Writing Competitive Grant Proposals

• Morning Session:

General Proposal Development Strategies
Discussions on how to:
  * Find Funding
  * Read and Understand the Solicitation
  * Understand a Funding Agency and Their Mission
  * Anticipate the Review Process in Developing a Proposal
  * Write a Competitive Proposal Narrative

**(Powerpoint-- Mike Cronan, PE)**

• Concurrent Afternoon Sessions:
  

 1) Funding and Proposals for Agricultural and Environmental Research
    Jean Ann Bowman (Research Scientist) (PowerPoint Presentation)

 2) Funding and Proposals in the Biomedical Sciences (w/ a Focus on NIH)
   John Ivy Research Development Office (Powerpoint Presentation)

Links to other useful resources:

National Institutes of Health

NIH Office of Extramural Research

NIH OER's Grant Application Basics

NIAID's All About Grants Tutorial

NIAID's Annotated R01 Proposal

NIH New Investigators Program

NIH Center for Scientific Review

NIH CSR's Mock Peer Review Video

PHS CRISP database of funded research

National Science Foundation

Grants.gov for all federal funding opportunities

Private foundation funding opportunities at the Philanthropy News Digest

GrantsNet sponsored by AAAS and HHMI

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs