Crafting Winning Proposals: Mastering Fundraising Strategies
Uncover invaluable insights on developing exceptional proposals for various funding sources, enhancing your odds of success significantly. Learn proven tactics, explore diverse funding opportunities, and embrace interdisciplinary collaboration to maximize your impact and attract substantial investments for your projects. Elevate your proposal writing skills to secure the resources needed for your research endeavors.
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The most common first question How do I write a great proposal? The approach Sally described has made a huge, huge difference, many, many times
Additional Thoughts: Volunteer to review proposals / serve on panels. Why? Don t you hate it when students turn in work that does not match the assignment and grading rubric?
Additional Thoughts: Consider linking research to teaching / broader impacts and vice versa Even if it is not required, it can be a significant competitive advantage and is often helpful for T&P.
But what do I propose and to which funding source?
Its not rocket science (unless thats your field ), Investigate a range of funding sources for this
WALK, JOG, RUN #1 Ohio Environmental Education Fund, $4,741 #2 Northeast Ohio Inter-Institutional Urban Research Consortium $14,956 #5 Great Lakes Basin Program for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control $35,000 #8 National Science Foundation, $89,834 #12, $100K #24 $600K # 39 $1.2M Over-achieve on the initial small grants to show funders you provide great return on investment!
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why interdisciplinary teams? (semantics - they are usually transdisciplinary) How many grand challenges can be solved using only one discipline? The previous generation did all of the easy stuff within the discipline, the new frontier is Most funding agencies have increasingly focused $ on interdisciplinary teams It s fun and productive to bring new methods and perspectives to your work through collaborators It opens up new funding sources and new areas for your interests and talent that would not be possible on your own But don t I have to be sole PI for T&P?
I dont just say it, I do it my co-authors and co-PIs include: Urban Planning Forestry and Natural Resources Atmospheric Science Biology Statistics Food Science Civil Engineering Agricultural Economics Agricultural and Biological Engineering Geography Political Science Curriculum and Instruction Agronomy Geology Physics Technology in multiple institutions and countries. Right now I have snuck away from
Walk, Jog, Run Maximize your odds #s, different opps, teams
