Grantsmanship - Information Resources to Help Researchers Get Funding by Nancy K. Herther, Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota. Searcher (July)
Background to the research funding process and its players in the United States. Has key databases and other useful sites.
"Behind every significant research breakthrough, every key social program, or advanced medical treatment in history lies some form of financial support — a foundation, government funding, or the kindness of some benefactor. Michelangelo and da Vinci worked as apprentices. Mozart received support from aristocratic patrons and worked as a court musician. Jonas Salk’s work to find a vaccine for polio received funding from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and from coins contributed by the public to the March of Dimes. Thomas Edison developed strong entrepreneurial roots and early in his career lived and worked in the basement of a fellow telegrapher and inventor."