General Tips and Guidelines
- CFDA Developing and Writing Grant Proposals (PDF)
- Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal - S. Joseph Levine, Ph.D., Michigan State University
- Introduction to Proposal Writing - The Foundation Center (need to sign up for a user account)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
- A Guide for Proposal Writing
- NSF Career Proposal Writing Tips (PDF) - posted with permission from the eitor, ZJ Pei
- Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (effective January 2018)
- Twelve Steps to a Winning Research Proposal (PDF) - George A. Hazelrigg, National Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- NIH Grants Process
- NIAID Sample Applications and More
- NIAID Investigator-Initiated verses Targeted Research
- NIH New and Early Stage Investigator Policies
- Submitting Your Best-Possible R01 Application (Sarah Web, from Science Careers, May 11, 2012, tips from NIH Funding Conference held at Cold Spring Laboratory)
Humanities, Social Science and Education Agencies/Organizations
- American Council of Learning Societies: Advancing the Humanities (PDF) (Writing Proposals for ACLS Fellowship Competitions by Christina M Gillis)
- ACLS Fellowship Program Sample Application (PDF)
- Common Guidelines for Education and Research and Development (PDF) (U.S. Dept of Education and NSF)
- Developing Competitive SAMHSA Grant Applications (PDF)
- How to Write Effective Proposals (PDF) (for individual fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences) - Susan Stanford Friedman, English Dept. University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Some Candid Suggestions on the Art of Writing Proposals (Social Science Research Council) (PDF)
- Submitting A Grant Proposal: Risks, Benefits, and How to Succeed (PDF) - posted with permission from both the author, Maria Carlson and the University of Kansas, Hall Center for the Humanities (http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu )
Updated 12/6/19