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Is your Funding Database Service Delivering the Content that you need?

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Roger Wood |

Access to a variety of technologies and the implementation of those technologies by government agencies is changing the needs of those looking for funding. These technologies, such as web services and RSS feeds, are not new, but their existence and…

Proposal Status or Project Status – What’s The Difference?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by admin |

Did you know that there is a difference between proposal status and project status? “Proposal” status is what most people think of when they think of “statuses.” This field is driven by Proposal Development routing and drives Proposal Tracking workflow…

NIH Focus on Funding Smaller Research Programs

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Roger Wood |

Last month, NIH announced some changes to its AREA (Academic Research Enhancement Award) Program, which is focused on funding small scale research projects at institutions with less intensive research programs. This is specifically targeted at investigators working in institutions with…

Managing Institutional Risk in Electronic Proposal Submission

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Roger Wood |

Many sponsors accept proposals electronically rather than on paper today. The mechanism involved generally falls into one of two broad categories: Sponsor provides a website that collects data and uploads, then combines these as they deem appropriate to constitute the…

Federal Grants Management and Standardization in the US

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Roger Wood |

On October 27, 2011 the Office of Management an Budget (OMB) dissolved the Grants Policy Council (GPC) and the Grants Executive Board (GEB), and created the Council on Financial Assistance Reform (COFAR) Memorandum M-12-01. COFAR was established as a result…

Musings on Electronic Proposal Submission and S2S

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Roger Wood |

Electronic submission of proposals has been a great leap forward for consistency and ultimately streamlining interaction with the US government with respect to grant applications. However, for all the good it has wrought, electronic submission has brought with it a…

SPIN Update Announced at SRA Conference

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Roger Wood |

At the Annual SRA Meeting and Conference last month the new, soon to be released, InfoEd SPIN Funding Opportunities Solution was on display and demonstrated to an eager research administration audience. The new SPIN is a next generation search application,…

NIH Clinical Center: A Resource for Extramural Researchers?

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Roger Wood |

Back in December 2010, the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) released a report stating that the NIH Clinical Center is in a prime position to provide a critical resource to members of the clinical research community from outside the NIH’s…

Research Performance Progress Report – US Government

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Roger Wood |

The Research Performance Progress Report (RPRR) will be used by agencies that support research and research-related activities to collect interim progress reports from recipients of Federal grant and cooperative agreement programs. It can also be used when appropriate for relevant…

The Virtualization of Research Collaboration

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Roger Wood |

Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than an actual) version of something. The term ‘virtualization’ originated in the computing world and has come to represent the creation of a virtual device or resource, such as a server, network,…