Funding Opportunities

OGSR Grants and Contracts Development offers faculty and staff a wide range of information on funding sources for research, scholarly, and creative pursuits that support CSUSM's mission. Below are resources available to CSUSM faculty, staff, and students to identify potential funding support.

• Atom Grants (Search Engine)

  CSUSM now has an institutional membership to Atom Grants, providing faculty, staff, and students access to an innovative, AI-powered platform to create customized grant opportunity searches that match current or future researcher interests. Researchers can find relevant funding opportunities by using natural language descriptions of their research—including the ability to input abstracts from existing papers directly into the search system. The platform automatically generates researcher profiles by analyzing existing public outputs and can deliver personalized email alerts on a preferred scheduling basis with matching funding opportunities. Additionally, AI features assist throughout the application process by extracting key requirements, generating submission checklists, and automatically assessing eligibility criteria, ensuring researchers can focus more on their work and less on administrative tasks. 

  Anyone with a University email account can sign in to Atom Grants via our institutional membership. Sign into Atom Grants using your university email address. You should be directed to a Single Sign-On (SSO) to sign in with your CSUSM credentials. 

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  • Log In to Atom Grants

    Use your CSUSM Single Sign-On username and password at the Atom Grants Dashboard

  • Key Features
    • AI-powered grant matching using research profiles
    • Extensive funding opportunity database
    • Personalized funding opportunity newsletters (weekly to monthly)
    • User-friendly interface with advanced search filters 
    • Submission checklists and eligibility tracking
    • "Chat with proposal" feature to learn more about funding opportunities details
  • Atom Grants Resources
    • Faculty onboarding guide
    • Atom overview video
    • Training video recordings
    • Helpdesk contact info (support@atomgrants.com)

  
  
• Agency Listservs

  If you are interested in submitting a proposal to a specific agency, we recommend to sign-up for for their listsev or newsletter. Common federal sponsors are listed below. Sponsor websites are another source of information.

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  • Department of Education

    EDInfo is an information service that delivers two or three email messages a week featuring information on the U.S. Department of Education including budget and grant information, and legislative updates. To subscribe, send a message to listproc@inet.ed.gov. In the body of the message, type: subscribe EDINFO<your full name>. (If you have a signature block, please turn it off.)

  • Department of Energy
    DOE Pulse, a bimonthly newsletter, highlights work being done at the Department of Energy's national laboratories. Each issue will include research highlights, updates on collaborations among laboratories, and profiles of individual researchers.
  • Department of Justice

    JUST INFO, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice National Criminal Justice Reference Service (JCJRS), is a biweekly email newsletter that reports on a wide variety of criminal justice topics. To subscribe, send a message to listproc@aspensys.com. In the body of the message, type: subscribe JUSTINFO<your name>.

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration maintains a press release mailing list to distribute its press releases and other selected documents via email. To subscribe, send an email to domo@hq.nasa.gov. In the body of the message, type: subscribe press-release <your name>.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
    NEH OUTLOOK is an NEH email newsletter which includes information on funding opportunities and grants awarded.To subscribe, send an email to: newsletter@neh.gov. In the body of the message, put the keyword "subscribe" on a line by itself.
  • National Institutes of Health
    Each week the NIH transmits via email the Table of Contents information for each week's issue of the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Associated with each entry is the URL address for each Guide article. To subscribe to the Guide TOC Notification service, please send an email to listserve@list.nih.gov and in the first line of the email message itself (not the subject line) provide the following information: subscribe NIHTOC-L your name.
  • National Science Foundation
    The NSF Custom News Service is a free web-based/email-based alert service designed to provide information about new NSF publications and information. This service allows you to select the types of information you are interested in and alerts you to new publications and provides links to electronic copies that can be downloaded or printed.  Subscribe to the Custom New Service.  You will be prompted to provide your email address and will be able to select from the following options: whether to receive announcements by email or just by visiting your custom news page; whether to receive a weekly email summary of all new NSF documents; and to select documents types you're interested in, such as program announcements, news releases, policies and procedures, reports and awards for particular divisions or all. You can change your profile at any time.
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
    You can receive email notification when a solicitation is posted to the USAID Solicitations page. This includes RFPs, RFAs, and new amendments. 

  
  
• Federal Funding Search
  In addition to signing up for agency newsletters and/or listerseves federal grant opportunities can use key word search at Grants.gov 
• Internal Funding Opportunities
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  • Grant Proposal Seed Money (GPSM)
    Link to learn more about Grant Proposal Seed Money (GPSM)
  • Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities (RSCA)
    Link to learn more about Grant Proposal Seed Money (GPSM)
  • Professional Advancement Travel Resources (PATR)
    Link to learn more about Professional Advancement Travel Resources (PATR)
  • Grant Writing Bootcamp
    Link to learn more about Grant Writing Bootcamp

  
  
• CSU Funding Opportunities

  There are 10 CSU Multi-Campus Collaborations or Affinity Groups conducting research. Note: These awards run through the PI's college, not the Office of Sponsored Projects, CSUSM Corporation.

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  • Agricultural Research Institute (ARI)

    Link to learn more about the Agricultural Research Institute (ARI)

  • CSU Climate Adaptation Consortium (CSU ADAPT)​
    Link to learn more about the CSU Climate Adaptation Consortium (CSU ADAPT)
  • Council on Ocean Affairs, Science & Technology (COAST)
    Link to learn more about the CSU COAST
  • CSU Biotechnology (CSUBIOTECH)
    Link to learn more about the CSU BIOTECHNOLOGY
  • California Desert Studies Consortium (CDSC)
    Link to learn more about the CSU Desert Studies Center
  • CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care
    Link to learn more about the CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care
  • Ocean Studies Institute (OSI)
    Link to learn more about SCMI
  • Social Science Research & Instructional Council (SSRIC)
    Link to learn more about The Social Science Research & Instructional Center | SSRIC
  • STEM-NET
    Link to learn more about STEM-NET
  • Water Advocacy Towards Education and Research (CSU-WATER)
    Link to learn more about CSU-WATER

  
  
• Philanthropic Support from Corporations and Private-Grant Making Foundations

  CSUSM Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) is a campus-wide resource for those within the CSUSM community who seek external philanthropic support from corporations and private grant-making foundations. Specifically, the request for support must be in line with institutional priorities identified by the president, provost, and deans.

  Corporate Foundation Relations | Giving to CSUSM | CSUSM

  Please note that CFR only assists with philanthropic requests; government grants and contracts are handled by the Office of Graduate Studies and Research (OGSR). However, your corporate or foundation-funded research, project, or program may require the administration of OGSR. We will help determine if this collaboration is required for your request.