Webinar: "Everything You Need to Know about Grantwriting"
| Date/Time: | Monday, 10 Aug 2015 from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm |
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| Location: | Register for the Webinar |
| Phone: | 515-294-8991 |
| Channel: | Academic Affairs |
| Categories: | Training, development |
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Week 2: How to Know What Funding Agencies Really Want (Falk-Krzesinski)
Just as Elizabeth Barrett Browning recounts the numerous ways in which she loves her husband in her poem, "How Do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways," so too are there many ways to review and evaluate the potential for success of grant proposals. But are grant review criteria as endless as the ways of love? Upon initial glance of various federal funding agency review criteria guidelines, it does seem as though each has its own distinct set and number of "rules" regarding review of grant proposals for research and scholarship. This webinar will present an examination of proposal review criteria from various federal funding agencies to demonstrate that there are actually only a small and finite number of ways that a grant proposal can be evaluated and that once grant writers know the "rules" from any one funder, it makes it much easier to learn them for every other, including foundations and corporate funding bodies. But why does this matter? As the external federal funding landscape continues to become more competitive because of a decline in resources for research and scholarship support, it is important for investigators and scholars to consider multiple agencies to which they can submit grant proposals. So much of the grantsmanship process is dependent upon the review criteria, which represent funders' desired impact of the research or scholarship. Thus, if investigators and scholars perceive that they need to learn an entirely new review system(s) before considering a grant proposal to a new funding agency, the task can seem overwhelming and researchers and scholars are less likely to diversify their funding portfolio.