Pivot is a comprehensive worldwide funding opportunities database updated daily to help you lcoate funding from external sources to support your research. 

In addition to Pivot, the IU Research Funding Search Tool provides information and links to internal funding, corporate and foundation funding, limited submission opportunities, and Grants.gov.

Indiana University supports research through internal funding including Seed Grant, Emerging Frontiers, IU Research Equipment Fund, Bridge Funding Program, and External Resubmission Grant. 

• IU internal funding applications are submitted by the PI.
• The Luddy Contracts and Grants Pre-Award Team can assist with budget preparation for an internal funding opportunity. If assistance is needed, please fill out the Luddy Contracts and Grants Proposal Intake form.

The Fiscal Officer for an IU internal funding application is the Luddy Director of Finance: Anna Dove, annadove@iu.edu.

RDS and Luddy Contracts and Grants Pre-Award work in conjunction to support successful proposal submissions. All Luddy PIs can use the content creation and writing support services offered by RDS. Large scale, collaborative, multidisciplinary proposals are strongly encouraged to work with RDS. 

If RDS will be involved, the PI submits the Luddy Proposal Intake Form PRIOR to completing the RDS Request Form*. RDS support for Luddy PIs include the following:

• Writing Support to provide comprehensive edits of techical narrative documents.
• In-Depth Narrative Review to maximinize proposal competiveness.
• Quick Read of a near final draft of the project narrative. 

NOTE: The Luddy Contracts and Grants Pre-Award team supports the budget and justification preparation, administrative documents, and intiation and routing of internal proposal development documents.

RDS timeline for their support:

• 4-6 weeks prior to sponsor due date for standard proposals.
• 4-6 months prior to sponsor due date for large proposals.

In addition to the support offer by Luddy, IU also hosts research workshops and events. View the calendar offering at the following link: 

IU Research Workshops and Events

A current COI Disclosure is REQUIRED for all Key Personnel on an application prior to the routing of the proposal development document.

To complete the COI, go to One.IU.edu/Conflict of Interest Disclosure.

To review your compliance information, go to One.IU.edu/My IU Compliance

Research Security Training is REQUIRED for all covered* individuals prior to the routing of the proposal development document (pdd).

IU Research has developed a Research Security training module in Canvas to satisfy the training requirement for covered individuals in a research proposal. To receive credit for the training, the attestation quiz at the end of the Canvas module must be completed.

*A ”covered individual” means an individual who – (A) contributes in a substantive, meaningful way to the scientific development or execution of a research and development project proposed to be carried out with a research and development award from a Federal research agency; and (B) is designated as a covered individual by the Federal research agency concerned. (See: 42 USC § 19237(1)).

Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) creates and maintains Biosketches and Current & Pending/Other Support (CPoS) documents that are submitted with grant applications and annual reports. 

SciENcv allows researchers to describe and highlight their scientific contributions in their own words while automatically formatting the Biosketch according to NIH and NSF requirements. 

SciENcv Demonostration video 

NSF FAQ for SciENcv

• Budget Justification Template (NIH)
• Budget Justification Template (NSF)
• Statement of Work Template
• Data Management and Sharing Plan
• Data Management Institutional Information
• *Equipment
• Facilities and Other Resources
• Mentoring Plan - Template
• Mentoring Plan - Sample
• *Multiple PI Plan
• *Resource Sharing Plan
• Synergistic Activities

*In progress; documents will be added soon.