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CANR Grants Development Office

Proposal Development and Processing

The “CANR Sponsored Project Proposal Process” PowerPoint presentation gives an overview of how grants and contracts are handled on the pre-award side at CANR and contains tips on how to avoid common errors.  To ensure that your proposal is submitted accurately and on-time, however, please follow the more detailed CANR Grants Office Proposal Instructions.  

Depending on the services that have been requested, the CANR proposal preparation and review process can require up to a week before the proposal is ready to submit to OSP.   To meet the OSP requested submission deadline of 5 days prior to the sponsor due date, and to receive the maximum benefit of the GDO services, please contact Nancy Abbott (nancy.abbott@uconn.edu) early in the proposal development process.  She will work with you to develop a schedule for completing all of the elements of your proposal. This will allow for the best coordination of effort and support to ensure a timely, error-free proposal submission.  

Please be aware that when proposals are submitted late to OSP, OSP will not have the time to conduct a review prior to submission and the opportunity to detect errors may be missed that could result in your proposal being rejected by the sponsor or during the web portal validation.

Principal Investigator (PI) Responsibilities:

  • Find a funding opportunity
  • Review RFP, paying close attention to eligibility and project requirements
  • Begin early!! Notify Nancy Abbott (nancy.abbott@uconn.edu) once you have identified a grant opportunity for assistance with the proposal submission process. 
  • Follow the CANR Proposal Instructions
  • Submit a complete, final proposal package for review and processing to the GDO (canrgrants@uconn.edu)  including all required UConn forms completed and signed through department head level
  • Once approved by OSP, submit your proposal to the sponsor unless the guidelines require OSP to submit on your behalf (as with most federal funding opportunities)

News and Events

 

CANR 2011 Highlights of Research and the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

2011 Highlights of Research

Grant Reviewer Opportunities

15 AGENCIES SEEKING GRANT REVIEWERS

One great way to increase the likelihood of getting funding is to become a grant reviewer. Current research suggests that you can improve your odds by as much as 30% by serving first as a reviewer and then submitting a proposal to the agency for which you reviewer at a later competition cycle.  Many benefits exist for becoming a grant reviewer. You quickly learn what turns reviewers on – and off. Equally important, you become and “insider” and establish contacts and networks that will prove valuable later in your continued grantseeking efforts. Federal agencies are especially looking for grant reviewers because they receive so many proposals that must be critiqued. In our latest blog, we have identified 15 federal grantmaking agencies that are looking for grant reviewers – now. Which one is right for you?

15 Agencies Seeking Grant Reviewes

 

Recent Grant Awards

 

Congratulations to the Research Foundation’s spring Faculty Large Grant award recipients:

Maria-Luz Fernandez, Nutritional Sciences 

Reversal of Hepatic Steatosis by Manipulation of Dietary Carbohydrates and Fat in Guinea Pigs, $17,500

Huan-Zhong Wang, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture

Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of Secondary Wall Formation, $21,000

 

Archived grant list

 

 

Current Multistate Proposals Inviting Participation

  • NE_TEMP2001, Project proposal entitled, "Ovarian Influences on Reproductive Success in Ruminants." Please submit Please submit the Appendix E no later than 05/21/2012
  • NE_TEMP1921, Project proposal entitled "Mycobacterial Diseases of Animals."  Please submit the Appendix E no later than 05/21/2012

Instructions to join a Multistate Project

 

 

USDA Integrated Grants and Logic Model

A logic model is a conceptual tool for planning and evaluation which displays the sequence of actions that describes what the science-based program is and will do.

 

 

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