehta, Documents Assistant, May 2002
The University of Michigan Library
Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles
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