Limited submissions refer to funding opportunities that restrict the number of applications allowed from an institution or a unit within the institution for a specific deadline or within a given time period. 

To apply for any funding opportunities categorized as a "limited submission" you must first contact the Office of Research Development ([email protected]) and obtain formal approval before you proceed with the application to ensure that we (Georgia State) do not submit more applications for the solicitation than the agency allows.

It is the PI’s responsibility to identify a limited submission competition from the sponsor’s program announcement or the sponsor and to notify URSA immediately of their interest in applying. Contact the Research Development Office at [email protected] for more information about limited submissions.

Notifying URSA of Intent to Apply for Limited Submissions

Anyone considering submitting a proposal to an external sponsor that limits the number of submissions from an institution for a given deadline MUST notify URSA as soon as possible. This notification applies also to any sponsor’s deadline for a requested Letter of Intent or pre-proposal.

Notification should consist of an email to [email protected] that includes the PI’s name, name of the grant competition, the sponsor's deadline the PI will submit, and a link to the program announcement (URL).  If more notifications are received than there are proposal slots allowed, URSA will manage an internal competition for the allowed proposal slot(s).

Requests for a limited submission approval that is submitted fewer than 8 weeks prior to the sponsor’s deadline will be immediately approved assuming the slots are not already filled.

Internal Competitions for Limited Submissions

If there are more parties interested in a limited submission funding opportunity than there are proposal slots allowed by the sponsor, URSA will manage an internal competition to select internal candidate(s) for the limited slots. A notice with instructions about the internal competition will be sent ONLY to candidates who have identified their interest in an email to URSA. Interested candidates will be expected to provide the following information by an internal deadline to be set at the time of the competition:

• Cover Page: The cover page must include names of PI and co-PIs and their department or center affiliation, the sponsoring agency, a URL link to the funding announcement, an estimate of the total budget to be requested, whether costshare is required and, if so, how much (percent or amount)
• 1-3 page pre-proposal summary about the project including a paragraph about the potential impact of the project on the investigator’s career and Georgia State University.
• Updated CVs/biosketches for PI and all listed co-PI. NIH or NSF formatted bio-sketches are acceptable.

The review process for limited submission pre-proposals will depend on the number of pre-proposals submitted and the type of grant mechanism. Reviews are conducted by an ad hoc committee of peer reviewers (not within the applicant's department). The goal is to complete reviews and send out the final decision for an internal competition within five business days after the internal pre-proposal deadline.

If you have any questions, please contact the Research Development Office at [email protected].

• Faculty Insight Log-in

To search for funding for your research, use Faculty Insight, the funding database tool within Academic Analytics. Faculty Insight is currently available to all Georgia State faculty, staff, postdocs, and students with a Georgia State campus ID and password. If you have additional questions about using Faculty Insight, contact Erin Brown in the Office of Institutional Research.

When applying for funding from a foundation, please reach out to the Development Office at [email protected] to get guidance from them. They have knowledge about steps for approaching foundations that can be critical to obtaining foundation funding.

Below is a limited list of foundations that might have opportunities of interest:

• American Cancer Society, Inc.
• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• American Heart Association
• American Sociological Association (ASA)
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Ford Foundation
• Healthcare Georgia Foundation
• John Templeton Foundation
• Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
• National Humanities Center
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• W. Kellogg Foundation
• William T. Grant Foundation