Policies and Compliance Regulations

There are numerous regulations that must be strictly followed in accounting for grant funds. Each funding agency has their own regulations that you must be familiar with.

All awards are subject to published terms and conditions. 

See the list below that pertains to your grant.

Standard Federal Agency Policies

• NIH Grants Policy & Guidance
• NIH Policy on the Inclusion of Children as Participants in Research
• NSF Grant Proposal Guide  (NSF 03-041)   Effective June 1, 2003
• NSF Grant & Agreement Conditions
• HHS Site Map for Grants Management & Administration
• HHS Grants Administration Manual
• NASA Grant & Cooperative Agreement Handbook

FEDERAL AGENCIES

• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Commerce 
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 
• Department of Defense 
  • Army Research Office (ARO)
  • Army Research Laboratory
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) 
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR) 
    • ONR Forms
• Department of Education 
  • Researchers' Guide to the U.S. Department of Education 
  • What Should I Know About ED Grants? 
  • Grants and Contracts Information
• Department of Energy 
  • Argonne National Laboratory 
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory 
  • Federal Energy Technology Center
  • Fermilab 
  • Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory 
  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory 
  • Oakridge National Laboratory 
  • Pacific Northwest Laboratory 
  • Sandia National Laboratory 
• Department of Health and Human Services 
  • Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) 
    • NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts 
    • NIH Extramural Programs
    • Study Section Rosters 
    • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
    • National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
    • National Eye Institute (NEI)
    • National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
    • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
    • National Institute on Aging (NIA)
    • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
    • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
    • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
    • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
    • National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)
    • National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
    • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
    • National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR)
    • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIGMS)
    • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
    • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
    • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
    • National Library of Medicine (NLM)
  • Department of Interior 
    • Bureau of Land Management
    • Bureau of Reclamation
    • National Park Service 
    • United States Fish and Wildlife 
    • United States Geological Survey (USGS) 
  • Department of Justice
    • Grant Management System
  • Department of Transportation
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 
    • Current Funding Opportunities
    • Ames Research Center 
    • Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center  
    • Goddard Space Flight Center 
    • NASA Headquarters 
    • Mission to Planet Earth (at HQ)
    • Office of Space Science (at HQ)
    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
    • John F. Kennedy Space Center 
    • Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center 
    • Langley Research Center  
    • George C. Marshall Space Flight Center 
    • John C. Stennis Space Center 
    • NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook
  • National Endowment for the Arts 
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) 
    • NSF Fastlane 
    • Directory:
  • Grant Proposal Guide
  • Guide to Programs - FY98 
  • NSF Bulletin 
  • Program Areas 
  • Program Deadlines 
• SBIR Solicitations
• Smithsonian Institution 
• United States Information Agency (USIA)
• United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

NON-FEDERAL AGENCIES

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 
• American Cancer Society 
• American Chemical Society 
• American Council of Learned Societies 
• American Geophysical Union 
• American Heart Association 
• American Institute for Cancer Research
• American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
• American Physical Society 
• American Philosophical Society
• American Psychological Association
• American Society for Engineering Education
• Aspen Institute
• Associated Western Universities
• Arnold and Mabel Beckman Fdn
• The John Carter Brown Library
• Barbara Bush Fdn for Family Literacy
• Cancer Research Institute
• Carnegie Corporation of New York 
• Research Program at Earthwatch Institute
• U.S. Civilian Research and Development Fund (CRDF) 
• The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
• The Commonwealth Fund
• Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
• Council for European Studies 
• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
• Charles A. Dana Foundation 
• Camille & Henry Dreyfus Fdn
• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
• The Energy Fdn 
• Engineering Fdn
• The Eurasia Fdn
• European Science Fdn
• European Space Agency 
• Ford Fdn 
• The Freedom Forum
• J. Paul Getty Trust 
• The Greenwall Foundation
• Harry Frank Guggenheim Fdn
• John Simon Guggenheim Fdn 
• The William Randolph Hearst Fdn
• Hewlett-Packard Company 
• The William and Flora Hewlett Fdn
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
• IBM Corporation 
• Inter-American Foundation
• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) 
• The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 
• W. Alton Jones Foundation 
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Leukemia Society of America
• Life Sciences Research Foundation
• The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
• Lockheed Martin 
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 
• James S. McDonnell Foundation 
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Muscular Dystrophy Association
• National Academy of Sciences 
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) 
• National Center for Responsible Gaming
• National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
• National Geographic Society
• National Humanities Center
• National Research Council 
• North American Treaty Organization 
• Oak Ridge Associated Universities/Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education 
• Open Society Institute 
• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation 
• Petroleum Research Fund 
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Population Council
• Research Corporation
• Rockefeller Brothers Fund 
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Russell Sage Foundation
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 
• Social Science Research Council
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• The Spencer Foundation 
• The Stanford Humanities Center
• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) 
• Universities Space Research Association (USRA) 
• Dewitt Wallace Reader's Digest Fund
• Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund
• Whitaker Foundation 
• The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Other Sources

• Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) 
• Community of Science
  (Contains information about scientific Expertise, funded scientific research, and funding opportunities for research)
• Federal Information Exchange (FEDIX)
  (Information about federal research opportunities)
• Federal Register
  (searchable via GPO Access) 
• Foundation Center
  (Independent nonprofit information clearinghouse containing information on foundations,  corporate giving, and related subjects)
• Internet Resources for Institutional Research  
• National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA)
  (Agency forms, grant administration information, federal funding opportunity information)
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circulars (click on "grants management for A-21, A-110, A-133)
• Texas Research Administrators Group (TRAM)
  (Searchable research funding sources, grant application forms, as well as standard agreements for subcontracts, non-disclosures, licenses, and links to other servers related to research funding and administration)