Pivot (Searchable Funding Database)
What is Pivot?
Pivot is a powerful, searchable database and research collaboration network. Please contact us if you would like a Pivot tutorial.
Here’s what you can do with Pivot:
- Update your profile, and receive funding recommendations based on your profile
- Set up alerts to receive automatic future global funding opportunities in your discipline
- Create groups for sharing funding opportunities on an ongoing basis
- Pivot identifies researcher expertise and instantly allows you to view matching faculty from within or outside Colby
- Identifies researcher expertise from within or outside of your organization
- Users can search for a funding opportunity and instantly view matching faculty from inside or outside their institution. Conversely, a search for a scholar will link to matching funding opportunities
- Allows the focus to be on winning the necessary awards and grants
- Enables you to add internal deadlines to critical funding opportunities and sends weekly updates on saved searches
- Users can receive alerts whenever new matching opportunities are posted that match their saved searches
- Create groups for sharing funding opportunities on an ongoing basis
- Enhances communication, monitoring, and tracking amongst individual faculty, teams, or researchers and the Research Development office
Additional Pivot Tips
Register on Pivot to:
- Save searches
- Get alerts
Looking for grants similar to ones you know about or have gotten?
Find “like” grants – using the feature See more opps like this
- Search Pivot looking at grants that you know about
- On the right hand column underneath SHARE click on See more opps like this
- View results and filter results as needed use the limiters/filters on left hand side
Ask a librarian for help finding grants in Pivot
- Contact [email protected]