Funding Resources for AAH Affiliates

Find Funding

Search Tools
  • GrantForward: provides a database of more than 89,000 grants from over 20,000 sponsors updated daily.
  • Pivot: Among other capabilities, Pivot will allow you to set up a weekly email funding alert that can send you all newly posted opportunities within set search parameters.
  • Grants.gov: Grants.gov provides information about government funding opportunities from agencies including NEH and NEA.
  • Stanford Seed Funding: This site lists many internal funding opportunities. 

  • Candid Foundation Directory Online: You can sign up for “RFP alerts” to get emails when new requests for proposals are released. Set your alerts by clicking on the Sign up Alerts & Newsletters link.

     

For those platforms that required a login, active Stanford students and employees can login with their SUNet ID.

Stanford Digests/Lists
  • RDO Arts & Humanities Funding Newsletter: This monthly newsletter features internal and external funding opportunities currently accepting proposals, curated with an eye to the needs and interests of Stanford faculty in the arts and humanities.
  • CFR’s Request for Proposals List: Corporate and Foundation Relations maintains this list of upcoming foundation funding opportunities for faculty across the university.
Office of the Vice President of the Arts at Stanford

Funding opportunities for Academic Staff & Faculty

Opportunities for Students

Faculty Support in Grant-seeking at Stanford

 

  • Stanford Research Development Office (RDO): RDO partners with Stanford faculty to enhance the competitiveness of extramural funding proposals, with preference given to complex and/or strategic proposals. Support is tailored to the needs of each project, and can include guidance on funder guidelines and priorities, substantive feedback and editing, and project management.
  • ​​Stanford University Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR): CFR helps to foster relationships between Stanford University faculty and companies and private professional foundations.

Reach out to the Department of Art & Art History when...

  • Important: You are committing departmental resources in your proposal, including facilities, matching funding, staff effort, and equipment. Resources that are not pre-approved by the department may or may not be supported in case of a successful proposal. 
  • You need assistance putting together a budget. Please note that certain SU or non-SU processes incur "hidden fees" that you might not be aware of but will impact your project's budget. 

Helpful Tactics

  1. Find projects similar to yours and consult acknowledgments and/or supporters pages
  2. Consult the CVs of colleagues you admire
  3. Sign up for (and read!) mailing lists of professional organizations
  4. Sign up for funder newsletters; this is especially useful for foundation funders
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