Helpful Tips

Users can update the Department Administrator, Editors, and Readers on Funding Proposals (FP) by using the ‘Manage Access’ activity from the menu on the left (Figure 1).

The PERIS™ Team uses Salesforce as the platform for managing MyFunding and MyRA inquiries.

An increase in PERIS™ help tickets over the last few weeks has been related to special characters (

Users can update the Department Administrator, Editors, and

As a reminder, you do not need to wait until a contracting party is added to MyRA to complete and submit Agreements .

In response to user feedback, notifications for a declined Award Modification have been updated to include editors listed on the Award and the OSP Specialist (Figure 1).  

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.

Continuations are initially created from an award in the Award Workspace.

In response to user feedback, notifications for any requested changes on an Award Modification have been updated to include editors listed on the Award as well as the OSP Specialist (Figure 1).  

As a reminder, contacting the correct person in the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will ensure that questions related to agreement actions in MyR

On an Award in MyFunding, an optional activity called Manage Deliverables (Figure 1) is available.  With this activity, a list of deliverables can be identified with a specific due date and frequency for each.

The “Withdraw” activity in MyRA is only available to principal investigators (PIs) or their proxies.

Cost Share and Subaward budgets are the only budgets in MyFunding that can be deleted if created in error or are no longer needed (see Figures 1 and 2).

If you receive an error when attaching a document to an SF424 related to the size of a PDF (Figure 1), it is because the attached document is not 8.5x11 inches in size.

An enhancement has been made to the MyFunding Budget Periods and Key Dates SmartForm.