Grant Matters

Effort Reporting and Effort Certification
  • Required reading for all faculty, staff, and students who receive salary funding from grants

 

Responsible Conduct of Research
  • Crucial information for all who participate in research

 

How to Read Grants' Monthly Financial Reports
  • How to download monthly financial reports from eDog and easily make sense of them 
  • Essential reading for all faculty who are principal investigators or co-investigators on grants

 

Grant Opportunities
  • Listing of fellowship and grant opportunities, primarily for faculty and students in the Humanities and Social Sciences

 

Writing and Submitting Grant Proposals
  • Links to information one needs to know before starting a proposal

 

Division of Sponsored Research
  • A wealth of information for writing proposals
  • Institutional type, name, mailing address, TIN number DUNS number, and other items required on most grant proposals
  • Links to OCGA sites listing regulations, fringe benefit rates, Facilities and Administrative cost rates
  • Links to all Federal funding agencies, Grants.gov, Coeus
  • Export Compliance issues

           

Office of Contract and Grants Accounting
  • Vanderbilt policies and procedures, Federal requirements
  • Fringe benefit rates, Facility and Administrative cost rates
  • NIH salary cap
  • FAQs concerning what costs are allowable / not allowable on Federal grants
  • Links to VU administrative offices
  • Links to Federal grant agencies and Federal policies