Grant Central
Who benefits?
- Anyone seeking funding
What is it?
A way to:
- Find grants.
- Build and securely manage collaborative grant writing projects.
- Search for grant advice.
Why use it?
- Search for & save federal grant opportunities that fit your research
- Create your own secure project space & share grant-writing with collaborators
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For many researchers, finding and successfully applying for grant funding can be a tedious and challenging process. Junior investigators, who need to secure funding to develop independent research projects, can find this process particularly daunting as they try to balance the demands of teaching, clinic time, and laboratory work, as well as their own ongoing training.
Grant Central eases the process of finding and securing funding by giving investigators collaborative, web-based tools for identifying opportunities, building project teams, and developing proposals.
Find Grant
Opportunities
Grant Central indexes funding opportunities from the Department of Health and Human Services (including the National Institutes of Health), the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense. Run a keyword search, view full grant descriptions, save grants for later, create keyword-based grant alerts, and start grant writing projects.
Build a
Collaborative Team
Grant Central's Find Collaborators tool ties in with Harvard Catalyst Profiles to help researchers identify and connect to new co-investigators. Use the Skill Finder to let the research community know you are open to collaboration, or post "want ads" for particular areas of expertise.
Manage Projects
Found an opportunity? Have your collaborators? Then start working on the grant! Grant Central offers researchers a secure online project space to collaboratively share documents, assign tasks, set key dates, and communicate within the team. Invite collaborators to join your project(s) through Grant Central's collaborator search or by email.
Find Grant
Writing Advice
Writing a grant is complicated, and junior investigators who may never have written a grant before can benefit greatly from the experience of their more senior colleagues, as well as that of their institution's grant administrators. Look under Get Advice to find a storehouse of grants-related advice and counsel for all investigators in the form of forums and Frequently Asked Questions.
Accessing Grant Central
Many of the features of Grant Central are open and available to all users, including the Skill Finder, collaborator search, advice forums, and opportunity search. To access personalized features such as saved grants, projects, collaborator lists, and grant alerts, you must log in with an HMS eCommons account.
You can access Grant Central from the Funding menu on the Harvard Catalyst website.
