Grant Writing Next Steps: A Proposal Workshop for Faculty – Day 1

Registration is full. Please contact Jamie Saville ([email protected]) to be added to the waitlist.

This two-part workshop will help you kickstart your summer proposal writing goals by providing grant writing best practices, grant writing techniques, as well as some brief feedback on your proposal Specific Aims/Project Objectives.

By the end of the second day, you will have a roadmap for your proposal to submit to a program manager for feedback, as well as techniques for tackling each section of your proposal.

The workshop will be focused on non-NIH proposals (e.g. DoE, NSF, foundations) in any field (i.e. humanities, social sciences, STEM).

Presenter:  Jocelyn Stitt, Ph.D.
Program Director for Faculty Research Development
Institute for Research on Women & Gender

Workshop schedule:

Day 1 (May 1): Will include grant writing best practices and techniques and will prepare you for editing the work of your fellow participants, with time to answer your specific questions.
We will focus on:

• What should be in the initial pages of a grant to keep a reviewer reading?
• How to revise a grant
• What kind of feedback to ask for from collaborators and mentors
• Top 5 mistakes even experienced grant writers make

After the first day we will email you two one-page overviews to review by May 8.

Registration requirements include:

• Commit to participate both days: May 1 and May 8, 10am – 10:50am
• Submit a one-page draft of your proposal Specific Aims or Project Objectives by April 27.
• These will be read by colleagues who will provide feedback based on questions provided by presenter. (If you are writing a grant to a foundation, the presenter will contact you with information on what to submit)
• Commit 20 minutes on your own, between Day 1 and Day 2, to review one-page drafts from two fellow participants.