Pivot-RP
Turn research funding opportunities into outcomes
Get the right funding opportunities to the right researchers
Pivot-RP is an expert-curated source of global research funding opportunities with powerful workflow, intelligence and discovery tools.
Curated data
Strategic intelligence
Workflow tools
Turn opportunities into outcomes
Billions of dollars in research funding
Discover global research funding opportunities worth billions of dollars across the widest variety of funding types.
Editorially curated funding database
A dedicated team of editors ensure timely discoverability and accuracy of eligibility criteria and deadlines.
AI-powered funding recommendations
The AI-driven Pivot-RP Funding Advisor® recommends funding opportunities based on a researcher’s profile.
Institution-specific customization
Promote the research office’s services and resources by customizing the Pivot-RP interface with institutional branding.
Efficient communication tools
Communicate effectively and efficiently across your organization with built-in features for sharing funding information.
Research policy news
An additional resource, Research Professional News™ provides timely and trusted global news on research funding and policy.
Streamlined funding workflows
Curate funding lists, automate newsletters, and communicate deadlines — all in one place.
AI-enhanced semantic search
Find more relevant funding with natural language search that understands meaning, not just keywords.
AI-generated titles and summaries
Get clearer context with AI-created titles and summaries that make funding opportunities easier to find and understand.
Pivot-RP workflow tools
Lift administrative burden with time-saving workflow tools to help the research office deliver more funding.
Easily customize the Pivot-RP interface to reflect your institution’s logo, branding and color scheme. This customization will also be reflected across newsletters, funding alert emails and internal and limited submission opportunities to help you better promote your services. Also customize the right column with text, links and images to promote your research office.
Add and publish internal funding opportunities, set internal deadlines and make all funding discoverable in the same tool.
Save researchers time and effort by presenting curated lists of funding opportunities and pre-scoped searches to guide users to the most topically relevant content for their specific research interests. Easily embed direct links to curated lists and searches in emails, newsletters, department web pages, social media, or any other communication channels.
Researchers can create private groups of users to share funding information with frequent collaborators. Admins can also set up public interest groups on any topic and make them visible to all users at their institution.
Administrators can scale their reach by setting-up reoccurring newsletters that deliver the most current funding opportunities to relevant audiences with minimal effort.
Create in-app announcements to remind users about internal deadlines, resources, or procedures for funding applications.
Pivot-RP by the numbers
$86.53b+
34k+
20k+
5m+
Benefit from a trusted global funding database
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Frequently asked questions
Pivot-RP is designed for researchers, research administrators, and institutional staff who need to discover funding opportunities and manage research development activities. Researchers can find grants and collaborators that align with their expertise, while administrators can curate opportunities, share updates, and support strategic funding initiatives across the institution.
Pivot-RP provides access to funding opportunities from global sponsors, including government agencies, foundations, and corporations. Users can identify grants, fellowships, prizes, and other funding programs across all disciplines and career stages, with filters to match specific research interests and eligibility criteria.
Funding opportunities in Pivot-RP are curated by an in-house team of funding experts who review and verify information from government agencies, foundations, and other sponsors. The database is updated daily to ensure that funding information remains current and accurate.
Pivot-RP uses responsible, transparent AI built on Clarivate’s Academic AI Platform to improve funding discovery and researcher matching. AI powers features such as the Funding Advisor®, which recommends opportunities aligned with a researcher’s profile, and semantic search, which understands meaning beyond keywords. It also generates titles and summaries to help users quickly assess funding relevance — all based on verified, expertly curated data rather than scraped web content.
Yes. Pivot-RP’s AI-powered Funding Advisor® automatically recommends funding opportunities that match a researcher’s profile, discipline, and research interests. Recommendations are based on verified, expertly curated funder data, ensuring relevant and trustworthy results tailored to each user.
Yes, promote your research funding opportunities to millions of Pivot-RP worldwide.
Use on-demand videos and resources to start using the platform today. For more in-depth training, institution-specific training sessions can be scheduled.
Find the most up-to-date information, release notes and resources for Pivot-RP in our Knowledge Center. The website is broken down into easy to navigate sections.
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Pivot
Yes, promote your conference’s call for papers and presentation proposals by visiting Conferences and Papers Invited. Complete the form to submit your requests.
Our enhancement ideas and prioritization is heavily influenced by our users.
Pivot-RP’s global team of expert editors continuously curates and verifies funding opportunities from thousands of sources. Each record is reviewed for accuracy, timeliness, and eligibility criteria to ensure users can rely on trusted, up-to-date information.
Pivot-RP includes a wide range of funding opportunities — from research grants and fellowships to travel awards, prizes, and training programs — across disciplines and career stages.
Pivot-RP leverages large language models from the Clarivate Academic AI Platform to enhance discovery and decision-making. AI powers features such as personalized funding recommendations, semantic search, and automatically generated titles and summaries that make opportunities easier to find and understand.
Pivot-RP currently includes more than 34,000 active funding opportunities worth over $86 billion USD, with historical insight into more than 5 million previously awarded grants.
Funding data in Pivot-RP is update daily to ensure users always have access to the most current deadlines, eligibility requirements, and funding details.
Pivot-RP monitors more than 20,000 global funders, including government agencies, foundations, nonprofits, academic institutions, and corporate sponsors.
Yes. The AI-driven Pivot-RP Funding Advisor automatically recommends funding opportunities tailored to each researcher’s profile, helping users discover the most relevant opportunities quickly.
Research offices can curate and share targeted funding lists, automate newsletters, and communicate internal deadlines — all from within Pivot-RP. These workflow tools help align researchers with institutional priorities and strengthen proposal pipelines.
Pivot-RP is valuable for individual researchers seeking new funding, research administrators managing institutional funding strategy, and leaders aiming to enhance competitiveness and research impact across their organization.
