Office of Academic Affairs

Faculty Funding

Sponsored Research Office Services

Below are examples of some of the ways that the Associate Director for Corporate and Foundation Relations can assist you in pursuing external funding.

• Assisting to locate appropriate funding sources for your research interests
  
  
• Information about campus procedures relevant to your successful submission
  
  
• Helping you to establish a schedule for preparing and submitting proposals
  
  
• Coordinating proposals that involve several participants, academic programs, or institutions
  
  
• Coordinating efforts on campus, to ensure awareness of multiple proposals being sent to a single source of funding
  
  
• Copy editing, proofreading, and critical review of proposal drafts
  
  
• Providing general information about Centre
  
  
• Ensuring compliance with College and Foundation guidelines
  
  
• Preparing budgets
  
  
• Navigating and submitting via Grants.gov, Fastlane.gov, and other federal online submission platforms
  
  

For assistance at any stage in the grants process, please contact Kathryn M. Bowles, Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, at kathryn.bowles@centre.edu, phone ext. 5212, or visit her office on the second floor of Old Centre.