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About Us

The Grant Information, Facilitation, and Training (GIFT) Center is a service of the UA Foundation that offers UA faculty, staff and development personnel support with their non-governmental charitable grantseeking activities.

The GIFT Center provides:

  • Prospect research coordination and proposal preparation assistance that will increase the likelihood of proposals being funded
  • Immediate access to commonly requested and often required UA Foundation proposal attachments
  • A clearinghouse for UA Foundation activities ensuring request coordination and good stewardship with our foundation partners
  • A centralized resource center at the "Swede" Johnson Building (1111 N. Cherry), where faculty/staff grantseekers and development personnel can access philanthropic grant information and services to support unit priorities

The mission of the GIFT Center is to provide access to research, facilitation, training, review, and editing services to support and enhance the priority efforts of UA community members in obtaining foundation and other non-governmental grants.

GIFT Center Services

expert advice
The GIFT Center provides expert advice on preparing high-quality proposals.

The GIFT Center and its staff offer grantseeking resources including:

  • A clear roadmap to UA/UA Foundation philanthropic grant application process
  • Expert advice on program planning, proposal preparation, prospect research, guideline review, and other areas related to preparing high-quality proposals
  • Tools (tip sheets, planning documents, useful Web links, etc.) that assist university community members who are seeking support for priority projects
  • Proposal review and editing services
  • The opportunity to search for foundations whose missions match your program/project efforts through accessing key prospect research databases

    (Databases are a limited subscription service and are not accessible remotely. Please see Helpful Links for many free grantseeking resources, though some resources are restricted to UA-linked computers)
  • An on-site reference library with information on grantseeking and general fundraising
resource library
The resource center and library provide access to philanthropic grantseeking and fundraising information and services all conveniently centralized in one place on campus.

Before requesting the services described above, many questions may be answered by referring to Getting Started with Grantseeking.

What you can do at the GIFT Center and nowhere else on campus:

  • Identify possible private grants using specialized databases
  • Review key information about foundations and the proposal process in a grants collection
  • Find tailored UA-specific and general tools to help with program planning and grantseeking
  • Get help from expert staff in evaluating grant guidelines, shaping and submitting grant proposals, and building relationships with non-governmental grantmakers