Proposal Writing Guides and Resources
Sponsor-specific Advice
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)
- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Public Access Policy
- Data Access Policy
- Grant Application (downloadable instructions and form files, including biosketch)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Intellectual Merit: Transformative research (announcement of requirement)
- Intellectual Merit: Transformative research (detailed discussion)
- Broader Impacts (discussion of criterion)
- Broader Impacts (representative activities)
- Postdoc Mentoring Plan (sample plan)
- Data Management Plan
- Proposal Forms Kit
- Biosketch Guidelines (PDF)
- Project Outcomes Report
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- U.S. Department of Education
General Advice and Resources
- Project Planning/Management Plans
- Logic Model -- University of Wisconsin-Extension
- Logic Model Development -- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Project Planning and Gantt Charts
- Health and Human Services (HHS) Practices Guide: Project Management Plan (works on Mac only)
- Grantwriting
- Grant Proposal Writing Guides -- United Nations
- Guidebook for New Principal Investigators -- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Proposal Writing Short Course -- Foundation Center
- Evaluation Plans
- Program Development and Evaluation -- University of Wisconsin-Extension
- Project Evaluation Handbook -- NSF
- Evaluation Plan Guide -- HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (targets community health interventions, but the advice and charts can apply to other fields)
- Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health -- CDC (a lengthy and detailed discussion)
