ECO593: Graduate Seminar in Grant Writing

Instructor:
Linda Silka, Director Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and Professor in the School of Economics.  Dr. Silka has written funded proposals to National Science Foundation, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Environmental Protection Agency. 

Course Description & Objectives:
The course will provide students with a detailed, hands-on introduction to grant writing.  One of the first lessons students will learn is that grant writing is only to a small degree about writing.  Successful grants emerge from working effectively with others to draw out ideas, capture those ideas to create a program or a plan for research, show how the plan is what is needed to respond to “Request for Proposals,” and package those ideas so that they make sense to the people who will review the proposal.  Grant writing is increasingly a team activity.  In this course we will complete all of the steps of grant writing:

• Identify possible funding sources
• Develop initial ideas that could be the basis for a proposal
• Develop an organizational method for keeping track of all grant process steps
• Develop a concept paper or letter of inquiry
• Seek out partners interested in pursuing funding together and negotiating those relationships
• Network to learn about the interests that others have in the topic area
• Examine the literature to see what others have done in the topic area
• Learn to read a “Request for Proposals” or “Request for Applications”
• Gather information from the funding source about their expectations
• Complete an outline, complete a draft, and obtaining feedback
• Obtain letters of support
• Collect ancillary materials
• Develop budgets
• Create timelines
• Write program evaluation components
• Answer questions from the funder about the submitted proposal
• Manage implementation, budgets, and reports
• Learn from the experience when your proposal is not funded

 

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