RFCUNY offers the post award support principal investigators (PIs) need to successfully manage their sponsored projects throughout the award cycle. Obtain information and guidance on the basics of Uniform Guidance, hiring independent contractors, fringe benefits rates, the Summer Salary program, and award close out. Post award information concerning the PSC-CUNY Award Program is available for PIs who have received such awards.

Account Establishment Form

  • All requests for account establishment submitted to the Grants and Contracts department should include a completed Account Establishment Form.

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Calculating Fringe Benefits Rates

  • The calculated cost of an employee benefits package based on employee classification

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Charging Stipends to Federally Sponsored Awards

  • Federal requirements and RFCUNY guidance for charging stipends

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Closing Out an Award

  • Prepare and submit the final report requirements of a sponsored program award

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Department Chair Research Accounts

  • Research accounts provided under the CUNY/PSC CUNY Collective Bargaining Agreement to be used to further the scholarly and/or creative activities of a department chair or Graduate Center executive officer.

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Effort Certification

  • Effort reporting is a federal government mandated process for certifying the faculty salary charged to a project is reasonable to the effort expended on that project

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Expense Codes

  • A listing of object codes or expense codes used in the general ledger to categorize expenses.

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Graduate Research Assistant Students (GRA)

  • To establish a procedure for reimbursing the CUNY colleges (tax levy fund) for payments made to Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) students.

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Hiring & Employee Management

  • Obtain the necessary assistance to understand staff recruitment, timesheets, and why the appropriate employment forms must be submitted

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Misclassification of Workers

  • Guidance for assessing the classification of workers as employees or independent contractors

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Participating in Summer Salary Program

  • Compensation for CUNY faculty with sponsor funded awards who perform research outside of the academic year

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Participant Support Costs

  • Procedure and justification for training allowances; definition of participants and instructions for preparing training allowance proposals

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Payments to CUNY Employees

  • Guidance memorada to PIs on placing CUNY employees on the RFCUNY payroll of sponsored research projects, stipends,

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Processing Staff Effort

  • Full-time college employees (faculty) document and certify their time and effort used to perform sponsored research; calculating staff effort.

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Post-Award PSC- CUNY Research Program

  • Expenditure, budget, IRB, award extention, and other information for award recipients

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Pre-Award Budget Preparation Tips

  • Guidance on putting together a proposal for federal funding or preparing an application for submission to a foundation

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Requesting & Amending Independent Contract Agreements (ICAs) & Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs)

  • Description and amendment of an ICA, independent contractor defined, and misclassification of employees as contractors; description of an MOU

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Supplemental Funding Opportunities on Existing Grants

  • NIH and NSF award opportunities for researchers or faculty to supplement an existing sponsored award

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Understanding & Amending a Subaward

  • Third party agreement to perform work on a significant portion of a sponsored research project

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Understanding Contracts & Contract Review

  • Description of a contract and the process for initiating the review of a contract

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Unique Entity I.D. - Sam.gov

  • Find the UEI# for each CUNY Institution currently engaged in federal award activities. These identifiers replaced DUNS numbers effective April 4, 2022.

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