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Grant Writing
Kuali

PIVOT-RP allows faculty to:

  • Customize and save multiple funding searches

  • Keep track of funding opportunities

  • Get email alerts for new funding opportunities and deadlines

  • Join a group and receive area specific funding notifications

  • Create a group and add your student team and colleagues

  • Find and network with potential collaborators

PIVOT-RP: Basic Set Up

November 11, 2024
Step by Step instructions provided by BYU Research Development Central office as to how to set up your Pivot-RP account using your BYU credentials.

Created: Jan 2020

Setting Up Your Account and Profile in Pivot-RP

This video explains how to create a new account in Pivot-RP, and how to claim your Pivot-RP Profile. These are the first steps you need to take to use Pivot-RP to find sponsored financial support available to researchers at your institution.

Duration: 4:01

Updating Your Profile in Pivot-RP

This video explains how to update your Pivot-RP profile. Get increased funding matches targeted to you, get discovered as a potential collaborator, and get relevant funding alerts directly to your inbox.

Duration: 6:46

Discovering Profiles in Pivot-RP

This video explains how to use the Profile Discovery tool in Pivot-RP to search for potential collaborators at your institution and beyond. Profiles include biographical information about researchers, as well as publications and awarded grants, and links to recommended funding opportunities.

Duration: 3:38

Sharing Content with Groups in Pivot-RP

This video explains how to create and manage User Groups in Pivot-RP. Groups help you share information between Pivot-RP users with similar interests. Groups can share funding opportunities, newsletters, and more.

Duration: 4:25

Basic Searching for Funding Opportunities in Pivot-RP

This video explains how to discover funding opportunities using the basic search system in Pivot-RP. You can find opportunities by searching and by browsing through opportunities that have been reviewed and indexed by Pivot-RP editors.

Duration: 3:18

Advanced Searching for Funding Opportunities in Pivot-RP

This video explains how to use Advanced Search to find funding opportunities in Pivot-RP. Advanced search allows you to use a variety of pre-search filters to find funding opportunities that match your interests.

Duration: 5:12

Managing Funding Opportunities in Pivot-RP

This video explains how to manage funding opportunities in Pivot-RP. Keeping track of interesting opportunities, working with saved searches, monitoring opportunities you've shared with other researchers, and more.

Duration: 4:53

Navigating Funding Search Results in Pivot-RP

This video demonstrates how funding search results in Pivot-RP can be filtered, tracked, tagged, shared, dismissed, and more.

Duration: 6:21

Awarded Grants in Pivot-RP

The Awarded Grants feature is a way to find grants and projects that were previously awarded. You can search by funder, by recipient, or by any other keyword. Awarded Grants can help you apply for funding opportunities that match your research.

Duration: 2:37

Find Conferences and Paper Invites in Pivot-RP

This video explains how researchers can use Pivot-RP to search, track and be notified of current conferences and special journal issues where they can present their work.

Duration: 1:49

The Research Development Office (269 MCDB) hosts Grant Writing Workshops often, be on the lookout for the next event!

Creating a Proposal in Kuali Research

This automated slide deck created by BYU Research Administration walks through the process of creating a proposal, entering a budget, and submitting for internal reviews in Kuali Research.

Duration: 20:01