Grant Writing and Editing Resources
If you need assistance with drafting and revising your research proposal, ACHRI has writing and editing support for you. Contact Phaedra Yount or John Gregan when you know your plan for developing your grant application will require support for writing and editing. They will compare your schedule and theirs and contact you. Making them a part of your application development plan early will help your schedule run smoother and help you submit a clearer research plan.
Descriptions of Facilitites Boilerplate Text
Descriptions of the facilitites and grant resources are available to cut and paste into grant applications. If you would like a copy of these descriptions, please send an email to Phaedra or John and they will send those to you via email.
Listing of Extramural Funding Opportunities (requires access to MyACH)
Submitting Electronic Applications to NIH for the First Time?
Helpful Web Sites
Office of Extramural Research
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm
This page provides links for up-to-date NIH medical and behavioral research grant policies, guidelines and funding opportunities.
Electronic Submission of Grant Applications - Training
http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/training.htm
This site indexes all training materials about electronic submission from the Office of Extramural Research.
SF424 (R&R) Application and Electronic Submission Information
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/424/index.htm
This page provides application guides and practice application packages for preparing your application.
Parent Announcements (for unsolicited or investigator-initiated applications)
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/parent_announcements.htm.
This page provides links to available Parent Announcements (sorted by Activity Code).
Avoiding Common Errors - PDF Issues: Guidelines
http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/pdf_guidelines.htm#
This page gives information on effectively converting your word processor files to portable document format (PDF) for attachments to your application package.
Grants.gov
Home Page
Grants.gov is the source to find and apply for Federal government grants.
Download NIH Grant Submission Software
http://www.grants.gov/resources/download_software.jsp
This page has the links to download the software you need to submit electronically, PureEdge Viewer.
Search page for Grants.gov
Use this page to search Grants.gov for funding opportunities.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
"All About Grants" Tutorials
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/default.htm
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases provides helpful grants tutorials at their Web site.
Step-by-Step Checklists for Electronic Application
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/eapp/check/default.htm
NIAID supplies checklists to guide you through how to apply electronically using the SF 424, highlighting common problems and errors others have encountered.
Making PDFs
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/eapp/pdf.htm
This page gives information on effectively converting your word processor files to portable document format (PDF) for attachments to your application package.
ACHRI
Sample SF424
http://webapps.archildrens.org/vaultfiles/ACHRI/web/SF424SAMPLE.pdf
This page provides a sample SF424 containing ACHRI’s application information.
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