The Grants Hub provides the following categories of services to ISU researchers and interdisciplinary research teams. As most services beyond a basic consultation involve several weeks of effort – or even months for highly complex interdisciplinary proposals and projects – we encourage you to submit your service request as early as possible.

• Finding Funding – consultation on software tools and strategies for identifying relevant funding opportunities and potential collaborators.
• Proposal/Budget Development – pre-award proposal support, which may include consultation on RFP requirements and sponsor expectations, preparation of a new or revised proposal budget and budget justification, coordination and uploading of proposal documents.
• Streamlyne Assistance - help routing proposals and quick proposals (NDAs, MTAs) through Streamlyne.
• Editing – editing of an external funding proposal narrative for grammar, clarity, style, and compliance with formatting requirements.
• Graphics – development of figures for inclusion in an external funding proposal.
• Broader Impacts Consultation – help to develop an effective NSF Broader Impacts statement and identify partner programs and resources to build and evaluate a broader impacts initiative.
• Project Management – consultation, training, facilitation, and tools to enable collaboration across interdisciplinary research teams and management of project goals, risks, and timelines during the pre-award phase.