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making information, guides, tools, and advice to help develop and
pursue successful funding strategies for ideas, projects and programs.
Search
grant awards
This is should be the
first stop in developing a grant proposal. To ensure your idea is
unique and/or fundable, search grants that have already been funded.
Use already funded activities to aid in research design or strategy.
- CRISP
(biomedical grants)
CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
is a searchable database of funded biomedical research projects
sponsored by the NIH, FDA, and several other federal agencies.
- CRIS
(agriculture, food, and forestry grants)
CRIS is a database of ongoing and recently completed research
and education projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and
forestry. Projects are conducted or sponsored by USDA research
agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, land-grant universities,
or other cooperating state institutions.
- National
Science Foundation (grants awarded)
Search by keyword, institution, or program.
Identify
funding mechanisms
Some federal agencies
have a variety of grant programs or funding mechanisms. Choose the
right mechanism to improve your chances of getting funded.
- CSREES/USDA
Learn the difference between competitive grants, formula funds
and non-competitive grant programs.
- NIH
Office of Extramural Research
You've got your RO1s, your RO3s, your T32s and your big IDeAs
but do you know the difference? Look here to find out.
Write
the proposal
- For information on how to write a grant and why grants get funded,
go to Sponsored Projects Administration's Strategic
Advice page.
- Guide
for Writing a Funding Proposal
Practical hints and examples, broken down by specific sections
of a proposal.
- Proposal
writing short course (The Foundation Center)
Excerpted from the book, The Foundation Center's Guide to
Proposal Writing. The focus is process for non-profit, non-governmental
proposals.
- Grant
writing tools for non-profit organizations
Contains many samples for writing grants.
- GrantProposal.com
Produced by professional grantwriter Elizabeth Brunner, this Web
site outlines the steps of preparing a proposal and offers advice
on researching funding opportunities, as well as providing sample
proposals and letters of inquiry. An excellent introduction to
the principles of grantseeking.
- CFDA's
Developing and Writing Grant Proposals
This article from the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance offers
advice on preparing proposals for federal funders, including developing
a project, gathering community or institutional support, and the
various parts of the proposal itself.
- The Art of
Grantsmanship
Prepared by Dr. Jacob Kraicer of the University of Toronto, this
is an excellent summary of advice for obtaining research funding. It
concisely covers designing a project, identifying a funding source,
writing the proposal, and how the proposal will likely be reviewed. A
good brush-up before starting to write a proposal.
Peer
Review
- A Video
on Peer Review
This video shows how outside experts assess applications and how
review meetings are conducted to ensure fairness. The video also
includes information on what applicants can do to improve the
chances their applications will receive a positive review. This
video was developed in collaboration with the NIH Office of Extramural
Research.
- The
Peer Review Process
The Center for Scientific Review offers this primer for new applicants
about what happens to your grant application at NIH.
- NSF
Proposal Review Book
Describes the NSF review process for peer reviewers of NSF proposals.
- Foundation
Grant Review
An excerpt from the Minnesota Council on Foundation's grantseeking
primer that looks at what happens after you submit a proposal
to a foundation.
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