Grantsmanship resources are among the vast array of research development services offered through the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR). Strategic, capacity-building platforms – academies, workshops, trainings, webinars, seminar series, research exchanges – are designed to produce a trajectory for success for faculty across all career stages.

Grantsmanship expertise helps faculty refine their overall research programs and make their grant proposals more competitive for extramural grants and contract funding. Here is a sampling of the most popular OVPR-sponsored grantsmanship training workshops from the past several years. These content-rich sessions offer strategies for designing an overall research program, as well as tips and techniques on grantseeking and proposal development.

Grantsmanship Program Strategies

• Grants 101 – Essentials of Competitive Proposals
• Grant Academy Grants 101
• Grantseeking Toolkit
• Synergistic Activities to Enhance Grantseeking Success
• Research Career Development for Mid-Stage Faculty
• Relationship Cultivation and Outreach to Program Officers
• Grantseeking and RFPs
• Grants 101 for the Humanities and Arts
• Grantseeking Strategies for Humanities and Social Sciences

The Funding Landscape

• The Funding Landscape – Federal, Foundation and Corporate Grantmaking
• Prospecting – Finding the Right Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
• Know Your Funder – NSF
• NIH Funding Resources

Proposal Development

• Drafting a Competitive Submission
• Planning Your Strategy and Developing the Proposal
• Revising and Resubmitting Rejected Proposals
• Grant Resubmission Strategies
• Applying to NSF
• NSF CAREER Overview and Planning Guide
• NSF Program Officer Outreach
• NIH RO1 Planning Template
• NIH Specific Aims Preparation
• NIH Specific Aims Pointers – All Mechanisms
• Rigor and Reproducibility in NIH Applications
• Program Officer Outreach – General

Concept Papers/White Papers

• Developing a Concept Paper and Contacting a Program Officer
• How to Write a Concept Paper
• Writing Winning White Papers for Maximum Impact
• How to Write to Foundation Funders
• White Paper-Concept Paper Review Criteria