Serving CBU faculty members by navigating them through the various stages of the Sponsored Program Life Cycle and facilitate the process from beginning to end.

The Office of Research Initiatives ensures that proposals comply with sponsor’s guidelines as well as federal, state, local and university policies prior to submission. 

The mission of the Office of Research Initiatives is to:

  • enhance the environment for research at CBU;
  • encourage and facilitate external funding for faculty and staff projects; and
  • support the University's pursuit of academic excellence and national recognition.

The Office of Research Initiatives provides investigators with guidance and expertise in:

  • Finding funding opportunities and navigating sponsor rules, guidelines and requirements;
  • Planning and designing projects and conceptualizing ideas, goals and outcomes;
  • Setting tasks and work plans;
  • Developing budgets;
  • Drafting narrative summaries and descriptions;
  • Contacting agency Program Officers to ensure projects are in line with sponsor priorities;
  • Complying with approved institutional methods of proposal submission to sponsors;
  • Negotiating award acceptance, including post-submission modifications such as budget modifications, narrative revisions and clarifications

CONGRATULATIONS

In a highly competitive selection process, Dr. Lizbeth Gaona, Assistant Professor at the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (CBSS), was chosen to attend the Center for Health Equity Research Institute (CHER) this June to continue her clinical research that would support identifying beneficial interventions for minorities and underserved children, youth, and adults who are receiving mental health services due to engaging in self-harm behaviors (SHB) or suicide ideation (SI).

 

The Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) — located in the College of Health and Human Services at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) — promotes health equity by engaging researchers and community partners in conducting rigorous and innovative public health research. The CHER Institute is a six-day, intensive research training experience which, “enhances the readiness of early career faculty at minority-serving institutions across the United States to conduct community-based, social, and health behavior research and to increase their representation among National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded investigators,” as stated on their website. After the Institute, Dr. Gaona will be a CHER Fellow, joining the ranks of previous CHER Institute research scholars from around the country.

 

 

Dr. Juliann Perdue, Professor of Nursing and Associate Dean for Program Effectiveness of the College of Nursing (CON), is a grant recipient of the 2021 Song Brown Program of the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) for Registered Nursing. Song-Brown’s $384,000 funding will enable CON to expand programs for underrepresented students admitted into the BSN program.

 

Dr. Robert LaChausse, Professor of Public Health, has been awarded a DFC (Drug-Free Communities) grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the eighth consecutive year. The DFC program aims to mobilize community leaders to identify and respond to the drug problems unique to their community and change local community environmental conditions tied to substance use. More than 700 community coalitions across the country receive funding up to $125,000 per year to strengthen the collaboration among local partners and create an infrastructure that reduces youth substance use.

 

 

Dr. Robert G. Crosby, Associate Professor of Psychology, and Dr. Erin Smith, Associate Professor of Psychology and Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Research have been awarded a grant of $30,000 by the Louisville Institute for their project “The Evaluation of a Brief Trauma-Informed (TIC) Training Program for Church Children’s Ministry Workers: Comparing the Effectiveness of Face-to-Face and Online Delivery Modalities”. They were one of 17 research teams selected to receive a 2022 Project Grant for Researchers (PGR). 

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

 

 

Important Changes to the NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA)/R15 Program

As announced in guide notice NOT-OD-19-015, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has changed its approach to how it uses the R15 activity code.  The current AREA Parent Announcement, PA-18-504, expires after January 7, 2019.

Research enhancement opportunities will now be split between two distinct programs:

  1. Academic Research Enhancement Awards (AREA) will be reserved for grants to undergraduate-focused institutions that do not receive substantial funding from NIH; and
  2. Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) that will support graduate schools of arts and sciences and health professional schools that grant baccalaureate or advanced degrees.

As background, the goals of the R15 program are to support meritorious research, expose students to research, and strengthen the research environment of an institution.

It is important to note that each funding opportunity announcement includes detailed program-specific eligibility information that supersedes any general information listed here.

Eligibility for the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) program for undergraduate-focused institutions requires that:

  • The applicant institution must be an accredited public or non-profit private school that grants baccalaureate degrees in biomedical sciences.
  • At the time of application submission, all the non-health professional components of the institution together have not received support from the NIH totaling more than $6 million per year (in both direct and F&A/indirect costs) in 4 of the last 7 federal fiscal years.*
  • A signed letter is required from the Provost or similar official with institution-wide responsibility verifying the eligibility of the applicant institution at the time of application submission. The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will coordinate with the Office of the Provost to obtain the signed letter.

Organization eligibility for the Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) program for graduate schools and health professional schools require that:

  • The applicant organization must be an accredited public or non-profit private school that grants baccalaureate or advanced degrees in health professions or advanced degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences.
  • At the time of application submission, the applicant institution (all components)may not have received support from the NIH totaling more than $6 million per year (in both direct and F&A/indirect costs) in 4 of the last 7 federal fiscal years.*
  • A signed letter is required from the Provost or similar official with institution-wide responsibility verifying the eligibility of the applicant institution at the time of application submission. The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will coordinate with the Office of the Provost to obtain the signed letter.

Subscription-based:
SPIN Database - Office of the Provost currently provides an institution-wide subscription to SPIN funding opportunity database. SPIN offers a wide-ranging funding opportunities database with over 40,000 programs from more than 10,000 unique sponsors. Visit SPIN.

Open Access:
Grants.gov – where all discretionary grants offered by federal grant-making agencies can be found
NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
NSF Funding

Angelica Salvador-Diaz
Director of Research Initiatives
Ext. 4827

Email: ORI@calbaptist.edu

 

GRANT FORWARD DATABASE

CBU has subscribed to GrantForward Funding Search and Grant Recommendation Service, which is open to all members of our institution. We invite you to sign up to use the service to keep your awareness of funding opportunities.

GrantForward helps you find grant opportunities that suit your research needs with a database of grants from over 18,000 sponsors, updated daily. You can search for grants by keywords and advanced filters, save your favorite searches for new grant alerts, and save your favorite grants to keep track of them.  GrantForward also recommends grants based on your CV, past publications, and research interests. We also encourage you to take a few minutes to create your own to start receiving grant recommendations!

 

You can access GrantForward through the Single Sign-On and enter your institutional account. After being authenticated, a new account on GrantForward, associated with your email address, will be automatically created, and you will be redirected to the GrantForward website. Then, you can use full search features, including saved searches and personalized grant recommendations. We also encourage you to take a few minutes to create your “Researcher Profile” (see quick demo) to start receiving grant recommendations!

 

Attached is a Researcher Welcome Guide for you to quickly start using GrantForward. You can also find additional tutorials and guides on the GrantForward Support page or view the video tutorials on their YouTube Channel. If you have any questions about the service, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Here are some brief instructions:

 

  • Go to www.Grantforward.com
  • Click “login” in the upper right corner
  • Type in your email account
    • It will then add a prompt that an “institution account is detected”
    • click a link to use Single Sign-On
  • It will open a new page to complete the CBU login process
  • Once you complete the login process, you will be taken back to the GrantForward page.

 

This one-hour webinar provides a rapid introduction to the effective use of the GrantForward platform and its many features: https://calbaptist.box.com/s/xxc7s31bbks2qkps0kq6m62p7kh7cbbe. The following handouts correspond to the webinar and include screenshots and brief explanations of the most important features:

 

GRANT INTEREST FORM

Are you looking for someone to guide you through the GrantForward platform or discuss different grant possibilities? Complete this Grant Interest Form, and the ORI will reach out to set up a meeting to get to know you and your research/grant needs.

The Grant Interest Form is a valuable tool to support your efforts in finding grants. This form is designed to help us understand your specific needs, enabling us to assist you in identifying relevant funding opportunities.

 

https://calbaptist.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9F7FZlacngm5Ebk

 

  • Click on the provided link to access the Grant Interest Form.
  • Please complete all required fields with accurate information.
  • Be specific and clear in your responses to facilitate a more tailored grant search.
  • After submitting the form, we will contact you for further assistance and guidance.

 

Thank you for taking the initiative to utilize this form. Your collaboration is key to our collective success in securing grants for our academic initiatives.