The campus of UMass Amherst.
We assist faculty and staff in acquiring funding from corporate and private foundation sources. Our goal is to increase grants for research, academic, and outreach projects.
- For Faculty and Staff
- Finding foundations
- What are foundations looking for?
- Getting started with grant seeking
- Basic components of a proposal
- Approvals and budgeting
- Guidelines for a Letter of Inquiry
- Download a PDF version of this guide
- For Corporate and Industry Representatives
- Partners of UMass Amherst
- News
- Student entrepreneurs compete in Innovation Challenge
- Rhodes receives Spencer Foundation Grant
- Grant to spur tutoring software for math fundamentals
- Grant to fund Alhassan's research on preschool physical activity
- Physicist Jennifer Ross named Cottrell Scholar
- Mellon Foundation renews $400k grant for faculty mutual mentoring
- Integrated Sciences program stresses problem solving
- Family travel initiative offers professional development support for Five College faculty
- Research targets embryo organ formation, insulin production
- Gates Foundation's $100k grant supports global health research
- Sanders awarded $300K John Merck grant
- UMass Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management Receives $500,000 Diversity Grant from Ernst & Young