• Developing your Proposal

Identifying Funding Sources
We invite you to visit our office to explore funding opportunities or visit our Funding Page to find detailed information about the following funding tools:

• SMARTS Database
• SPIN Search
• The ORSP Library
• California Funding
• Selected Agencies
  

Writing Your Proposal
ORSP can help you develop the idea, find collaborators, and write and edit the narrative. We have a grant writer on our staff, Dr. Shelley Bartenstein, who can be contacted at x2901 or emailed at shelley.bartenstein@csun.edu. 

Developing And Writing Grant Proposals

NSF's Proposal Writing Guide

Hiring and Working with an Outside Evaluator*

Developing your Budget
To assist in development of your budget, please contact ORSP at x2901.  We can work with you to develop a budget spreadsheet, ensuring that pay rates, fringe benefit rates, indirect cost rates (IDC)/facilities & administrative cost rates (F&A) , and cost of living increases are accurately calculated.  Electronic budget forms are used for most federal agencies, and in these cases, information from the budget spreadsheet developed can be manually transferred.  For more information, please read the "Developing Your Budget" section in the ORSP Mini-guide.

Sending Your Proposal
We will make copies and FedEx your proposal along with a transmittal letter to the agency. We will distribute copies on campus as appropriate.
Before sending your proposal, also consider:

• Grant Data Form: All proposals for extramural support must be reviewed by ORSP. Before a proposal can be sent, a Grant Data Form, signed by your department chair and dean, must be on file with ORSP.
• Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form: Anyone applying for a contract or grant must complete a Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form. This policy complies with federal and state regulations concerning conflict of interest.
• Human and Animal Subjects: You must have advance approval for work with human and/or animal subjects.

*Excerpt from The Challenge, Vol. 13, No. 4, a publication of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools