Ask the Grant Doctor

Grants.gov
http://www.grants.gov/

Quick Guide for Grant Writing
http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/EXTRA/EXTDOCS/gntapp.htm

NIH Grant Writing General Information and Resources
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/welcome.htm#general

All About Grants
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/
All About Grants tutorials created to help biomedical investigators, especially new ones, plan, write, and apply for the basic NIH research project grant, the R01. Advice comes from the experience of NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) staff, including former NIH grantees, and should be considered as opinion only.

NSF Step by Step Guide for Prospective Principal Investigators
http://www.nsf.gov/home/programs/guide.htm

UCLA's NIH Modular Grants Tutorial
http://www.research.ucla.edu/sr2/ModAdmin.htm

Grant Proposal.com
http://www.grantproposal.com/proposal.html
a site devoted to providing free resources for both advanced grant writing consultants and inexperienced nonprofit staff.

Foundation Center's Proposal Writing Short Course
http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html

Deborah Kluge, Independent Consultant's Web site
http://www.proposalwriter.com/grants.html
a large compendium of resources:

Resources for Proposal Development
http://www.proposalwriter.com/links.html#Proposal

HIV research oriented Grants
http://www.nmac.org/home/

Proposal Preparation and Submission (by U of Michigan)
http://www.research.umich.edu/proposals/proposals.html

Fundsnet Fundraising and Grantwriting Resources
http://www.fundsnetservices.com/grantwri.htm
Includes links to numerous other resources, some are broken, but others are quite good.

EPA Grant-Writing Tutorial
http://www.epa.gov/seahome/grants_disclaim.html
This section contains information on three topics: Environmental Justice (EJ), Environmental Education (EE) programs, and Environmental Justice Through Pollution Prevention Grants (EJP2).
EPA grant writing tutorial (created in 1998) is online at: http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/grants.html Interactive software tool walks the user through the grant-writing process and helps them learn to write more competitive grants. The program includes:

• detailed information and tips on writing a grant proposal;
• how to complete a grant application package;
• program-specific sections on three EPA grant programs:

  1. Environmental Justice
  2. Environmental Justice Through Pollution Prevention
  3. Environmental Education

• examples of good, complete grant packages;
• references;
• a glossary of terms;
• resources and contacts;
• a mock grant-writing activity where the user is able to compare their results to a successful grant application

Grant Writing Tutorial for Drug Abuse Researchers
http://www.theresearchassistant.com/tutorial/
Tutorial designed to support new and minority drug abuse researchers seeking Federal funding specifically from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Much of the information is also relevant for individuals writing funding applications to other agencies of the Federal Government, using the current PHS 398 form <http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html>. Tutorial assists in developing an outline of a grant application by asking series of questions. Do not have to register to use the Grant Writing Tutorial, but to access outline in the future or print it out, you must login before beginning the Tutorial. Must be registered (free) to login.