GRANT WRITING
CLASSES & CONSULTATIONS
REd offers a variety of grant writing classes and consultations appropriate for faculty, staff, post-docs, and students.
fundamentals
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The Proposal Development NSF Writing and Editing Workshop aims to demonstrate the importance of proficient writing and composition. The session will cover differences between academic and grant writing, characteristics of effective grant writing, attributes of compelling grant proposals, and editing techniques to refine your grant writing. The workshop will also go over the elements of an NSF proposal and how to craft a well-structured research proposal.
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- Available resources to help you prepare and submit proposals.
- The administrative process for preparing and submitting proposals, from start to finish.
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This class will explore private foundations as an option for research funding (gifts and grants), including recent foundation trends, how foundations can be used as a lever for larger federal funding, and examples of success.
Participants will learn about available university resources for strategic approaches to foundations, tips for crafting competitive foundation proposals, and foundation best practices.
national science foundation (nsf)
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RED 910 | National Science Foundation (NSF) Basicsis the first step to preparing a competitive proposal for NSF funding.
At the conclusion of this class, you should be able to:
- Describe the mission and structure of NSF, and the types of research they fund
- Satisfy the requirements of the two NSF merit criteria criteria
- Navigate NSF proposal solicitations and the PAPPG
- Select and outline a competitive research idea
- Outline and draft a competitive NSF proposal
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The Grant Writing Workshop: The National Science Foundation (NSF) - FACULTY is broken down into two 1-hour sessions: Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts. Both workshops will be held on Zoom to help researchers develop competitive proposals for the NSF.
The workshop will cover the grant writing process from framing research ideas appropriate for NSF, outlining and drafting the core proposal elements, and addressing intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria. Participants will share and receive feedback on their project ideas, research questions, and broader impacts activities from both peers and experienced grant writers.
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These Grant Writing Consultations are 60-minute discussions and are open for researchers and investigators. This open forum structure allows for participants to ask brief questions about any aspect of preparing NSF proposals.
Researchers can bring their draft proposal outline/research questions for feedback, ask questions about the grant writing or review process, or share and learn tips to make proposals more competitive. An expert in grant writing will facilitate the discussion.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) plays an essential role in supporting scientific advances across the natural sciences, social sciences, education, information and computing technology, and engineering. For many areas of our campus, funding from NSF is critical to support the research programs of our faculty and advance the University’s overall research mission. We are offering this course to help you prepare NSF proposals and make them as competitive for funding as possible.
At the conclusion of this workshop, you should be able to:
- Describe the mission and structure of NSF, and the types of research they fund
- Satisfy the requirements of the two NSF merit criteria criteria
- Navigate NSF proposal solicitations and the PAPPG
- Select and outline a competitive research idea
- Outline and draft a competitive NSF proposal
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This asynchronous class is meant to support you in preparing an NSF CAREER proposal. The main goal is to equip you with information that will make your project as competitive for funding as possible. Whether the upcoming CAREER deadline is your first or third CAREER submission, we want you to succeed. To that end, we have compiled the best of our knowledge and experience with the CAREER program into this class.
Please note that the RED 910 | National Science Foundation (NSF) Basics is a prerequisite for this CAREER class. In this class we will not be covering the basic structure, programs, and topics funded by NSF, and we assume that you already understand NSF's Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts review criteria. If you have not taken the Foundations course (an asynchronous Canvas course you can complete at any time), please take it now and return to this CAREER class when you have finished.