Contracts and grants

ANR Guide to Research Compliance for Principal Investigators ***NEW***
ANR Guide to Research Compliance for Principal Investigators will be updated periodically to include clarifications and new information.  Training for PIs and administrators on the topics included in this manual is in development and will be available later in 2012.

Accepting gifts
Gifts are funds that are given to the university in support of a particular program or a particular advisor's research. With a gift the donor specifies the general program or research the money is given to support, but does not require us to adhere to a strictly defined budget or to provide any reports on how the money was spent or the research the money supported.

Composite Benefit Rates   
Effective July 1, 2011, employee fringe benefit costs will be calculated and applied as a percentage of salary and wages to your sponsored awards.

Effective immediately, please use the current Composite Fringe Benefit rates when preparing proposal budgets!

Fiscal administration
Fiscal Administration Changing Award Terms PI/PD Responsibilities Carrying Forward Unobligated Funds The Award Rebudgeting Award Funds Expenditures No-Cost Extension Fund Advance/Pre-Award Costs Change in Principal Investigator or Scope of Work Cost Sharing and Matching Closeouts and Cost Transfers

Forms
Request for Subaward Word PDF Request for Multi-Campus Award Word PDF Sponsored Projects Approval Form (SPAF) Word PDF Instructions for SPAF Word PI Statement of Economic Interests (730-U) Word PDF Instructions for 730-U Word Request for Advance Expenditure Word PDF NIH/NSF Conflict of Interest

Funding opportunities
Community of Science (COS) Federal Information Exchange (FEDIX) The Foundation Center Foundations On-Line Government Printing Office Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) The Nonprofit Resource Center

Overhead costs

Indirect costs? What’s that? What is the base? Is the applicable indirect cost rate applied to all direct costs? Why do I want to include indirect costs in my proposal budget? How are the rates determined? Current Indirect Cost Rates (as of January 1, 1999) What if a sponsor agency refuses to pay indirect costs?

Submitting proposal
University of California Policy on the Requirement to Submit Proposals and to Receive Awards for Grants and Contracts through the University