What defines a Sponsored Program Agreement?
Sponsored program agreements include grants, contracts, sub-awards, and cooperative agreements. 赞助商, 或资助者, may be a government entity (international, 联邦, 状态, 或地方), 一个基础, 私人公司, or a non-profit organization such as another university or independent research institute.
OSPR can help you identify grant sponsors and develop proposals. Our office has numerous resources for preparing your grant application, including a 建议书发展指引, 所需内部表格, budgeting tools and guidelines, information on indirect costs, 检查清单, 和更多的.
Submitting a Grant Application
Full grant applications must be received in the 办公室 Sponsored Programs and Research (OSPR) at least five (5) business days before the sponsor’s published deadline. For proposals to foundations or corporations, allow a minimum of ten (10) business days prior to the due date for review through Corporate and Foundation Relations.
If you are planning a grant proposal, please send us a quick message with the “WHO” “WHAT” “WHEN” “WHERE” so we can put it on our calendar!
Applications submitted to OSPR for review should include (at a minimum)*:
- 的 建议总结 & 批准的形式 with all necessary signatures
- A Financial Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form from each Clark person written into the grant
- A final (or close to final) project narrative
- A line item detailed budget (spreadsheet)
- A detailed budget justification/narrative
- Proposal-specific and ancillary documents required by sponsor
- Draft of any required letter of support that must be signed by the Director of OSPR, 研究部主任, 教务长, 或总统.
*使用 Pre-award 建议指导lines to help guide your proposal development.
我们的服务
OSPR provides faculty with individual notices of 资金的机会, conducts individualized funding searches using various databases, 培训教师, 工作人员, and graduate students to use grant databases for funding searches. OSPR also works closely with Corporate and Foundation Relations to identify support from private sources for sponsored programs.
All Clark community members can also use Pivot-RP to search for 资金的机会.
OSPR works with faculty, 工作人员, and students to prepare proposals for sponsored projects. This can involve serving as a liaison to sponsors for insight on 资金的机会, providing strategic advice on preparing proposals, assisting in building a budget, facilitating the creation of teams of participants for collaborative projects, writing and editorial assistance for large institutional grants, and light editing for individual submissions.
OSPR has primary oversight responsibility for the timely review of proposals submitted on behalf of the institution. 的 review process is designed to ensure that the application conforms to university and sponsor guidelines with respect to academic appropriateness of the project, commitments of faculty and 工作人员 time, 预算规定, requirements for space and facilities, and special considerations for review as human subjects, 动物使用, 专有数据, 有害物质.
OSPR negotiates terms and conditions for all awards and subawards with sponsors to ensure a mutually acceptable award document. 的 office is also primarily responsible for negotiating subawards to institutions when Clark is the primary recipient of a grant or contract.
的 办公室 has several post-award responsibilities, including approvals for rebudgeting and no-cost extensions, resolving administrative problems that may arise during the course of a project, and overseeing non-financial reporting on sponsored projects. OSPR also works closely with Grant Accounting to ensure that the financial management of awards meets both Clark and sponsor requirements.
In addition to the above services, OSPR:
- Organizes campus informational meetings on grant writing, 资金的机会, using electronic grant-related resources, 拨款管理事宜, and other topics germane to sponsored program activity at Clark.
- Maintains a grants management database that can provide members of the university community with timely information pertaining to sponsored program activity at Clark.