Finding Funding with Pivot-RP

Good morning, everybody. And my name is Emily Brashear. I work in the Office of Research Advancement and Partnerships, and I am the primary person for finding funding through the Pivot database. So I’m going to show you the ways to get in there and find some funding catered to your own personal research. So by doing that, then you can go through yourself and you’ll be able to receive funding opportunities that pertain to what you’re looking for.

And you don’t have to weed through all the ones that, you know, kind of bog us down sometimes.

Okay. So the website you’re going to need to go to is pivot.proquest.com. Don’t put WWW in front of you in front of it. Just pivot.proquest.com. I’ll send this out in an email afterwards as well. It’ll come to the screen where you either can sign in using your WSU login. But if you haven’t created an account, you have to go down here and create your account down here.

Once you get your account set up, I use the WSU login so I don’t have to remember another password, and email or, I mean, login. So it’ll take me just to the WSU one that we’re all aware of, which we got to do all these fun, fancy log-ins.

And then it takes you… So this is what the hopefully that comes through. There we go. This is what the homepage looks like.

Sorry. I just had a brief moment of panic that I closed out the wrong meeting. Okay, so this is what the login looks like. The homepage, what you’re going to do is you can type in here, and I don’t know anybody’s discipline that’s on this call. So I’m just going to use, engineering as an example so I can find out all the funding opportunities that have the word engineering in it.

But this is a worldwide database. So, and I’ll show you we’re going to, stop. Let’s go back. Sorry. If I click the Search button, this shows us that all over the world there’s 5600 funding opportunities with the word engineering in it. That’s a lot to go through, a lot that won’t pertain to what you’re researching.

So we want to go back. So from this page, if you do enter in a word and click Search you can click Refine Search and it’ll take you back or advanced search. So I’m before when I tell anybody to start this I’m going to say go to the Advanced Search button first because this can help you narrow down your search and not have to see the big number and then go back and keep kind of bouncing and forth.

It’s okay to do that in some some aspects, but we just want to quickest trail to, to your results. If I wanted to… You can type in words here. So I want to do engineering, I want to do robotics, I don’t know. You can you can type in if you do the words you can do engineering would say “engineering or robotics”.

So it’s going to pick up anything with the word engineering or robotics in it. So you’re getting a bigger search if you wanted to do I just want to see what funding opportunities are under engineering and robotics because that’s the route I’m going. You would put it underneath, you wouldn’t put it here. You’d put it down there.

And then you could search. But again, you’re still searching worldwide. So we’re going to refine it a little bit more. If you want to know you have a specific funder in mind, you just want NSF. You just want, you know, the Smith Foundation. There’s some person, you know exactly who it is. You can find it here. You can either browse like start typing in, it’ll pop it up.

I think the free text does it too, and you can enter that. I’ll take money from anybody. So we’re going to leave it blank. The amount if you’re looking for a specific amount of money, you know your project is only going to or is going to cost at least $10,000 or… I don’t know, in arts and humanities $10,000 can get you a long way, in engineering and health That’s not going to get you far.

So come on. There. You can select “More than” and enter your amount there if you want that. Or I need less than $1 million or 500,000. You can or you can do the between. So that’s the amount. Again, I want to see any amount. So I’m going to leave that blank.

Deadline. So this is going to be the agency deadline. And this is the tricky part. If you’re new to finding grants is the deadline that you’ll see here is when the application is due, not when you’re going to receive your money if you’re awarded. Plan three, sometimes six months out to get your funds. So that now if you need money for the summer, you should be applying to grants that are due now.

And that way it will ensure that you get the funds by the time summer hits. I don’t have a deadline, but if you do, you can say, you know, “I want to see all the funding opportunities that are due seven days from today.” You can put that in here. We’ll leave this blank. Limited submission means the agency doesn’t want to receive 100 applications or there’s some limitation on it.

All limited submissions, and I’ll show you how to identify those in this database, they are the ones that are limited to one per university or, there’s there’s some university limit on them. They all come through our office, the Office of Research. So there’s a form that you’ll fill out and I’ll show you how I identify this.

But I just want to put this little heads up that if you find one that is a limited, don’t think, “oh, they’re never going to pick me out of, you know, the whole university.” Of the limiteds, we only have a select few that are actual competitions that actually turn into competitions. I’m going to say of the 50 ish 60 that we do each year, maybe 5 or 6 are competitions.

The others are just people that say, “hey, has anybody applied? No, okay, you’re the winner.” So, I’ll show you how that looks in this database. But again, I’ll take any opportunities that are limited. Applicant institution location. This is if you want to put where WSU’s located. It’ll show opportunities that…. So this is the one that I… they’re only eligible in this area.

So I typically don’t use this I in fact I’ve never used it, as a search criteria, but I do activity location because I’m going to just narrow this down to the United States. And I can select auto populates and you can select if you want to work internationally, you can select whatever country you’re working with. I know we were working with, some people in Kenya so I could put Kenya in here.

And if I do that, you can see if I don’t if I type it, it’s going to say, oh, individual countries. Sure. And then if I say, oh, I don’t want that of any of these that you select, you can click the little x next to it and it goes away. You can select Washington state or Idaho too, if that’s where your research is and is you know, more you want to find maybe more narrow.

It’s I shouldn’t say it’s going to narrow it down. It’s going to include everything in the United States and everything in Washington. So, specifically in Washington, but this should encompass this. So sometimes it’s like, well, I don’t know, we’ll put it, we’ll keep it in there for now and see if we get anything different. Also you can click the unspecified some have some agencies don’t specify in the call where the activity location has to happen.

And so or if they do they kind of put it in the nitty gritty. Well Pivot, this database, they have… this is, they have agencies that will just give them a link. Well it’s computer generated and with humans, so there’s a little, could be some minor error in there. They… That’s their job to be accurate. But there is some minor errors.

So if you want to see those that maybe aren’t specified and you can dig deeper to see if the activity location is there, you can do that too. I don’t select citizenship. However, if you, are not a U.S. citizen or have residency here, there’s a couple ways you can go about it. You can click on unrestricted because a lot of agencies to have that, a lot of times, and with the funding opportunities within the United States, don’t have a citizenship restriction every once in a while they will, but not often.

So I leave this blank. But you can definitely, if you just want to take them all out right now, you can do unrestricted or unspecified. Well, unspecified. You’d have to do some research into it, but or you can put your citizenship in and see what comes up for you. Funding type. This is if you’re looking for… and again, I’ll take money from anyone.

So it’s hard for me to say. Oh, but some people just want, research… project grants and innovation. They just want research money. Some people want travel. And so this helps you reduce it. This some of these things that we’re talking about right now, you can actually reduce on the next page. And I’ll show you that.

So for right now we’re just going to leave this blank. But you can see you can get scholarships, prizes. Yeah. Any of these. Awards, I think there is awards one. Any of these you can select and it’ll narrow down just to those. Keywords. So this is actually my go-to. I… if somebody said, “hey, I’m looking for robotics funding, engineering and robotics funding,” I honestly wouldn’t put the words here because you’re going to get engineering and robotics in the health field.

You if you just did one word you… Engineering, you can get plant engineering, you can get animal… Like engineering is used over so many disciplines that it’s it’s too general for what I’m looking for. So what I’m going to do is I would come down to the keywords and this is like a giant file cabinet. I’m going to open up my file and I’m going to search, engineering.

And you can see here as I start typing it starts to pop up. So am I looking for chemical engineering? Civil engineering? There’s so many different, you know, engineering components. And you can select all of these or any of these. It’s it’s this hierarchy. So if I click engineering it’s going to cover chemical and civil and electrical.

All of the things the carrot after the carrots are going to be included. So that would be my big bucket. Maybe if I wanted robotics or if you’re not sure, you can see here, all you can see that robotics is under industrial robotics. You, it should pop up under my electrical or my engineering. But just in case.

I mean, we’ll just select it. Maybe we just want that instead of engineering. If you aren’t sure what area to search in. And sometimes when I’m sharing my screen, this doesn’t… Oh, it did good. You can see like, “oh, well, my field is in health and medicine and I’m in human subject policy.” And so you can kind of do your own dive into those, folders if you’re looking.

So that’s another way to find more catered research to what you’re looking for. So right now we’re just going to take this off. Right now we’re just going to search engineering. Applicant type. I do select academic institution. But you can select any of these others that may pertain to you. If minority, LGBTQ, women only, if that’s… if you want to find funding opportunities that are in there.

Again, if I select, nonprofit and academic institution, it’s going to show both. So when you have two things on here, it’s going to cover both of them not narrowed down. If I just do nonprofit then it’s just going to show me one. And then the Career Stage. So you can select which where you are in your career.

And this might help for if you’re a faculty member and you have grad students, postdocs, undergrads, students that are looking for funding, they can do this too. And I can I can train them or you can say, “hey, go here.” It’s it’s not really hard once you get in. So you can oops, sorry. You can select which stage of your career you’re in.

I’m going to see what’s out there for everything just in case. Funder type. If you’re looking for, you know, just for federal funding or nonprofit or private foundations, you can select what what you’re interested there or leave it blank. Country of funder if you care where your money is coming from. I don’t. If somebody in Canada wants to give us money, we’ll just do the currency conversion.

And then Recently Added is recently added to the Pivot database. So right here with just this information we can search. You can either scroll up the top and search or scroll all the way to the bottom. And I’m going to pass this gray box with everything. We just went over. Because this is to exclude opportunities from your search.

So say we type or we select search for what we did up here above. And we get a whole bunch of things for Georgia. And you’re like, okay, I get it. We don’t need to be in Georgia. I’m doing my research in Washington so I actually can go to activity location and I can say exclude everything from Georgia.

And so you select that and now it’ll take anything that you know that the opportunity that are strictly in the state of Georgia use this with caution. Just because I’m afraid it might take something out that you could apply for. I’m going to get rid of that because we’ll see. Maybe there is something in Georgia maybe you’re looking to collaborate with so you can search at the bottom.

And it might… I’ve clicked a lot of buttons, sometimes it gives me a faulty thing, but not today. 744 is still a lot to go through, but that’s okay. So this is just based off of engineering in an academic institution in the United States or Washington, or unspecified or unrestricted. I think that’s pretty much all of our. Yep.

Our parameters. So how to understand this on the left hand side is, like I said, you could reduce it a little more if you’re ready to find funding today. Maybe there’s deadlines. So some of these are anticipated, meaning the agencies… it’s a reoccurring thing. I’m going to just show this top one. So how to read this. This is the title of the grant and this is the funder.

This little magnifying glass gives you a little excerpt of the abstract and eligibility. Sometimes it’s not enough. So I don’t waste my time on it. You can see the deadline here. This is anticipated to come to be due on October 1st and here’s the amount. There’s a couple things. For the anticipated, It’s good to know that this they’re anticipating to come out, so you can plan ahead and be ready for it.

So when it does come out, you’re not rushing. Maybe October’s a busy month for you as, also, the anticipate just because it’s anticipated. Sometimes the agencies are like, well it is a reoccurring or we’re hoping it is sometimes they they could say we don’t have the funds this year that happened more towards the pandemic, but, than it has now.

So if you just want to see the confirmed ones, if you click on the confirmed, it’ll bring it down to 294. And so now these are all the applications. This one’s a continuous. It’s always happening. But you can see all the application dates are set in stone. If you wanted to go back you could click the little X next to it.

But we’ll stick to the confirmed ones for now. Again, to reduce this a little more, maybe you’re looking for just the research grants that it would reduce it to 186. Maybe if you come down here to the keywords because it was just engineering and we’re like, oh, well, we want to, oh, I’m sorry, what did I click?

Oh social science. Let’s go back. Sorry. Oh well that’s a good example. But you could see where am I. Top keywords. That’s what I wanted to go to. So maybe you could say, “Oh, well, I actually… my engineering is going to be more in the health and medicine.” And so you could reduce it to 92. So those are the ways, like I said, on the left hand side, you can reduce your funding opportunities, or your results.

So I’m going to dig into this one. This one has a little flag on it because it’s on my tracked. I’ll show you that in a minute. I’m going to click on the title, and it will bring me into a new page that shows me a little bit more information on this. So here’s the title of the grant and the website.

Go to the website for the most up-to-date accurate information. You can see the funders here. And then if you keep scrolling down, you can see the abstract a little bit of the abstract and you’re like, “oh, this is, this is interesting, I kind of like it.” When I come into this page, typically I come down to the eligibility first because if we’re not eligible, then it’s… I don’t want to waste my time on the abstract or anything else.

And you can see institutes of higher education. Yeah. That’s us. So, we are eligible for this. And then if you keep scrolling, you can see these keywords. So remember I said with the keywords, it’s like a giant file cabinet. And we were pulling out the engineering file. Well, this funding opportunity is in the engineering file, the nanotechnology, the natural…

So you can see under these four opportunities this funding opportunity will come up. And this is where you can kind of get to go down a rabbit hole. If maybe you weren’t thinking of nanotechnology when you were thinking of your project as an an in engineering. So you can actually click on this and you will you can click on it and it’ll open up a new search.

I’m just going to open it in a new tab. So that way we don’t lose our progress. But this starts a brand new search of just nanotechnology worldwide. So you can see there’s 92 things happening here. Super cool. You can actually sort and even on the last one you could sort this by title or deadline. Maybe you want to see amount.

But since this is worldwide, what you would have to do is you’d have to click Refine Search. It would bring you back to this screen that we were just on, selecting all of our information. And then we could do Activity Location: United States. Oops, not the United Kingdom… I mean, I guess if you wanted to go there… And then we could search that. So you can see how this brings you to a whole new search and you’re like, “Oh, great.”

37 again, you can sort this go through. It’s more, maybe a little into the nitty gritty of what you’re researching. I’m going to go back to my search though, and keep going on this. The deadline is continuous. It tells you the application. So at any time you can apply for this. Pretty cool. If you go into the website and you read about it and you have some questions, and if they don’t list a contact person, there’s a funder contact of some sort.

Hopefully here, if there’s nothing there, you can not getting ahold of anybody. Reach out to our office and we’ll see what we can do. Sometimes we we have some ways to reach out to the agencies ourselves. One of the things that I encourage is you to contact the funder…. you… the funder… contact the program manager. If you have, you know, to make that contact and say, hey, this is, you know, give them your elevator pitch up, “This is my project. Hopefully it fits with you… with your program.”

Or if you have any questions for them. You can see that this one I’m tracking, I’m going to uncheck this real fast so you can see what it looks like, not tracked. Because remember I had that little flag originally. So right here now it’s grayed out.

But the tracking is: you’re interested in this funding opportunity. And it’ll put it in a special file for you. And I’ll show you where you can find that. So that’s one of the things… I will stick this on my… I’ll re-track it so we can see where it’s at. You can share this with your coworker or colleague.

Sometimes you can type them right in and they’ll pop up. Sometimes they don’t I don’t know, give or take what it what the, what the triggers are to make it what it is. But you can also what I suggest is you send them an email with just this link on it and say, “Hey, what do you think about this funding opportunity?”

If they have Pivot or access to Pivot, then I do suggest them… This is an easier format than sometimes you get from grants.gov. So if this is easier for you, just you could share that or this website. Curate is different, I’m not sure if everybody has that. But one of the things you do have is this Add Tags button.

So while you’re in the funding opportunity, you can add a tag to say, oh, you know, send this to the provost. This is my provost tag. And so you can create these buckets of why you’re saving this. Maybe it’s for a specific project. Maybe you’re working with somebody. Maybe you have two ideas in mind. Those tags can help you sort your funding opportunities out. After you read through the RFP on the website, the full thing, and maybe you’re looking for some collaboration.

We have some potential collaborators within WSU and without, outside of WSU. We use this as a stepping stone. Because the Pivot database is collected from… they do a scrape of our website. And as you know, some of our websites are very outdated. So if they’re… If you’re looking for a collaborator of any sorts, maybe this isn’t your field, but you’re like, “Hey, I need somebody in math and stats.”

This is a good start. You could reach out to this person. This is just… I don’t know how accurate this will be. That’s not too bad, but sometimes the, these little tabs here, you’ll have publications and grants. This… Just based on this information, you can kind of get a little, feel for what they’re researching.

And then also, it has a quick contact for you, and you can share the opportunity and say, hey, if you don’t feel comfortable making these collaborations, our office does it all the time. So feel free to reach out and say, hey, I’m looking for a collaborator. I found this person. Can you make the contact? It’d be same with outside of WSU.

If you find somebody or you’re looking for somebody, maybe in Texas, we can reach out to some of our coworkers or our colleagues in Texas, or use this database to find what you’re looking for. So that is inside the funding opportunity. We are tracking it. We’ll pretend we shared it with our friends. We’re going to come back here.

You’ll see that there’s a flag on our, list. And that just means it’s on our tracked list. So you would go through and you maybe you would find a couple of these and tag them to apply for, apply for funding or for the funding. If we like this search: 249 is a lot for right now because it’s a brand new search.

What we’re going to do is we want to save this and this is the golden ticket of Pivot, I think. So, now I’m just going to put this in. Well, we already have an engineering test. I must have used that before. We’re going to do test two. What it… It says, “Would you like to receive weekly emails?” Yes, because now we sit back and we wait. Every Sunday, Pivot updates.

It’s been created, perfect. And when it updates, it’ll send you an email saying you have three new opportunities under engineering or project with Dr. Jones, whatever you titled it. So what I highly suggest you do is you go in here and you create searches and you save them, and sometimes they’re going to overlap. Maybe you’re looking just for nano stuff, maybe you’re looking for plant stuff, maybe you’re looking for engineering just generally.

Those might all overlap at some point, but better safe than sorry. So you can create as many searches as you want with that. And then you’re like… and then you come back… Let me see…. Oh here’s a limited one. And this might be a bad example, but we’ll check it out. So it screams “Limited” at you right there.

It’s red. And so you click in it and it tells you maybe. As it pops up as that’s popping up, I’m actually going to open up another one, maybe, as an example, because I want to show you if when you’re in here and you’re like, you know, I really like this, I want to see what the Society for Experimental Mechanics else what other funding opportunities they have.

I’m going to open that in a new tab and it’ll show you they have five other things in… you know, how I had just search or save the search for engineering so that anything that new came up in that search criteria, they would notify you? You can do the same thing for your funders. If you find a funder… they have to have an active funding opportunity out.

And I’ll show you that in a minute. But you can save this and say, call this SEM agency or whatever. So any time they come out with a new funding opportunity, they’ll notify you, or, I mean, you’ll be notified through email. So that’s the other option. Okay. Jumping back, sorry to go back and forth, but this is the limited submission.

It tells you it’s limited here. It screams at you if you come down here, we can only serve as the lead organization in one proposal. So you’ve got another notification and then if you keep coming down here, this is actually a really good example. You can see there’s now an internal deadline. There’s a cover letter. You must complete the cover letter to apply for the internal competition.

This cover letter comes to me and you can see even in the notes. If for some reason you open up a funding opportunity and there’s no internal deadline on the limited down here, you can see you need to, fill out the cover letter or contact me. This date has passed. So you’re like, well, I want to know if anybody else applied if I still can apply.

Because just because our internal deadline is past, doesn’t… you still have time to apply for the agency so you can contact me or fill out the cover letter, and then I’ll let you know. And say, “Has anybody, has anybody been awarded for this?” And I’ll tell you yes or no. And if no, then I’m like, the deadline is past, you’re the winner.

So this is the cover letter and I… not that I don’t care about your project, but at this stage, we don’t need to know a whole lot about your project. So I just need to know your email, who you are, where you’re coming from. I need the agency in the program and when it’s due and the website, if you could do that later.

I mean, if you could do that, that’d be great. We are going to add a box here that is for a brief description of like 3 to 5 hundred words of your project. And that might just save us one extra step. That’s coming. But for right now, this is all we need. Okay, so that’s the cover letter. If you are interested in a funding opportunity that’s a limited submission.

Everybody has to fill one of those out. Whether you’re the only person applying or not. One other thing I want to point out, is you can see that four other people are tracking this. If you go to track this, that doesn’t mean they’re going to apply for it and you don’t have access to see who they are. But I do, and I can tell you that, Julie and Jane are the only faculty.

Laura is a administrator, and Maureen no longer works here, so, just, again, you can reach out and say, hey, who else is tracking this to either collaborate or just to to see who is, interested in that opportunity. So that is the limiteds. That’s where you saved your search. That’s pretty much… The only thing I can think of is if you find a foundation.

And I’m gonna go on this one. Oh, some of the foundations, they’ll say you have to be a 501(c)(3) to apply. Eligible… Oh, it’s in a different language. Sorry, I was a bad example. Some of the ones that are… engineering doesn’t have a lot of foundations, but if you find… see a foundation, and it says you have to be a 501(c)(3), we can apply for those.

We will put you in contact with our WSU Foundation Relations team. They will help you make contact with the agency if needed and help develop your proposal. They’ll they’ll help where you can. So those are the funding things. So in two weeks, three weeks, a month or two months, whatever, you come back to this and you’re like, where the heck do I go?

What do I do? This gray bar is your lifeline. If you hover over the home screen or click on it, you can go back to your home. You can see your tracked opportunities, your saved searches again from the home screen, you can click on your tracked opportunities or saved searches. The tracked opportunities are the individual ones and they are the ones that, are I should say the save searches is the big search.

The tracked ones are the individual ones, both of them. You can add tags too… The internet’s kind of going slow right now…. Both. You can add tags to and both you can come up here, as a… here we go. It’s coming. So you can sort these I have some deleted ones that need to go away, and all you do is say, oh, there’s…

By doing those tracked opportunities. These are the ones, if they’re on your tracked list and the. Geez, I shouldn’t’ve put that. The the deadline is anticipated. As soon as the deadline is confirmed, you’ll receive a separate email saying this is what’s been changed on that funding opportunity. Only in your tracked opportunities. And again, you can have as many as you want.

You can sort them by last published and deadline and title. Over here is where you can… You’re seeing, you’re receiving your email alerts on them. You can turn that off and the options button can say, “okay, I don’t want to receive emails.” You can edit tags. I know that there’s some here that don’t have tags. Like this one down here, this math one.

So you can add a tag. You can add it to your calendar. There’s a few things you can do with these. These are ones that you’re probably more interested in applying for. Your saved searches, again, you can get it from the left hand bar or the home screen or this hovering over here. These are the bigger searches.

You can add tags to these as well. You can see I have a Provost one, one with the cannabis group. So, feel free to go over to your options button and you can add a tag and, and do that. The thing is, is if if the provost asked me, hey, what funding opportunities do you have for me today?

I could go and and on the left hand side I could pull up just the provost. It says that there’s only one search because that’s all I’ve made for him. If I go under the tracked opportunities and the provost says, hey, what do you have for me, then I can go on the left hand side as well, and I can sort through and say, oh, as, October 12th, I had seven as it’s pulling it up.

So those are the, the nice things about tags is if you’re working with somebody or maybe you need to organize your thoughts a little bit more, you can add tags and you can add multiple tags to, funding opportunities. So this could have potentially have two tags if I wanted it. But then I can list these out if, if we’re looking for something again gray bars your lifeline.

If you click on the Funding tab, this is you can search all the fields and just search by the engineering or plants or bugs. You can search by your funder if you know who your funder is. They go A to Z. One of the things that when I was telling you, they have to have an active grant, there’s 100 women in France.

They don’t have an active grant, so I cannot select them to track them. But the 100 women they have, if you hover over it, they have one opportunity. If I click on that, then I can click into it and then I can save the agency that way. So that’s the downfall because I’m like, “well, what if I want to know?”

But that’s the Pivot’s rules. You can also search just by country of funder if you’re interested in funding only from United States. The profiles tab is what I showed you. Just a snippet of, when we’re looking for a collaborator, you can put your own name in here. In fact, I’m going to use Laura Bartley as an example.

If you go in here, once you have your profile set up, and here you search yourself, put as much information in as you can or want, but you can see. And the why I say this is a little outdated is because she has way more than seven grants and way more than 58 publications. But that’s besides it.

You can see if you go over to the right hand side, under your own name or under anybody else’s, you can see these funding matches. So besides everything I just showed you, search your name based on that small information, they’re going to say, hey, we think these 100 opportunities or six opportunities, whatever the, algorithm fits for you, then you can find the funding opportunities.

You can’t save these because they’re always under your name, but it gives you a little bit of a stepping stone to find out. So that is the funding tab. Also you can come down here to browse by keyword. Same thing you would just add. But the only downfall is it’s worldwide. So if I came all the way out here to water pollution or greenhouse gas, one of these two, I can click on it and it’s going to show me all the funding opportunities in that keyword.

So it’s just maybe a more exciting or fun way to get to what you’re looking for. As this pulls up, we have a couple more things up here. The conference tabs is actually, I think, a really cool tab. It’s not coming up, so we’ll just click on it okay. So if you are looking to present at a conference in your field and you’re like, you, I feel like faculty know like the 5 or 6 conferences that they’re comfortable with or they just are aware of just from their little inner circle.

This brings open a whole new landscape. So if I come down here to mathematics, there is 363 things happening in mathematics that you might not have known about because it’s worldwide. There’s a spring central sectional meeting of the American Mathematical Society happening in March. If you want to submit a deadline, this is a bad example. But, you have till February to submit an abstract to maybe present.

This isn’t just conferences, but this is also scholarly journals. And at the top of this one is a conference. Go to their website if you want more information. It’s going to happen in Kansas. So if you can’t make it to Kansas, then maybe on their website. Oops, let’s go back. We didn’t want that. Maybe on their website they have an option for remote.

Maybe some of their presentations are. So this is a way to one attend or two present apply to present at but again there’s this keywords thing and you can find all the funding… I mean, the conferences happening in there if you like this and you’re not quite sure, you just want to put on your radar and see maybe your department will have the funds.

You can track this, or maybe you can share this with your, advisor chair or somebody and say, hey, this is something I’d really like to go to. So what are some of the cool things with the conferences? If you can’t find your topic in these down here, there’s also an advanced search. Or you could type in bugs and see what else comes up with bugs.

The Awarded Grants tab is not my favorite, but if you wanted to see where, the British Academy is putting their money to, you can see. The reason I don’t like this as much is because this is the title of the proposal. This isn’t telling me what grant they applied for. And I’m going to click in this and see if there’s any information.

Sometimes there’s a lot. This one, there’s nothing. So sometimes they’ll have an abstract and you can read where what’s happening. And the investigators, typically you should be able to click in them and find out who they are and get more information. But we can’t. So that’s why the awarded grants is is hit or miss. You can search by university.

You can look up WSU and see where we’re getting money again. It’s not as useful as I was hoping. I think at one point they’re going to merge the funding opportunity and have, you know, previous awardees, but see if you wanted to contact them and ask them. But that isn’t in yet. It’s kind of hard to gather all that information.

And then there’s this news tab. We don’t pay for this full news, portal. So actually it’s just saying where we don’t apply for it so we can get to it. We used to be able to see a snippet of it. That is the Pivot database. In a nutshell. This gray bar is your lifeline. Search your funding opportunities, save your searches.

If you get in here and you’re striking out, you’re not finding anything, definitely reach out to me. I’ll see what I can find. But you have to keep bugging me because I get a lot of emails and sometimes it’s just, you know, funding ebbs and flows. So, if there’s something that you’re not finding, maybe we just wait a month and we try again, you know, or keep make a save search.

And so that way it’s always on your radar as you find your funding opportunity.

If you need funding, if you need help with your proposal, maybe it’s your first time writing a grant or a proposal for a grant. Our office will help you free of charge. We’re not going to cost anything. Certain departments we do work with your, department administrator, so we’re not taking any work away from them.

But we want to help you succeed. We want to give you, you know, review your narratives, maybe make sure it sounds like it’s coming from, you know, it’s a non-technical review. So we can say this sounds a little funny if it doesn’t flow. And you can take our advice or not, it’s up to you. So if you have any other questions or if you have any questions, now’s your chance. Or you can you can email me.