• Because the University accepts responsibility for oversight, compliance management and appropriate conduct of sponsored activities on behalf of the Principal Investigator or Project Director we need a process in place.
• To enable this process, the University has implemented controls for compliance and sound management of all sponsored activity, including but not limited to, a centralized, coordinated approach to the review, approval, submission, and management of all sponsored programs. 

Note: If you submit a proposal before receiving all required internal approvals, the University reserves the right to withdraw the proposal or not accept an award if, upon review, the proposal is found to contain terms with which the University cannot comply.

You are welcome - and encouraged - to send sponsor-required documents to us at any time to include with your file. At a minimum, your proposal must include these documents in order to receive internal approvals:

• funding announcement/guidelines
• budget
• budget justification, and 
• narrative/scope of work 

 

These are the required documents that must be uploaded to Cayuse SP in order to initiate the routing of your proposal file.  You can find information about using the system in the  Cayuse SP tab. 

• Please inform our office of your intention to apply as soon as possible. 

• Please review your funding announcement/RFA/RFP for required elements. These documents may include Biosketches, COA tables, References cited, Equipment, etc. You are welcome - and encouraged - to send sponsor-required documents to us at any time at osrp@uncp.edu.

Details about proposal preparation are included below and a budget template is available online in the Budget Development page.  

If you have external collaborators, you’ll need additional time to coordinate and collect documents and you should contact OSRP for support and review the list of required documents (i.e., Subrecipient commitment form).

The legal applicant is UNC Pembroke, and if a signature is required for your grant proposal, preliminary proposal, or contract, only an authorized representative may provide this.

Proposals must be approved in Cayuse SP prior to submission to the sponsor.

Sometimes sponsors require applicants to submit a preliminary proposal or pre-proposal letter in order to be eligible to apply for a program. Pre-proposals which commit specific University resources such as personnel or space, or which request funding for specific project costs, are official requests for external funding. As such they must receive all required internal approvals—just like a full grant proposal.