Grants Development and Administration
Perimeter College
1975 Lakeside Parkway, Suite 300-A
Tucker, GA 30084

Yes. It is a requirement that all proposal submissions are submitted through OGDA to assure that the submission has the full backing of the administration of the college.

First you should discuss your idea with your supervisor and then, if you have support, schedule a meeting to discuss your idea by contacting:

Lynne Coughlin
Administrative Assistant
[email protected]
678-891- 2525

GSU has a search engine called PIVOT where you can set-up a search for your idea using key terms and automatically receive weekly emails regarding opportunities that match your criteria. PIVOT is a comprehensive database of both public and private funding opportunities worth an estimated $33 billion. The database not only contains funding opportunities but also provides over 3 million scholar profiles that can be searched for potential collaborative research projects. Once you have established a log-in and created or updated your user profile, you can search the funding opportunities instantly and can save your searches and request weekly notifications of funding matching your research interests. Here is a link to the PIVOT search engine

Most likely you will not have enough time to fully develop a competitive proposal and obtain institution approval for the project prior to the submission deadline. Please contact our office, and we can assist you in assessing the feasibility of the submission.

Because most grants rely on discipline-specific content from a faculty member’s area of expertise, OGDA does not typically author grant proposals. The office does provide the Principal Investigator of the proposal (PI) with a proposal template and provide editing and critiques of draft proposals.

We always recommend that you have the support of your supervisor prior to contacting our office.

Many opportunities only provide 45 days between the announcement and deadline. Faculty and staff are typically more successful when given more time. Consequently, OGDA helps faculty and staff target recurring opportunities so that more time can be allowed for proposal development.

Yes. The collaborating faculty will need to follow policies and procedures from their college or center, and OGDA will interface with the departmental office of that faculty member’s unit.

The securing of partnerships and letters of commitment tends to be the factor that can cause a proposal not to be submitted. Consequently, if a proposal requires partnerships that include letters of commitment/support and/or memorandums of understanding, it is critical to secure the partnership(s) as soon as possible.

Only full-time faculty, staff members, or employees designated by the vice provost/dean, associate dean, chair or assistant chair may serve as Principal Investigators (PI) or Project Directors (PD) on a grant or other sponsored program. All individuals wishing to serve as PI/PD on a grant proposal must abide by all OSPA policies and procedures, including the approval of all grant submissions through the Georgia State University research portal.

All faculty, staff, undergraduates, graduate students and post-docs involved in sponsored programs (grants) at Georgia State University are required to undertake Conflicts of Interests education and training through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).  Once the training is complete, the Significant Financial Interest (SFI) Disclosure Form must be completed by every person working on a sponsored project (faculty, staff, and students) prior to proposal submission.

All faculty, staff, undergraduates, graduate students and post-docs involved in empirical research and sponsored programs (grants) at Georgia State University are required to complete the training modules through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) that include Responsible Conduct in Research (RCR) and the human subject modules in their content area prior to the activation of any award.

Yes. Anytime a faculty or staff member is committing the college to a sponsored project, it is required to obtain internal approval prior to committing to an outside organization.