Grant Writing Bootcamp
Grant Writing Bootcamp is designed to help grant-interested faculty produce a quality, successful proposal, with valuable information and support from grant-successful facilitators. Participants have the opportunity to interact with grant-successful senior faculty, to work with peer support in writing groups, and to use a team of proposal support personnel who have the submitter's individual needs in mind.
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Spring 2022
Grant-Writing Bootcamp: From Idea to Proposal
Co-sponsored by the Office of Research Development (part of the Office of Research, Economic Development and Graduate Education)
APPLICATIONS DUE BY DECEMBER 15TH!
Go through the grant-writing process from beginning to end while working on your own grant proposal. With feedback from peers and experts, this 5-week workshop (over 6 weeks) is designed to help novice grant writers understand the requirements of a grant opportunity, collect and create the many parts of a proposal, organize and write about their project, connect with MSU resources, and submit a grant proposal at MSU.
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Not accepting applications at this time!

- Participation is limited to 20 people.
- Preference will be given to faculty who already have a grant opportunity in mind and can attend ALL sessions
- You will receive a confirmation that we have received your application.
- Successful applicants will be notified by December 17th.
- Securing internal and external funding to support scholarly work
- Increasing awareness of strategies designed to improve productivity, relationships, and stress/time management for a lasting life and work balance
- Developing relationships to promote research and scholarly excellence, and encourage collaboration across disciplines
Previous Boot Camps
Term |
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Fall 2019 Learn more |
Fall 2018, 2017 View syllabus |
Fall 2016 |
Fall 2015 |
Fall 2014: September 19th - October 24th, 2014 |
Spring 2014: March 7th - May 2nd, 2014 |
Fall 2013: September 16th - October 23rd, 2013 |
Grant Writing Bootcamp Facilitator Guide
Want to run your own Boot Camp? Check out the Facilitator's Guide that provides background on the development of the course, timelines for planning and scheduling, and outlines of the sessions. The Guides provides detailed information about the resources needed with links to examples and templates to make your Boot Camp a success.
To request a copy, contact [email protected]
Analysis of Impact
We looked at a one-year pre-post test of the impact of Bootcamp on women faculty in STEM’s research capacity was reported in the peer-reviewed journal Bioscience (Smith et al., 2017). Over the span of one year (and contrasting results with a comparison sample who were not part of the intervention) showed women participating in Grant-Writing Bootcamp significantly increased the number of external grants submitted, number of proposals led as PI, number of external grants awarded, and amount of external funding dollars awarded.
Smith, J.L., Stoop, C. D., Young, M., Belou. R., Held, S. (2017). Grant-Writing Bootcamp: An Intervention to Enhance the Research Capacity of Academic Women in STEM. BioScience. 67 (7): 638-645. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix050