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Proposal Writing Resources

The Contracts & Grants Office maintains a Successful Proposal Library. To make a request to borrow proposals, Kelly Hayton. The UCSB Office of Research can also make copies of successful proposals available to principal investigators to view.

The following links/articles may be useful to faculty/researchers for proposal preparation.

• A proposal preparation tip chart. Includes tables to help determine your timeline for proposal submission to the Contracts & Grants Office and the UCSB Office of Research.

• The UCSB Office of Research has some pages devoted to proposal writing resources.
  www.research.ucsb.edu/toolbox/

• The Art of Writing Proposals by Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon.
  www.ssrc.org/publications/view/7A9CB4F4-815F-DE11-BD80-001CC477EC70

• A listing of library books available at UCSB and within the UC system on the topic of proposal writing.

• A video of a mock NIH proposal review session. The video provides some tips on what reviewers look for in a proposal. http://cms.csr.nih.gov/ResourcesforApplicants/InsidetheNIHGrantReviewProcessVideo.htm

• Grant-writing tools (including sample proposals and tips).
  www.npguides.org

• Proposal Pointers and Pitfalls.
  www.proposalwriter.com/pointers.html  

• NIH Funding Opportunities, Peer Review and Grant Writing presented December 14, 2004 by Anthony Coelho, Ph.D., Review Policy Officer, NIH National Institutes of Health. Link includes video of the presentation and handouts of the power point presentation.
  http://ora.stanford.edu/ora/ratd/nih_04.asp

• Business 101: Writing a Business Grant Proposal Informative web sites from government and other business organizations compiled by Online Business Degree.
  

  http://www.onlinebusinessdegree.org/resources/writing-a-business-grant-proposal/