How to write a research project proposal for funding
This handout is handout will help you write and revise grant proposals for research funding in all academic disciplines (sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the arts). It’s targeted primarily to graduate students and faculty, although it will also be helpful to undergraduate students who are seeking funding for research (e. Grant writing writing varies widely across the disciplines, and research intended for epistemological purposes (philosophy or the arts) rests on very different assumptions than research intended for practical applications (medicine or social policy research). Nonetheless, this handout attempts to provide a general introduction to grant writing across the gh some scholars in the humanities and arts may not have thought about their projects in terms of research design, hypotheses, research questions, or results, reviewers and funding agencies expect you to frame your project in these terms. You may also find that thinking about your project in these terms reveals new aspects of it to g successful grant applications is a long process that begins with an idea. Although many people think of grant writing as a linear process (from idea to proposal to award), it is a circular process. Diagram 1 below provides an overview of the grant writing process and may help you plan your proposal ants must write grant proposals, submit them, receive notice of acceptance or rejection, and then revise their proposals. Successful grant applications and the resulting research lead to ideas for further research and new grant ating an ongoing, positive relationship with funding agencies may lead to additional grants down the road. Although some successful grant applicants may fear that funding agencies will reject future proposals because they’ve already received “enough” funding, the truth is that money follows money. Individuals or projects awarded grants in the past are more competitive and thus more likely to receive funding in the early and ’t forget to include a cover letter with your all questions. Follow the application guidelines explicit and realistic in designing the explicit the connections between your research questions and objectives, your objectives and methods, your methods and results, and your results and dissemination the application guidelines exactly. Answering the following questions may help you:Are you undertaking preliminary or pilot research in order to develop a full-blown research agenda? You want a fellowship in residence at an institution that will offer some programmatic support or other resources to enhance your project? You want funding for a large research project that will last for several years and involve multiple staff members? You have identified your needs and focus, you can begin looking for prospective grants and funding g prospective grants and funding r your proposal receives funding will rely in large part on whether your purpose and goals closely match the priorities of granting agencies. Even if you have the most appealing research proposal in the world, if you don’t send it to the right institutions, then you’re unlikely to receive are many sources of information about granting agencies and grant programs. Most universities and many schools within universities have offices of research, whose primary purpose is to support faculty and students in grant-seeking endeavors. These offices usually have libraries or resource centers to help people find prospective unc, the research at carolina office coordinates research grantsource library, located in bynum hall, provides grant-seeking assistance to unc students and faculty. Thus, when writing your grant proposals, assume that you are addressing a colleague who is knowledgeable in the general area, but who does not necessarily know the details about your research er that most readers are lazy and will not respond well to a poorly organized, poorly written, or confusing proposal. Reframing your project to fit a specific grant’s requirements is a legitimate and necessary part of the process unless it will fundamentally change your project’s goals or decisions about which proposals are funded often come down to whether the proposal convinces the reviewer that the research project is well planned and feasible and whether the investigators are well qualified to execute it. Przeworski and salomon (1995) note that reviewers read with three questions in mind:What are we going to learn as a result of the proposed project that we do not know now? He/she may only read the abstract, the sections on research design and methodology, the vitae, and the budget. Make these sections as clear and straight forward as way you write your grant will tell the reviewers a lot about you (reif-lehrer 82). From reading your proposal, the reviewers will form an idea of who you are as a scholar, a researcher, and a person.
How to write a research proposal for funding
They will decide whether you are creative, logical, analytical, up-to-date in the relevant literature of the field, and, most importantly, capable of executing the proposed project. Be sure to clarify your project’s theoretical p a general proposal and e most proposal writers seek funding from several different agencies or granting programs, it is a good idea to begin by developing a general grant proposal and budget. Before you submit proposals to different grant programs, you will tailor a specific proposal to their guidelines and zing your gh each funding agency will have its own (usually very specific) requirements, there are several elements of a proposal that are fairly standard, and they often come in the following order:Introduction (statement of the problem, purpose of research or goals, and significance of research). If it is long, include a table of contents with page page: the title page usually includes a brief yet explicit title for the research project, the names of the principal investigator(s), the institutional affiliation of the applicants (the department and university), name and address of the granting agency, project dates, amount of funding requested, and signatures of university personnel authorizing the proposal (when necessary). Most funding agencies have specific requirements for the title page; make sure to follow ct: the abstract provides readers with their first impression of your project. To remind themselves of your proposal, readers may glance at your abstract when making their final recommendations, so it may also serve as their last impression of your project. The abstract should explain the key elements of your research project in the future tense. Most abstracts state: (1) the general purpose, (2) specific goals, (3) research design, (4) methods, and (5) significance (contribution and rationale). The introduction should cover the key elements of your proposal, including a statement of the problem, the purpose of research, research goals or objectives, and significance of the research. The statement of problem should provide a background and rationale for the project and establish the need and relevance of the research. The research goals or objectives should identify the anticipated outcomes of the research and should match up to the needs identified in the statement of problem. List only the principle goal(s) or objective(s) of your research and save sub-objectives for the project ture review: many proposals require a literature review. Reviewers want to know whether you’ve done the necessary preliminary research to undertake your project. For more information, see our handout on literature t narrative: the project narrative provides the meat of your proposal and may require several subsections. The project narrative should supply all the details of the project, including a detailed statement of problem, research objectives or goals, hypotheses, methods, procedures, outcomes or deliverables, and evaluation and dissemination of the the project narrative, pre-empt and/or answer all of the reviewers’ questions. For example, if you propose to conduct unstructured interviews with open-ended questions, be sure you’ve explained why this methodology is best suited to the specific research questions in your proposal. Or, if you need to travel to valdez, alaska to access historical archives at the valdez museum, make it clear what documents you hope to find and why they are relevant to your historical novel on the ’98ers in the alaskan gold y and explicitly state the connections between your research objectives, research questions, hypotheses, methodologies, and outcomes. As the requirements for a strong project narrative vary widely by discipline, consult a discipline-specific guide to grant writing for some additional nel: explain staffing requirements in detail and make sure that staffing makes sense. Be very explicit about the skill sets of the personnel already in place (you will probably include their curriculum vitae as part of the proposal). To minimize expenses, phase out personnel who are not relevant to later phases of a : the budget spells out project costs and usually consists of a spreadsheet or table with the budget detailed as line items and a budget narrative (also known as a budget justification) that explains the various expenses. Even when proposal guidelines do not specifically mention a narrative, be sure to include a one or two page explanation of the budget. To see a sample budget, turn to example #1 at the end of this er including an exhaustive budget for your project, even if it exceeds the normal grant size of a particular funding organization. This technique will make it easier for you to combine awards down the road should you have the good fortune of receiving multiple sure that all budget items meet the funding agency’s requirements. Pass a draft budget by the university officer in charge of grant administration for assistance with indirect costs and costs not directly associated with research (e.
For less complicated research, a table summarizing the timeline for the project will help reviewers understand and evaluate the planning and feasibility. See example #2 at the end of this multi-year research proposals with numerous procedures and a large staff, a time line diagram can help clarify the feasibility and planning of the study. See example #3 at the end of this ng your grant proposals take a long time to develop. Seek out a variety of readers, both specialists in your research area and non-specialist colleagues. You may also want to request assistance from knowledgeable readers on specific areas of your proposal. Don’t hesitate to seek out specialized assistance from the relevant research offices on your campus. At unc, the odum institute provides a variety of services to graduate students and faculty in the social your revision and editing, ask your readers to give careful consideration to whether you’ve made explicit the connections between your research objectives and you presented a compelling case? You stated the means that grantors can use to evaluate the success of your project after you’ve executed it? A granting agency lists particular criteria used for rating and evaluating proposals, be sure to share these with your own of us may feel ashamed or embarrassed about asking for money or promoting ourselves. Besides, the worst thing they can do is say resources for proposal odum institute for research in the social grantsource medical school office of :/// school of public health office of resources for proposal al writing online short course from the foundation for writing a funding proposal by s. 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This applies only if the project will run : itemized list of income and expenses that shows precisely how much money you will need and how you will spend it to accomplish your er one important rule of thumb: "if you don't qualify, don't apply. Ultimately, your proposal should be a compelling presentation of your project and your ability to achieve results. Your proposal should suggest that you are a potential partner in furthering the funder's mission, not just a person asking for learn more about how to prepare each section listed above, and how to write proposals in general, please see our proposal writing resources. Although they are written for nonprofit organizations, much of the content can be applied to individual grantseekers:introduction to proposal writing, available free as an online webinar or in-person proposalssample grant proposals for individual projects are hard to find. 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Tas y respuestas en españes os para la investigacióación de stas de ón y administració to write a good research grant content and quality of the proposal you submit to us will determine whether or not you are successful. Therefore it is vital that you have a full understanding of what is required, as well as knowing the various stages of the application process, so that you maximise your chances of gaining a video features two of our grant assessment panel chairs discussing what makes a good research proposal and offers a helpful overview for application notes are intended to assist you in the preparation of proposals to the research grants scheme and should be read in conjunction with the esrc research funding guide (pdf, 278kb). Careful attention will help you to avoid some of the basic pitfalls and improve the funding chances of your research are three parts to our guide:Writing a good proposal, part your funding the guidance s your y your g a good proposal, part t and g a good proposal, part dge exchange and you are document has been al science orate for education and human on of undergraduate s from the national science foundation provides awards for research and education in the engineering. The foundation,Therefore, does not assume responsibility for the research findings or foundation welcomes proposals from all qualified scientists ers and strongly encourages women, minorities, and persons lities to compete fully in any of the research and education ms described here. Funding for special assistance or equipment to enable persons lities (investigators and other staff, including student ants) to work on nsf projects. Which enables individuals with hearing impairment to the foundation about nsf programs, employment, or general access nsf tdd dial (703) 306-0090; for firs, g of federal domestic assistance:Criteria for onal questions relevant to teacher to proposal 1 - before you ing background g at the program ng about the target 2 - writing the g the proposal ing budget g the credentials of the pi and other ing evaluation and dissemination s of t summary and project data 3 - before sending your proposal to ng more about the review finishing the things that can make a 4 - awards and the grant is your proposal is not al evaluation form (form not available). Guide for proposal staff of the division of ion (due) at the national science foundation (nsf) often al guidance to proposers. Ultimately, proposals are ed in panels consisting of colleagues in science, mathematics,Engineering, and technology disciplines or related fields, and the success ing funding depends in great measure on reviewers judgements and their. The best proposals are those to which the reviewers respond,"of course, i wish i had thought of that! Most important thing is a project that will benefit ion and directly improve student opportunities to learn. That said,However, the proposal must be written in sufficient detail to allow the project hopes to accomplish;. National impact and cost effectiveness of the project; tion and dissemination lly read the program announcement. It provides for all due programs: (a) a rationale, (b) ew, (c) detailed program information, (d) facts about preparation sion of both preliminary and formal proposals, (e) review criteria, (f). This is the best possible guide for preparing proposals programs and should be read carefully and followed precisely. 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Following the advice certainly does not guarantee funding although we hope it will ants write better and more competitive proposals. Another factor be considered is that nsf receives many more proposals that are funding than there are funds to support. National priorities and for a balanced portfolio of projects influence what is hope that you find this ative. The documents are available on the nsf web page which guide to programs provides background all of the foundations activities in education and research as well instructions to obtain individual program announcements. In selecting proposals to ted, nsf is assisted by reviewers who are scientists, engineers,Mathematicians, technologists, and educators in related disciplines. Ers are drawn primarily from two- and four-year colleges sities, secondary schools, industry, foundations, and ies and associations, as appropriate for the program being reviewers are chosen based on their demonstrated ability to assess of a proposal based on the criteria for evaluation shown in the n. Faculty writing proposals are advised to contact nsf rs to learn the general demographics of the reviewers for the which they are submitting majority of proposals submitted to due are considered by panels reviewers. Reviewers are asked to provide a tion of both the merits and the shortcomings of each proposal and e a rating. Following these discussions, panelists complete their s and one panel member writes a summary of the discussion for al. Nsf releases abstracts and ation about funded proposals ia for als to nsf are evaluated for merit on the basis of two ia. The criteria are described in chapter iii, section a, of proposal guide and are printed on the nsf tion form (nsf form 1). 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The evidence for institutional support clear the project contribute to the preparation of prek-12 are: knowledgeable in, and comfortable with science, mathematics, logy; confident in their abilities in these disciplines; and able ively use a variety of pedagogical approaches and technology to the proposal indicate how the project relates to a ation program? Is there significant redesign of activities, line courses, which serve prospective teachers as part of the audience,And are these activities integrated into the curriculum and the project result in increased involvement of mathematics,Science and, as appropriate, engineering and technology departments and y in the preparation of prospective teachers? To proposal following steps are provided to help the proposal writer steps that go into preparing a proposal and to share some advice have found 1 - before you grants provide funds based on merit, not on need. Good proposal begins with a clear idea of the goals ives of the projectfor example, creating a course or curriculum,Improving a laboratory by teaching new concepts directly, teaching al to undergraduate faculty, or preparing future technicians or rs in a more effective addition, a good project begins with a sense of why it will be icant improvement over current on what improvements your project will make, and then ask activities and course(s) must be developed, what instruments will , or what coalitions must be formed to make the desired ng first on the goals and objectives helps ensure that the designed to reach those the goals and associated activities are well defined, consider ces (e. A better proposal is likely if the goals and activities are clear before resources project should be innovative within its context. It should not ed merely to bring your institution up to the level of other utions, nor should it be used to fill program deficiencies that caused by changing student registration ts should explore teaching and learning methods that use equipment,Scientific knowledge, or teaching techniques in effective ways; perhaps ng techniques to a new context or by teaching in a novel or addition, more extensive projects, such as advanced ion (ate) centers and collaboratives for excellence in ation (cetp), must show clearly that they can initiate s in the teaching of undergraduate science, mathematics,Engineering, or technology for a significant segment of the n what work has been done in preparation for the project, be specific attempts that have been made to try the ement on a small scale.
Evidence of preliminary work ng and commitment to the project and often indicates the ial for the proposal requests significant funds for equipment, it is consider alternatives and explain why the instruments chosen ularly suitable for the project and why others, especially ive ones, are less advice from people who have been successful in the proposal process. Background writing a proposal, look for previously awarded nsf work supported in other ways that are similar. Results of previous have been presented at professional meetings or published in journals,And nsf regularly publishes abstracts of its recently awarded ation can also be obtained from nsfs world wide web site,When you find a funded project that is similar, call the igator, discuss his/her project, and ask him/her to send or e-mail you. The proposal should e and not exceed any text review criteria are particularly important to consider in writing al. These will be mentioned in the program should consider, if appropriate, how your project might address some cases, programs have specific requirements that differ from l requirements. For example, the m announcement calls for double line spacing while grant proposal guide leaves line spacing to the the proposer. The project design should ped in a manner which will effectively assist the target group sing those special problems or challenges. If your project is going e learning opportunities for women, underrepresented minorities, s with disabilities, explain exactly how this is going to be done. There must be a , explaining in detail how your project will accomplish several departments, several institutions, tuencies outside the academic community are involved in the project, important to have these groups involved in the planning and to s of commitment to the faculty or teacher enhancement activities or industry partners ed, involve these potential participants in the planning of appropriate in terms of the projects size and its potential al impact, consider designing the project with an advisory board e experts to provide additional levels of expertise and experience help widely disseminate the project in smaller projects, an advisory board of outside experts college or local community can provide additional levels of expertise consensus on your idea within your own department and the courses are taught by different faculty members, reviewers may be ive if the proposal is submitted jointly by several members of ment or institution rather than by a single faculty member. It is le to include a letter of support from the department chair or duals to establish institutional e information about where the project fits in the context of utions academic program. As appropriate, show how your project is an overall plan to improve education by your institution and s involving other institutions in your proposal either as the endeavor or as test ze a good working team. Distribute duties and develop a le of activities needed to prepare the proposal in time to meet le proposal writing and information gathering activities over able time and carefully manage the schedule. Time, you will be able to accomplish the er to allow enough time to have the proposal revised by a if needed and to obtain all the necessary internal and external s and permissions. Consider having one person write the final assure lly a final version of a proposal will have gone through and revisions. Dont plan on writing a final version in a time running a pilot program and preparing preliminary versions ular materials prior to the actual writing of the proposal should be written so that, if funded, it can serve as int for executing the 2 - writing the g the proposal narrative. Good proposal is always readable, well-organized, t, and explicit in your narrative about how the program will make ement. Details of the projects organization, the course content, other inquiry-based experiments, and participant activities, both to groundwork has been laid and to help them understand why the you propose are better than l writing should allow you to describe, in the limited ble, enough about your project to give the reviewers a clear idea y what you plan to do and why your plan is a good one. Must demonstrate in the narrative that you have a broad knowledge t scholarship and activities in your field and how this is relevant projects design. However, do not focus entirely on and fail to adequately describe the components of your project description/narrative of the proposal should be written by or persons in the science, engineering, or mathematics departments be the principal investigator(s). The submitting institutions ch office or grant administration expert can assist in some areas proposal writing, e. Reviewers usually respond ts that include an emphasis on active learning and student most cases, it is well to describe your plans to continue the institutionalize courses and curriculum beyond the ing budget budget request should be realistic for the project and goals of the project. It should request sufficient resources needed out the project, but it should not be excessively information should be complete and unambiguous. Ers and all program directors look carefully at the proposed budgets evidence of careful reflection and realistic project utional and other leveraged commitments toward the budget is one demonstrate institutional support of the project. For example, for proposals adaptation and implementation track of dues course, curriculum, tory improvement program, cost-sharing from non-federal sources or greater than the requested nsf funds is required for the entire addition, a specific 1:1 or greater match is required on ts.
Cost-sharing information must be included on line m of the , and if the proposal is awarded becomes a condition of the er that cost-sharing is subject to audit. For more information, grant proposal guide and the due sure that your budget narrative reflects both your official pages and the needs of the of the project must be realistic. Look at the cement for average size of awards and the award s are often negotiated as a proposal is ered; but a clear, realistic budget request strengthens a g the credentials of the pi and writing up the credentials of faculty for the grant proposal,Each biographical sketch should be written with the proposal in mind display the unique background of the principal investigator(s) be valuable in working on the proposed lly follow program guidelines about format and length phical sure that the roles of all personnel, especially the igators, are described in the proposal itself. Having the roles of pal investigators and other personnel discussed within ive is important so that reviewers can understand their involvement,Leadership, and commitment to the your project involves industry, consider having a igator representing ing evaluation and dissemination. Good evaluation plan appropriate to the scale of the project e information as the project is developing and will determine ively the project has achieved its goals. Also include how you intend to evaluate project and how you will determine whether this project met ific and pedagogical s how you plan to collect and analyze data on the projects impact. Why the proposed project is a good way to improve education institution and how it might be emulated at other similar n in detail how you will disseminate information success and content of your project to other scientists and educators. L, setting up a web page about the project is not projects which are creating instructional materials, ation on potential commercial publication. Authors who submit such proposals should demonstrate that nsf funding ary to create the work, make the product available earlier, or extensive utilization of educational technology is expected, how student learning outcomes be evaluated? The value that an outside evaluator may add to your s of e letters of commitment from your department chair appropriate your project involves other people or groups not on your campus (e. Uniquely phrased letters ment from different institutions are better than nearly s from the institutions to be t summary and project data project summary (abstract) is the first thing that nsf staff read. In the ed, it should outline the problem, the objectives and the es, project activities, and the audience to be addressed. Nsf publishes an abstract of t (both in hard copy and electronically) should it be erable effort and thought should be spent in preparing a numbers given on the project data form concerning student be as accurate as possible. They look able expectations in those 3 - before sending ng more about the review gain expertise in nsfs proposal review system, volunteer on a program review panel yourself. Contact the on for a form to fill out to volunteer for reviewer age your professional organization to form a help members review their proposals before submitting them to er asking someone who has served on an nsf program to assess your possible, have someone not connected with the proposal read and a draft of your proposalwith sufficient time allowed for changes prior submission of your proposal. This person can help identify omissions istent logic before reviewers see the programs require a preliminary proposal. Check the cement and with nsf working on a proposal or award for several years, you may erred from one program director to another. Time line to show when different components of your project are to can be particularly e a table of contents. For example, use laboratory, not lab atics, not first time you use an acronym, write out what it stands for and acronym in parentheses. After that you can use the sure all your references are 4 - awards and the grant is the proposal is successful, make the best possible use of awarded. Situations may arise that require changes in your plans lish the goals of the project. Consult utions sponsored research office or grant administration office addition, let others know about your project. Finally, national science foundation as well as the sponsoring division and/m in all presentations and your proposal is not the proposal is not funded, consider the reviews of the the comments from nsf staff objectively and seriously. Consult nsf necessary and, unless the feedback indicates otherwise, submit a new proposal the following year.
Many awards made in the programs for proposals that were revised thoughtfully and resubmitted been declined institution may have a strong enough commitment to the project e funding. Have contacts with business and industry in your community, a company private sector may be interested in helping fund your project. Often,Institution grant officers have directories that include the names of tions and their funding national science foundation is looking for proposals ms that will improve the quality of education in science, mathematics,Engineering, and technology at all levels. It is in our mutual best interest to proposal be of the highest hope that you have found this guide helpful and to contact a program director at nsf for additional al evaluation form.