Federal Grants Are Intimidating. Key to a Successful Academic Program Montserrat Mir, Illinois State University, IL Michele-Marie Dowell, Illinois State University, IL Federal Grants Are Intimidating.
Federal grants are a large undertaking, and extremely competitive.
You may instead want to go to private sources of money, which usually require far less paperwork. There are over 3000 private foundations in the U.S.A. that give money to applicants. They range from tiny foundations with only a few thousand dollars in assets to the huge foundations such as the Ford Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The private foundation is usually created by an individual or a family. A corporate foundation is created by a corporation and is a way for the corporation to return some of its profits to the community.