Office of Grants Facilitation
The Office of Grants Facilitation (OGF) is a unit of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Office of Economic Development and Innovation at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS). The OGF provides support to faculty in the pursuit of securing and maintaining grant funding. Through a combination of outreach and education endeavors, the office is able to help faculty take full advantage of all funding opportunities. The OGF also works in conjunction with NJAES Office of Capacity Funding to develop broader impact statements derived from capacity and competitive funded projects.
The OGF is also responsible for overseeing all aspects of grant submission, supporting University regulatory compliance, interpreting contractual terms and conditions, and mitigating risk for SEBS and NJAES. This office provides guidance to faculty and staff on sponsor requirements for all competitive grant, contracts, and agreements. This office is responsible for working with faculty and their departments to improve the transition from pre-award to post-award. The OGF staff works with senior leadership to develop and modify policies, procedures, and systems in accordance with governmental regulations and organizational needs and objectives.
What We Do
- Focused search for potential funding sources
- Develop funding plans to help build program/project capacity
- Help establish and build connections to funders, collaborators and partnering organizations
- Serve as a liaison to funding agencies and organizations, including cultivation activities
- Deliver educational programming on compliance regulations
- Create tools to educate faculty and their staff to be responsive to funders
- Assistance with budget development
- Responsible for reviewing and interpreting request for proposal and grant guidelines
- Work with faculty to review and edit proposal drafts
- Review proposals for completeness before final submission to ensure compliance with funding guidelines
Funding Resources
- Grant Forward uses your research interests, publications, and other profile information to recommend the best-fitting grant opportunities to you.
- Foundation Directory Online (Professional) provides information on more than 100,000 foundations, corporations giving programs, and grant making public charities in the US. It also includes searchable databases of recently awarded grants, sponsoring companies, and recently filed IRS information returns (Forms 990 and 990-PF). All four databases, as well as the Foundation Center’s philanthropy news, nonprofit jobs, RFPs, foundation publications and nonprofit literature databases, can be searched simultaneously.
- Office of Research and Economic Development provides services across Rutgers to support the faculty’s research and strategically leads the university’s economic development activities.
- Faculty Research Portal Within the Office of Research and Economic Development, the Research Development team designed this site to be a one-stop shop for all research-related needs.
- Limited Submission Programs Requiring Internal Coordination of Proposals (from the Office of Research and Economic Development).
Frequently Accessed Forms
- Office of Research and Sponsored Programs: Institutional Information, Endorsement Form, Budget Templates, Project Fund Source/Index Form, Facilities and Administrative Cost Information, Statements of Intent, and Sub-award Forms.
- Research Administration and Proposal Submission System (RAPSS): This is an electronic gateway for the submission, review, approval, and tracking of funding proposals and related budgets for research at this institution. The Grants and Contract Management office maintains all information regarding the grant and contract applications, budgets, and on-going annual adjustments to research funding using this system.
Mailing Address
Office of Grants Facilitation
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
88 Lipman Dr.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525