补助金的生命周期

Obtaining extramural support for your research, scholarship, and creative activity (RSCA) is critical to creating a vibrant RSCA trajectory that benefits you, your students, 以及更广泛的社区. Below we walk you through all the comp一个nts of funding a single RSCA project and the support available to you at 菠菜网lol正规平台.

• 1. 生成的想法

  • Submitting a fundable 建议 to an external granting agency requires that you present 一个深思熟虑的主意. Most 建议s need several months to adequately flesh out 项目思路. Allow yourself and 其他人 involved in your research process adequate time to assist you in developing the project scope and submitting a quality 建议. 的 Office of 研究开发 is here to support your RSCA starting with idea generation through offering formal brainstorming sessions, individual consultations, helping establish collaborative connections, etc.

    1. Talk to colleagues, your associate dean of research (ADR), dean, and/or chair about your RSCA idea and how it can translate into a fully-fledged RSCA project.

    2. Familiarize yourself with the current literature in your field and projects funded 在你研究领域的机构.

    3. 认为战略. How does this project fit into your long-term strategic RSCA 规划? 它 set you up for additional future funding opportunities? 它 primarily benefit your RSCA or teaching goals, or is it integrative of both? 你 need to plan to get preliminary data through internal 菠菜网lol正规平台 funding before you can be competitive for external sources of funding?

• 2. 找到资金

  • Successfully funding a RSCA project involves finding an appropriate funding mechanism. Funding agencies have their own agendas and philosophies, therefore it is vital to make sure your work matches the funding agency’s priorities before investing time 在写提案时. With a broad set of agencies from federal to private, your RSCA should have a funder whose priorities match your goals. 菠菜网lol正规平台提供了一些资源 to locate funding suited to your RSCA 建议.

    1. Stay on top of funding relevant to your field! 主 is a new tool you can use to set up tailored searches and monitor funding from federal, state, and local agencies as well as foundations and international funding sources. Create your account today to constantly monitor for funding that fits your RSCA needs.

    2. Read the mid-monthly AVPR electronic Research Newsletter and the Top-of-the-Month 通讯(这里的档案) which have information on the New 有限的提交s and Strategic Grants List 来自研发部. 的se lists can also be accessed anytime on our 一般拨款网页.

    3. 联系你的 研发专员 (RDS) to discuss funding strategies for research projects at any stage in the idea 或者提案开发过程. Your RDS can support you in determining funding fit 你的研究和RSCA的目标. 联系 创新办公室 if you want to investigate collaboration with industry.

    4. 联系 企业及基金会关系 for private philanthropic foundation funding–except 竞争激烈的教员奖学金, which route through 研究开发 and the Office of 赞助项目.

• 3. 准备提案

  • Once you’ve committed to a funding opportunity that fits your research needs, you will need to interact with several RSCA support units on campus.

    研究开发 (RD) can help you strategically plan your 建议 to a federal, state, or local agency, non-philanthropic foundation support, or a 竞争性教员奖学金 prior to working with the Office of 赞助项目 on submission. RD可以协助 in finding collaborators or forming teams, coordinating and managing large 建议s, concept development, and strategic editing, including enhancing the structure and 所有提案组成部分的展示. 这些服务是可选的. 然而,研究 shows they increase the likelihood of funding by a factor of two^a,b. 请联络 采访专家 as soon as possible for help with your 建议–several months in advance is ideal!

    的 赞助项目办公室(OSP) provides services to assist with 建议 submission (pre-award services) and award management (post-award services) to a federal, state, or local agency or a 竞争性教员奖学金. Interacting with OSP is required to submit 建议s and manage any awards from federal, state, or local agencies or a 竞争性教员奖学金–it is not optional. Pre-award services  include reviewing sponsor 需求, creating OSP提交时间表; 项目预算,  建议 routing for authorized signers’ approvals, contract negotiation, and award acceptance on behalf of the principal investigator (PI). 获奖后服务包括 oversight of day-to-day fiscal management, compliance regulations, and project closeout. As soon as you decide to apply to a specific opportunity and within a minimum of 25 days ahead of the due date, please contact your Pre-Award专家.
    

    企业及基金会关系 (CFR)  provides services to assist with 建议 submission (pre-award services) and award management (post-award services) to corporate and foundation funders for 慈善补助金除外 竞争性教员奖学金s. Interacting with CFR is required to submit 建议s and manage any awards from corporate and foundations funders–it is not optional. 颁奖前活动包括 reviewing funder 需求, creating a CFR submission timeline, 项目预算, 建议 routing for authorized signers' approvals, contract negotiation (when applicable), contract acceptance on behalf of the PI, and management through the Tower Foundation 他是圣何塞州立大学的教授. Post-award includes oversight of fiscal management and 合规和项目收尾. As soon as you decide to apply to a specific opportunity and a minimum of 25 days ahead of the due date, please contact 塞拉Gaglia, Executive Director of 企业及基金会关系.

    Applying to a foundation and unsure if you should go to OSP or CFR? 不用担心——只发邮件 塞拉Gaglia, Executive Director of 企业及基金会关系, or 黛博拉·马洛尼, Director of OSP, and they will get you to the right place. 

    参观 研究合规 webpage to identify whether your research has special compliance 需求, like biohazardous materials, human or animal subjects, international collaborations, or 其他人.  

    的 创新办公室 provides support for all corporate research opportunities. 他们和校长一起工作 investigators and companies to identify objectives, scope projects, and develop sponsored research agreements, which meet the needs of both parties. 他们充当联络人 between 菠菜网lol正规平台 and the company while also helping to coordinate the submission and award management activities required by the 赞助项目办公室(OSP). 如果你有 一个与行业相关的研究机会, or if you anticipate the research will have practical or commercial applications and need a strategy for protecting background or future intellectual property (IP), please 查阅 创新办公室.

    ^{a)托马斯，H. S.布罗茨基，M. B.埃文，J. B.伯吉，G. K.劳埃德，T. E.豪伊, N. J. 漫威，C. L. (2017). Internal grant review to increase grant funding for 初级研究人员. 安神经., 82: 497-502. doi: 10.1002 /安娜.25040}

    ^{b) Kulage, K. M., & Larson, E. L. (2018). 内部试点资金和内部 grant reviews increase research capacity at a school of nursing.
    护理展望，66(1)，11-17. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.前景.2017.06.003.}

• 4. 路由和提交

  • All sponsored project 建议s, including 竞争性教员奖学金s, sub-contracts, contractual agreements linked to sponsored projects, as well as all philanthropic-corporate and foundations grants, must be reviewed by 菠菜网lol正规平台’s authorized signers to ensure that any commitments included are consistent with federal, state, and university policies. This process takes several days to complete. 因此，最终的提案文件必须 提交给 研究基金会的OSP 或Tower Foundation的CFR seven working days prior to the sponsor's submission deadline. 

    的 OSP process for review and routing is explained here. 

    的 CFR process will be explained on their coming web pages–please contact Executive Director of 企业及基金会关系, 塞拉Gaglia，同时提出一些问题.
    

• 5. 管理奖

  • 通过OSP获得资助的提案: OSP Post-Award staff gets to work ensuring the awarded project is compliant and will 有资格获得额外的资助. Post-award分析师 provide critical administrative services and support until the project is closed, including award and contract negotiation, project setup, project management, and project closeout (including final reports  and deliverables).

    通过CFR获得资助的提案: 的 CFR team will assist in the management of philanthropic award by facilitating funder communications (including budget revision, no-cost extension, and reporting 需求) and communication with the Tower Foundation. Partnering with CFR supports the possibility of securing future funding from these relationship-based donors.
    

    所有获资助的建议: 研究合规 will help with managing research activities after you receive your award. 例如, purchasing technical equipment, international travel, international shipments, or sending data to collaborators at non-US universities all have additional compliance 需求.
    

• 6. 传播的结果

  • 菠菜网lol正规平台 supports publication in high-quality journals, conferences, and other venues 适合你的领域. Most funders allow publication and dissemination costs as part of the budget, so please include them in your 建议 whenever possible and ask RD/OSP/CFR for help in 规划 for and incorporating these fees into your initial 建议.

    If at the end of a RSCA project you find you are in need of funds to disseminate your 工作和最大限度地发挥其影响，考虑一个 RSCA种子基金, or check with 研究开发 or your associate dean of research for funding 选项. If you plan to publish a book, contact the 创新办公室 to discuss book-related IP and royalty rights.

    If inventions are discovered during your research, most research agreements (including those from federal agencies) require that an invention disclosure be made. 形式为 disclosing your intellectual property discoveries can be found on the 创新办公室 网站.  You may also contact the 创新办公室, to discuss your IP and how 保护和促进它.