The Big Picture: strategies that work

This video covers strategies that work for faculty who are just starting to pursue funding to support their research.

identifying your likely funders

This video covers how to identify and understand your likely funders.

ANalyzing a funding opportunity

This video covers how to identify funding opportunities that fit the project you have in mind and determine if you can be competitive.

Positioning: What you need to do before you write

We discuss how to position yourself/your team for funding success after you’ve identified a funding opportunity, including framing your project, recruiting collaborators, and talking to the program officer.

Part 1: Before you write: A quick overview

A quick overview of the things you need to do before you start writing (See “Getting Started” for more detail.)

Part 3: Writing step-by-step: Structuring Your Project Narrative

Things to consider when outlining your project narrative (called Project Description, Research Plan, etc.)

part 5: writing the background, motivation, state of the art and preliminary data sections

part 7: other proposal components, submitting, and the review process: a quick overview

Part 2: Basic Grantsmanship principles

We talk about why you should put yourself in your reviewer’s shoes.

Part 4: The introduction and overview section: grabbing the reviewer

Why it’s important to capture your reviewer’s interest on page 1, and how to do that.

part 6: writing your methodology, work plan and other narrative sections

NIH Part 1: NIH Basics

How NIH is organized and what it funds.

NIH Part 3: Funding Opportunities and Study Sections

We discuss how to analyze the various types of NIH funding opportunities, and how to select the right study section.

NIH Part 5: Planning Your NIH Project

How to craft your goals, hypotheses, specific aims, and significance, and how to decide what preliminary data you need.

NIH Part 7: The NIH review process

We discuss how your NIH proposal will be reviewed, the scoring process, and how to respond to reviews.

NIH Part 2: Activity Codes

We cover what R01, R03, R21, etc. mean.

NIH Part 4: Finding Your Funding Home at NIH

We discuss how to use RePORTER and other tools to identify the right IC, P.O. and study section for your project, and how to talk to the P.O.

NIH Part 6: considerations for writing Your NIH Proposal

We provide a high-level overview of how to write your NIH proposal, focusing on what’s different compared to other funders.

Part 1: Introduction and Overview

Part 2: Evaluating Different types of projects

Part 3: Evaluating More Complex Projects

Part 4: Writing the Evaluation Plan

NSF Part 1

What NSF does and doesn’t fund, how it’s organized, etc.

NSF Part 3

Talking to your NSF P.O. and types of NSF grants.

NSF Part 5

Special considerations when writing your NSF proposal, and the NSF review process.

How to Develop a Strong Education/Outreach Component for your NSF CAREER Proposal

Education Component 1: The Big Picture

Education Component 3: Planning Your Education/Outreach Projects - Part 1

Education component 5: Writing Your Education Component

NSF Part 2

NSF funding opportunities and how to find and understand your core program at NSF.

NSF Part 4

Planning your NSF Project.

Education Component 2: Choosing Your Education/Outreach Ideas

Education Component 4: Planning Your education/outreach Projects - Part 2