Get on fast track to contracts and grants with webinars

April 12

12:15 to 1 p.m.

Intro to Contracts & Grants and Grant Tracking System

Kim & Kendra

This training is for academics and staff who are new, or just need a refresher, to submitting proposals for external funding. We will provide an introduction to the Office of Contracts and Grants including an overview of the proposal submission process and the Grant Tracking System. 

April 14

12:15 to 1 p.m.

Proposal Development and Proposal Process

Vanity & Kendra

Learn about the steps involved in the grant application process from developing your idea to submission. We will present on identifying funding opportunities, developing the project concept, building collaborative teams, drafting the proposal, contracts and grants review and submitting to the sponsor.

April 19

12:15 to 1 p.m.

Cost Sharing/Matching

Kathy

Academic Cost Recovery/Salary Savings (include BOC)

Kathy & BOC

Cost sharing or matching funds is the portion of project expenses provided by UC and not paid by the sponsoring agency. Tune in to learn more about when its acceptable to commit cost share on a proposal, required approvals, and tracking cost share after the award has been made.

Learn more about why you should include full cost recovery on a proposal budget and set up a salary savings account. Salary savings can be used as a PI's discretionary account to cover expenses on other programmatic activities beyond the funded project.

April 21 

12:15 to 1 p.m.

Budget Basics and Calculator

Kendra

Learn how to develop a proposal budget. Topics covered include cost components that make up a budget, applicable cost principles, budgeting techniques and practices, calculating F&A costs, and budgeting tools and resources.

April 26 

At Statewide Conference 

10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Grant Funding 101 (Concurrent Session 3-C at ANR Statewide Conference, Fresno)

Kathy & BOC

Learn what to expect when your proposal is funded, from receiving the Good News Letter to monitoring subawardees, to reporting to the sponsor. This session will provide principal investigators information on the roles and responsibilities of the different offices during the C&G life cycle from proposal through closeout and will cover how academic salary savings allow academics to charge their salaries to extramurally funded projects and use the salary savings for their programmatic needs. The session will also provide information on cost sharing in an extramurally funded project and when it should be utilized.

April 27

At Statewide Conference

8 to 10 a.m.

Strategies for Planning, Developing, and Writing Large Grants (Concurrent Session 6-B at ANR Statewide Conference, Fresno)

Vanity (Moderator)

Speaker:  Lucy Deckard, Consultant

As a two-hour, academic-focused professional development opportunity, this interactive session will discuss best practices and strategies for leading the development of large, multidisciplinary team-based grant efforts. Participants will explore strategies for establishing interdisciplinary proposal teams, leveraging prior research, developing a project vision, and best practices for scheduling proposal production and writing the proposal to achieve well-integrated research-education-extension grant applications.

May 3

12:15 to 1 p.m.

Using the new ANR Workflow Automation program to route C&G Forms “800“ and Advance Account Request

Kendra, Kathy and Kim

Introduction and training on the new Workflow Automation system. We will go through the automated program and show how to use it for the C&G Form 800 and the C&G Form Advanced Account Request.  

May 5

12:15 to 1 p.m.

Award Process

Kim & Heidi

Once a sponsor elects to fund a proposal, the review, negotiation and award acceptance process begins. This webinar walks you through what is happening in the Office of Contracts and Grants, and what to do when the accepted agreement arrives in your office.

May 10

12:15 to 1 p.m.

Working with Subrecipients

Kendra

Learn the definitions of subrecipients, the internal processes involved in setting up a subaward as well as monitoring requirements and helpful resources available. 

May 12

12:15 to 1 p.m.

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Post-award Process (include BOC and CGA)

BOC and Lenora Bruce

Fiscal management of grants, contracts and other funding agreements is the responsibility of the principal investigator and the administering unit. learn more about how to successfully manage your project finances, adhere to university policies, adhere to the sponsor's terms and condition and how to monitor your subawardees.