Proposals

Budgets
Everything to do with preparing budgets and managing the fiscal side of your proposal. Includes F&A rates, Employee benefit rates, and oh so much more.

Institutional information
DUNs number, congressional district, and many other pieces of institutional information you might need to include on an application form.

Specific proposal types
required training for research involving human subjects
NIH modular grants
Summary of Actions Requiring NIH Prior Approval
Non-competing continuations
Clinical trials
Industry sponsored clinical trials
Subagreements (Subcontracts)
Small Business Subcontracting Plans For Small And Small Disadvantaged Businesses

Online proposal preparation systems
NSF FastLane
NIH Commons

Grant-Writing Tutorials
Annotated NIH R01 application (provided by NIAID)
EPA Grant-Writing Tutorial
NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Guide for Proposal Writing
Common Grants Management Terminology
Common Acronyms and Abbreviations
Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal -- from Michigan State University
A Short Guide To The Preparation Of NIH Grant Applications

Limited Submission Award Competitions
Programs that limit the number of applications from the institution are considered Limited Submission competitions and require a precedent internal competition. The internal Limited Submissions process is coordinated by the Office for Research Development. The primary contact is Holly Falk-Krzesinski, 847-491-1074..

FDP Terms and Conditions
General
Pre-award
Post-award
After-the-award
Appendix A
Downloadable Word file
Compliance matrix

Acronyms
Common acronyms from Northwestern and beyond.

Terminology
A short glossary of research-relevant terms.