External Grant Opportunities

The Office of Research encourages faculty and staff to complete the “Research Profile Builder”.  This quick (5-10 minute) survey helps in our efforts to assist you in finding external funding opportunities.  Please click on the link above to complete the survey.

The Office of Research subscribes to Pivot, a database that helps researchers identify funding opportunities and find collaborators inside and outside of the university.  Please click on the link below to sign up for a free account (Note: You must use your wichita.edu email address).

Using the Grants.gov system makes it faster, easier and more cost effective for grant applicants to electronically interact with federal grant-making agencies. It also provides the following key benefits, among many others, to the grant community.

The WSU Foundation strives to enhance a community of learning excellence for our students and faculty through philanthropy and stewardship. For information about applying to private foundations, please contact the WSU Foundation at foundation.grants@wichita.edu.

Established by Congress in 1965, the NEA is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency created in 1965. It is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States. NEH grants typically go to cultural institutions, such as museums, archives, libraries, colleges, universities, public television, and radio stations, and to individual scholars. 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.