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Pivot is a searchable database of 25,000+ funding opportunities across all disciplines. Auburn faculty, staff and students can create custom email alerts, share opportunities, and save or track them based on their interests.

Pivot Database

Federal Funding Resources

Explore opportunities from major federal agencies to support your research and creative work.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Internal Funding Programs

Access Auburn-sponsored programs designed to support and grow faculty research and creative initiatives.

Creative Work and Social Impact Scholarship

The Creative Work and Social Impact Scholarship program provides competitive internal funding for faculty projects that advance creative and socially impactful scholarship while enhancing Auburn’s visibility and prestige.

Creative Work and Social Impact Scholarship Funding Program (CWSIS)

Research Support Program (RSP)

The Research Support Program provides seed funding for promising, impactful research projects that foster interdisciplinary collaboration, build research capacity and position faculty for sustained external funding.

Research Support Program (RSP)

Creative Research & Scholarship Awards

The Creative Research and Scholarship Awards honor Auburn faculty for outstanding research, scholarly, and creative contributions to their fields through two annual awards.

Creative Research & Scholarship Awards

Launch

The LAUNCH Program accelerates the commercial potential of Auburn innovations, helping projects reach the next stage of development or licensing.

LAUNCH

SEC Faculty Travel Grant

The Auburn University SEC Faculty Travel Grant provides up to $10,000 annually to support faculty visits to other SEC campuses, fostering collaboration, research and scholarly initiatives across the conference.

SEC Faculty Travel Grant

Additional Funding Opportunities

AU Consortiums

Auburn’s memberships in three prestigious research consortiums — ARPANET-H, MCDC, and MTEC — give faculty unique access to targeted federal funding, collaboration networks and insight into government research priorities.

AU Consortiums

Foundation Funding

A database of awarded corporate and foundation grants is available through the Corporate and Foundation Relations Office. For more information about these types of grants or about a specific corporate or private funder, please contact Evan Havard, Development Officer/Corporate Foundations Relations, University Advancement, (334) 844-8765.