In Person and Virtual Seminars
Planning and Writing Successful Grant Proposals
These sessions combine lecture format and engagement activities and are customized based on your needs and the breadth of potential funding targets. We convey the fundamentals of proposal writing, with concepts backed up with concrete tips and operational strategies.
Each session covers four modules: before you begin to write, the critical first page, the body of the proposal, everything else.
Targeted learning outcomes include understanding of the preparation steps before writing, techniques for creating a strong argument for the proposed project, techniques for communicating the approach clearly and understanding how these techniques connect to the process by which a grant proposal is reviewed.
Sessions can be delivered via Zoom as four two-hour sessions (recommended), or two four-hour sessions. When delivered in person, they can be delivered in a full day or split afternoon/morning.
We can provide broad-based training, or sessions for identified subgroups and those focused on a single agency or scholarly area.
Suitable for 10-200 participants online; up to 300 participants in person.
Develping and Funding
Your Research
This session combines elements of the research leadership program with Planning and Writing Successful Grant Proposals. Participants are first given concrete tools to situate a grant proposal in the context of their larger research arc, including publication planning. The remainder of the day covers the critical first page, the proposal body, and everything else (title, abstract, writing style).
Sessions can be delivered via Zoom as four two-hour sessions (recommended), two four-hour sessions. When delivered in person, they can be delivered in a full day or split afternoon/morning.
Primarily intended for STEM audience.
Suitable for 10-200 participants online; up to 300 participants in person.
Structuring NIH Proposals
This workshop focuses only on the proposal content without any discussion of context, planning or other proposal elements such as title and abstract.
Delivered online in 3 2-hour sessions (recommended) or 2 3-hour sessions.
In person version includes a mock review panel (3-5 local faculty, recruited by sponsor) reviewing 2-3 abbreviated proposals (submitted by participants; NIH Specific Aims).
Participants undertake hands-on work on both sample documents and sections related to their own proposals.
In person suitable for up to 40 participants; virtual for up to 200.
Structuring Grant Proposals (Online only)
This 5-hour session focuses only on the proposal content without any discussion of context, planning, or other proposal elements such as title and abstract.
Can be customized to NIH or general STEM.
Online only, five hours, or 3 hours plus 2 hours.
Suitable for up to 200 participants.