1. Helping University faculty, staff, and students to build TCU’s position as a nationally recognized scholarly institution Linda S. Freed September 17, 2014

2.  Linda Freed, Director  Teresa Miles Hendrix, Assistant Director  Laurie Heidemann, Administrative Program Specialist

3.  Funding Searches & Opportunities Dissemination  Proposal Development Guidance  Budget Development Guidance  Purplesheets Routing  Award Negotiations  Subaward Processing (incoming and outgoing)  Modifications, Extensions and Reporting on existing awards

4. Sponsored Programs Information Network: an international, comprehensive database of funding opportunities  Available to the campus community (IP address recognition)  Watch for user training opportunities  https://spin.infoedglobal.com/Home/GridResults https://spin.infoedglobal.com/Home/GridResults

5.  Offered by the Grants Resource Center (GRC)  Selective database of funding opportunities  Very user-friendly  User name (TCU) and password (service) required  Watch for training opportunities  http://www.aascu.org/grc/gs/ http://www.aascu.org/grc/gs/

6.  Free individual memberships for faculty, students and staff (requires activation)  Inside information on government relations, funding opportunities and breaking news  Free access to the Registry of Undergraduate Researchers for grad student recruitment  Discounts on institute and meeting registration fees, and consulting services; free access to CUR hosted webinars  www.cur.org www.cur.org

7. Oct 31: Intro to Research Administration at TCU for New Faculty Nov 21: The Grants Process @ TCU (panel of experienced PI’s) Dec 18: Internal Funding Opportunities Jan 28: Building Collaborations with Community Agencies Feb 24: Demystifying Grant Budgets Mar 30: Research and Career Development for the Newly-Tenured Apr 30: Finding Funding for Humanities Research June TBD: Departmental and College Administrative Assistants

8.  Proposal writing seminar for National Science Foundation programs, with focus on CAREER Awards  Proposal writing seminar for Fine & Performing Arts  SPIN and GrantSearch training sessions

9. Let us know when we can come visit!

11.  Both submissions and dollars awarded are declining.  Concomitantly, the funding ratio for submitted proposals is increasing.  The only thing that will reverse this trend is to increase the number of submissions.

12.  Improve data capture and reporting, particularly for individual fellowships and awards  Build capacity through workshops, seminars, training for proposal writers  Sustain and build outreach program to encourage increased submissions  Develop mentoring and incentives to support grant-seeking