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mechanisms and awardees. They represent the RAP Committee or RAP Consortium, and are responsible for selecting their own awardees.</p> <p>The selection process initially starts within each agency, and it is based on the following criteria:</p> <ul style="margin-left: 40px;"> <li>Scientific scores</li> <li>Funds available</li> <li>Fit with Funders’ priorities</li> <li>Applicant’s potential to secure large funding in the near future</li> </ul> <p>On a second and final step, known as the “horse-trading” meeting, all the faculty directors and program managers of the agencies that sponsor the funding cycle, convene in a final meeting.</p> <p>This meeting captures the beauty and strength of the program allowing funders to literally trade awardees so that the overall funding can stretch further.</p> <p>Almost every agency has some type of restriction. This meeting and the trading facilitates removal of such barriers, and allows the agencies to leverage the power of the consortium in maximizing their final funding. Agencies with eligibility restrictions greatly benefit from this model.</p> <p>Once the awardees are selected, the RAP function ends, and the funding agencies begin their relationship with their awardees. The agencies notify the awardees, in the person of the faculty contact Principal Investigator (PI1) and post award analyst, and send them the official award letter.</p> <p>All post award activities, including progress reporting, are managed by the funding agencies.</p> <p>RAP sends out denials to the applicants who have not been selected for funding and makes the results of the review available to all applicants, funded and not-funded.</p> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="column"> <div class="sidebar_top"> <div class="region region-sidebar-top"> <div id="block-menu-block-2" class="block block-menu-block"> <h3><a href="/about" class="active-trail">About</a></h3> <div class="content"> <div class="menu-block-wrapper menu-block-2 menu-name-main-menu parent-mlid-0 menu-level-2"> <ul class="menu"><li class="first leaf menu-mlid-3646"><a href="/leadership_view" title="">Leadership</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-2661"><a href="/people_bio" title="">People</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-2046"><a href="/funding-agencies">Funding Agencies</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-3651"><a href="/disseminationsubmission-process">Dissemination/Submission Process</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-2051"><a href="/review-process">Review Process</a></li> <li class="leaf active-trail active menu-mlid-3656"><a href="/award-process" class="active-trail active">Award Process</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-2056"><a href="/why-rap-rap-manuscript">Why RAP</a></li> <li class="last leaf menu-mlid-2546"><a href="/contact-us">Contact</a></li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sidebar"> <div class="section"> <div class="region region-sidebar"> <div id="block-block-6" class="block block-block callout-box"> <h3>Quicklinks</h3> <div class="content"> <div align="center"> <p style="text-align: left;"><a class="btn--small btn--blue" href="https://rap.ucsf.edu/eligibility-compare-grants" target="_blank">ELIGIBILITY & COMPARE GRANTS </a></p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a class="btn--small btn--blue" href="https://rapapp.ucsf.edu/">Resource Allocation Portal</a> </p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a class="btn--small btn--blue" href="https://rdo.ucsf.edu/">Research Development Office Website</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-block-16" class="block block-block"> <h3>Grant Deadlines</h3> <div class="content"> <p><u><strong>FALL 2024 CYCLE</strong></u></p> <p><strong>Funding Results: </strong>will be available via your portal acct. in late December, 2024.</p> <p><br /> <u><strong>SPRING 2025 CYCLE</strong></u></p> <p><strong>Call Opens:</strong>Thurs. <strong>January 30, 2025</strong></p> <p><strong>Deadline:</strong> Mon. <strong>March 3, 2025</strong><br /> (2:00 pm PST)<br /> <br /> <strong>Funding Results: </strong>available before end of May, 2025</p> <p><br /> <br /> <strong><u>TWO CYCLES PER YEAR</u></strong><br /> <br /> SPRING Deadline: February/March <br /> <br /> FALL Deadline: September/October </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div id="footer"> <div class="section"> <div class="region region-footer"> <div id="block-block-11" class="block block-block footer-contact-us"> <div class="content"> <p><strong>Resource Allocation Program</strong></p> <p> </p> <div class="wysiwyg_twocols layout--40-60"> <div class="wysiwyg_twocols--first bg--transparent"> <p>600 16th Street, Suite 116, San Francisco, CA 94143<br /> <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ed9f8c9dad988e9e8bc3888998"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a6d4c7d6e6d3c5d5c088c3c2d3">[email protected]</span></a></p> </div> <div class="wysiwyg_twocols--second bg--transparent"> <p><b>Phone:</b> 415-502-1674<br /> <b>Fax:</b> 415-502-1675</p> </div> </div> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer-bottom"> <nav aria-label="Footer Navigation" class="footer--navigation"> <ul> <li><a href="rap.ucsf.edu/contact-us">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ucsf.edu/accessibility-resources">Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ucsf.edu/website-privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</a></li> <li><a href="https://websites.ucsf.edu/website-terms-use">Terms of Use </a></li> <li><a href="https://websites.ucsf.edu/azlist">A-Z Website List</a></li> </ul> </nav> <div class="footer--copyright"> <p>© 2025 The Regents of the University of California</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> /*<![CDATA[*/ (function() { var sz = document.createElement('script'); sz.type = 'text/javascript'; sz.async = true; sz.src = '//siteimproveanalytics.com/js/siteanalyze_8343.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(sz, s); })(); /*]]>*/ </script> </body> </html>