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Find Funding

Research and Innovation helps researchers find funding opportunities to support and promote research and scholarly activity at UNCW.

InfoReady

InfoReady makes solicitations easier to discover and applications easier to process. It is a one-stop shop for internal funding opportunities and limited submission competitions.

InfoReady Basics

Once logged in, select the HOME dropdown link to get three options:

 1.  Faculty & staff (external) - limited submission competitions 
2.  Faculty & staff (internal) - internal UNCW opportunity
3.  Student – opportunities for students, including CSURF funding

Click on any title to view the opportunity overview which includes descriptions, information links and relevant PDF documentation.

  • You can view requirements and save any application as a draft prior to submission.
  • Submitted applications can be edited up until the Internal Submission Deadline.
  • For each application you submit, you will receive an email from InfoReady confirming that submission.
  • All submitted applications that meet the eligibility requirements and are completed as requested are passed on to the internal reviewer(s).
  • The timeline for the review process varies by competition.

SPIN

InfoEd Global’s SPIN™ funding opportunities database is an online resource that helps faculty, students, and staff quickly find relevant programs available to fund all types of research. Tracking approximately 40,000 funding opportunities across thousands of governments, foundations, and commercial entities around the world.

SPIN Basics

  • Log in to OSPREY.
  • Once logged in, click SPIN/Find Funding in the left-hand navigation menu.
  • If you have any issues, submit a help ticket.
Your preferences can be saved and updated as needed.
  • Applicant Location
  • Applicant Type
  • Project Type
  • Project Location
  • Citizenship
  • Sponsor Type
  • Newly created programs
  • Recently updated programs
  • U.S. Federal Opportunities
  • Limited Submissions
  • Opportunities with no documented future deadlines
  • Currency

Text

  • A full-text search against the entire text of the SPIN programs; this includes opportunity titles, sponsor names, synopses, objectives, as well as funding opportunity numbers, email addresses, keywords, and several other fields.
  • The search automatically invokes inflectional forms of the entered words. For example, a search for test will scan all SPIN programs for: test, tests, tested, and testing.
  • The search also contains several capabilities to build complex searches with various logic and grammar parsing. The commands can be combined, along with parenthetical logic to dictate the order of operations, for building complex queries defining exactly what you are looking for.

Keyword

  • Each opportunity in SPIN is cataloged with terms from their keyword list. SPIN's keyword search allows you to explicitly find opportunities that match one or more of the predefined keywords in our controlled vocabulary of approximately 3,500 terms.
  • Keywords can be combined in two ways with 'OR' or 'AND' operators. An 'OR' search will find opportunities that have either the keywords Geochemistry OR Geophysics; an 'AND' search is more specific and will find only those opportunities that have both Geochemistry AND Geophysics keywords.

Advanced

  • A dropdown selection allows you to choose the fields to filter where the full text of the opportunity record contains or does not contain the entered selection.
  • Distinct fields generate AND queries while using the same field multiple times generates an OR query.
  • After a search has been created you can save the search and receive daily or weekly email alerts. The email sends a list of opportunities based on the search.