As a reminder, contacting the correct person in the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will ensure that questions related to agreement actions in MyRA are handled quickly and efficiently.
For non-technical questions related to non-financial agreements (indicated below), contact the Contract Services Team at clincorp@pitt.edu.
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.
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.
Funding Proposals
When preparing system-to system administrative supplements in MyFunding, Opportunity IDs (Figure 1) may include multiple application packages (Figure 2). Therefore, carefully review each package description and select the appropriate package to ensure all required forms and components are included in the submission.
Figure 1. Opportunity ID
To copy a Funding Proposal in MyFunding, select the ‘Copy’ activity on the left-hand side of the Workspace (Figure 1).
Deliverables can be managed on an Active Award in MyFunding with the ‘Manage Deliverables’ activity (Figure 1).
Figure 1.
To add a deliverable:
An update has resolved the previously reported eRA Commons technical issue in which users encountered warning messages when attaching SciENcv documents to grant applications (NOT-OD-26-018).
In response to user feedback, two Award Modification Request (AMR) notifications have been updated to include the “Assigner” (the user who assigns the “Submitter,” i.e., the departmental research administrator submitting the request).
For any new AMRs created in MyFunding after April 15, 2026, the ‘Assigner’ will receive the following notifications:
To create a Budget Period that is less than the standard 12-month duration, navigate to the Budget Periods and Key Dates SmartForm in MyFunding. Click the "Update Periods" option (Figure 1; a new window will open) and update the duration of any of the listed periods. Check the box ‘Use advanced editing’, so that the period-end date options become available. Choose a date and then click ‘OK’ (Figure 2).
To ensure that MyFunding data remain accurate, any funding proposal that stays in ‘Pending Department Submission’ status will trigger an automated notification every 7 days to both the Department Administrator and the Principal Investigator. At each notification, the funding proposal status should be reviewed and updated when possible.
