EXTERNAL GRANT INFORMATION & FORMS

FORMS:

PLEASE NOTE: 

All externally funded projects MUST be routed through ORSP no later than 2 weeks before it is due to the agency. This is because your documents must be reviewed and approved by multiple personnel on campus before submission, and this takes time. This provides an adequate amount of time to get these approvals for you and also time to make adjustments identified by the review process.

ORSP Documents: 

• Routing Form
• Routing Form Instructions/Guidelines
  ~Please download these documents directly from our site for every use. We are continuously updating and revising these documents to make them more user-friendly, and want to ensure you have the newest version of these forms every use.

Budgeting Documents: 

• Budget Documents that include Graduate Student Salary
  • • 15% Total Direct Costs with Graduate Student Salary
      • • 15% Total Direct Costs with Graduate Student Salary Budget Justification
    • 20% of Salaries with Graduate Student Salary
      • • 20% of Salaries with Graduate Student Salary Budget Justification
    • 47.5% of Salaries with Graduate Student Salary
      • • 47.5% Total Direct Costs with Graduate Student Salary Budget Justification

• Budget Documents that DO NOT include Graduate Student Salary
  • • 15% Total Direct Costs without Graduate Student Salary
      • • 15% Total Direct Costs without Graduate Student Salary Budget Justification
    • 20% of Salaries without Graduate Student Salary
      • • 20% of Salaries without Graduate Student Salary Budget Justification
    • 47.5% of Salaries without Graduate Student Salary
      • • 47.5% Total Direct Costs without Graduate Student Salary Budget Justification

~Please note that a budget justification must be completed with these budget documents. Please complete a budget justification in Word or Google Docs that justifies each of the line items on your budget. 

~Please download these documents directly from our site for every use. We are continuously updating and revising these documents to make them more user-friendly, and want to ensure you have the newest version of these forms every use. 

Indirect Cost Information (IDC):

• Indirect Cost Formula
• Indirect Cost Rate Agreement
• Budget Information – SF-424A

NSU Documents: 

• Nicholls Financial Statement 2023
• NSU Financial Conflict of Interest Assurance and Disclosure Form
• Institutional Description or Summary

Effort: 

• SUMMER- Time and Effort Certification Form
• SUMMER Time and Effort Form Instructions
• Time and Effort Certification Policy

Other: 

• Designed Signature Authority-2024
• Management Letter 12-20-21
• Louisiana Department Tax ID and Vendor Account Numbers
• Letter of Tax Exemption Status
• Certificate of State Tax Exempt FY24-25
• IRS Federal Tax Determination
• Application for Federal Assistance SF-424
• Budget Information – SF-424A
• EEO – Non-Disciplinary Policy
• NIH Animal Welfare Assurance Letter of Approval
• IACUC Assurance
• Annual Financial Statements FY 2020 NSU
• Non-profit Status
• NSF Biosketch
• NSF Current and Pending Support
• Pay for Students Employed on Grants and Sponsored Projects (Memo to Financial Aid)
• Waiver of the Non-resident Portion of Tuition & Fees for Graduate Students on Externally Funded Research Grants
• Graduate-Undergraduate Mandatory Attendance Fees – Fall 2022
• W-9 Form
• University-of-Louisiana-Board-of-Supervisors-Members-2023

DOWNLOAD Adobe Acrobat: 

• If you do not already have Acrobat, click here for a free downloadable copy of Adobe Acrobat. 

DOWNLOAD the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs “Pre-Award-Handbook”

GRANT WRITING TUTORIALS:

AGENCY-SPECIFIC GUIDES
U.S. Department of Education:

• What should I know about Education Grants?

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• EPA Grant Writing Tutorial

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• • Short Guide to the Preparation of NIH Grant Applications (National Cancer Society)
  • How to Write a Research Grant Application (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

• NSF: A Guide to Proposal Writing
• The Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL). OERL is composed of plans, instruments, and reports that have been used to conduct evaluations of projects funded by the Directorate for Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation. OERL also contains glossaries of evaluation terminology, criteria for best practices, and scenarios illustrating how evaluation resources can be used or adapted. To support collaborative deliberation and use of these materials, OERL also provides a discussion board.