About Us
Your Partners in Achieving Private Institutional Funding Success
We provide comprehensive support for faculty seeking to accelerate their work through partnerships with private philanthropic organizations. Our goal is to offer guidance that strengthens impactful research, scholarship, and creative endeavors at UMass Amherst.
Mission
As a campus-wide unit, we maximize giving to UMass Amherst from foundations and other private institutional funders through thought partnership at every stage of the proposal development process.
Vision
We strive to be a trusted partner for all faculty, development officers, and administrators at UMass Amherst in the development of successful outreach and proposals to private funders.
Marco Cocito-Monoc
Provides strategic guidance on private foundation cultivation and proposal development to help faculty secure funding to support their research.
Rebecca Feinberg
Supports strategy development, proposal structuring and alignment, content editing, and coordinates communication with university stakeholders.
Ruofan Li
Curates funding opportunities, researches aligned funders, and develops resources to help UMass Amherst secure private foundation support.
