SOCY461: Grants

Please Note: Proposals for external fundiing must be reviewed and approved by the UMD Office of Research Administration (ORA) before submitting.

ORA Contract Administrator for BSOS:

Dawkins, Dwayna
Contract Administrator
Phone: 301-405-5451 | Email: dawkins2@umd.edu

ORA also provides a number of Guides for developing your budget and proposals, including The Sponsored Research Handbook contains most of the policies and procedures that relate to sponsored research, service, and training at the University of Maryland, College Park. It covers the development of proposals, review of proposals, submission of proposals soliciting external support, and the establishment and administration of sponsored project accounts.

The purpose of this handbook is to guide the user through the necessary steps and to provide the rules regulations that apply when submitting a proposal or administering a grant, and is intended primarily for the faculty and administrators of the College Park campus.

Standard Institutional Information requested on grants is available on this FAQ.

ORA also provides Budget Guidance here.

BSOS also offers assistance and plays an important role in developing your grant application prior to submittal to ORA.

The BSOS Research Team can help develop external grant proposals with a range of activities. 

Parts of the grant application which must be finalized at the time of routing are:

• routing memo (a sample/template routing memo can be found here)
• budget and budget narrative
• significant project designation requests
• Conflict of Interest training documentation
• for non-funded agreements: a scope of work created by the PI to provide ORA with a basic understanding of the related activities

Other items that should be included in the routing package include:

• funding opportunity announcement
• price quotations for equipment or sole-source contracts
• internal forms that need review and signature by the Dean's Office (e.g. IDC waiver request, universal funding form for cost share, DRIF change, Significant Project request, etc)
• sponsor forms that require signature by ORA (SF424 forms, etc)
• a preview of the entire application in the sponsor grant submission system (it is okay to have a draft at the time of routing but ORA needs a final version at their review point)
• If required:
  • subaward documentation (including budget, budget narrative, letter of commitment signed by an institutional authorized official)
  • cost-sharing documentation (including identifying the source of funds)
  • indirect cost waiver
  • The University Libraries can help you develop a Data Management Plan.