Find Funding
The ORP staff is here to help ESF faculty obtain funding support for their research and related programs.
We assist with:
- Identifying relevant federal and foundation funding opportunities
- Identifying and analyzing funding opportunities and connecting with funders
- Engaging in early-career grant-making
- Ideating, developing, and editing proposals for funders
- Providing strategic funding planning and proposal management support
- Supporting proposal writing, editing, resubmissions and reviews
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Identifying collaborators and campus resources for faculty- Conducting grant training and workshops
- Positioning with federal agencies
- Communicating between faculty and ORP SPAs and others
- Promoting internal funding opportunities and managing limited submissions competitions
For more information or assistance with finding funding please contact, Researchdevelopment@esf.edu
Customize Your Funding Search
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Other Funding Resources
ESF Common Sponsors
- Grants.gov is your centralized hub to search for and submit proposals to more than 1,000 grant programs for federal grant-making agencies.
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance contains detailed program descriptions for more than 2,300 Federal assistance programs.
- National Science Foundation
- Department of Agriculture
- National Institutes of Health
- Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Department of Defense
- National Park Service
- Department of Education
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | US EPA
- Department of Commerce
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Justice
- National Academies of Science
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Smithsonian
- State Department
- US Fish and Wildlife
- USGS
For researchers at ESF, funding is commonly received from non-federal sponsors, including New York state agencies, foundations, institutes, and societies.
- Philanthropy News Digest
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- American Chestnut
- Ford Foundation
- Hudson River Foundation
- Human Frontier Science Program
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- William K. Kellogg Foundation
- John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
- Pew Charitable Trusts
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Spencer Foundation
- Syracuse Pulp and Paper Foundation
The McIntire Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research program helps to create and maintain a highly qualified cadre of forest scientists through their direct involvement in research projects as part of their graduate education. These young men and women, educated in the sciences fundamental to forestry, will ultimately help to maintain the security and well-being of this country through service in private industry, in various levels of government, and in academic institutions as managers and scientists.
ORP coordinates ESF’s research through the federal McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research program, which provides knowledge essential to the efficient and effective use of the nation’s forest resources. Timber production, forest land management, wood utilization, and the associated development of new products and distribution systems are the key elements of forestry research. This research deals with other products of the forest, including wildlife, recreation, water, range and environmental quality, whose production, management and distribution are an inextricable part of the long-term productivity and profitability of the integrated system of forest resources.