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Several federal agencies have internet mailing lists to electronically disseminate news about their activities and services. Subscribing to these listserves will help you keep up to date on federal funding opportunities. The following is a list of some of the federal agencies that provide this type of service.

National Science Foundation's Custom News Service

• National Institutes of Health NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts (listserv name NIHGDE-L) and its table of contents (listserv name NIHTOC-L) To subscribe send the message subscribe to listserv@list.nih.gov
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  You can subscribe to several CDC mailing lists including Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vaccine R&D, and National Interview Survey
• U.S. Department of Justice's JUST INFO To subscribe send the message subscribe JUSTINFO to listproc@aspensys.com
• U.S. Department of Education's EDInfo To subscribe send the message subscribe EDINFO to listproc@inet.ed.gov
• U.S. Agency for International Development Subscribe by sending the message subscribe USAID-CBD-L to listproc@info.usaid.gov
• National Institute for Standards and Technology's NIST Update To receive a copy of the report by e-mail send the message subscribe nist_update to listproc@nist.gov
• U.S. Department of Energy's ER News To subscribe send the message subscribe ERNEWSLIST to listserv@listserv.pnl.gov
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration To receive NASA's press releases and other selected documents via e-mail send the message subscribe press-release to domo@hq.nasa.gov

FEDERAL ONLINE RESOURCES

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance: This is the federal government's listing of all of its grant programs. Grant seekers can search all of the CFDA's grant programs by keyword or by CFDA number.

Federal Business Opportunities - FedBizOpps: Lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, contract awards, and other procurement information.

Federal Register: The Federal Register is the government's daily newspaper.

Code of Federal Regulations: This is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government.

OMB Circulars: These grant management circulars produced by the federal Office of Management and Budget outline grant related accountability standards.

TRAM: Initially developed by the Texas Research Administrators Group, TRAM provides quick access to post-award regulations regarding federal grants. It also provides links to servers related to research funding and administration, a search engine for locating funding opportunities, and grant application forms from various sources as well as standard agreements for subcontracts, nondisclosures, and licenses.

United States Government Manual: This is the handbook of the government. It describes all federal agencies and provides names of officials.

GrantsNet: This grants network from the Department of Health and Human Services contains information on HHS and other federal grant programs. Grant seekers also can search laws, regulations, and policies affecting HHS grants by keywords. In addition, the service contains directories of HHS employees, federal granting offices, grants management staff, and grant program personnel. (http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/funding)

FedWorld: The National Technical Information Service's FedWorld links users to many federal agency bulletin boards. With the click of the mouse or the touch of a key, users can be hooked to any of the bulletin boards that provide a wealth of information on all facets of the federal government.

Thomas: This site, named for Thomas Jefferson, provides legislative information.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration: NTIA's site provides information, guidelines, and answers to the most frequently asked questions about its grant programs and contains information on past grantees and contacts for similar federal K-12 grant programs.

FastLane: This is the National Science Foundation's electronic grant submittal system.

e-Gaps: This is the Department of Education's system for creating and submitting electronic grants.

Community of Science (COS): This Web site provides information on federally-funded research in the U.S.

Department of Agriculture: http://www.usda.gov

Department of Commerce: http://www.commerce.gov/

Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/

Office of Educational Technology: http://www.ed.gov/Technology

Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OBEMLA/

Office of Special Education Programs: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP

Office of Vocational and Adult Education: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE

Department of Energy: http://www.energy.gov/

Department of Health and Human Services: http://www.os.dhhs.gov

Office of Research Integrity: http://ori.dhhs.gov

U.S.Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov

National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/index.html

National Endowment for the Arts: http://www.arts.endow.gov

National Endowment for the Humanities: http://www.neh.fed.us

National Institutes of Health: http://www.nih.gov

NIH Grants Policy Statement: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps/

National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov

Small Business Administration: http://www.sba.gov

Federal Acquisition Regulation: http://www.arnet.gov/far/ 
 

STATE AND GOVERNMENT RESOURCES ONLINE

State and Local Government on the Net: http://www.piperinfo.com/

State Single Point of Contact: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants/spoc.html