Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of your UC ANR Contracts and Grants team, I wish you a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year!
We are honored to assist you with identifying funding, developing proposals, and processing awards.
As you plan projects for the new year, consider using our funding database, PIVOT. Register today with your ucdavis.edu email extension, and begin using this intuitive and easy to use search tool. Register and access Pivot here: https://pivot.cos.com/funding_main
Pivot is a powerful tool to find grant funding for research, outreach and education:
- Identify opportunities from local, state, government, international, industry, and private sources amounting to an estimated $44 billion in funding;
- Identify funding in any discipline;
- Find opportunities to support research and programmatic efforts;
- Receive weekly funding alerts on saved searches; and
- Track specific opportunities of interest.
Here are a few search tips to get started with a search:
- If you are unsure what field to search in, use the All Fields (Quick Search) search box. This will search for the terms you enter across all text fields in each record.
- Many grant sponsors do not mention specific kinds of research they will fund. Instead, they state broader disciplines within which they will consider applications. Some research topics may not get any results in searching, but that does not necessarily mean there are no grants for which the project may be eligible. If this happens, try searching for grants in the broader field(s) within which your project falls.
- Keywords 'Explode' function: Use this to expand your Keyword search. For example, if you are searching on the Keyword 'Education' and Explode it, the system will automatically search for all the more specific 'educational' terms under it in the Keyword hierarchy, such as 'Higher Education', 'Literacy', etc.
We hope this funding resource will give you a helpful head start on 2019 projects or initiatives. Learn more about Pivot or to see Pivot in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sii7mX8rCU
As always, please let us know if there is anything further that we can do for you.
Our best,
Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)