Online Guides
Text Based Guides
Tutorials
More Proposal Writing Resources!

For your assistance, we have compiled the following list of proposal writing guides. Many of these guides are provided by sponsor agencies and others are geared specifically to help with a specific type (foundation) or discipline (environmental or social science) of proposal.

Online Guides

Corporation for Public Broadcasting:
Basic Elements of Grant Writing

Environmental Protection Agency
Purdue University’s EPA Grant-Writing Tutorial
Grant-Writing Tutorial

The Foundation Center:
Proposal Writing Short Course

The Grantsmanship Center:
Winning Grant Proposals Online

Hints for Writing Successful NIH Grants,
Professor Ellen Barrett

Human Frontier Science Program:
The Art of Grantsmanship

Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Leadership Grant Planning Tutorial

James Madison University:
Tips on Proposal Development

National Science Foundation:
A Guide for Proposal Writing

National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases:
All About Grants tutorial

Science:
How to Get Funding
Grants and Grant Writing Articles

The Stephen F. Austin State University:
Proposal Writing Tips

Social Science Research Council:
The Art of Writing Proposals

University of Michigan:
Proposal Writer's Guide

Text Based Guides

ORS Funding Opportunities Library:
A collection of funding and proposal writing resources

Proposal Writing Tutorials

The Office of Research Support has recorded the following selection of tutorials containing instructions and information from successful grant writers. Each selection focuses on a particular sponsor. Before starting the seminar of choice, please download the proposal narrative and budget as they will be referenced during the seminar. Click on the title to start the tutorial.

Arts & Humanities:

National Endowment for the Humanities: Preservation and Access Grants
Speaker: Greg Britz, Associate Director, Center for Documentary Studies
Downloads: Proposal; Budget

North Carolina Arts Council: Visual Arts Proposal
Speaker: Greg Britz, Associate Director, Center for Documentary Studies
Downloads: Proposal; Budget

Science and Engineering:

The National Institutes of Health: Career Development (K) Grant
Speaker: Rebecca Moen, Former Assistant Director, Office of Research Administration, Duke University Medical Center
Downloads: Proposal

More Proposal Writing Resources!
Michigan State University has compiled an excellent set of on-line grant writing information

Last updated, May 29, 2007 by Steven Abels.