UseCases
Learn how to master GrantForward with usecases that cover typical usages.
Help My Institution Members Receive More Relevant Grant Recommendations
If you would like to help your institution members receive more relevant grant recommendations, you can follow these steps below to help them configure and update their Researcher Profiles to receive email alerts for more relevant grant recommendations.
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"How-to" Video:
Help My Institution Members Receive More Relevant Grant Recommendations
2023-04-04
Educate My Members on How to Search
If you are unsure of how to educate your institution members on conducting a simple search or advanced keyword search on GrantForward as well as understanding the search filters and their functions, GrantForward provides tips and multiple resources which you can use to help your members learn all of the above things.
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"How-to" Video:
Educate My Members on How to Search
2023-04-04
Deploy Grantforward and Disseminate Grants
GrantForward can be very useful and valuable for your institution members to explore funding opportunities-- if you make GrantForward known to them and they can receive suitable grants! To deploy GrantForward and disseminate grants, we suggest the following ways.
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"How-to" Video:
Deploy Grantforward and Disseminate Grants
2023-05-25
Create a Grant Portal for Your Department or College
Understanding the fact that faculty learn about grants from emails or websites more than their own searching, we now support the ability to create grant portals tailored to your department/college. You’re able to embed search templates, grant lists, and newsletters from GrantForward to your website so that your faculty can view and target suitable funding opportunities quickly regardless of whether they have GrantForward accounts.
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"How-to" Video:
Create a Grant Portal for Your Department or College
2023-04-04
Publish Grant Newsletters for Your Department or College
The Grants Office often spends a lot of time preparing grant newsletters for the department/college every week, month, or quarter. Understanding how much hassle this process may have, we design the newsletter feature to save your time and effort in formatting and producing newsletters, so that you can make announcements and disseminate grants in the most convenient ways. To publish a grant newsletter, you can follow these steps:
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"How-to" Video:
Publish Grant Newsletters for Your Department or College
2023-04-04
Find Mentoring Grants That Your Department’s New/Junior Faculty Can Apply
As a research administrator at your department, you want to encourage the new/junior faculty to be more active in applying for mentoring grants. You can do that by going to GrantForward, finding a list containing a few suitable funding opportunities, and then sharing it with them, as follows.
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"How-to" Video:
Find Mentoring Grants That Your Department’s New/Junior Faculty Can Apply
2023-04-04
Help Professor Smith to Find Grants That He Can Apply
Professor Smith is so active in doing research but does not have much time now to search for grants, so he came to your office to seek help. He gave some requirements for funding opportunities in his research areas so that you can find a few matching grants for him to apply for. To do so, please see the following steps.
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"How-to" Video:
Help Professor Smith to Find Grants That He Can Apply
2023-04-04
Find Grants from Foundations That Your Faculty May Overlook
Your faculty are too busy to search for funding opportunities every day so they may overlook potential ones from their favorite foundations. As an administrator, you want to keep them aware of the latest grants to be ahead of the game and not miss any matching grants. You can follow the steps below to find grants from specific foundations and help your faculty get grant information periodically to avoid overlooking.
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"How-to" Video:
Find Grants from Foundations That Your Faculty May Overlook
2023-04-04
Identify Limited Submissions That Your Faculty Should Know
Since limited submissions only allow a specific and limited number of proposals from a given institution, your faculty should be aware of those opportunities soon to prepare for the internal competitions first. Thus, your office needs to curate and disseminate limited submission opportunities to your research community, which you can easily do on GrantForward as follows.
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"How-to" Video:
Identify Limited Submissions That Your Faculty Should Know
2023-04-04
Get Pre-Award Information
Learn how to navigate pre-award information through many comprehensive databases for a complete award-seeking cycle, a personalized homepage displaying grant updates, a directory for finding other researchers, and a support page on GrantForward.
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"How-to" Video:
Get Pre-Award Information
2023-05-10
Use the Administrator Console
The Administrator Console is a facility consisting of many advanced features dedicated to only administrators for managing their institution members, disseminating grants to their faculty, and promoting the research activities at their institutions.
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"How-to" Video:
Use the Administrator Console
2023-04-04
Manage Users at Your Institution
Administrators can manage users at their institution in three categories including individual, unit, and group to optimize communications and outreach in research activities as well as facilitate the delivery of grants and newsletters through systematic user management.
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"How-to" Video:
Manage Users at Your Institution
2023-04-04
Annotate and Manage a Limited Submission Opportunity
If you need to provide internal information about a limited submission opportunity, you can easily create an annotation on it with instructions that are exclusive to your institution members. For example, if you need to enforce an internal selection for a limited submission grant with an internal deadline and a limited number of chosen applicants, you can follow the steps below.
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"How-to" Video:
Annotate and Manage a Limited Submission Opportunity
2023-04-04
Receive Grant Recommendations
If you are too busy to search for grants regularly but still want to be updated about new potential opportunities, GrantForward will recommend relevant funding opportunities based on your research interests automatically. You can configure and update your Researcher Profile to reflect your interest better and therefore receive more matching grant recommendations.
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"How-to" Video:
Receive Grant Recommendations
2023-05-10
Find Grants
If you are working on a research project and want to be aware of pertinent funding opportunities, you can use GrantForward's extensive database to search for the most relevant grants using keywords/phrases, and adding various advanced filters. You can create a grant list to keep track of favorite grants and set up saved searches to receive email alerts whenever there are new grants are matching your criteria. For example, in case you are looking for “Biology” grants, you can follow the steps below.
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"How-to" Video:
Find Grants
2023-05-10
Use GrantForward Advanced Features for Better Grant Management
After setting up a grant search and finding some desired grants matching your research needs or any unwanted grants, you can use our advanced features including Favorites, Grant Lists, or Exclusion for better tracking or managing these funding opportunities.
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"How-to" Video:
Use GrantForward Advanced Features for Better Grant Management
2023-04-05
Monitor and Get Alerts for New Grant Opportunities
After setting up a grant search with relevant keywords/phrases and search filters, instead of recreating the same search every time you want to see new grant opportunities with the selected search criteria, you can set up a saved search with email alerts to automatically get notifications. For example, if you set up a complex search for “biochemistry” and additional filters, you can follow the steps below to save your search and set email alerts.
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"How-to" Video:
Monitor and Get Alerts for New Grant Opportunities
2023-04-05
Monitor New Grants from Your Favorite Sponsors
You can easily search for grant opportunities from your favorite sponsors. Further, you can also stay up to date with their new grant opportunities by setting up a saved search with these sponsors and getting email alerts. For example, suppose you want to find and keep monitoring “diabetes” grants from the National Institutes of Health and American Diabetes Association, then you can follow the steps below.
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"How-to" Video:
Monitor New Grants from Your Favorite Sponsors
2023-04-05
Find Out What Topics Have Been Funded under a Specific Grant
GrantForward provides users with a directory of awards where you can find out what topics have been funded under a grant and who/what institutions were winning the grant. You can search for specific funded projects by using keywords/phrases related to the topics and various advanced filters.
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"How-to" Video:
Find Out What Topics Have Been Funded under a Specific Grant
2023-04-05
Find What My Peer Institutions Are Getting Funded/Awards From
In addition to searching for grants for your own institutions, GrantForward also allows you to find what your peer institutions are getting funded from. Our Awards directory will help you know who/what institutions were winning grants and what research topics have been funded, using keywords/phrases and various filters.
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"How-to" Video:
Find What My Peer Institutions Are Getting Funded/Awards From
2023-04-04
Find Grants That Are Coming Soon but Have Not Been Formally Announced
GrantForward offers a directory for users to find grants that are coming soon but have not been formally announced called Pre-solicitations. It provides notices from sponsors-- which provide a heads-up that grants will be released, and you can find them by keywords/phrases and other filters such as amount or estimated grant call date to prepare better for submitting applications at a later time.
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"How-to" Video:
Find Grants That Are Coming Soon but Have Not Been Formally Announced
2023-04-04
Find Grants for a Specific Project and Share with Your Collaborators
After setting up a search with relevant keywords/phrases and advanced search filters to find grants for a specific project, you will be able to share your search results including matching grants or an individual grant with your collaborators. For example, if you want to share “life sciences” grants, you can follow the steps below.
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"How-to" Video:
Find Grants for a Specific Project and Share with Your Collaborators
2023-04-04
Identify Faculty Members Who May Be Interested in a Particular Grant
GrantForward offers an ability in which each funding opportunity will show up those researchers who are suitable with them (if any). As an administrator, you can use this function to check which grants your faculty members may be interested in and then recommend those grants to them.
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"How-to" Video:
Identify Faculty Members Who May Be Interested in a Particular Grant
2023-04-04
Help Faculty Find Potential Collaborators
Knowing the demand of users for research collaboration, we provide a directory of researcher profiles so that everyone can find suitable partners for their projects. As an administrator, you can also go to that page and help your faculty to find potential collaborators within your institution or across all institutions.
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"How-to" Video:
Help Faculty Find Potential Collaborators
2023-04-04
