Grant Writing Resources

• Institute for Education Sciences: Grant Writing Workshops and Webinars
• National Science Foundation: A Guide for Proposal Writing
• National Institutes of Health: Grants and funding information
• On The Art of Writing Proposals
• Tips for Proofreading Your Next Grants Application (Grants.gov)

Pre & Post Funding Administration Information

• Proposal Notification Form - Please use this handy form to tell us about your upcoming grant proposal.(Qualtric)
• myResearch Portal - PIs: Login to see your sponsored research portfolio. 
• PSU Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) - Central coordination and oversight of PSU sponsored projects.
• Recent Changes to Grant Policies - Up-to-date NSF and NIH changes.
• IAF (Internal Approval Form) Instructions How to complete the IAF, required for PSU proposal submissions.
• Request for Advance Fund Number - An advanced fund number may be necessary if there have been delays in the signing of the agreement  past the project start date. This should only be requested if all parties are confident that the agreement will be signed.
  

Find Funding

• Seed Grant Funding Opportunities - Seed grant funding opportunities for faculty and graduate students.
• Funding Institutional - Search thousands of funding opportunities. To register for this PSU service, please use these instructions.
• PSU Limited Submissions (i.e., "downselect") - Funding opportunities that limit the number of submissions allowed from Penn State.
• Social Science Research Institute - SSRI  - Bringing together researchers from different disciplines around emerging areas of study.
• Research Initiation Grants Program - RIG - Assisting College of Education faculty in the developmental stages of major research projects.

• Grants.gov - Navigate through all Federal funding opportunities.
• National Science Foundation (NSF) - Active funding opportunities at NSF.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Active funding opportunities at NIH.
• Department of Education - Active funding opportunities at the US Department of Education

Proposal Training and Resources

• Guide for Grant Seekers  - Explains the grant seeking process, including what the grants & contracts office can do for you.
• Tips for Developing Collaborative Proposals - FAQs for writing larger proposals with multiple collaborators, and/or multidisciplinary proposals.
• Proposal Preparation Resources - Proposal writing guides from NIH, NSF, SSRC, and others.

Other Useful Links and Documents

• Guidelines for a Course Release When Building a Sponsored Project Budget - Enables faculty, with department head approval, to supplement research fellowships and awards without sacrificing the interests of students and colleagues.
• Tuition, Fringe, and Overhead Rates - Fringe Benefits and F&A Costs (overhead) must be included on every budget except when prohibited by the funding source.
• Online Training Documents - Link to the Research Office Box account.