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.
All requests for account establishment submitted to the Grants and Contracts department should include a completed Account Establishment Form.
The calculated cost of an employee benefits package based on employee classification
Federal requirements and RFCUNY guidance for charging stipends
Prepare and submit the final report requirements of a sponsored program award
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.
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
A listing of object codes or expense codes used in the general ledger to categorize expenses.
To establish a procedure for reimbursing the CUNY colleges (tax levy fund) for payments made to Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) students.
Obtain the necessary assistance to understand staff recruitment, timesheets, and why the appropriate employment forms must be submitted
Guidance for assessing the classification of workers as employees or independent contractors
Compensation for CUNY faculty with sponsor funded awards who perform research outside of the academic year
Procedure and justification for training allowances; definition of participants and instructions for preparing training allowance proposals
Guidance memorada to PIs on placing CUNY employees on the RFCUNY payroll of sponsored research projects, stipends,
Full-time college employees (faculty) document and certify their time and effort used to perform sponsored research; calculating staff effort.
Expenditure, budget, IRB, award extention, and other information for award recipients
Guidance on putting together a proposal for federal funding or preparing an application for submission to a foundation
Description and amendment of an ICA, independent contractor defined, and misclassification of employees as contractors; description of an MOU
NIH and NSF award opportunities for researchers or faculty to supplement an existing sponsored award
Third party agreement to perform work on a significant portion of a sponsored research project
Description of a contract and the process for initiating the review of a contract
Find the UEI# for each CUNY Institution currently engaged in federal award activities. These identifiers replaced DUNS numbers effective April 4, 2022.