1. Pivot Workshop
Deborah Esparza-St Louis, Director of Sponsored Programs
Lauren Carr, Director of Corporate & Foundation Development
Lyena Chavez, McQuade Library
June, 2019
Welcome to our first Pivot Workshop.

2. Introducing…Pivot!
We want you to “always be looking for that next grant.” Pivot connects scholars to funding opportunities.

3. What is Pivot?
Integrated Funding and Collaboration Database and search tool
Currently has opportunities totaling $50 billion from all over the world
Includes over 3.6 million scholar profiles
CONNECTS SCHOLARS WITH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES!
extensive searchable database of public and private funding opportunities, as well as faculty profiles.
Find funding for a given research project
Find the right faculty for a strategic opportunity
FIND FUNDING
-Provides access to the most comprehensive global source of funding opportunities—totaling billions of dollars and growing
-Pivot includes grants, awards, prizes, and fellowships, as well as support for travel, conferences, and equipment acquisition.  It contains information about government, philanthropic, industry, and international funding opportunities from across scientific disciplines. 
COLLABORATION
-Identifies researcher expertise from within or outside of your organization from millions of profiles from leading research organizations worldwide (more than 3.6 million researcher profiles)
-Enhances communication, monitoring, and tracking amongst individual faculty, teams, or researchers and the Research Development office
-Builds strong network connections for future opportunities

4. Features Search for and share funding opportunities
Look for collaborators from around the world with similar research interests
Claim and revise your profile so other researchers can find you
Find meetings and journals to present and publish your research
What does Pivot enable us to do?
Papers Invited  notes upcoming conferences and special journal issues where they can present and publish their research
Additionally Pivot Funding Alerts provide researchers with a weekly, individualized notification of new & updated funding opportunities based on the user’s saved searches.

5. Today’s Workshop Getting Started with PIVOT Searching in PIVOT
Pivot Profiles
Resources/Help
Lab Time!
GETTING STARTED
-how to access, register for an account, how to claim/update your pivot profile
SEARCHING IN PIVOT
-Quick search, advanced searching, search by sponsor, saving or tracking opps.
PIVOT profiles
-Searching and navigating
-Finding Funding matches
Further Help
-Show your MC Pivot Guide, online tutorials, webinars, help documents
Lab Time
-Time to poke around/ start exploring on your own!