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Updates have been made in MyFunding so that all Funding Proposal (FP) records that are associated with a proposal or award being processed by the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) can be related (connected) to each other.</div>
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<b>Funding Proposals</b></div>
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On the ‘Pitt Additional Information’ SmartForm, a new question has been added: ‘Are there other Funding Proposals (FPs; ex: Letters of Intent, Pre-applications, etc.) related to this project?’ If ‘Yes,’ please select
<b><i>all </i></b>FPs related to the proposal (Figure 1).</li></ul>
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Figure 1.</div>
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<b>Awards</b></div>
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If a Letter of Intent (Pre-application, White Paper, etc.) was submitted in relation to the Award (AWD), the state of the related FP should be updated to ‘Awarded.’</li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%;">
When creating the AWD in MyFunding, please select <b><i>all</i></b> FPs related to the AWD (Figure 2).</li></ul>
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Figure 2.</div>
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