GSR - Step 4: Develop Grant Proposal
Proposal Support Services
The Office of Grants and Sponsored Research (GSR) can provide a range of pre-award support services to assist you in developing your proposal, including:
- Solicitation and grant application analysis and guidance, including facilitation of technical assistance meetings with program officers from sponsor agencies.
- Guidance and support on College policies and procedures
- Cost sharing and match requirements
- Letters of Commitment
- Compliance issues: Human Subjects Research, Conflict of Interest, data sharing, etc.
- Proposal development and management
- Work plans and timelines
- Roles and responsibilities for completion of proposal components
- Budget development and guidance
- Subrecipients and consultants
- Proposal preparation and assembly
- Guidance with sponsor forms (samples and templates available)
- Reviewing and editing proposal components
- Assembling of proposal components for distribution five days prior to the due date in order to get required Springfield College approvals.
Note that if you will be utilizing human subjects, you must apply to the Springfield College Institutional Review Board.
Proposal Development Resources
- National Science Foundation Proposal Preparation Instructions
- National Institute of Health Grant Writing Guidance
- Department of Education IES Grant Writing Presentation
- Grants.gov: Grants 101
- Developing a Competitive SAMHSA Grant Application
- How to Prepare an HRSA Grant Application
- Intoduction to Proposal Writing (Foundation Center)
Other Grant Writing Resources
The following books are held by the Springfield College library. Contact Library Services for access to these and other resources.
- Winning Grants Step by Step : the Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing and Writing Successful Proposals by Tori O'Neal-McElrath.
- How the NIH Can Help You Get Funded : An Insider's Guide to Grant Strategy by Michelle L Kienholz, Jeremy M Berg.
- Successful grant writing: strategies for health and human service professionals by Laura N Gitlin and Kevin J Lyons.
- A practical guide to writing a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA grant by Andrew D Hollenbach.
- Writing Research Proposals in the Health Sciences : A Step-by-step Guide by Zevia Schneider and Jeffrey Fuller.
- Grant Seeking in Higher Education: Strategies and Tools for College Faculty by Mary M. Licklider.
- Creating Winning Grant Proposals: A Step-by-Step Guide by Anne L. Rothstein.