Grant Writing
The following links contain helpful resources on proposal writing:
The Foundation Center’s Short Course On Proposal Writing:
http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html
Graduate Business Resources - Grant Writing:
http://www.onlinegraduateprograms.com/resources/graduate-business-resources-grant-writing/
Guide To Grant Proposal Writing (With Samples):
http://www2.njstatelib.org/njlib/grhdtoc.htm
How To Write A Letter of Inquiry:
http://www.grantproposal.com/inquiry.html
Grant Writing Tips from the National Science Foundation:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9891/nsf9891.htm#table
Grant Writing Tip Sheets from the National Institutes of Health:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/grant_tips.htm
Grant Writing Tutorial from the Environmental Protection Agency:
http://www.epa.gov/region9/waste/p2/pdf/presentation.pdf
National Endowment for the Arts — Grant Guidelines, Forms and Materials:
www.arts.gov/grants/
The Art of Writing Proposals by the Social Science Research Council:
http://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/the-art-of-writing-proposals/
Government Agency & Foundation Links
Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/
Department of State—Fulbright programs, USIA
http://www.state.gov/
Department of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/
Department of Energy
http://www.doe.gov/
Department of Commerce
http://www.doc.gov/
Department of Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil/
Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/
Fish & Wildlife
http://www.fws.gov/
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
http://www.hud.gov/
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
http://www.nasa.gov/
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
http://www.arts.endow.gov/
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
http://www.neh.gov/
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
http://www.nih.gov/
National Science Foundation (NSF)
http://www.nsf.gov/
Fastlane—Web-based electronic submissions
http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/
Boilerplate Information on the College for Proposal Writers
Washington College Fact Sheet (PDF)
Examples of Successful Grant Proposals
Please contact the author to request additional information regarding proposals.
“A Modernized Undergraduate Psychology Laboratory for Curricular Enhancments in Learning, Animal Cognition & Behavioral Psychopharmacology”
Dr. Mike Kerchner
$35, 355 Total (50/50 NSF/WC match)
NSF DUE-ILI (Division of Undergraduate Education—Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement ) Program
This Program became the current (CCLI ) Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program:
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/due/programs/ccli/
“The Role and Timing of Human Hippocampal Neural Activity in Memory”
Women’s International Science Collaboration (WISC) Program, 2001-2003
Dr. Katherine Cameron
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
The grant allowed Professor Cameron to travel to Mexico to conduct collaborative research.
1997. Spilich, GJ
Integrating an eye movement laboratory in an undergraduate psychology curriculum. NSF-ILI, $10,712.
1997. Spilich, GJ & Acocella, C.
Instrumenting a cognitive neuroscience research laboratory. NSF-MRI, $54,669.
1998:
$30,000 Archaeological Survey of Maryland’s Upper Eastern Shore—Maryland Historical Trust (MHT)
$26,000 Chestertown African American Archaeology—MHT
$5,643 Public Archaeology at the Cray House, Stevensville, Queen Anne’s Co. MD—Maryland Humanities Council
1999:
$48,387 Geographic Information Systems & Archaeological Predictive Modeling,
Kent & Queen Anne’s Counties—Maryland State Highways Administration (transportation enhancement grant)
$35,000 Archaeological Survey of the Upper Eastern Shore—MHT
2000:
$39,140 Archaeological Survey & Cultural Resource Management on Maryland’s Upper Eastern Shore—MHT
2001:
$40,000 Pilot Project for Marine Remote Sensing, Submerged Cultural & Natural Resources in the Chestert River, Maryland—MHT
$30,000 Historical Archaeology of the Harriet Tubman Birth Site, Dorchester Co., MD—MHT
$25,000 Historical Archaeology of the Harriet Tubman Birth Site—Saving Maryland’s Treasures & Preservation Maryland
$6,000 IMPART Undergraduate Assistantships in Archaeology & Historic Preservation AY 00-01—funded by the Maryland General Assembly & MHT
2002:
$35,000 Harriet Tubman Birthplace Archaeology “Emergency Grant” for remote sensing—MHT
$6,000 IMPART Undergraduate Assistantships in Archaeology & Historic Preservation AY 01-02—funded by the Maryland General Assembly & MHT
$5,000 IMPART Undergraduate Assistantships in Archaeology & Historic Preservation AY 02-03—funded by the Maryland General Assembly & MHT
$54,800 Cultural Resource Survey of the Fairmount and Fishing Bay State Wildlife Management Areas—MHT
$50,000 Harriet Tubman Archaeology Phase II—MHT
$300,096 Heritage Areas Management Plan for the Upper Eastern Shore Heritage Area (Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot Counties)—Eastern Shore Heritage, Inc. (2 year project)
2003:
$123,000 A Transdisciplinary Model of Education through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Applications (w/ Wayne Bell)—Mellon Foundation
$100,000 A Transdisciplinary Model of Education through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Applications (w/ Wayne Bell)—Anonymous
