Grant Seeking Basics

1. Grant Seeking Basics Presented by: Carla Borden, Research Development Specialist Rebekah Craig, Research Development Specialist Cheryl Dison, Director of Research Development

2. Today’s Objectives • How to search for funding sources • How to analyze funding announcements • Importance of a literature review

4. Finding Funding • Primary Sources • The Federal Register • The official daily publication of the Federal Government • www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index • The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) • Accessible database of all available Federal Programs • www.cfda.gov

5. Search Engines • SPINplus Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPINplus) a database of funding opportunities, a database of investigator profiles, and a matching alert service http://www.astate.edu/a/ortt/ ITTC offers tutorials http://www2.astate.edu/ittc/

6. Search Engines • Grants.gov a database of Federal funding opportunities and a matching alert service www.grants.gov

7. Search Engines • Grants Resource Center (GRC) a database of funding opportunities www.aascu.org/grc Login (Username: astate Password: service)

8. Other Sources for Private Foundations • www.grantwatch.com Login (cgoad@astate.eduPassword Research115) • www.foundationcenter.org Access thru Library information desk only!

9. Institute for Research Development

10. You have found your funding announcement…… Now what?

11. Funding Announcement • Might be called: • Solicitation • Request for Proposals (RFP) • Request for Applications (RFA) • READ THE SOLICITATION! • READ THE SOLICITATION!

12. Things to Document & Review

13. Things to Consider…. • Eligibility • Deadline • Budget Limits • Cost Sharing • Collaborations/Partners • Number of Anticipated Awards • Method of Submittal

14. Institute for Research Development

15. First Things First • Develop an idea • Find a solicitation • ??? • Start writing (tomorrow’s topic) • Conduct a thorough literature review

16. Literature Review

17. Literature Review

18. Literature Review • Demonstrates: • originality

19. Literature Review • “The literature review establishes your credibility to conduct the study…. It indicates your knowledge of the subject and how your study fits into the larger realms of your discipline.” ~Rutgers University

20. Literature Review • Demonstrates: • originality • credibility

21. Literature Review • Stone D. How Your Grant Proposal Compares David Stone. (2009, July 29). Chronicle of Higher Education. • “Context is everything. The ideas that win grant money are those that are most well positioned in the literature. All successful grant proposals must demonstrate how their central idea arises from and speaks to ideas and efforts that have come before.”

22. Literature Review • Demonstrates: • originality • credibility • need & rationale for your study

23. Literature Review • “Know the big players. In one sense, the best-positioned grant proposals are those written by the key players whose research findings, strategies, publications, and other dissemination efforts allow them to be the framers of the nature and scope of the problem…”

24. Literature Review • “But well-positioned proposals can also be written by lesser-known scholars who have placed themselves within the orbit of the central players.”

25. Literature Review • “Second-tier players are part of the conversations about the nature and scope of the problem and about the universe of promising approaches to its solution. As such, they are able to frame their ideas from a firsthand understanding of the state of the field.”

26. Literature Review • “One step removed are those researchers in a third group who haven't worked with the key players. But these third-tier scholars can position their grant ideas well by doing their homework and framing their ideas in relation to the work being done by cutting-edge researchers.”

27. Be Selective, Be Thorough • Respected journals & authors • Recent • Relevant • Lit review each aspect of your proposal • Who are your reviewers? What studies are they familiar with?

28. Literature Review • “Proposals that fail to show awareness of the work of major players or research groups do so at their peril.”

29. Literature Review • “If you ask yourself whether you know who the key players are in a given area of investigation and the answer is no, that is a sign to reconsider preparing a proposal until you have improved your networking and furthered your review of the literature.”

30. Literature Review • Demonstrates: • originality • credibility • need & rationale for your study • your competence to complete the research

31. First Things First • Develop an idea • Find a solicitation • Conduct a thorough literature review • Manage your ideas, information, & time

34. Filename Mystery

35. Filename Mastery

37. Filename Mastery

43. File Mastery Apps • www.readcube.com • www.mendeley.com • www.qiqqa.com • www.zotero.org

44. Citation Format <3 • Use format most appropriate to your field • Save space with superscripts if needed.1 • EDIT reference list in narrative and CV • Keep same format throughout • http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/585/02/ • http://www.library.arizona.edu/search/reference/citation-subj.html

45. Questions?

46. Homework • Bring a printed solicitation to review tomorrow • Prepare a (very) rough draft of goals/objectives/specific aims of a proposal for that solicitation