Proposal Guidance


The Office of Grants and Program Review has prepared two guidance documents to assist faculty with proposal development.  Below is a summary of each document with a link to the full, printable version.

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Hints for Grant Writing
Provides guidance for developing competitive grant proposals, including information on proposal sections, UTC budget policies and grant procedures/approval, links to additional proposal writing resources, and more.

Any university project or activity that involves human subjects in any way (i.e. surveying grant participants, conducting anonymous pre and post tests after teacher workshops, involving human subjects in research studies, etc.)  MUST be reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at UTC.  This requirement must be met regardless of the source of funding for the project or your plans to disseminate findings or outcomes.  Even if you feel your project is EXEMPT from the IRB review requirements you MUST still submit project activity information to the IRB to be officially and legally certified as EXEMPT.  Only the IRB can designate projects as exempt.

LINKS FOR ADDITIONAL GRANT WRITING TIPS
NSF Guide for Proposal Writing (www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04016/start.htm)

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Basic Elements of Grant Writing (www.cpb.org/grants/grantwriting.html)

The Foundation Center, A Proposal Writing Short Course (http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html)

The Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network, Debunking Some Myths About Grant Writing:  (http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/06/2003062601c.htm)

NSF Step-by-Step Guide for Prospective Principal Investigators (http://www.nsf.gov/home/programs/guide.htm)

Advice for Writing a NIH AREA Grant

Evaluation resources can be found at:
 
NSF 2002 User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation (http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf02057)

NSF Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL) (http://oerl.sri.com/)

Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) for Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology Instructors (http://www.flaguide.org/)

 
 
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