Giving

Corporate-Foundation Giving

Funding Opportunities Managed Corporate and Foundation Partnerships Grant-Writing Resources

If you represent a company or foundation, we’re here to help you navigate the university, find faculty and programs of interest, arrange for campus meetings, facilitate funding requests, awards and reporting and more.

If you’re an NIU faculty member, we can help identify and approach potential funding sources, plan and coordinate solicitations, assist in inquiries and grant proposals, gather supporting materials, help in campus visits and obtain institutional signatures.

For assistance, please email us at cfr@niu.edu.

Funding Opportunities

Funding Digest – Corporate and Foundation Opportunities: The CFR staff will update this list on a monthly basis; please be sure to check back monthly to ensure you’re gathering information from the most up-to-date list. Please note, this link will automatically download the most up-to-date listing.

Managed Corporate and Foundation Partnerships:

For this list of companies and foundations, we require that you contact and obtain approval from our team at CFR@niu.edu prior to any contact. Entities may appear on this list due to existing institutional strategy, preferences of the company/foundation leadership, and/or limitations on the number of applications that the institution can submit. The CFR staff will review and update this list regularly; the list is subject to change.

Halo

Halo is a platform where corporate research and development professionals post sponsored research and other partnership opportunities.

SPIN

Grants search engine available through the Division of Research and Innovation Partnerships; see instructions in the Core Databases tab on The Office of Research Development’s (ORD) Find Funding page. https://www.niu.edu/divresearch/research-development/funding/index.shtml

https://northernillinois.infoedglobal.com/

Funding Institutional

Grants search database available through University Libraries that provides targeted funding recommendations and alerts based on a pre-populated research profile. It is available with your NIU credentials; see instructions on how to register.

Grant-Writing Resources

The CFR team has developed templates that include commonly requested information for grant applications, along with a guide to using AI for grant writing. Most funders provide a specific grant application for you to complete (typically through an online portal) and/or provide formatting requirements. Keep in mind that with corporations and foundations, it is critical to individualize the request to match your work with the funder’s specific program area and funding guidelines. Click on the name of the template(s) you wish to download, and the PDF(s) will automatically download.