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Pivot: Funding Resource

What is Pivot?

Pivot brings together research opportunities, funding, and people. It provides global and local connections that strengthen research by exploring new avenues for funding and collaboration. Pivot works by matching scholar profiles from your institution against over 11,500 funding opportunities from across the globe that are updated dailyPivot also:

  • Provides access to the most comprehensive global source of funding opportunities—totaling billions of dollars and growing
  • Identifies researcher expertise from within or outside of your organization from millions of profiles from leading research organizations worldwide
  • Fosters collaboration by cultivating essential partnerships and alliances
  • Enhances communication, monitoring, and tracking amongst individual faculty, teams, or researchers and the Research Development office
  • Allows the focus to be on winning the necessary awards and grants
  • Builds strong network connections for future opportunities

Pivot is available to all SDSU faculty, staff, and students. For off-campus access to Pivot, you must be logged into the SDSU VPN. For more information about what Pivot has to offer, visit their website here, or check out the video below.