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The following links are to online training resources provided to help you manage your grant accounts. Banner Finance Grants Management Budget Workshops Online Budget Revisions (Pdf) Purchasing Training Schedule The following are ORSSP workshops that are available to help you find, apply and succeed with your grant endeavors. Please contact Michelle Starks at X3810 or starksm@uncw.edu to register. ORSSP 2008 Workshops
Building your budget Date: March 6, 2008 Location: Hoggard Hall, Room 116 Time: 9-10:30am Instructor – Pam Whitlock. Want to write a proposal? Does the budget form look like it’s written in Greek? Contractor or Consultant? What IDC/F&A do I use? How do I budget fringe benefits? Come learn how to design a budget that reflects your needs and fits within sponsor and university requirements. Grants.gov – Finding Funding Date: March 10, 2008 Location: Hoggard Hall, Room 116 Time: 2-3:30pm Instructor – MJ Carver West. Learn how to search the Grants.gov website for Federal funding opportunities. Fund set up, supplements, subs Date: March 20, 2008 Location: Hoggard Hall, Room 116 Time: 2-3:30pm Instructor – Pam Whitlock. You just received an award. What’s next? Come find out the process, how you can speed things along, and what’s needed to successfully start the ball rolling. Grants.gov and the new Adobe Forms Date: March 24 Location: Hoggard Hall, Room 116 Time: 2-3:30 pm Instructor - MJ Carver West. The Adobe forms transition is coming sooner than predicted. NIH leadership will be announcing some Adobe forms applications between now and the June deadline. Don't be caugh off-guard. Learn how to use these new interactive forms before you submit. Grants for Art, Theatre and Music Date: March 28 Location: Cultural Arts Building, Room 2005 Time: 3:30-5 pm Instructor - Elizabeth Demski. The workshop will be primarily for beginners to moderately experienced grant writers who want help finding funding opportunities in art/music/theatre and acquiring techniques to write proposals to fit the requirements of various types of funding agencies. Cost transfers, overages, errors Date: April 7, 2008 Location: Hoggard Hall, Room 116 Time: 9-10:30am Instructor – Pam Whitlock. How long do I have to correct a charge? What if I overspend my grant? I just found out my P-card charges landed on the wrong grant! Come learn how to avoid incorrect charges and why it’s so important to make sure they go against the correct one. Don’t make your department absorb costs that have to be moved from your grant. NSF FastLane Date: April 21, 2008 Location: Hoggard Hall, Room 133A Time: 2-3:30pm Instructor – MJ Carver West. Learn the ins and outs of the National Science Foundation's FastLane system. FastLane uses the World Wide Web to facilitate the exchange of information between the NSF and its client community including researchers, reviewers, research administrators, and other doing business with NSF. How to Comply with the IRB Date: April 23, 2008 Location: Hoggard Hall, Room 116 Time: 3-4 pm Instructor - Leanne Prete. IRB requirements will be reviewed, common compliance problems will be highlighted, and strategies for avoiding non-compliance will be discussed. Export Controls: What You Need to Know Date: April 25, 2008 Location: Hoggard Hall, Room 116 Time: 2:30-3:30 pm Instructor - Leanne Prete. The export control regulations will be explained and the audience will learn about how the regulations impact the campus community. Time and Effort Certification - how and why Date: May 29, 2008 Location: Hoggard Hall, Room 116 Time: 2-3:30 pm Instructor - John Finn. This session will explain why the university is required to obtain time and effort certifications from all non-hourly employees and PIs each academic term and summer, how to complete the certification properly, impact of corrections to salaries and processing of salary reallocations and the dire consequences of having all grants for a subject PI frozen if certifications are not returned. Managing Grant Funds Date: June 10, 2008 Location: Hoggard Hall, Room 116 Time: 9-10:30am Instructor – Pam Whitlock. You just got your award notice. Now what? How do you hire a student? What’s this about advertising for a new employee – I already know who I want to hire! Who do I talk to about how much money I have left? This 90 minute session talks about the why’s and how’s to manage those fabulous grant dollars in a way that helps you achieve your objectives.
RAMSeS – What the heck is it? Instructors – Pam Whitlock and Steve Meinhold. RAMSeS – what it is and how it can help you. Our new database and electronic routing system has lots of potential. Learn how it can make your job easier from internal forms to remembering what your IRB or IACUC protocol number is.
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