Finding & Writing Grants

National Center for Faculty Diversity and Development (NCFDD)

All Colby faculty, staff and students have access via an institutional subscription

How to Win an NIH Grant: This webinar series is meant for faculty researchers who are new to NIGH and will focus on how to compete successfully for funding at NIH. Each webinar will last approximately 45 minutes, with an additional 30 minutes for exercises and Q&A.

How to Seek (And Get!) Foundation Funding: In this three-week series of learning community sessions we will begin with the basics, including a look at how to search for foundation funding and evaluate information on foundation priorities and initiatives, and review effective strategies for college/university coordination when approaching foundations.

How to Write Grants and Win Fellowships for Academics in the Humanities: In this four-week course, you will learn how to write a project statement that leaps off the page and sells itself. Specifically, you will learn the importance of fit in fellowships, modeling in preparing application materials, and marketing in writing the narrative portions. 

Writing Science: How to Write Proposals That Get Funded and Papers That Get Cited: In this workshop, we will explore how to use different story stuctures, how to make writing connect and flow, and how to make writing engaging. The overall goal is to communicate clearly - how to make your writing powerful and professional without being pedantic.

Everything You Need to Know About Grant Writing:  Before the grant writing begins, you need to identify potential funders, and many people just don't know where to start. The purpose of the webinar is to help orient you to grant writing, and demystify the process for finding funding opportunities.

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Cover letters: Sample cover letters, including successful letters to Charles Steward Mott Foundation, Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation, Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund

Letters of Inquiry: Example LOIs, including successful LOIs from Family Mankind and Cleveland Entrepeneurial Preparatory School

Proposal budgets: Sample budget documents from funded organizations including Recovery Resources, Outdoor Explorations, New York Hall of Science and more

Full proposals: Collection of successful proposals, including those from Academy from Grassroots Organizations, 100 Black Men of Metropolitan House, Buck Out Cleveland, the Battered Women's Shelter of Summit & Medina Counties, and more

Other documents: Strategic planning, templates, worksheets and more