Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunities

ORSP offers many resources for faculty looking for grant opportunities. Our office publishes a newsletter  GAL (Grant Announcement Letter), which is sent to all departments and active research faculty.  It contains timely grant funding activities and major research news.  We subscribe to COS/Pivot, and Grant Forward,  two of the best available databases of both public and private funding sources; and we send notices of new opportunities by email and/or interoffice mail.

Queens College is supportive of faculty members who want to apply for grants and advance their research efforts. One program that the college uses to do this is described below. CUNY offers other Internal Funding Programs, which are outlined on a page maintained by the vice chancellor for research. The PSC-CUNY Research Award program also provides research funding to faculty.

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 we have available.

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.

Funding Search and Grant Recommendation Service

GrantForward at www.grantforward.com is a search engine dedicated to helping institutions and individuals find grants to fund their research.

  • GrantForward covers more than 13,000 sponsor sources to provide a comprehensive database of more than 40,000 funding opportunities that continues to grow with the most up-to-date information.
  • GrantForward’s powerful search system helps to lessen the hassle of searching for grants with adaptable search filters and specialized search features.
  • GrantForward researcher profiles allow researchers to highlight their research achievements and interests to receive personalized grant recommendations for opportunities that match their needs.

Create Your GrantForward Account and Researcher Profile

  • Start moving your research forward and create an account (see this QuickTip demo) to access GrantForward. In order to be able to take advantage of all of the features that GrantForward offers, you will have to create an account using your email address at your institution.
  • If you would like to benefit from receiving grant recommendations, then you will also need to make sure to create your researcher profile (see this QuickTip demo).

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