Prior to beginning any grant
proposal, please familiarize yourself with the process for submitting grants. This
procedure is designed to garner approval for your project from administration,
allow the Office of Pre-Award Sponsored Programs to assist in proposal and
budget development, and ensure that enough time is scheduled to write and
submit the proposal.
Strict adherence to
this process is mandatory for any faculty or staff desiring pursuit of external
funding. Failure to follow this process may result in the University declining
any awards offered from outside funding agencies.
In order to ensure
that a grant proposal is submitted according to university regulations, please
see the
Grant Submission Procedure diagram.
If you
haven’t written a grant proposal before and need some assistance working
through your idea, the Office of Pre-Award Sponsored Programs has created a
form to help. This
Grant Concept Development Form will give you a general idea of the
things that will be needed to begin writing most grant proposals and allows for
meaningful dialogue to take place between you and the Director of Grants and/or
your Dean. Along with solidifying the project goals, objectives, activities,
outcomes and timeline, this form assists you in determining the cost of the
project.
If you have
written a grant proposal before and do not feel the need to work through your
idea using the concept development form, you MUST fill out the
Grant Internal
Approval Form prior to beginning work on the proposal. This form alerts
the Office of Pre-Award Sponsored Programs that you will be submitting a
proposal and garners approval for this project by your dean and the Vice
President of Academic Affairs.
The Director
of Pre-Award Sponsored Programs is available to discuss any ideas prior to
filling out the forms and can be reached at 419-423-4429 or
gear@findlay.edu.