FACULTY OPPORTUNITIES

Contacting Corporate, Foundation and Other Potential Funding Sources

Foundation searches:
The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations has a subscription to the Foundation Center's entire database of over 70,000 grantmakers and over 200,000 recent grants. Let us discuss your project with you and assist you with a search of potential private funders. If you prefer to search on your own, please click here.

Corporate contacts:
The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations has several resources available for initiating contacts with industry. These include past sponsors, an accumulated history of industrial contacts, FAU friends and alumni in industry, and various search tools. We also visit companies and industry associations on a regular basis. Please contact us to see how we can assist you in matching your program with a potential industrial sponsor.

Technology Transfer:
If you are interested in patents, copyrights or trademark protection for your work, or want to explore commercialization of your work with potential industrial collaborators, please contact the Office of Technology Transfer.

For more information, please contact:

Kurt R. Moore, CFRE
Assistant VP for Research & Director of Technology Transfer
777 Glades Road, ADM 232
Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991
email: kmoore34@fau.edu
tel: 561-297-1165
fax: 561-297-2141

February 2008 by Dianne Parkerson