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1. Gift: A donation of materials, services, facilities, property, cash to an institution or investigator from individuals, corporations, foundations; typically unrestricted with no reporting or performance obligation 2. Grant: A commitment from a corporation, foundation, government, etc. to pro- vide financial assistance for a specific activity with an agreed upon budget in a specified period of time; requires substantial financial and progress/performance reporting 3. Cooperative Agreement: A funding arrangement between an institution and a federal government entity in which the governmental entity will have substantial scientific and programmatic involvement in the activity 4. Contract: An legally binding procurement relationship between a sponsor and an institution that will furnish a product or service as described by the sponsor; requires extensive financial reporting, progress updates and final results 5. Sub-award/Sub-contract: A second tier contract or grant that states the prima- ry funding has been provided by another, often government, sponsor; terms and conditions of the primary award are flowed down to the subawardee 6. Intramural funding: Awards generated by endowments or other funds at an institution; typically awarded through an internal scientific review process with varying award/reporting terms 7. Parent Announcement: NIH broad FOA allowing applicants to submit an inves- tigator-initiated application for a specific activity code 8. Broad Agency Announcement (BAA): An announcement of a federal agency's general research interests that invites proposals and specifies the gen- eral terms and conditions under which an award may be made. 9. Program Announcement (PA): An announcement by an agency requesting applications in the stated scientific areas, typically focused on a specific and narrow area of research (limited application deadlines) 10. Request for Application (RFA): The official statement that invites grant or cooperative agreement applications to accomplish a narrowly defined program purpose 11. Request for Proposal (RFP): Request for Proposals announce that agencies would like to award a contract to meet a specific need outlined by the sponsor, and requires a business and technical proposal (single application deadline) 12. New Proposal: Initial request for support of a project that has not yet been funded 13. Noncompeting Continuation: Request or award for a subsequent budget period within a previously approved project for which a recipient does not have to compete with other applications 14. Competing Continuation: A request for funding to renew, by one or more additional budget periods, a project period that would otherwise expire. 15. Resubmission: An unfunded application that has been modified following initial review and resubmitted for new consideration. 16. Supplement: A request for an increase in support in a current budget period for expansion of the project's approved scope or research protocol. 17. Program Officer: The agency official responsible for the programmatic, scien- tific, and/or technical aspects of a grant.