All About Grants Tutorials Tutorials to help biomedical investigators, especially new ones, plan, write, and apply for the basic NIH research project grant, the R01.

Articles on Grant Writing A great site for assistance with preparing science-related grants, but most of the articles will be useful to everyone.

Before Writing a Grant Proposal Step by step information to prepare the grant writer before the writing actually begins.

Budgeting This online course will help you develop a project budget. Contents include: basic components of a project budget and types of financial documents often required for proposals.

Common Grant Application Format A common proposal format that can be used as a template when requesting and making foundation grants, and writing effective proposals.

Common Mistakes in NIH Applications  Five critical review criteria for NIH applications.

Developing and Writing Grant Proposals This article has two components: 1) Initial Proposal Development and 2) the Basic Components of a proposal, beginning with the Introduction and ending with the Budget.

Government Grant Writing for Fun and Profit This is an actual webcast presented by the Health Resources and Services Administration in September 2004. You can listen to it, read the transcript, and/or view the accompanying slides.

Grantcraft The Ford Foundation developed this site to offers guides, videos, case studies and other tools gathered from donors and grant makers.

Grant Makers Reveal Why Grant Proposals Get Rejected A very useful and practical article published by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Identifies the common reasons why so many proposals fail to obtain funding.

Grant Writing Guides These guides can serve as templates or samples of an inquiry letter, grant applications, RFPs and proposals budgets.

Grant Writing Tutorial Tutorial developed to assist new and minority drug abuse researchers who are seeking Federal funding specifically from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Grants and Grant Proposal Writing External resources guidebook for research projects and writing an initial grant proposal. Target audience is the academic community, but could prove useful for non-academics as well.

Grants Workshop Presentations A collection of PowerPoint presentations on research and grant writing from the Florida State University Office of Research.

Hiring, Paying and Evaluating Grant Writers Tony Poderis, an expert in fund-raising, offers guidelines to follow before hiring an outside grant writer.

How to Write an Outreach Grant Proposal This article from the Chroncle of Higher Education explains how to find funding resources and the information you need to prepare your proposal.

Innonet's Workstation for Nonprofits This site can be an invaluable resource to provide interactive tools to help you develop your program strategy, action plan, evaluation plan, budget and fundraising plans, and grant applications.

Letter of Inquiry This site provides the resources necessary to prepare a letter of inquiry.

Mock Grant Writing Activity Use the resources on this site to practice writing a grant proposal one step at a time. In each step, an actual grant proposal example is provided to assist you in evaluating  the grant writing process.

NIH Grant Writing Tips Sheets Information, guides and tip sheets for learning about and preparing NIH grant applications.

Pediatrician's Guide to Proposal Writing This site contains a guide to help pediatricians develop grant proposals for community-based child health programs.

Preparing a Successful NIH Grant Application This is a handout that was distributed at the Whitaker Foundation's Biomedical Engineering Research Conference.

Proposal Enhancement Tools The exercises and questions in the worksheets that comprise these proposal enhancement tools from Purdue University can be utilized to assist the grant writer in  identifying the target audiences for the proposal.

Quick Guide for Grant Applications An information and suggestion guide designed for cancer control research and pertinent generic information.

Templates for Grant Proposals Free templates and instructions for a letter of inquiry, proposal cover letter, grant proposal, and budget.

Ten Ways to Write a Better Grant These tips can be used to improve grantwriting skills and techniques.

Using Hard and Soft Data to Build Strong Proposals Information for using hard data, which are usually in the form of statistics, and soft data, which are often presented as quotes and anecdotes. Both types of data can be used effectively in a successful proposal.

What Do Winning Proposals Have in Common? A listing of several elements often present in a  winning proposals.

What Grantmakers Want Applicants to Know Key recommendations to assist the grantwriter in  winning competitive grants.

Writing From the Winner's Circle An online guide for writing and submitting successful grant proposals.

Writing Your Proposal Budget This site contains helpful links to resources and information used to develop your proposal budget.