Grant writing
Basic grant writing
Specific grant or project writing
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Other Federal agencies (EPA, USDA, Education, Arts)
Foundations
Review Process
Sample proposals
Basic grant writing advice-key points, links to other useful basic grant writing sites
- You can get the grant (Mary Waters)
- Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing Good Grant Proposals (Robert Porter)
- Elements of a Competitive Grant Proposal (Rubén O. Martínez)
- Grant Writing for Success (Anthony M. Coelho, Jr.)
- Grant Writing (Mike Cronan)
Specific grant or project writing advice
- New and Early Stage Investigators
Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (can download the PDF, National Academies Press 2011) - Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation (National Academy of Sciences, 2010)
- Minority Health Research and Grant Program (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board)
- NSF learning and teaching funding opportunities (Dennis Davenport, 11/2010)
- Federal Instrumentation Grants and How to Compete for Them (Lucy Deckard)
- Responsible conduct of research for NIH, NSF and others
Developing a data management plan
- NSF Data Management Plan - required for applications on/after 1/18/2011
- Resources for developing an NSF Data Management Plan
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- NIH Grant Writing Tips
- NIH update - slide show give July 2010
- Training Opportunities at NIH Intramural Research Program
- NIH Minority Opportunities in Research
- NIH Orientation For HACU Faculty Fellows
- NIH National Institute of Mental Health
- NIH Overview of the National Institutes of Health NIH
- NIH Receipt and Referral of Grant Application
- NIH Got the Grant, What is Next?
- NIH Eliminating Health Disparities
- Grant Writing for Success NIH
National Science Foundation (NSF)
- NSF learning and teaching funding opportunities (Dennis Davenport, 11/2010)
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Update - slide show given July 2010
- A guide for proposal writing
- NSF procedures and policy manual (For applications on/after 1/25/2016)
- Advice on Writing Proposals to the National Science Foundation (Susan Finger)
- How to write a winning NSF CAREER proposal (Lucy Deckard) - extremely useful, especially handouts at end
- NSF CAREER - education component workshop (Jeffrey Froyd)
- NSF CAREER Proposal Writing Tips: A Collection of Essays (Clark Univ.)
- NSF CAREER program (Lucy Deckard)
- NSF CAREER program (Laurie Garton)
- NSF Major Research Instrumentation Overview of program (Randy Phelps)
- NSF Major Research Instrumentation - what makes an application fail or be competitive (Randy Phelps)
- NSF Major Research Instrumentation Webinar 3/15/10
- Education & the Arts
- US Department of Education Grants - Frequently asked questions
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) - advice on preparing your grant
- Foundations
- Foundation Center - proposal writing short course
- Review process
- The NIH Review Process
- Peer Review of NIH Research Grant Applications (Anthony M. Coelho, Jr.)
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
- NIH R13/U13 Gordon Research Conference Proposal (Gordon Research Conferences)
- NIH R13/U13 Joint Gordon Research Conference/Gordon Research Seminar (Gordon Research Conferences)
- NSF CAREER proposals - 5 funded proposals related to Geosciences (On the Cutting Edge)
- NSF CAREER math proposal - (Brooke Shipley)
- USDA Sample Proposal
- Education, Humanities, Arts
- US Department of Education (Colorado Grants)
- NEH: Pompeii Forum Project (University of Virginia)
- Arts & Non-profits
- Performing Arts: Proposal Template (Ballet Austin)
- Guide to writing for non-profit organizations
- Centerville Community Center (Colorado Grants)
- London Family Center (Colorado Grants)
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