Grant Writing Resources
This is a collection of resources that are helpful for grant writing. Enjoy, share, suggest new links, then get that money!
Funding Mechanisms
Find funding from federal agencies.
Search this curated list of grants from GrantForward.
Determine the suitability of your prospective NSF application.
Find grants that the National Institute of Health has funded, locate an NIH grant mechanism, and more. Matchmatker allows you to paste in an abstract or short summary and locate similar projects that have been awarded.
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Texas Department of State Health Services grants database.
Find funding sources from the National Science Foundation.
PIVOT
Check with the library at your institution to see if you have access to PIVOT, which allows you to generate curated searches and alerts for funding mechanisms for your research.
Writing a Proposal
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A guide for writing a winning National Institute of Health Specific Aims section.
This is a general grant writing guide to be used across disciplines.
10 common mistakes, yo.
Monte and Libby (2018) elucidate how to write a winning Specific Aims section.
This is an excellent guide for preparing a competitive National Science Foundation proposal.
Proposal Examples
Principal Investigators just sharing their grants (both funded and not funded) for the common good. See real grant examples here!
Find grants that the National Institute of Health has funded, locate an NIH grant mechanism, and more. Read more about reporter here
Look here for successful National Science Foundation proposals.