Proposal Development
The Office of Research Development works closely with students, faculty, and staff from across Montana State University to support and enhance the proposal development process. Whether you are pursuing a large center grant or a graduate research fellowship, our team offers a comprehensive suite of no-cost services from which you can choose:
- Locating funding
- Solidifying a preliminary idea
- Assessing proposal fit and responsiveness to reviewer requirements
- Developing a white paper/concept paper for a potential sponsor
- Interpreting proposal reviews and resubmission strategizing
- Identifying potential proposal collaborators
- Procuring examples of previously successful proposals
- Outlining of proposals
- Providing templates and institutional boilerplate language
- Collecting, organizing and verifying proposal documents for upload
- Consulting on intellectual merit and broader impacts
- Conducting internal reviews of proposals
- Writing letters of institutional support
- Coordinating limited submissions
- Strategic planning for major initiatives
- Supporting complex, multi-investigator grant proposals
- Facilitating external reviews of proposals
- Securing other external forms of specialized proposal support
- Supporting community-engaged scholarship
- Enhancing societal relevance and impact of research