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2020 News Archive

In this issue:

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • Humanities and Arts Funding Opportunities
  • Understanding Competitive Funding Strategies for Integration of Research and Education at NSF
  • Virtual NSF Grants Conference Overview
  • When Your NSF Program Officer Comes Back with Questions
  • Funding Success Requires Adding Evidence-Based Educational Components to Many Research Grants
  • Fundamentals of Funding Success: Synergy Not Silos (Reprinted from November 2017)
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies

In this issue:

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • Humanities and Arts Funding Opportunities
  • Did You Miss the 2020 NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration?
  • Strategies for Increasing Sustainability Research and Educational Program Funding
  • Does an NSF MRI Fit Your Situation?
  • Are You Up-to-Date on NSF Terms and Definitions?
  • Post-Election New Directions in Research Funding
  • Funding Fundamentals for New Faculty (Reprinted from January 2018)
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies

In this issue:

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • Editing the Proposal Introduction:  the What, Why, How and So-What of a Preliminary Review
  • AI Institute Webinar
  • Now is the Time to Plan the Red Team Review of an Invited NSF ERC Full Proposal, or Similar Efforts
  • Strategies for Increasing Team Funding Success
  • Don’t Let Your Proposal Wear a Disguise on Halloween (Reprinted from a series of seven articles starting in 2012)
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies

In this issue:

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • Humanities and Arts Funding Opportunities
  • Supporting the Dissertation: How and Why to Apply for Dissertation Funding
  • Following the Public Health Research Dollars into 2022
  • Resources for Education Cost Analyses
  • Proposal Reviews: The Mother Lode of Insight for Research Offices, or Why You Should Learn to Love Bad Review
  • “DECLINED” But, is your proposal dead?
  • How a Good Website Can Help Faculty Win Grants  (Reprinted from May 2018)
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies

In this issue:

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • Humanities and Arts Funding Opportunities
  • Understanding Peer Review
  • Observations on the NSF ERC Letter of Intent
  • When There Is Too Much To Say: Strategies to Meet the Page Limit
  • Writing a Stronger K-12 Teacher Workforce Component to an NSF Research Proposal and Relevance to an ERC
  • Writing a Winning USDA Foundational Grant Proposal
  • The Role of the Project Evaluator on the Writing Team (Reprinted from October 2016)
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies

In this issue:

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • The Dos and Don’ts for Writing the Statement of Purpose for a Humanities/Social Sciences Funding Application
  • Strategies for Revisions and Resubmittals
  • CAREER Proposal Checklist
  • The Role of Stakeholders in a Competitive Proposal
  • Plagiarism in a Proposal is the Kiss of Death to a Research Career
  • Where Research Offices Can Most Help New Faculty (Reprinted from July 2018)
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies

In this issue:

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • Humanities in the Age of COVID 19:  ACLS Strategic Priorities for 2020-2024
  • A Vision for NSF Earth Sciences 2020-2030: Earth in Time
  • Overview of the New IES RFAs
  • Summary Overview: A Guide for Preparation and Submission of NSF Applications via Grants.gov
  • Topics in Brief: Proposal Writing Best Practices and the NSF ERC
  • Characteristics of an Effective Proposal Team Member (Reprinted from June 2018)
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Education Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies

In this issue:

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • Tackling the Project Narrative for the NEH Summer Grant
  • Is Your Proposal Fully Responsive to the Funding Solicitation?
  • NSF ERC Webinar Report
  • Understanding the USDA Review Process
  • What the NSF Funding Horizon Looks Like
  • A Heads Up to New Faculty about Research Misconduct (Reprinted from September 2017)
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies

In this issue:

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • Finding the Best Fit between a Funder and a Humanities/Social Science Project
  • Humanities and Arts Funding Opportunities and News
  • ERC Engineering Workforce Development and K-12 Engineering Education
  • New Coronavirus-related Funding Opportunities
  • One Common Mistake Made in Writing NSF ERC Proposals
  • NSF ERC Proposal Production and Task Assignments Schedule (PPTAS)
  • Understanding Your Proposal Writing Tendency
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies

In this issue

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • The Power of Faculty Writing Groups for Reviewing Proposals and Overall Writing Improvement
  • Humanities and Arts Funding Opportunities and News
  • Where’s the Money? The State of US Science and Engineering 2020
  • How to Write Your Data Management Plan
  • The Thirty-Minute Grant Writing Workshop–Some Key Observations for Discussion
  • Writing Better STEM Education Grants
  • Agency Missions and Cultures Are Not Fungible
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies

In this issue:

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • Calling All Published Poets: Funding for Individuals from NEA
  • Humanities and Arts Funding Opportunities and News
  • The Communications Component of the Research Management Plan
  • Overview of the New NSF CAREER Solicitation
  • Writing the Innovation Section of Research and Education Proposals
  • DOE’s $97 Million FOA for Bioenergy Technologies
  • Basic Grant Writing Training Presentation
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies

In this issue:

  • Topics of Interest URLs
  • Consider Foundations as Potential Funders
  • Humanities and Arts Funding Opportunities and News
  • If You Name It, Explain It
  • In Proposals, Less is Often More
  • AI’s Future Impact on STEM Education
  • Don’t Sell the Funding Solicitation Short
  • Create a Process for Adding Team Members to Proposals
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency Research News
  • Agency Reports, Workshops and Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities
  • About Academic Research Funding Strategies