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Introducing Pivot-RP

Ex Libris Pivot-RP is an online suite of tools for researchers and faculty that is accessible using a web browser. Pivot-RP provides research administrators, research development professionals, and individual faculty members quick and easy access to the right research opportunities, funding, and people. Pivot-RP provides global and local connections that strengthen research by exploring new avenues for funding and collaboration – for faculty, postdocs, staff and students.

Pivot-RP includes intelligent mapping features that expedite funding discovery, dissemination, and collaboration. With Pivot-RP, connecting the right opportunities with the right people is routine.

Pivot-RP Funding Opportunities Click here to find funding opportunities through Pivot-RP.

The following sites and resources serve as databases of external funding opportunities for fellowships and grants. The chart below list the various features each resource offers.

Ways to Find Funding @ CU Boulder (6min) To view, please log in to CU Boulder Microsoft 365 using your identikey login credentials.

4 Free Funding Platforms @ CU Boulder (10min) To view, please log in to CU Boulder Microsoft 365 using your identikey login credentials.

RIO Webinars & Workshops Check here for upcoming live Q&A Sessions!​
 

Need help?

The Research Development team can help you navigate funding opportunity databases, including SPIN, Dimensions, Foundation Directory Online, and Philanthropy News Digest. We are available for individual faculty consultations to identify relevant opportunities. We can also customize trainings for groups of researchers. Email:    rioconsult@colorado.edu

External Funding Platforms

Tool to FindPivotSPINDimensionsFoundation Directory OnlinePhilanthropy News Digest
Funding Opportunities and Set Up Email Alerts     
Grantees     
Collaborators in my Field(s)     
Funded Projects with Abstracts Similar to Mine     
Philanthropic Funders     

 

Strategy & Development

Pivot-RP

Pivot-RP includes intelligent mapping features that expedite funding discovery, dissemination and collaboration, providing research administrators, research development professionals and individual faculty members quick and easy access to the right research opportunities, funding and people. 

SPIN Funding Opportunities Database

SPIN is a web-based, searchable funding opportunities database available to all CU Boulder faculty, postdocs, staff, and students. NOTE: For best functionality use Google Chrome or Firefox web browsers. For assistance, call InfoEd Global SPIN at 1-800-727-6427.

Targeted Funding Emails w/ SPIN (26min) To view, please log in to CU Boulder Microsoft 365 using your identikey login credentials.

Dimensions

Dimensions is an innovative grants and funder database providing insights into research activities from multiple perspectives allowing CU Boulder stakeholders to analyze and understand the funding landscape across the U.S. and around the globe.

Recycle Your Proposal: Dimensions (10min) To view, please log in to CU Boulder Microsoft 365 using your identikey login credentials.

Foundation Directory Online

Foundation Directory Online includes more than 140,000 foundations, corporate giving programs and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; a database of more than 4,000 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate funders; and much more.

How to Use Foundation Directory Online (FDO) (4min) To view, please log in to CU Boulder Microsoft 365 using your identikey login credentials.

Philanthropy News Digest

Philanthropy News Digest (PND) covers the philanthropic world, from original content to aggregated stories and daily Request for Proposal (RFP) listings.

How to Use Philanthropy News Digest (PND) (4min) To view, please log in to CU Boulder Microsoft 365 using your identikey login credentials.

Grants.gov

Grants.gov is the single point of access for searching competitive funding opportunities from more than 900 grant programs offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies.

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