Tips

MyFunding Department and School Reviewers can be found under the Reviewers tab in the funding proposal and award workspace. If the tab is not visible, click the three ellipses to expose the other tabs that may be hidden due to the size of your screen (see Figures 1 - 4).

To ensure CITI trainings are populated in MyFunding, please confirm that your CITI profile uses your Pitt email address as either the primary or secondary email address on your account. 

When developing a budget in the MyFunding module that does not use the F&A rates found in the current rate memo, Question 5 should be marked ‘No’, which will allow the user to enter the applicable rate to be applied and the reason why the standard rate is not being used.

You may need to create an Amendment for an Agreement in MyRA for a variety of reasons - time extension, change in materials/data, change in PI, etc. To create an Amendment, the Agreement must be in ‘Active’ state and with no other pending Amendments.

Individuals listed as Department Administrator, Editor, or Principal Investigator on the funding proposal can execute the ‘Withdraw Proposal’ activity (Figure 1). 

Please note: The activity will only be available in the following states:

Only individuals affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh can be listed as a Principal Investigator (PI) on an agreement in MyRA. Individuals from another institution or outside the University cannot be listed on a MyRA agreement.

As a reminder, you do not need to wait until a contracting party is added to MyRA to complete and submit Agreements. When you select 'Pending' for the contracting party (Figure 1), the agreement will be automatically updated when the new contracting party is available.

Figure 1. Contracting Party Information Workspace

In response to user feedback, the PERIS™ Team has implemented two updates to email notifications.

If you are a Mac/iOS user experiencing issues logging into MyFunding or MyRA (such as a continuous loop of log-on screens, etc.), try using Firefox or Chrome to access these sites.  If the login issues continue, please contact the PERIS™ Help Desk (peristeam@pitt.edu) for further assistance.

Departments are required to update the status of their proposals in MyFunding when proposals are submitted by the Department directly to the sponsor.

Once the proposal is submitted to the sponsor, the Department should select the ‘Submit to Non-Grants Gov Sponsor’ activity and attach a copy of the submitted proposal (Figures 1 and 2).