{"id":5,"date":"2024-04-17T16:07:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T20:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/foundation-relations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:03:29","slug":"foundation-relations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How we work with faculty<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The <strong>Boston University Foundation Relations<\/strong> team, within the <strong>Office of Advancement<\/strong>, helps faculty identify, apply for, secure, and steward charitable gifts and grants from private philanthropic foundations and nongovernmental organizations. We match faculty research and programs with foundations\u2019 priorities, which are often to support pilot projects and high-risk research that may not be attractive to traditional funders such as NIH and NSF. Additional details about how we work can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/overview-of-foundation-relations\/\">this overview <\/a>and our tips for success in securing grants are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/resources\/tips-for-grantseeking-success\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u201cThey were a GREAT addition to the process:\u00a0 proactive, professional, detail oriented, rapidly responsive, friendly, and accommodating&#8230;.In short, they were a key member of our submission team. Truth be told, I am not 100% sure that we would have made the submission deadline without them<\/em><em>.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u2014<strong>Thomas Gilmore, PhD, Professor, Biology<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How we work with faculty The Boston University Foundation Relations team, within the Office of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23528,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}