Research Development & Grant Writing News
This newsletter provides recent federal agency and foundation developments, news on funding opportunities and tips to improve grantsmanship and increase proposal competitiveness.
The monthly newsletter, published by Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC, typically addresses the following topics:
- Information on new and continuing solicitations (most commonly federal)
- Articles and links to topics of interest to grant writers
- Analysis of sponsor policies, financials and activities
- Suggestions for successful team and consortium building efforts
Contact Doug Bornemann if you would like to view past issues of Research Development & Grant Writing News. Find below the highlights of the current issue.
November 2024 highlights
- November 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News – We list funding opportunities for scholars in the humanities, social sciences and the arts.
- NIH Replication to Enhance Research Impact Initiative – We discuss NIH’s Replication to Enhance Research Impact Initiative.
- The Role of Reproducibility and Replicability in NSF Research Funding – We discuss reproducibility and replicability concerns in the context of writing NSF proposals, and related funding opportunities.
- Importance of Reproducibility and Replicability in STEM Education Funding – We discuss how reproducibility and replicability concerns should inform education funding proposals.
- Analyzing NSF CAREER Reviews and Planning Your Revisions – CAREER funding decisions and reviews are starting to trickle out to PIs, and most of those proposals will be declined. We discuss how to analyze reviews and develop a plan to respond to them in the next submission.
- Connect Funding Opportunities to Societal Challenges – We discuss NSF’s Connecting Funding Opportunities to Societal Challenges initiative (reprinted from November 2022)
- The Dos and Don’ts of Writing the Statement of Purpose for a Humanities/Social Sciences Funding Application – We discuss how to write the statement of purpose in a way that will inspire your reviewer to want to read the rest of your proposal (reprinted from November 2023).