Accessing the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)

As part of an Health and Human Services (HHS) policy, the publication of Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcements are done directly from Grants.gov verses individual operating division pages publishing their NOFOs. Previously almost all NOFOs were available at grants.nih.gov.

Accessing the NOFO is done from the Application Number (Opportunity Number) column for all screens (i.e. List of Applications and List of My Assigned Applications screens). A link under the application number accesses the NOFO information.

List of Applications screen showing the link to the NOFO information

Majority of NOFO Publications

As the transition is made, access to the NOFO depends on the specific opportunity. The majority of links take you to the Grants.gov page.

Sample of a Grants.gov NOFO page

NOFOs Not Published In Grants.gov

For NIH, AHRQ, FDA, and CDC meetings, the NOFO link continues to open the NOFO page on Grants.nih.gov based on the current configuration.

Sample of an NIH NOFO publication

For NIH LRP, the NOFO details should open in a popup window.

Sample of an NIH LRP NOFO information window

NOFOs for Partner Agencies

For partner agencies such as SAMHSA, VA, DOC/NOAA, DOC/NIST, and NIFA, the NOFO details display in a popup window if not available from www.grants.gov. If the announcement is available, the users are taken to www.grants.gov.

Sample of a partner agency NOFO information