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Philanthropy News Digest

Philanthropy News Digest publishes requests for proposals (RFPs) and notices of awards as a free service for U.S.-based nonprofit and grantmaking organizations.

PND, a daily news service of Candid (formerly Foundation Center), publishes RFP listings daily, and the RFP Bulletin summarizes the week’s listings every Friday afternoon. Each RFP listing provides a brief overview of a current funding opportunity offered by a foundation or other grantmaking organization. Interested applicants should read the full RFP at the grantmaker’s website or contact the grantmaker directly for complete program guidelines and eligibility requirements before submitting a proposal. PND also maintains a comprehensive list of foundations and philanthropic organizations.

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Citavi

USC faculty, postdocs, and students now have access to the licensed web and desktop editions of Citavi, a reference management and note-taking software.

Citavi combines reference management and knowledge organization. With Citavi you can search resources from around the world, create tasks, analyze texts, save quotations and ideas, create outlines for drafts, and write reports, articles, or books – faster and more efficiently than you ever thought possible. Your team’s findings and discussions from what they read can be organized separate from the literature making this expert knowledge available to all and easy to use and re-use in individual projects. Your knowledge stays in your organization and can be used by the entire team for years to come. Citavi‘s categories, groups, filters, and search help you find exactly the literature and information you need efficiently and securely. In your documents all content can be sorted and categorized by the user. Citavi automatically creates a bibliography for your study, report or other publication – if desired with special chapter formatting. The citation style can be changed at any time with a click.

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GrantForward

Grant Forward is a search engine dedicated to helping institutions and individuals find grant opportunities. GrantForward is able to cover more than 12,000 sponsor sources to provide a comprehensive database of more than 40,000 funding opportunities that continues to grow with the most up to date information.

GrantForward’s powerful search system helps to lessen the hassle of searching for grants with adaptable search filters and specialized search features. GrantForward researcher profiles allow researchers to highlight their research achievements and interests to receive personalized grant recommendations for grant opportunities that match their research needs. In order to be able to take advantage of all of the features that GrantForward offers, you will have to create an account using your institution email address. If you would like to benefit from receiving grant recommendations, then you will also need to make sure to create your researcher profile.

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Dimensions

Dimensions is a tool licensed by USC to find and compare research grants, patents, clinical trials, publications and other metrics by individual, specialty or university. Dimensions can be used to identify potential collaborators or experts.

Dimensions is a linked research data platform. Each of the data sources (publications, research funding, patents and clinical trials) can be searched simultaneously, and they are even linked together where relevant. You can see which paper came from which grant, for example. In some ways, it’s similar to other platforms you may have used such as Scopus or Web of Science, but with a much wider and more open scope. Dimensions is designed to help anyone involved in research to get better knowledge about what is going on in their research area and how this is changing over time.

Click here for basic information on Dimensions.
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NubiS

NubiS is a complete data collection tool that has been developed by the team behind the Understanding America Study (UAS) panel at the Center for Economic and Social Research at the University of Southern California. NubiS runs on any server, pc, laptop or netbook as well as on android tablets or smartphones.

The NubiS system includes all the traditional modes of data collection like self-administered, face-to-face, and telephone interviewing. NubiS can also collect continuous information from smartphones, tablets or other external devices like accelerometers, GPS devices, blood pressure meters and other biomedical devices. This information can be combined with survey data and for example used to prompt or ask questions to respondents.

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Understanding America Study

The Understanding America Study (UAS) is a panel of households at the University of Southern California (USC) of approximately 9,400 respondents representing the entire United States. The study is an ‘Internet Panel,’ which means that respondents answer surveys on a computer, tablet, or smart phone, wherever they are and whenever they wish to participate. Right now the USC Center for Economic and Social Research’s Understanding Coronavirus in America tracking survey is following the attitudes and behaviors around the Novel Coronavirus pandemic in the United States. They also tracked the U.S. 2020 Presidential Election both pre and post-election.

A majority of the UAS data is publicly available. An excellent start is the UAS Comprehensive File, which merges the data from a number core surveys in the UAS that are repeated every two years. To explore the UAS data in an interactive manner check out the UAS Visualization Toolkit.

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