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Applying for

ADVANCE Grants:
It’s All About Expertise & Teamwork
Overview
 ADVANCE-PAID Request for Proposal (RFP)
 Assessing expertise and organizing a grant-writing
team
 Matching campus needs/interests with RFP
 Understanding earlier ADVANCE/ADVANCE-PAID
results
 Deciding on the grant focus and team-member
responsibilities
 Attending to things NSF MUST see
ADVANCE-PAID RFP

The devil is in the details


‘09 ADVANCE-PAID RFP

RECENT CHANGES/SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN


 Research is an explicit component within PAID to support
social science research related to the study of gender in
academic STEM careers.
 Underrepresented minority group & those with disabilities,
women with disabilities & women from underrepresented
minority groups are particularly encouraged.
 Primarily undergraduate institutions, teaching intensive
colleges, community colleges, minority-serving institutions ,
women's colleges, and institutions primarily serving persons
with disabilities are particularly encouraged.
‘09 ADVANCE-PAID RFP
Up to twenty (20) PAID awards of various award sizes and lengths:
 Adaptation and implementation of materials, tools, research, and
practice demonstrated to be effective in increasing the participation
and advancement of women in STEM academic careers.
 Dissemination and diffusion of materials, tools, research, and
practices, to the appropriate audiences, demonstrated to be
effective in increasing the participation and advancement of
women in STEM academic careers.
Go beyond simply making materials, tools, research, and practices
available to others. Instead, teach and/or train individuals and
groups how to adopt or adapt the information is expected.
EXPERTISE ON THE
GRANT-WRITING TEAM
It takes a team
Expertise on the Grant Team
Need for an interdisciplinary team:
 Social science research => member(s) with expertise in
issues of women &/or underrepresented minorities
 Serving STEM departments => member(s) with
expertise/cachet within those departments
 Support from administration => member(s) who
participates involved when the “wheels” are turned
both on campus & in depts.
 Tricky budget administration & research goals =>
research assistant with grant-management & research
assistant skills
MATCHING CAMPUS
NEEDS/INTERESTS WITH RFP
Grant activities must serve a need

& have deep support


Identifying Campus Needs

 Perform data-gathering activities to


understand campus circumstances
 Confer with chairs and deans, and with those
who would be grant participants
 Cast a wide net early on, and narrow as grant-
writing proceeds
 What sort of campus do you have? What
makes sense here?
UNDERSTANDING EARLIER
ADVANCE/ADVANCE-PAID RESULTS
Do your homework &
don’t reinvent the wheel
Understanding Earlier Work

 What has been done before that seems to fill a


need on your campus?
 Use the NSF Web Portal (listed on important
websites sheet) to review existing grants
 Engage in email correspondence with PI’s of
grants that interest you
 Become known as people interested in these
issues, join professional organization subgroups
FINALIZING GRANT FOCUS &
TEAM-MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Iron things out before you get funding
Grant focus & refinement
Grant-management experience matters:
 Know what your grant activities will be, who will
attend them, and what you expect to happen because
of them
 Develop program evaluation/research activities
 Develop dissemination & institutionalization activities
 Build a matrix of tasks (more detailed than activities) &
decide at the outset who will do what
 Build a budget that covers the task analysis
THINGS NSF MUST SEE
Knowing what review teams look for
Write like a reviewer reads
 Write the grant in response to the RFP
 Context and Data know your circumstances
 Commitment & Sustainability link to support letters
 Activities Description link to ADVANCE findings
 Project Management adequate, believable budget
 Project Evaluation PAID-research grants tougher,
& linked to research literature
 NSF Goals
 Intellectual merit
 Broader impacts

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