Funding Opportunities
ORSP offers resources for faculty looking for grant opportunities. Our office publishes a newsletter, GAL (Grant Announcement Letter), which is circulated via email to all departments and active research faculty. The GAL contains timely grant funding opportunities and major research news. The Research Foundation of CUNY subscribes to databases of both public and private funding sources: COS/Pivot, and Grant Forward are two examples available to all QC faculty and staff.
There are a number of ways to keep abreast of new grant opportunities apart from our internal newsletter and announcements. We suggest that you utilize Grants.gov and each federal agency’s website for federal grants and take advantage of the search and save capabilities of the databases that are available and described below.
PIVOT– Pivot combines a comprehensive, editorially maintained database of funding opportunities worth an estimated $44 billion with a unique database of 3 million prepopulated scholar profiles, drawing from Community of Scholars and Community of Science profiles. Faculty are encouraged to claim their profile and use this tool to automatically track available opportunities.
Grant Forward – this all-in-one funding database and researcher centered dissemination program to connect users to funding opportunities and collaborative opportunities. Researchers can look for upcoming opportunities, utilize AI search functions for more tailored results, get information on awarded projects, identify relevant sponsors, and find collaborators.
Internal grant programs are another way to jumpstart a research project. CUNY offers several Internal Funding Programs. The PSC-CUNY Research Award Program also provides research funding to faculty.