1. Using Pivot and GrantForward to Find Research Funding
Stacey L. Smith, PH.D.
Director of Research Advancement, OVPR

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the workshop, attendees will be able to:
ProQuest Pivot Database:
Register for Pivot
Navigate and manage the Pivot home page
Search Pivot funding via Quick Search and Advanced Search; make a Pivot Funding Opportunity active; track an opportunity; share it with others; save a search strategy; tag active and tracked records
Claim and search profiles on Pivot
GrantForward Database:
Register for GrantForward
Navigate and manage the GrantForward home page
Search GrantForward funding via Quick Search and Advanced Search
Save searches and create alerts on GrantForward
Claim and search profiles on GrantForward

3. ABOUT PIVOT
PIVOT (formerly COS) maintains a database of grants, fellowships, and other funding information from public and private, domestic and international sources—for science, social sciences, humanities, and community outreach funding.
Find funding opportunities and further your research using Baylor’s institutional subscription to Pivot. If you are already a COS user, log in to  claim your profile. If you're a new user, create your profile to set up your personalized funding searches

4. ABOUT PIVOT
Pivot gives researchers the ability to identify and connect with funding opportunities and with other researchers—locally and globally. It combines the most comprehensive, editorially maintained database of funding opportunities worth an estimated $33 billion with a unique database of 3 million scholar profiles—and growing

5. ACCESSING PIVOT
To create a Pivot account, go to https.//pivot.cos.com.
PIVOT guide:

6. CREATING YOUR PIVOT ACCOUNT
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7. CLAIMING YOUR PIVOT PROFILE
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8. PIVOT FUNDING QUICK SEARCH
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9. PIVOT FUNDING ADVANCED SEARCH
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10. PIVOT FUNDING SETTING ALERTS
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11. SEARCHING PIVOT PROFILES
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12. GRANTFORWARD.COM
University Development and the Baylor Libraries have purchased a subscription for Baylor faculty
Login will be found on the library homepage, Development webpage, and the Office for Research Advancement’s external funding searches webpage

13. GRANTFORWARD
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14. CREATING AN ACCOUNT FOR GRANTFORWARD
Go to homepage
Click “sign up” at top right-hand corner.
Pick “Institutional Account.”
Put in your Baylor , first and last name.
Create a password.
Choose Baylor from drop down file.
Click “Create my Account.”
Go to your Baylor and follow the confirmation link.

15. GRANTFORWARD: CREATING PROFILE
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16. GRANTFORWARD QUICK SEARCH
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17. GRANTFORWARD: SAVING SEARCH
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18. GRANTFORWARD SETTING ALERTS
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19. GRANTFORWARD: ADVANCED SEARCH FILTERS
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20. ORCID ORCID: Open Researcher Contributor Identification Initiative
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized.
Guide to completing your ORCID profile to make sure your work is linked to your ORCID ID:

21. USING ORCID
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22. OFFICE OF RESEARCH ADVANCEMENT
Office of Research Advancement (ORA) reports to the Vice Provost for Research. We are located on the 2nd floor of the BRIC in room 2281.
Contact information for the ORA:
Dr. Stacey L. Smith, Director of Research Advancement
Dr. Lynn Parks, Grant Editor
Virginia Kearney, Grant Strategist

23. ORA- FIND RESEARCH FUNDING
Our office provides the following services:
Conduct customized, targeted searches to help investigators locate funding sources for specific projects or lines of research
Disseminate relevant information about external and internal funding opportunities tailored to investigators’ research interests
Provide training on Pivot and other funding databases to identify potential research funders
Provide educational outreach opportunities as well as school and community partnerships for Broader Impact activities
Offer connections to external evaluators for grant proposals

24. ORA BOX BIO Updated CV Keyword search terms
Brief description of research in layman’s terms
Researcher website, if available

25. ORA- BUILD A RESEARCH TEAM
Our office provides the following services:
Identify and introduce potential internal and external collaborators to build an interdisciplinary research team
Support the development of interdisciplinary research teams through hosting brainstorming sessions to identify interested collaborators, identifying the roles and responsibilities of each collaborator, and articulating shared visions
Assist with partnerships for targeting human subjects research populations

26. ORA- BUILD A RESEARCH TEAM
Identify outreach opportunities to address broader impacts criterion of federal funders
Provide training on Pivot to identify inter- and intra-University scholars to identify potential collaborators
Coordinate expert review of internal grant proposals to provide investigators with an experience similar to that of a federal proposal review panel
Connect researchers to external evaluators for grant proposals

27. ORA- STRENGTHEN YOUR PROPOSAL
Our office provides the following services:
Review proposals to enhance the overall quality and competiveness of grant proposals submitted by Baylor investigators by providing feedback on issues such as logic, evidence, grammar, syntax, and formatting requirements
Provide writing assistance for faculty for whom English is a second language
Advise on the development of logic models, biographical sketches, and other supplementary documentation to ensure compliance with sponsor guidelines

28. ORA- STRENGTHEN YOUR PROPOSAL
Assist in the development of lay abstracts to communicate research and findings to the public using non-jargon terminology
Facilitate grant writing seminars and host the proposal development award

29. ORA- EXPLORE RESOURCES
Our office provides the following services:
Access to internal and external resources for proposal development.
Examples:
Resources and Templates by Funding Agent (e.g., NSF, NIH, IES, HRSA, EPA)
Successfully-Funded Grant Examples
Templates for Letters of Support/Collaboration
Resources for Developing Lay Summaries, Logic Models, and Theories of Change
Boilerplate Language
Overall Proposal Writing Tips and Resources

30. QUESTIONS

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