Grant Writing Resources

Most grants are awarded on a competitive basis. A good concept combined with a complete, accurate and detailed proposal are essential elements of funded proposals. Below is a list of some helpful links to proposal and budget preperation guides, grant-writing tutorials and guides for grant applications.

Resource/Topic	Description
Northwestern	University procedures for proposal prepration Sponsored research terminology Commonly used research acronyms
National Institute of Health (NIH)	Guide for research applications
Michigan State University	Guide for writing a funding proposal
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)	Grant writing tutorial
National Science Foundation (NSF)	Guide for proposal writing
National Institute of Allergies and Infections Diseases (NIAID)	These tutorials help biomedical investigators - especially new PIs - plan, write, and apply for the basic NIH research project grant, R01
The Foundation Center	Delivers instruction on both the basics and finer points of proposal writing
Catal of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)	Developing and writing grant proposals