College for Community Health Grant Services

Grant Services play a vital role in supporting students, faculty, and staff in their pursuit of funding for educational and research endeavors. Grant Services for CCHL offer comprehensive assistance throughout the grant lifecycle. We help identify relevant funding opportunities, provide guidance on grant proposal writing and budget development, facilitate collaboration among faculty members and researchers, ensure compliance with funding agency guidelines, and manage the grant application and reporting processes. Additionally, we assist in managing grant applications, budgets, reporting, and compliance, ensuring that funds are used efficiently and effectively to support educational initiatives and improve learning outcomes. Our aim is to enrich resources, foster research capacity, and propel the mission of delivering high-quality education while making meaningful contributions to the field’s knowledge base.

Useful Resources

The ORSP webpage includes pre-award and post-award procedures, budget templates, institutional information, IRB protocols and applications, Montclair State University internal awards and reports on past recipients.

Pivot connects University faculty and staff to financial support by leveraging the most comprehensive global source of sponsored funding opportunities and provides scholarly profiles to match researchers with financial partners and collaborators. Learn more about Pivot. If you need assistance, the Grants Manager is happy to help.

Grants.gov is a comprehensive gateway for all federal grant-making agencies. You can search for upcoming (and past) opportunities through this portal.

Other agencies in New Jersey that provide funding opportunities are:

Our Staff

The Grants Manager assists faculty in identifying potential sponsors for research and/or programmatic projects. The Grants Manager also helps the Principal Investigator (PI) in the application process by interpreting guidelines, developing budgets, and completing the application requirements, as well as assists in coordinating with ORSP or the Development Office in submitting proposals.

Types of support include:

  • Assisting in the identification of possible funding opportunities for a project or program
  • Registering faculty with the Pivot database for funding announcement notifications
  • Assisting in the interpretation of sponsor’s guidelines
  • Completing necessary forms, assurances, certifications, etc. necessary for submission
  • Advising and assisting applicants in structuring, sequencing and packaging a proposal
  • Reviewing proposal for formatting, accuracy and adherence to agency objectives
  • Acting as the administrative liaison between the funding agency and the investigator
  • Coordinating CCHL approvals and signatures for proposal submission
  • Collaborating with ORSP and/or the Development office

 

The Post-Award Facilitator provides post-award support to external grant recipients. Services include:

  • Advising and assisting CCHL faculty and staff in the interpretation and application of policies and procedures that govern grants
  • Account management for both grant and indirect cost revenue funds
  • Reviewing expenditures for compliance
  • Resolving a variety of issues, including accounting, personnel, and system errors
  • Preparation of budget reports for projections and modifications
  • Coordination of purchasing, online requisitioning, and prompt payment when merchandise is received and/or services rendered
  • Review of reports for accuracy
  • Coordination of hiring and payroll for grant-funded personnel
  • Maintenance of essential and confidential records for all activities

For assistance with student-related financial aid grants, please contact the Financial Aid office at 973-655-7600.

Amanda Andre

  • Post-Award Facilitator College for Community Health
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