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Where to Find ORA Resources

The ORA Assistance Navigator is an index designed to help you find your way around the ORA website, access ORA's grant-related resources, and learn who does what within the ORA staff. If you know what you're looking for, locate it in the alphabetized index and click it to be directed to a functional resource, more information, or, for human assistance, to an ORA staff unit or individual employee. If you don't know exactly what you're looking for, browsing the index may provide suggestions. If you need help, contact ORA's Information Specialist or your department's ORA Grants and Contracts Coordinator/Administrator. The Navigator's links to ORA's Proposal and Award Management (PAM) staff will direct you to either the pre-award or post-award groups within PAM.

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Agreement templates
Annual reports (USM proposal and award activity)
Area Assignments Chart
Audits
Awards: accepting, managing, negotiation, award budget questions (see also proposal budgets)

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Beginning the proposal submission process
Budget & account codes
Budget development for proposals: PAM
Budget revision form
Business plan(s) required by sponsor, guidance

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Databases containing funding program information: GRC GrantSearch; InfoEd SPIN
Depositing payments
Directory of ORA Staff
Disclosure forms (Office of Technology Development)
Disclosures of support in proposals, guidance
Distribution of F&A recovery
Distribution of salary recovery

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F&A (facilities & administrative) costs: general explanation (PDF); rates; distribution of recovered F&A; questions — general, in proposal budgets; recovery of
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FAQ
Identifying Federal Funding Mechanisms
Financial reporting
Forms
Frequently asked questions
Fringe benefit rates & calculator
Funding sources: databases (grant programs, sponsors, etc.); general information; questions & assistance

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Getting started
Glossary of research administration terms
Graduate assistant stipends & tuition waivers
Grant program databases: GrantSearch; Grants.gov (federal programs only); SPIN

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How-to: New Faculty Guide to Competing for Research Funding (temporarily available by request only, at USM-ORAFREEMississippi); see also Getting Started with Proposals and the different Proposal ... entries in the right-hand column

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Indirect costs (see F&A above)
InfoEd Global; login
Information for proposals, common
Institutional information frequently required in proposals
Internal competitions: current competitions; general information
Internal consultant templates
Invention Disclosure Form
Invoice preparation

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Jargon: Glossary of Terms; human help with

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Limited submissions

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Material Transfer Agreement form (redirects to the OTD website)
Modifications to a project

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Negotiating awards
Newsletter, ORA's (the Reporter)
Number of proposals/applications per institution is limited by sponsor: see Limited Submissions

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ORA Annual Reports about USM proposal/award activity
ORA services
ORA staff
ORA toolkit

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Payment deposits
Peel-offs, subprojects
PI/PD: definitions; eligibility requirements; adding, changing, or removing (in re a funded project)
Policies: internal (USM), external
Procedures related to proposals, information; questions
Project closeout
Project Information Form (see Proposal Information Form)
Project modifications
Proposal and award activity at USM (annual reports)
Proposal budgets: information; questions and assistance (see also Awards); related forms
Proposal development: comprehensive guide (request access at USM-ORAFREEMississippi); related forms; where to start
Proposal Information Form: assistance with; download
Proposal procedures: information; questions & assistance; the sponsor limits the institution's number of proposals
Publications, ORA's

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Queries in SOARFIN

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Reporter (ORA newsletter): information
Reports, ORA's Annual most recent (request access at USM-ORAFREEMississippi)
Resources for Grant Seekers (A secure resource page is in development; inquire at USM-ORAFREEMississippi); see also FAQ, forms, funding information, ORA staff, policies (USM), procedures, publications (ORA)

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Salary recovery distributions
Small business plans, guidance
SOARFIN queries
Software/Copyright Disclosure Form
Solicitations (RFPs, RFAs, FOAs, etc.), summaries of current: in the ORA Reporter; from the Grants Resource Center (must set up a profile); see also Funding sources
SPIN funding opportunities database (available via InfoEd Global)
Staff Directory (ORA)
Stipends & tuition waivers for graduate assistants
Subawards; processing; assistance with
Subcontracts; sponsor requires small business plans for, guidance
Submitting proposals: assistance with; information about
Subprojects, Peel-offs
Sub-recipient agreements: assistance with; templates

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Templates for use in proposals
Terms related to research administration
Time & Effort reporting
Time extensions
Transferring costs
Tuition waivers and stipends for graduate assistants
Twitter, follow us @USM_ORA

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