Identify Appropriate Funding Opportunity
(4-12 months in advance, though check for new opportunities as short as 2-3 months in advance)
- Locate appropriate funding
- Put together a research team
- Contact Program Officer for input on appropriate RFP or division (optional)
Contact the Research Support Office* to get your proposal started
(1-2 months in advance)
- Notify Research Support Services about your plans to submit a grant proposal. The Research Office will need to know the following:
- To The specific funding opportunity announcement
- The proposal deadline
- Personnel involved (Lead PI, Co-PIs, Senior Personnel, other colleges at OSU, other institutions)
- RSS will download application materials and start the proposal application
- RSS will send detailed guidance to PI including a checklist of required documents, formatting and deadlines.
Contact your Grants and Contracts Specialist to develop your budget
(1-2 months in advance)
- Work with your Grants and Contracts Specialist to develop a budget.
- Provide your Grants and Contracts Specialist with a budget justification, project summary and additional documents as needed for routing purposes.
- Your Grants and Contracts Specialist will generate the routing packet. Our Administrative Support Assistant will obtain all the required signatures for the routing packet. This needs to be done 7-10 business days before the proposal deadline
Send all required documents to RSS for submission
(1-2 days in advance)
- Send all required proposal documents to RSS
- RSS finalizes proposal application and uploads proposal documents
- Completed routing packet is returned to RSS
- RSS sends complete proposal package to PI for final approval
- Revisions are made as needed
- Proposal is submitted by Research Support Services