Resources to Check Out

he federal SBIR program was established under the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982, which was reauthorized until Sept. 30, 2008. Federal agencies with current programs include:

• Department of Agriculture
  (www.reeusda.gov/sbir);
• Department of Commerce
  (www.rdc.noaa.gov/~amd/sbir.html);
• Department of Defense
  (www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/sbir);
• Department of Education
  (www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/SBIR);
• Department of Energy
  (http://sbir.er.doe.gov/sbir);
• Department of Health & Human Services
  (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm);
• Department of Transportation
  (www.volpe.dot.gov/sbir);
• Environmental Protection Agency
  (http://es.epa.gov/ncer/sbir);
• National Aeronautics and Space
  Administration (http://sbir.nasa.gov); and
• National Science Foundation
  (www.eng.nsf.gov/sbir).

For a good overview, see the Small Business Administration's SBIR site at www.sba.gov/SBIR.

The Foundation Center in Washington, DC, offers a good guide with helpful hints on grant writing. While the guide is geared toward writing grants for nonprofits, the fundamentals still apply. Access it at http://fdncenter.org.

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