We can help you:
- Identify funding opportunities
- Locate appropriate internal and sponsor-specific forms
- Navigate National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation grant applications
- Analyze solicitation guidelines
- Develop your budget
- Coordinate project teams for interdisciplinary or interinstitutional proposals
- Review your proposal to ensure readability and compliance with solicitation requirements
- Add to your facilities description (Doc)
Be sure to contact us early in your proposal development process, so that we have adequate time to conduct a careful review and can best leverage our resources and expertise.
Proposal Writing Guides
The following writing guides can help you plan and write an effective research proposal.
NIH Grants
NSF Grants
Grants.gov
- Grants.gov allows organizations to find and apply for more than $400 billion in federal grants across 1,000 grant programs and all federal grant-making agencies.
- All Grants.gov proposals must submitted by UMKC’s Office of Research Services. The PDF legacy packages were retired on December 31, 2017. All Grants.gov users will now need an account to get into Workspace to submit applications.
- Instructions to request a Workspace login are found here: Workspace Instructions (PDF)
Academic Fundraising Web Resources
(compilation of more than 190 grant writing resources)
Michigan State University
Basic Elements of Grant Writing
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
A Guide for Proposal Writing
National Science Foundation
How to Get Funding
American Association for the Advancement of Science
On the Art of Writing Proposals
Social Science Research Council
Proposal Writer's Guide
Don Thackrey, University of Michigan
Proposal Development Training Guides
James Madison University
The Foundation Center's FAQs
The Foundation Center
National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases
The NIH R01 Grant Tool Kit
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Frequently Asked Questions about the Format of Grant Applications
National Institutes of Health
The Grantsmanship Center (for a fee)