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The Research Foundation is a private, nonprofit educational corporation that administers externally funded contracts and grants for and on behalf of the State University of New York. Since its establishment in 1951, the Research Foundation has facilitated research, education, and public service at 30 state-operated SUNY locations. The Foundation provides the independence and administrative flexibility to respond quickly to the special demands of sponsored programs in a manner that facilitates their scientific or technical execution; these are needs that could not be as easily accommodated through state processes. The legal applicant/recipient for an institutional grant is The Research Foundation of SUNY on behalf of SUNY/College at Old Westbury, P.O. Box 9, Albany, NY 12201.
The Research Foundation's structure is divided between decentralized and centralized campuses. Decentralized campuses are those more independent of Research Foundation Central and possessing more control over decision-making at the campus level. They are the four university centers (Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook), which are also the major research centers. Centralized campuses are those still directly controlled by the Research Foundation Central Office, providing services not easily affordable by the smaller SUNY campuses with smaller research programs. The remainder of the SUNY campuses (including Old Westbury) fall into this category. For each of these campuses, there is a Contracts and Grants Specialist at the Research Foundation Central Office who is responsible for assisting the University Colleges in the finer, more complicated points of a grant proposal or administration.
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