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Below find a variety of on-line resources to assist you with your proposal writing.

Non-Profit Guides
This is a free web-based grant-writing site offereing tools for established non-profit organizations, charitable, educational, public organizations, and other community-minded groups through the grant-writing process.

A Guide for Proposal Planning and Writing
This publication is an excellent free resource for new grant-writers This resource is written by Jeremy T. Miner and Lynn E. Miner.

A Guide to Proposal Writing
National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education, 1998.

A Practical Guide for Writing Proposals
A resource written by Alice N. T. Reid.

Developing and Writing Grant Proposals
A resource from the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

EPA Grant-Writing Tutorial
A resource from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This interactive software tool walks you through the grant-writing process and helps you to learn to write more competitive grants.

All About Grants Tutorial
A resource from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and NIAID featuring tutorials to help biomedical investigators, especially new ones, plan, write, and apply for the basic NIH research project grant, the R01. This advice comes from the experience of NIAID staff, including former NIH grantees, and should be considered as opinion only. Differing opinions may exist.

General Guidance
A resource from the J. C. Downing Foundation that offers practical tips that can help grantseekers increase their chances for a successful application with any foundation.

How to Improve your Score When Submitting a Grant Proposal
Written by Dr. David Hemenway. This commentary discusses how you can improve your priority score by 50 to 100 points or more. It is based on factors totally unrelated to the science of your proposal but which will definitely cause your priority score to deteriorate unless you pay heed to the items listed. Ignore them if you like, but it will still impact (negatively) on your priority score.

Proposal Writing: The Business of Science
This guide, written by Wendy Sanders and provided by the Whitaker Foundation, discusses how to obtain a NIH grant, including a look at the NIH review system.

Proposal Writing Short Course
The Foundation Center has summarized the steps to writing a proposal.

Some Tips for Writing Grant Proposals
A resource written by Jan Harrington, National Science Foundation, October 2000.

The Original How to Write a Research Grant Application
This resource by the National Institutes of Health, May 2002 takes you through the PHS 398 forms and shows how to respond to events after application. You can review the original tutorial, and other tutorials as well through this site.

Writing from the Winner's Circle: A Guide to Preparing Competitive Grant Proposals
Written by Dr. David Stanley, was published by Nebraska EPSCoR in 1996 to assist researchers in Nebraska (and other states) as they develop grant proposals.

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