UW-River Falls

FORMS

Approval to Apply for External Funding Form:

* HTML form to print and fill out by hand
* MS Word form to fill out on screen and print
Note: you must print the completed form and obtain signatures.

Fringe benefit rates for extramural support.

Indirect cost rates (now known as Facilities & Administration, or F&A rates).
Note: UWRF grant proposals must request the full F&A rate available from the funding source. The rates reflected on this website are applied to the total of salaries and fringe benefits. When in doubt, call the Grants Office, ext. 3195.

Applying for Grants at UW-River Falls

Grants can be wonderful. They can liberate you from the drudgery of your ordinary life and allow you to carry out new, exciting, productive activities which will revitalize you professionally and personally. They can also be terrible. When applications are poorly planned, written, or managed they can doom you to new sorts of drudgery without relieving you of the old; they can embroil you in ongoing disputes with grantors elsewhere or with your colleagues at home; they can complicate your life in ways you do not wish to bear. At best, poorly written applications disappoint you when they fail.

The purpose of this Web siteis to help you win grants which turn out to be wonderful. It outlines the responsibilities of the Office of Grants and Research and the services this office can provide; gives some guidelines for searching for sources and writing proposals; and describes the procedures you should follow in applying for grants.

This site also contains the approval form you must use to obtain the necessary institutional signatures on a grant application and the questionnaire which the Grants Office uses to build a database of faculty interests.

If you have an idea for a grant, or a source you wish to pursue, please call us; we would be delighted to assist you.