Welcome to the website of the Office of Grants and Research!

 

The Office Of Grants and Research has the responsibility for all aspects of grants information and administration.  The Associate Director and Director serve as a resource in identifying potential funding sources, preparing proposals and budgets, coordinating with all appropriate college departments, overseeing compliance with college, university and government regulations relating to grants, acting as liaison with granting agencies and protecting the college's interests vis-à-vis grants and contracts.  In addition, the Office oversees post-award administration of all grants and contracts, serves as a liaison with RF/CUNY for fiscal or administrative problems, and administers certain institutional grant accounts.

 

 

 

We encourage you to search the world’s most comprehensive grant funding database, the Community of Science (COS), to which the Research Foundation of CUNY subscribes for each campus. COS is for all disciplines, including the social sciences and humanities. It provides investigators with electronic access to search current funding opportunities – over 20,000 of them. You can locate funding for research, collaborative projects, fellowships, travel, equipment, training grants, meetings/conferences/seminars, artistic pursuits, publishing, postdocs, among the many offerings. It is easy to use and available through your on-campus computer. If you first create a personal account, then you can access the database remotely. Search results can be saved and shared via email with colleagues and collaborators.

 

Simply follow these directions. Click on COS which will bring you to the Community of Science homepage (www.cos.com). Create your free account by clicking on the New User’ tab on the upper left-hand side of the screen. To search for funding, choose the ‘COS Funding Opportunities‘ tab at the top of the page, then select the ‘Search COS Funding Opportunities’. The ‘Main Search’ option gives you the most selections of search criteria from which to choose. The ‘Search Wizard’ option will help step you through creating a search.

 

 

 

The Research Foundation (RF) is a private, not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963.  RF is responsible for post-award administration of private and government sponsored programs at CSI and all of The City University of New York (CUNY).  The RF is the legal employer for all personnel paid on grants and contracts and runs its own payroll and benefit program.  The RF also provides purchasing and accounts payable services for non-personnel expenditures on grants.  It performs all legal work on sponsored contracts and is responsible for all accounting functions.  For more information on RFCUNY, go to www.rfcuny.org.

 

 

Prior to preparing any proposal for external funding, faculty are required to submit the Pre-Proposal Checklist (with a one-page project abstract and draft budget) and a Financial Disclosure Form.  These can be printed from this website and then completed by hand.  Please return to the Grants Office, 1A-302 at least two weeks before the proposal is due at the grantor. An approved Pre-Proposal Checklist and Financial Disclosure Form must be on file at the Grants Office before your proposal will be released for submittal.
If you prefer, the forms can be emailed to you in WORD format.  Request a copy at: lutkenhouse@mail.csi.cuny.edu.
 

NSF's FastLane

                                    
NSF requires electronic proposal submission for all programs through the use of their online system FastLane. All required NSF standard proposal forms are prepared via FastLane. Your proposal can be checked for completion via an institutional function and subsequently be signed and submitted electronically. PIs can check the status of submitted proposals, and also create and submit Progress, and Final Project Reports as required by NSF.
All PIs must be registered to use FastLane. You can register by making the request to the Office of Grants and Research: you need to provide your name, Social Security Number, department, phone and fax numbers, degree earned and year, and a PIN access of at least six characters, with at least one alpha and one numeric character. For assistance, call the Grants Office at extension 2254. www.fastlane.nsf.gov/fastlane.jsp

 

Important information, including EIN, DUNS Numbers, when preparing a proposal.


 

The Research Foundation/CUNY website features funding opportunities through RF or CUNY Central, a variety of downloadable forms, RF policies and procedures for grant administration, and access to Project Investigator's account financial reports.

 

 

 

 

Office of Grants and Research       
Building 1A - Room 302
Phone:  718-982-2254                                    
Fax:  718-982-2252

 

Staff

Lisa S. Ebert, Director

ebert@mail.csi.cuny.edu

Anne Lutkenhouse

Associate Director

lutkenhouse@mail.csi.cuny.edu

Mary Knoblauch, OTPS

Grant Administrator            

knoblauch@mail.csi.cuny.edu

Donna Oliva, College Assistant

oliva@mail.csi.cuny.edu

Patricia Petropoulakos, Personnel

CUNY Office Assistant

petropoulakos@mail.csi.cuny.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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