Find Funding with GrantForward

GrantForward Overview

51视频 subscribes to GrantForward, a search engine dedicated to helping institutions and individuals find grants to fund their research.

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  • GrantForward covers more than 20,000 sponsors worldwide to provide a comprehensive database of more than 83,000 funding opportunities.
  • GrantForward鈥檚 powerful search system includes advanced search filters and specialized search features.
  • GrantForward researcher profiles allow researchers to highlight their research achievements and interests to receive personalized grant recommendations that match their research needs.
  • All 51视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to GrantForward.

Customize Your Researcher Profile

GrantForward Tutorial: How Can I Create a Good Researcher Profile?
For most 51视频 faculty and research staff, your GrantForward profile has been pre-populated with your research interests and publications.聽To customize your personalized grant recommendations, please review and update your research interests and publications in your GrantForward researcher profile.
To view your pre-generated profile, log into GrantForward and under the Researchers tab, select 鈥淢y Profile鈥�. You may edit your profile by navigating under the Researchers tab to 鈥淓dit My Profile鈥�.
If your profile has not been pre-populated, log into GrantForward and under the Researchers tab, select 鈥淐reate Profile鈥�.聽 See video tutorial on how to create your own profile.

Guides and Tutorials

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GrantForward also offers 51视频 (UML) specific trainings throughout the year. ORD will share these opportunities as they are scheduled. In the meantime, please view the recordings of the most recent UML GrantForward training sessions:

Access other helpful GrantForward guides and video tutorials:

ProcessPDF GuideVideo Tutorial
Create customized searches for grant opportunities. Search GrantForward鈥檚 database of funding opportunities using keywords and filters. (pdf)
Receive regular email alerts for funding opportunities based on your saved searches. Save your custom search criteria and receive updated results daily, weekly, or monthly. (pdf)
Curate customized grant lists. Group funding opportunities of interest into custom lists. (pdf)
Search pre-solicitations to get a heads up on grants soon to be announced. This feature provides notification of funding opportunities soon to be released (e.g., NSF Dear Colleague Letters). (pdf)
Receive personalized grant recommendations. GrantForward can suggest funding opportunities based on your research profile and keywords and send you email alerts on recommended grants daily, weekly, or monthly. (pdf)
Search for previously awarded projects. Find which researchers and projects have been previously funded using keywords and filters. (pdf)
Find potential collaborators by searching researchers by expertise. Search by keyword for other researchers internal or external to 51视频. (pdf)

Useful Resources

  • provides a short summary of how to use GrantForward鈥檚 most popular features.
  • is a detailed, step-by-step guide of how to use GrantForward.
  • contains instructional videos walking through how to use GrantForward.
  • contains tutorials, tools, and resources for troubleshooting.