Helpful Tips

The PERIS™ Team will be conducting topic-specific trainings for research administrators throughout the Spring and Summer. No registration is required to attend.

Only individuals listed as “Award Editors” on an award record in MyFunding have the ability to provide others access to the award recor

All award-related documents should be uploaded using the “Upload Award Documents” activity in the MyFunding award workspace (as shown below).

Active projects and projects that closed on or after July 1, 2017 have been converted from InfoEd into MyFunding. Each converted project record in MyFunding has a specific prefix along with the InfoEd award number (I#) for easy identification.

The PERIS™ Team and Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) teamed up to develop the listing of subcodes (cost categories) in MyFunding.

The PERIS™ MyFunding module has been integrated with Sponsored Project Accounting’s (SPA) system, Research Proposal and Accounting (RPA) to transfer award data from MyFunding to RPA and to electronically receive the account number from RPA into MyFun

As a reminder from the tip that was released on January 19, 2018, Departments are required to

As a reminder, a modular budget must be structured in a specific way in the MyFunding module in order to ensure that the modular budget is properly displayed in a grant application.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) allow members of peer review committees and advisory groups to submit under its continuous submission policy (

The MyFunding module of the PERIS™ portal allows users to search for and apply to funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) from a wide variety of federal sponsors.

The PERIS™ team has a dedicated email, peristeam@pitt.edu, which is continuously monitored during normal business hours by the entire PERIS™ team.

When developing a funding proposal in the MyFunding module, selecting a project purpose is required. The project purpose is the category that best reflects the activities described in the proposed scope of work for the project.

Throughout the MyFunding module, question mark icons are located next to many of the questions and represent areas where help text is available.

As a reminder, completing an internal detailed budget in addition to the modular budget format is not required within MyFunding.

Reminder: How to Use the 'Create-Update SF424' Activity in MyFunding As a reminder, when processing a proposal in MyFunding that will be submitted