CEEL Grants Services

Supporting Your Success

Grants Services helps students, faculty, and staff secure funding for programmatic 
and research initiatives. We provide guidance and support throughout every 
stage of the grant process.

Funding Opportunities

  • Identify grant and funding opportunities that align with your goals  
  • Connect applicants with relevant funding sources

Proposal Development

  • Assist with grant proposal writing   
  • Support budget planning and development
  • Help strengthen applications for submission

Collaboration & Compliance

  • Facilitate partnerships among faculty, researchers, and staff
  • Ensure compliance with funding agency requirements and guidelines

Grant Management

  • Support application submission and tracking
  • Assist with budget management and reporting
  • Monitor compliance throughout the grant lifecycle

Our Impact

Our goal is to expand resources, strengthen research capacity, and advance educational excellence. By helping secure and manage funding effectively, we support innovative projects, improve learning outcomes, and contribute meaningful knowledge to the field.

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Resources

The Office of Sponsored Programs 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.

Office of Sponsored Programs

Search Engines for External Funding

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. If you need assistance, the Grants Manager is happy to help.

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Learn More About Pivot

 

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

Grants.gov

 

Additional Funding Options

Our Staff

See below for detailed descriptions of how our team can help!

Grants Manager
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 OSP or the Development Office in submitting proposals.

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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 the necessary forms, assurances, certifications, etc. necessary for submission

  • 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 CEEL approvals and signatures for proposal submission
  • Collaborating with ORSP and/or the Development office
     

Post-Award Facilitator

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

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Services include:

  • Advising and assisting CEEL 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