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Accessing FastLane https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/fastlane.jsp Select Proposals, Awards and Status. Log in using Last Name, NSF ID, and password.

Grants Proposal Guide The NSF Grants Proposal Guide can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=gpg

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General Formatting Guidelines: Acceptable Fonts Arial/Courier New/Palatino 10pt or larger

Times New Roman/Computer Modern Family 11 pt or larger Margins At least 1 inch top, bottom, left, right Page Numbers Include them, may be in the margins Project Summary Limited to 1 page; must include intellectual merit and broader impact

statements Project Description Typically 15 page limit Bio-sketch Limited to 2 pages; must include one for each person identifies as Senior

Project Personnel Mentoring Plan Required if funds used to support post-docs; attach in Supplemental

Materials. Creating a proposal Update PI information first

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Create Coversheet – this is where the particular program is selected.

To Add Co-Investigators, use his or her NSF ID. If you don’t know NSF ID, email that person, your Contract Administrator, or Sally Egloff - ext58060.

Uploading various proposal documents:

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You can enter unformatted text in text boxes, or select Transfer file, and upload the selected file. Creating the Budget: There are 2 options to create the budget:

1. Key everything into FastLane 2. Download Budget Template, complete and re-upload.

Collaborative Proposals

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Collaborative proposals are when 2 or more organizations propose to work on one project. Submitting through NSF depends on how the award will be established.

1. If a single award will be made to the lead organization, which will then issue sub-awards, the lead institution completes everything in FastLane, including the sub-awardee’s statement of work, biosketches, mentoring plan, etc.

a. Lead institution may decided to provide Temp Proposal ID and PIN for sub-awardee to enter information directly into the proposal.

2. If NSF will issue multiple awards, then the proposals are a true collaborative. Each organization creates their own proposal, with the title “Collaborative Research:…” The non-lead organization assigns a PIN to the proposal and provides the PIN and the Temp Proposal ID to the lead organization. The Lead organization enters in this information to link the proposals. Both institutions submit the proposal via FastLane in as close a timeframe as possible.

Assigning a PIN to a Temporary Proposal With a PIN, Temporary Proposal number, and FastLane account, others can access your FastLane proposal to enter information. This includes other Investigators, students, business staff, and collaborators. Select the Temporary Proposal Number and click on Proposal PIN Once your proposal is complete, route the electronic copy to ORA. Select the Proposal Number, and click – Allow SRO Access.