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Find Funding

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Funding opportunities are available in a wide range of places, but you need to know where to look and how to determine which opportunities are right for your project.

Here, you will find information on how to locate the best opportunities for your specific project.

Funding can come from internal sources such as intramural funding, Chancellor's Office, CSU Affinity Groups, and extramural sources.

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How Do I Start?

Now that you have a project, it's time to identify the best funding opportunities to support it.
This may be the most time-intensive step in your efforts to fund your research/project.

There are various ways to approach finding the right funder; among them:

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Compile a list of government agencies and programs, as well as smaller foundations and institutes.
Look at the types of projects each agency funds and the size of grants previously awarded; this will help determine how to frame your proposal.
Thoroughly research public and private sector sponsors; the better fit the agency is to your project, the more likely you are to get funding.

When researching various agencies, consider the following:

Does your project fit within the sponsor's goals and objectives?
How competitive is this funding opportunity?
How familiar is CSUF with this agency?

These questions can help you narrow down your list of potential funding sponsors. Identifying potential agencies is only the first step; assessing the fit is a majority of the process.

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Pivot-RP Database

Discover how to build personalized funding searches, configure funding notifications, and pursue curated lists of timely funding opportunities.

Limited Submission

Find out more information on the process the university uses to evaluate and select projects for restricted funding opportunities with submission limits.

Federal Funding

Get access to information about the 26 federal grant-making agencies as a part of the convenient e-Government initiative.

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Submitting a proposal to an agency that has not put out a call for proposals is considered an unsolicited proposal . If you have a new and innovative idea and don't find any relevant opportunity, you may wish to consider submitting it as an unsolicited proposal. The submission should be relevant to the agency’s research and mission, and should be persuasive enough to convince the agency to fund the proposal.

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