Grant Writing Tips

• Housebuilding: A Metaphor for Strong Grant Writing (PDF), Robert Porter, May 8, 2013, Oct/Nov 2018.
• Writing Effective Grant Proposals for Individual Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Science, Susan Stanford Friedman, Hillsdale Professor, Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin.
• The Art of Writing Proposals, Pzreworski, Adam and Salomon, Frank, SSRC.
• How to write a federal grants proposal, Federal Grants Writer
• Essay on Learning from Rejected Grant Applications, Russell Olwell, Inside Higher Education, May 8, 2013
• Top Twelve Grant Writing Tips for Success (PDF), University of Richmond, Foundation, Corporate & Government Relations
• Proposal Writing Resources Part I and Proposal Writing Resources Part II Michigan State Proposal Writing Resources
• Insider’s Guide to Peer Review for Applicants  Advice from NIH published by the Center for Scientific Review, June 24, 2019.
• ACLS Fellowships – Advice from Winners at Liberal Arts colleges Excellent advice for writing successful proposals in any field.
• Grant Samples
  • One of the best ways to prepare a grant proposal is to consult successful proposals and reviews from other Harvey Mudd faculty. The structure and even some of the content (e.g. general statements about the College’s strengths) from those proposals can be adapted for your own proposal. The OSR can suggest faculty members willing to share their proposals and offer help and advice