Learn Proposal Fundamentals

General Proposal Writing Websites

The Foundation Center Proposal Writing Short Course

This site explains how to write a strong, organized proposal for any genre.

Specific Proposal Writing Websites

The Toolkit: Getting an NIH R01 Application

The site focuses on how to avoid common proposal mistakes and explains how reviewers evaluate your proposal.
 

Annotated NIH R01 Application

Provides a complete example of an outstanding R01 proposal application package with comments from NIAID.
 

The Foundation Center: Proposal Budgeting Basics

This tutorial overviews basic components of a project budget,  and  explains the general concepts of overhead costs and fringe benefits.
 

NSF Guide for Proposal Writing

Beginning with the planning stage, this site takes you through each part of the proposal and explains the criteria NSF uses to evaluate a proposal.