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Early Career Funding Guide

Finding Funding

I would like to…	Available resources	For additional help contact:
Find early career awards	Identify and receive grantsmanship advice on prestigious early career awards. Early Career Award List	Research Development
Receive notices of limited submission funding opportunities and prestigious early career awards that require an internal competition Receive a monthly digest of foundation sponsored funding opportunities	MIT Fund Ops Listserv: sign up to receive notices of early career and other limited submissions opportunities as well as a monthly digest of foundation funding opportunities that are not limited submissions	Research Development
View a calendar of recurring limited submission funding opportunities	Limited Submissions Annual Calendar	Research Development
Find a list of active internal competitions and submit to an internal competition.	Active Internal Competitions and Submission Portal	Research Development
Search a curated database of funding opportunities.	Pivot-RP provides access to a searchable database of funding opportunities from federal, foundation and private sponsors. Must be an MIT affiliate.	Research Development
Find information on private and community foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S. and recently awarded grants	Foundation Directory Online via MIT Libraries Must be an MIT affiliate. Please email OFR before contacting a foundation.	Office of Foundation Relations
Read recent news about finding funding and proposal development	Research Development & Grant Writing Newsletters	Research Development
Start to develop a research funding strategy	Ebook: New Faculty Guide to Competing for Research Funding [PDF]	Research Development
Develop a team proposal	Ebook: Strategies for Planning, Developing, and Writing Large Team Grants [PDF]	Research Development

Industry Funding and Moving Research to the Marketplace

I would like to…	Available resources	For additional help contact:
Connect with potential industry partners and get support for your startup	MIT Corporate Relations facilitates engagement between corporations, MIT, and MIT-connected startups through two integrated programs, the MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) and MIT Startup Exchange.	MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) MIT Startup Exchange
Explore sponsored research and collaboration opportunities with industry and other non-federal sponsors and collaborators, or get help developing an opportunity in this area	Office of Strategic Alliances and Technology Transfer (OSATT): OSATT Core works with MIT researchers and non-federal sponsors to help develop mutually-beneficial research projects for collaboration and sponsorship, negotiate sponsored research and collaboration agreements, and support ongoing research engagements, particularly master research agreements. Catalysts serve as a first point of contact for MIT PIs engaging with industry, to help align expectations early in the negotiation process, and then as a navigator through MIT’s administrative processes.	OSATT Core
Get help with a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), data use agreement (DUA), or a materials transfer agreement (MTA) for research	OSATT Core’s Hermes Team reviews and negotiates research-related non-disclosure, confidentiality, data use/sharing and material transfer agreements. Submit requests through the Hermes Portal	OSATT Core
Explore invention management, disclosure and licensing process, or discuss intellectual property (IP) policies and assignment obligations.	Technology Licensing Office: Support for MIT faculty, staff or students who wish to disclose an invention if they believe their research could be commercialized for public benefit and use through licensing, including Open Source.	Technology Licensing Office

Other Resources

I would like to…	Available resources	For additional help contact:
Apply for funding/submit a proposal to a federal, non-federal or industry sponsor	Research Administration Services (RAS): All research proposals (federal, non-federal and industry proposals) must be submitted five business days prior to the sponsor deadline. Use the Five-Day Calculator. Proposals are submitted to RAS.	RAS Contract Administrators
Connect with MIT tools and teams to support my research	Download the Research@MIT App. The app is available in MIT’s Atlas Suite, offering tools for research administration, collaboration, compliance, and innovation management.	If you need immediate help with the app, please contact the IS&T Service Desk for support.