Pre-Award Proposal Preparation
College resources for pre-award proposal preparation are provided here. Contact our office if you need further assistance.
- College of Engineering: Policy on Proposal Processing
03/09/09: OMB: Recovery Act Implementation-Improving grants.gov and Other Critical Systems
03/11/09: SPARCS: Timely Proposal Submission Protocol
03/11/09: Grants.gov OMB: Stimuls grant applications may overwhelm portal <click here for PDF>
03/12/09: COE-ORA: Proposal Submission Policy Change
03/24/09: NIH: eRA Commons ID/Password: is an online interface where grant applicants, grantees and federal staff at NIH and grantor agencies can access and share administrative information relating to research grants. Faculty who wish to apply for this funding with NIH must have a current/valid User ID. Please contact Rosette Tavolacci with a CC to Pat Hayes with any eRA Commons requests. Please be sure and let us know of any prior NIH support. We would need the IC and Serial number of said support.
04/08/09: Identifying of American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Funding: When preparing a PINS record be sure to capture the information relative to the Stimulus Funding or American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) source of funding. If applicable, we need to be sure the one question in PINS has responded 'yes' and that we include the CFDA Number (xx.xxx) as well. On a weekly basis our SPARCS office reports funding received from this source to UNC-GA and it is critical that we report accurate and timely information.
- Grant Writing Made Easy*
- Internal PreProposal Review Process
- External PreProposal/White Paper - PINS Required
- Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) - Instructions
- Percent of Time & Effort to Person Months - Interactive Conversion Table (Excel spreadsheet)
- Chart: 3 & 9 Month Appointment: Calculating Person Months
- Pre-Award Request form*
- 2009 Salary Ranges for Graduate Research Assistants and Post-doctoral Students*
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Macro Driven Excel Budget Template
Centers and Institutes
- COE Centers and Institutes
- COE CIs Approved for Planning
- Consortia
- Creating and Managing CIs
- Processing of Center Membership Proposals
Additional information is available from the Office of Sponsored Programs and Regulatory Compiance (SPARCS), with important selected links provided in the right column of this page.
Carefully follow the procedures required by the funding agency and allow adequate time for college and university review. The College Research Office (CRO) requires four (4) business days to process proposals and highly recommends seven (7) business days for proposals being submitted through Grants.gov
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