Junior Faculty Workshop Nov' 910, PVAMU

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Junior Faculty WorkshopNov. 9-10, PVAMU

• Dr. K. L. Peddicord, Vice Chancellor for Research
  and Federal Relations (photo circa 1974)
• Tami Davis Sayko, Associate Vice Chancellor, RFR

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OPD Member List

• Jean Ann Bowman, PhD (Physical Geography/Hydrology
  ), earth ecological, and environmental sciences,
  jbowman_at_tamu.edu
• Libby Childress, Scheduling, workshop management,
  project coordination, libbyc_at_tamu.edu
• Mike Cronan, PE, BSCE, BA, MFA, Center-level
  proposals, AM System partnerships, new proposal
  and training initiatives, mikecronan_at_tamu.edu
• Lucy Deckard, BSMS, MSMSE, New faculty
  initiative, fellowships, engineering and physical
  science proposals, equipment and instrumentation,
  OPD web management l-deckard_at_tamu.edu
• John Ivy, PhD (Molecular Biology), NIH biomedical
  and biological science initiatives,
  johnivy_at_tamu.edu
• Phyllis McBride, PhD (English), proposal writing
  training, biomedical, social and behavioral
  sciences editing, p-mcbride_at_tamu.edu
• Robyn Pearson, BA, MA, social behavioral
  sciences and humanities proposals, support for
  research group development, editing and
  rewriting, rlpearson_at_tamu.edu

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Overview of Research Funding Grant Writing

• Identifying funding solicitations
• Analyzing the solicitation
• Analyzing the funding agency
• Understanding the review process
• Writing the proposal narrative
• Checklist for writing the proposal

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If you dont write grants, you wont get any

• Target the proposal at the intersection where
• research dollars are available
• your research interests are met
• a competitive proposal can be written within the
  time available.

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Positioning to submit

• Find an appropriate solicitation
• Review the solicitation in detail
• Assess your capacity to perform
• Map your expertise to the RFP
• Assess your capacity to write a competitive
  proposal

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Poor planningEverybody has a plan--until they
are shot at, Colin Powell

• Match the RFP
• Schedule a timeline
• Start proposal early
• Partnerships take more time
• Collaborator compatibility
• Let ideas develop slowly
• No midnight warriors
• Periodic calibration to RFP
• Define and schedule development tasks
• Anticipate the unexpected

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Poor Process Planning

• What do you control?
• Proposal narrative
• Collaborators
• Budget
• What do others control?
• Routing signatures
• Budget approvals
• Submission
• Data requests
• Institutional support

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Keep focused on development tasks

• Define and develop goals objectives
• Plan narrative iterations
• Who does what and when
• Review and assess progress of goals objectives
• Budget process by task

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Anticipate the unexpected

• Some ideas dont work out
• Some partnerships dont work out
• Some budgets dont work out
• Some proposals dont work out

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Analyzing the funding agency

• Analyzing the mission, strategic plan, investment
  priorities, and culture of a funding agency
  provides information key to enhancing proposal
  competitiveness.

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Map your expertise to the RFP

• Is it a fit?
• Is it really a fit?
• No partial fits allowed
• No wishful thinking
• Close doesnt count
• If you are not a fitdont submit

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You and the RFP need to be like
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No irrational exuberance!!

• Understand the RFP for what it isnot what you
  want it to be
• It is not a speculative investment
• Invest your time, resources, and energy wisely

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Never be timid about contacting a program officer
for clarification

• Timidity is never rewarded in the competitive
  grant process.

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Albert Einstein on Grant Writing

• If you can't explain something simply, you don't
  understand it well."
• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are
  essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be
  expressed in language comprehensible to everyone.
• Any fool can make things bigger, more complex,
  and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and
  a lot of courage--to move in the opposite
  direction.

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Intrigue the Reviewers
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Addressing Review Criteria

• A competitive proposal must clearly address each
  review criterion, and the proposal should be
  structured so that these discussions are easy for
  reviewers to find, compare, and contrast.

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Resubmitting proposals

• Take reviewers comments to heart, but not
  necessarily as inerrant
• Assess next step
• Start over
• Major renovation
• Minor renovation
• Re-conceptualize

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OPD-Web Funding Opportunities
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http//www.grants.gov/
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Receive Grants.gov Funding Email Alerts
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Search Browse Grant Opportunities

• http//www.grants.gov/applicants/search_opportunit
  ies.jsp
• http//www.grants.gov/search/agency.do

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Search Grants.gov Opportunities
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http//foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/
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http//www.neh.gov/news/nehconnect.html
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http//listserv.ed.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A0edinfoD1H
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http//cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_list/elists/
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FinallyBe confident