Applying for Grants

Proposal Development

Tips

Allow plenty of time to develop your ideas and to write the proposal. Sonya can help with this and with the following:

  • Reviewing and interpreting granting agency guidelines. It often helps to discuss agency guidelines in order to clarify them.
  • Editing narrative text. Having other eyes on the proposal strengthens the clarity of the text.
  • Developing and writing proposal budgets. Unless you have experience with budgets, they can be obscure.  Please take advantage of Sonya’s experience with foundation and government agency budget requirements.
  • Navigating the internal approval process. All grants are subject to an internal Southwestern University approval process, which includes an internal Southwestern University signature approval form that must be completed. See Routing Process for details. 
  • Drafting and obtaining letters of support. Many grants require evidence of support from people both within Southwestern and external to the University.
  • Submitting proposals to funding agencies. Sometimes submission is straightforward and easy, other times less so. Sonya can help with the full range – from dropping the proposal in the mail to the electronic submission systems of government agencies.
Proposal Writing Tips Links