Brief Summary of Upcoming Workshops

Major Pre-Award Topics

Funding Opportunities
Does your college/university enjoy all the necessary funding for all its essential programs? Are you weary of the repetitive cycle of submitting proposals, receiving rejections, refining and resubmitting them only to be rejected again? If so, than this session is for you.

Listen to this panel of seasoned experts who will present not only existing funding opportunities within a variety of agencies (because you can get that off their Internet sites); but they will provide you with ‘inside information’ (often not available in print) on how to maneuver their particular programs, how to prepare competitive submissions and how to get agency support throughout your proposal development.

Are you tired of competing just for the limited funding set-aside for HBCUs…sure you are!

Attend this session to learn how to grow your program, how to move into mainstream funding and how to better compete in the open-marketplace.

Successful Collaboration Models
Is it becoming increasingly difficult for you to compete as sponsors seem to encourage and only support programs of a collaborative nature?  Sure it is, sponsors have to demonstrate competitiveness too, and they are looking for ‘more bangs for the buck!

Attend this session and learn about a variety of collaborative models including those where your institution would serve as lead; those already in existence, where you must market your institution in order to join; and those that increasingly require HBCU participation in order to secure sponsor support.

Setting Up New Sponsored Program Offices
Are you a one or two person office? Or even worst are you in an office with sponsored programs responsibilities as one of the many tasks you must handle on a day to day basis? If so, things won’t get better unless you start making changes now.

Major Post-Award Topics

Program Management Essentials

Technology Transfer
Is your college/university up to par in the technology transfer arena? Do you have established standards, policies and procedures, and other support mechanisms in place to transfer your emerging technologies to the marketplace… If so, than you are on the right path to generate significant income for your college.

Attend this session and learn of the many emerging requirements and look at a model of success provided by the NSF funded PFI program administered by Florida A&M University and their partners.

Export Concerns
Are your researchers sharing their techniques and discoveries via the Internet, in publications and during domestic and international presentations…of course they are!

Could your college/university be in violation of recently expanded Export Disclosure Requirements?
If you receive Federal support for your programs…you just might be in violation.

Fiscal Management Essentials

Time and Effort (T&E) Reporting- Are you efficiently documenting all T&E for on-campus, off-campus and partnering personnel cost at your college/university?

If not, you could be in violation of governmental regulations requiring you to do so. Learn how to capture detailed requirements from seasoned experts. Use the templates provided from this session to develop forms that are responsive to your unique needs.

Facilities and Administration Recovery
Is your college/university still operating with an F&A rate derived through use of a short form calculation?

Ever-changing Audit Standards
Document, document, document—are your standard operating procedures sufficient to meet all sponsor audit requirements?

If you are unprepared for an audit, you stand the risk of having to repay thousands of dollars. If you are uncertain of your level of preparedness and/or you have never been audited by a sponsor, than this session will support you in your efforts to better prepare for this inevitable experience.