Library Guides: Federal Government Information: Guides and Resources

Grant Resources

The following are some sites and publications that are helpful in seeking government funding.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance,
Grants.gov
- searchable databases of >1,000 discretionary grant programs of 26 federal agencies

National Endowment for the Arts
- apply, manage or see a list of recipients

National Endowment for the Humanities
- apply, manage, get news or see the projects

USA.gov for Nonprofits
   - Grants, Loans, and Other Assistance;
   - management and operations;
   - Tax Information

StatsAmerica.org
- select compilation of demographic and economic indicators for states, county, and county-metro in tables
Policyagendas.org
- provide truly comparable measures of policy changes in the United States since the Second World War
Sunlight Foundation
- digitization of government data and the creation of tools and web sites
Govtrack.us
- tracking US congress -- people and committees, bills-legislation, voting records,
Congressional Bills database
- database of detailed information about Congressional Bills in downloadable Excel Spreadsheets.
Open Government Journal
- research and communications related to Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation from the perspective of academics, practitioners and FOI users.
Supreme Court Database
- every Supreme Court decision from 1953 - 2008; contributers are law and political science professors from universities and law schools
Justia
(free, open source) case law, codes, regulations, statutes, and legal information - also blogs, alerts, opinion summaries, federal dockets - all searchable

100 Milestone Documents of America
- documents of laws, court decisions, inaugural speeches, treaties, constitutional amendments, etc.
- that "have influenced the course of U.S. history; helped shape the national character, and reflect our diversity, unity, and commitment as a nation to continue our work toward forming “a more perfect union”
Core Documents of Our Democracy
- Federal Government documents that define our democratic society

access to full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy research report literature
most from 1991 forward, legacy documents are being added
includes DOE Green Energy