Grant Proposal Writing, Funding, and Resources

Purdue University
Leadership Development Program
October 8, 2009

AGENDA

Key Grant Terms/Acronyms and Definitions

Fundamentals of Grant Proposal Writing

  • Types of grants available to funding seekers
  • Grant process from legislation to acquisition to award
  • Six proposal development phases
  • Work that should be completed before the RFP/RFA is released

Issues, Barriers, and Facilitators Related to Grant Proposal Writing: Round Table Discussions

Determining the Characteristics of Winning Grant Proposals

  • Listing and ranking of winning grant proposal characteristics
  • Small group discussion and presentation
  • Comprehensive summary and feedback

Identifying a Project Idea that Requires External Funding

  • Attributes needed to write winning grant proposals
  • Grant writing guidelines and strategies
  • Grant writing: non-criteria and criteria for writing quality proposals
  • Identify a project idea exercise

Planning a Grant Proposal

  • The why, what, how, who, where, and when of grant proposal narrative
  • Poor/better grant proposal logic
  • Grant proposal summary guidelines and example
  • Planning a grant proposal exercise

Participant Feedback/Follow-up Activities



Grant Proposal Writing, Funding, and Resources

October 8, 2009




Grant Proposal Writing, Funding, and Resources is designed to walk the funding seeker through the major phases of grant development.

Professor and author Patrick W. Miller, Ph.D., shares the tips and tricks of grant writing in a one-day workshop, which features:

  • Clear, concise guidelines for preparing grants
  • Instruction based on 14 years of grant writing ideas and techniques
  • Hands-on grant activities and exercises