Fast Facts
Billions of U.S. dollars of funding
Over three million scholar profiles
Overview
Locating and securing research funding is becoming increasingly competitive, as funding opportunities are limited and the number of researchers vying for those dollars continues to grow. Pivot accelerates the research process by integrating funding, collaborator discovery, and publishing opportunities into one powerful tool. Pivot connects researchers to financial support by leveraging the most comprehensive global source of sponsored funding opportunities and provides scholarly profiles to match researchers with financial partners and collaborators.
Customize your Pivot® Interface
Research Administrators can easily customize the Pivot interface to reflect the institution’s logo, branding and color scheme. These customization options will also be reflected across newsletters, funding alert emails, and internal and limited submission.
Internal funding opportunities
Research Administrators can add their Institution’s Internal Funding opportunities into Pivot, allowing users to find both Internal funding along with other funding opportunities, all in the same tool.
Pivot® and InfoReady™
CombiningPivot and InfoReady Review给管理员一个了不起的timesaving solution: an integrated one-stop way to combine funding discovery and limited submission competitions management. So simple…So seamless.
Integrated Funding and Collaboration in One Tool
Pivot® integrates funding and collaborator discovery into one powerful tool so researchers can effectively collaborate with their colleagues, as well as quickly discover the right funding opportunities.
Quick and Easy Implementation Process
Pivot® is a technology that is intuitive and easily implemented, which will help increase efficiency in your research office. Users can get started quickly, receiving funding recommendations and finding potential collaborators immediately.
Provides Global and Local Connections
Pivot® provides global and local connections that strengthen research by exploring new avenues for funding and collaboration.
Centered on Collaboration
Unmatched for supporting collaboration in the research development field, Pivot® answers the growing demands on researchers to quickly discover the right collaborators and efficiently work in partnership with their colleagues to secure funding.
Customized Admin Features
Pivot® provides customization features that allow the Research Admins to add internal deadlines, notes to funding opportunities, curated lists of funding for specific topics and the ablility to alert your users with your own announcements within Pivot.
Most Comprehensive Source of Funding and Content
The Pivot® service offers extraordinary breadth of content that is editorially-maintained. The content it organizes and makes accessible equates to $44 billion in funding opportunities and more than 3 million detailed scholar profiles.
Collaboration and Communication Workflow
Adequate tools for communicating, organizing, and collaborating around funding opportunities are included within Pivot® for easy sharing and working with other researchers.
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