The staff is responsible for ensuring that proposals, budgets, and contracts comply with federal, sponsor, Foundation, and University guidelines. The following list consists of phone numbers and the Foundation staff responsible for Grants, Contracts, and Foundation Programs. For a description of job responsibilities, please click on the title below. From off campus, dial 562-98(Ext).
Sandra Shereman
Sr. Director of Sponsored Programs and New Business Development
ssherema@csulb.edu
(562) 985-7619
Charles Greenwood
Compliance Coordinator
greenwoo@csulb.edu
(562)985-2444
Olga Boswell
Senior G&C Administrator
oboswell@csulb.edu
(562)985-8597
Brent Meredith
G&C Administrator
bmeredit@csulb.edu
(562)985-2706
Patti Folsom
G&C Coordinator
pfolsom@csulb.edu
(562)985-8147
Kaz Mogi
G&C Technician (PT)
(562)985-5714
Senior Director of Sponsored Programs and New Business Development
Responsible for the overall management and administration of Grants, Contracts and Foundation Programs. This includes specific pre-award activity, post-award activity, and compliance and systems for sponsored awards.
Director of Grants, Contracts and Foundation Programs
Responsible for the direct supervision of the Grant and Contracts Administrators, managing the day-to-day post-award functions of the office, overseeing Foundation Program activities, subagreement development and negotiations, and assisting Project Directors with preparing proposal budgets.
Compliance Coordinator
Responsible for monitoring post-award compliance including effort reporting, sub-recipient activity, conflict of interest documentation and cost match documentation.
Grants and Contracts Administrators
Primary customer service contact for Project Directors and personnel regarding all post-award activity on sponsored projects (07 accounts) and certain Foundation Program accounts (accounts beginning with 06, 095, 17, and 49); specifically account set-up, expenditure review, prior approvals, invoicing, financial reporting, cost share reports, and account close-outs.
Click on the link for a list of colleges and departments with primary G&C Administrator responsible for account administration.
Please note that for particular accounts, the administrator may be different than the primary. If you are unsure of who to contact call Patti Folsom at 562-985-8147(or email:pfolsom@csulb.edu) and you will be directed to appropriate administrator. You may also email the department email address:fdngrants@csulb.edu and someone will assist you.
Senior Foundation Programs Administrator
Primary customer service contact for Project Directors and personnel regarding the administration of Foundation 06, 08, 09, 17, 19, 29, and 49 accounts; specifically account set-up, expenditure review, account maintenance and account close-outs.
Grants and Contracts Administrative Coordinator
Responsible for the administrative functions in support of the G&C staff including: routing new award paperwork to Project Directors, maintaining the new award log, assisting with subrecipient monitoring and assisting with the account close-out process.
Grants and Contracts Technician
Responsible for the letter of credit cash requests and reporting, identifying cash receipts, researching cash receipts in suspense; assisting G&C Administrators with cost share memos and JEs; monitor special project agreements for expiration and update, sending quarterly notices to ASMs on projects in need of updating; scan award documents for G&C Administrators to include with account set-up email to PIs; enter time and effort data into Foundation's effort reporting system and generate effort reporting statemetns for G&C Administrators review and distribution to faculty/staff.
