Grant funding can be important to a faculty member’s professional career. Grant funding can be complex. Many faculty members may desire grant funding, but don’t know where to begin. If you are interested please contact Carolynn Julien (212) 772-4020 or cjulien@hunter.cuny.edu to set up a meeting to discuss your research agenda.
This form is required for all internal and external grants, including when you are involved in another institution's proposal. Sign–off is required by both Department Chair and Dean or Center Director. The form can be found here Clearance Policy and Procedures 11-17-09.
Proposals to foundations, corporations, and major gift prospects/donors require additional approval. To obtain approval you must complete the Hunter College Fundraising Policies for Faculty Cultivation and Solicitation of Grants and Gifts form before making contact with the agency or individual. This form should be submitted at least one month before the proposal is due. The Form can be found here Revised 3-13 Hunter College Proposal Routing Form.
Researchers must comply with the Conflict of Interest (COI) and Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training requirement. This applies to all new, renewal, continuation and resubmission proposals. Please refer to the Research Compliance tab for more information about the requirements for your proposal RCR COI training and information link.
Individuals that submit a grant electronically must adhere to the "Rule of Two" requirement. More details about this requirement can be found here Rule of Two.
There may be limitations on the number of proposals that can be submitted by Hunter College or the City University of New York. Please contact the Office of Research Administration for guidance and clarification.
Many agencies require a login or id to access their site. Please refer to the How Do I Submit My Grant? tab on this website for agency specific access.
The funding will support activities in the creative arts and all academically relevant research in the areas of natural science, social science, and the humanities, including but not limited to research related to curriculum development, improvement in teaching, adaptation of standard educational techniques to special clientele, and the relationship between technical or occupational training and the liberal arts curriculum. The PSC–CUNY Grant Program is open to full–time members of the instructional staff. For more information please click here.
Details about these programs can be found on the CUNY website .
Hunter College has a subscription to the Foundation Directory Online. This database provides information on over 96,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; a database of over 3,500 sponsoring companies. Access can only be granted by computers on the Hunter College campus. It is a part of the library’s online databases. Please click here to access the database.
PIVOT provides access to the most comprehensive source of funding opportunities globally. PIVOT can also be used to find researcher for collaborative activities. This database can be used by all CUNY faculty and staff. You may access the website at pivot.cos.com
The Office of Research Administration has a reference library to assist in searching for possible funding sources. The Research Administration has recent issues of the Federal Register, the current edition of the Foundation Directory and various other reference guides issued by the Foundation Center, and other publications on proposal writing and newsletters on funding sources.
Proposal writing is the crux of the process. The Foundation Center offers a free online course. For more information please click here
Depending on the size of the proposal, you may have more than one person writing the proposal. The more people that engage in writing the proposal, the more different writing styles are going to be in the final draft. It is less jolting to the reviewers if the style does not vary from section to section.
Find someone, preferably not connected to your field, to read your proposal. That person must be honest with you. If that person has questions or criticisms, so will a reviewer. Remember not to over–use the jargon of your field of study, as some of the reviewers may not be as familiar with your field as you might think.
Have a final editor. You want perfect grammar. You want consistency between the project description and the budget. For example, if in the review of the budget, you determine you must change the number of students or the number of trips, you must make sure this is also reflected in the project description. A single change might require a revision in the project description, a budget modification, the addition or deletion of a CV, etc.
Don't dress up the proposal too much and don’t use too many adjectives. Many readers are given a large number of proposals to review – they are looking for substance in the proposal. They will decide whether your project has the potential for achieving great things.
Notify Carolynn Julien or Annmarie Rivera in the Office of Research Administration, at least two weeks before the application deadline, to make an appointment to review the grant guidelines, determine the grant requirements, deadlines, submission plan, etc., and also obtain a proposal routing form to secure endorsement from your Department Chair and Dean. The requirement is to manage workload and coordinate scheduling of submissions as there may be several proposals from Hunter College being prepared for a given deadline.
Grant applications must be submitted at least two days before the deadline to address errors/warnings or to make any necessary changes. We also make this request because there may be several grants being submitted on a deadline and we must ensure that all grant submissions meet the deadline.
Grants.gov provides a unified electronic ‘storefront’ for interactions between grant applicants and funding agencies. Hunter College is already registered in Grants.gov. There is nothing that a principal investigator (PI) must do in terms of institutional registration. Please explore the following links for further information.
For questions or further guidance, please contact:
Carolynn Julien – cjulien@hunter.cuny.edu OR Annmarie Rivera – nrivera@hunter.cuny.edu
eRA Commons 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. eRA Commons users, based on their role, can conduct a variety of business in Commons. To obtain an eRA Commons account, please contact Carolynn Julien via email at cjulien@hunter.cuny.edu.
FastLane allows Principal Investigators (PI) the ability to prepare proposals, check proposal status, and complete project reports, system notifications & requests. Using FastLane requires an institutionally assigned account. If you are new to FastLane, contact Carolynn Julien at cjulien@hunter.cuny.edu for an accoubt. Please include your name, phone, fax, department, and type and year of your highest degree. If you have forgotten your password, you can reset it in FastLane.The Fastlane website is www.fastlane.nsf.gov.
To submit a research proposal to NASA, individuals and the organizations with which they are affiliated must be registered in NSPIRES. Hunter College is already registered. Individuals may register at any time. Please create an affiliation using either DUNS# 620127915 or Cage Number 4B1J3.
Corporation for National and Community Service uses eGrants to automate the entire grants and project management process from application to closeout, which includes submission and tracking grant applications and concept papers. The website for eGrants is https://egrants.cns.gov/espan/main/login.jsp.
All users requiring access to G5 must register with the U.S. Department of Education to obtain individual user IDs and passwords. The website for G5 is https://www.g5.gov/ext/wps/portal.
PSC–CUNY grants are submitted electronically. To gain access, you should click the ‘Research & Awards’ tab at the top of the website and then the ‘PSC–CUNY Research Award Program’ from the pull down menu, then click ‘PSC–CUNY Grants Proposal System’ in the middle of the page to gain access to the system. The direct link is https://www.rfcuny.org/gp/welcome.aspx. If you have Research Foundation access for a grant, this is not the login information that is needed for the PSC–CUNY Research Award Program electronic system.
Registration within HRSA EHBs is a two–step process Create an individual account for yourself. This account should not be shared with any other user. Then affiliate your account to your organization record. The website to create a HRA account is https://grants3.hrsa.gov/2010/WebEPSExternal/Interface/common/accesscontrol/login.aspx?.
Principal Investigators must register on the DOD’s online system prior to submitting information for their first proposal. During the registration process you will obtain a password to use with your e–mail address for future proposal site access. Please use RFCUNY–Hunter College as your organization when registering. The DOD requires that final proposals be submitted by the Office of Research Administration rather than by the principal investigator directly. You can access the website at https://cdmrp.org/proposals/.
Some agencies still require paper submission. The Office of Research Administration will work with the researcher to compile and copy the application. We do not mail applications or hand deliver.