Research Development
Helping to grow research capacity, collaboration, and competitiveness
Pivot Database
Pivot is a funding opportunity database available to all UCF faculty, staff, and students. Researchers can search funding opportunities from a wide range of sponsors, save customized searches, and receive automatic alerts when new opportunities become available.
Next Steps and Resources
Getting Started
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Use UCF Single Sign-On (SSO) to access Pivot.
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Set up your account so that you can save your searches.
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If you already have an account, update it to improve automatic recommendations.
Running a search
- Search allows you to determine relevant keywords, topics, sponsors, eligibility, types of funding, and more.
- Review the basics of searching for opportunities with Pivot
- Review advanced search tips to enhance and refine your results
Exploring results and automating searches
- When you run the search in Pivot, you can refine with additional filters on the right side of the page
- Opportuny results can be selected, and it will display a digest of information (links, summary, amount, eligibility, deadline)
- Opportunities can be tracked and saved so you can receive updates regarding those opportunities and searches
Help with searching and Targeted Alerts
- Research Development can help with running a funding search or troubleshooting one you have created. Just let us know!
- Our team also maintains a set of saved searches through our Targeted Alerts support. Visit the page to learn more!