Tips to Getting Funded Grant Writing

							    Tips to Getting
  Funded & Grant
            Writing

Lawrence K. Duffy, Ph.D.
          Oct. 27, 2008
   Know What They Like to
          Fund
• Sleuthing
• Who decides?
• What’s their goal?
• How much?
       Market Yourself
• Who you are
• What you have done
• Go to conferences & approach
  agency program directors
   Know Who Has Money
• Funding forecast
• Average grant
• Mission of agency
• Special groups
      Make a Schedule
• Manage the many steps
• Draft timeline
• Letters of support
  – Waivers
  – Matching
• UAF proposal pathway
        Draft an Outline
• Annotated
• Grant guidelines
• Your ideas
 Tips on Writing an Abstract
• Convey the big picture
• General hypothesis
• Methodical approach
• Expected outcomes
• Significance of research
   Reviewers Focus on the
         Four C’s
• Clarity
  – Cross-reference current literature
• Content
  – Organized around aims
• Coherence of concept
  – Predicated on previous work
• Cutting edge
  – Innovative
       Follow Directions
• Request for applications
• Must haves
• Correct format
    Think About Aesthetics
• Font size and margins
• “White space”
• Figures
• Highlighting
        Use Paragraphs
• Specific topic
• Followed by details/data
• Use multiple paragraphs
Summary