UseCases
Learn how to master GrantForward with usecases that cover typical usages.
Set up a Designated Administrator Accountfor a Specific Unit
If your university has administrators overseeing different departments, it's essential to define their management scope on GrantForward to ensure efficient access control. GrantForward allows you to assign designated access levels, enabling each administrator to manage users, funding opportunities, and system settings within their specific department or assigned units. Follow the steps below to configure administrator permissions accordingly.
2025-03-27
Set up a Designated Administrator Account for a Specific Unit
If your university has administrators overseeing different departments, it's essential to define their management scope on GrantForward to ensure efficient access control. GrantForward allows you to assign designated access levels, enabling each administrator to manage users, funding opportunities, and system settings within their specific department or assigned units. Follow the steps below to configure administrator permissions accordingly.
2025-03-13
Work Sharing & Collaboration in GrantForward
Category: Disseminate Funding Opportunities
To enable seamless teamwork on GrantForward, we allow administrators to work together on curated searches, grant lists, newsletters, and group management tasks. Additionally, you can transfer your work to another team member if they need to take over your responsibilities. Follow the steps below to enable sharing and collaboration.
2025-03-13
Monitor and Get Alerts for New Awards
Category: Learn Strategic Information
After building an award search with relevant keywords/phrases and search filters, you can save your search conditions for easy retrieval. Additionally, you can set up email alerts to receive timely notifications about new awards that match your specified criteria. For example, if you create an award search on the topic of biodiversity, follow the steps below to save your search and set up email alerts.
2024-07-25
Monitor and Get Alerts for New Pre-Solicitations
Category: Learn Strategic Information
After building a pre-solicitation search with relevant keywords/phrases and search filters, you can save your search conditions for easy retrieval. Additionally, you can set up email alerts to receive timely notifications about new pre-solicitations that match your specified criteria. For example, if you create a pre-solicitation search on the topic of “mental health”, follow the steps below to save your search and set up email alerts.
2024-07-25
Find Relevant Keywords for My Search
You want to embark on a research project, however, you do not know which keywords can generate matching funding opportunities for your search endeavors. If so, you can use one or a combination of the techniques below.
2024-06-04
Tips to Improve Your Search
Searching for the right funding opportunities can be a challenge, and may require a lot of effort and some techniques. If your search endeavors fall into one of the cases below, please follow our tips to help improve your search results.
2024-07-19
Best Ways to Boost GrantFoward Usage
Category: Promote GrantForward
This documentation outlines key strategies to improve engagement with the GrantForward platform.
2024-05-10
Manage Researcher Profiles at Your Institution
As an administrator, you can manage all the researcher profiles that are created at your institution. You will be able to view and edit the profile information, adjust the recommendation settings for each profile, or even delete a profile.
2023-12-13
Learn Strategic Information
Category: Learn Strategic Information
GrantForward provides various databases where you can learn strategic information for your award-seeking cycle, such as identifying and tracking relevant sponsors, finding upcoming grants, seeking experts/collaborators, getting proposal ideas/sample awards, or exploring what your peer researchers are getting awarded.
2023-11-24
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 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 matching your criteria. For example, in case you are looking for “Biology” grants, you can follow the steps below.
2023-11-24
Receive Grant Recommendations
Category: GrantForward Profiles
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.
2023-05-10
Get Pre-Award Information
Category: Learn Strategic 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.
2024-08-07
Find Out What Topics Have Been Funded under a Specific Grant
Category: Learn Strategic Information
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.
2023-04-05
Find What My Peer Institutions Are Getting Funded/Awards From
Category: Learn Strategic Information
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.
2023-12-05
Find Mentoring Grants That Your Department’s New/Junior Faculty Can Apply
Category: Support Faculty
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.
2023-04-04
Help Faculty Find Potential Collaborators
Category: Support Faculty
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.
2023-04-04
Find Grants from Foundations That Your Faculty May Overlook
Category: Support Faculty
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.
2023-04-04
Help Professor Smith to Find Grants That He Can Apply
Category: Support Faculty
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.
2023-04-04
Identify Limited Submissions That Your Faculty Should Know
Category: Support Faculty
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.
2023-04-04
Create a Grant Portal for Your Department or College
Category: Disseminate Funding Opportunities
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.
2023-11-06
Find Grants for a Specific Project and Share with Your Collaborators
Category: Learn Strategic Information
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.
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.
2025-03-10
Publish Grant Newsletters for Your Department or College
Category: Disseminate Funding Opportunities
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:
2025-02-12
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.
2023-07-26
Find Grants That Are Coming Soon but Have Not Been Formally Announced
Category: Learn Strategic Information
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.
2024-08-07
Help My Institution Members Receive More Relevant Grant Recommendations
Category: Support Faculty
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.
2023-04-04
Annotate and Manage a Limited Submission Opportunity
Category: Disseminate Funding Opportunities
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.
2023-07-20
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.
2023-08-17
Educate My Members on How to Search
Category: Support Faculty
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.
2023-04-04
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.
2023-12-13
Deploy GrantForward at Your Institution
Category: Promote GrantForward
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, we suggest the following ways.
2025-01-20
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.
2023-11-24
