Proposal Development

Research Development can assist PIs with writing successful proposals. Contact Research Development for more information, or browse the resources below:

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Research Development & Grant Writing News Archive

Research Development & Grant Writing News, a newsletter from Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC, covered topics in finding funding and proposal development. Though the newsletter ended in 2025, past issues are available below. Access to the issues requires MIT login.

Research Development & Grant Writing News

Issue

Highlights

May 2025 [PDF]

May 2025

  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
  • Statement of NSF priorities, Updated May 7
  • Defining the new funding landscape at NSF
  • The Power of Early Specifics
  • Funding in the News
  • Advice for Applicants to Social Science Research Council (or, Really, Any) Competitions
  • Addressing Agency-Relevant Significance at USDA/NIFA
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities

April 2025 [PDF]

April 2025

  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
  • Where'd the NSF Money Go?
  • NSF Wildland Fire Initiative Working Group
  • Funding in the News – recent developments in federal research funding.
  • Assembling a Team of Advocates for Winning Humanities Grants
  • How Agency Mission & Culture Impact Funding Success

March 2025 [PDF]

March 2025

  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
  • NIH Funding News
  • NSF Funding News
  • What Should I Do About My NSF CAREER Application?
  • Other Funding News
  • Academic Peer Review in the Humanities
  • The Advantages of Coordinated Team Reviews of Proposal Drafts
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities

February 2025 [PDF]

February 2025

  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
  • Arts and Humanities Funding in an Uncertain Climate
  • AI Research: Revenge of the English Majors or a Sputnik Moment?
  • NIH Has Simplified the Review for Project Grants
  • Research Directions and Priorities at DOE
  • How Readers Read Your Proposal
  • Organizing the Proposal Narrative

January 2025 [PDF]

January 2025

  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
  • NSF's Proposal Plagiarism Perp Walk
  • AFRI Foundational & Applied Science Program 2025
  • The NSF Mid-Career Advancement Program
  • NSF 2025 Research Infrastructure Guide
  • Know the Type of Project You're Proposing

December 2024 [PDF]

December 2024

  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
  • Does Your Humanities Proposal Have Inside and Outside Appeal?
  • Funding: Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work
  • Changes to EPA Notices of Funding Opportunity
  • NSF Funding for AI Education, Training and Broadening Participation
  • NIH's New Science of Science Scholars Program Pilot
  • In Proposals, Less is Often More

November 2024 [PDF]

November 2024

  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
  • NIH Replication to Enhance Research Impact Initiative
  • The Role of Reproducibility and Replicability in NSF Research Funding
  • Importance of Reproducibility and Replicability in STEM Education Funding
  • Analyzing NSF CAREER Reviews and Planning Your Revisions
  • Connect Funding Opportunities to Societal Challenges
  • The Dos and Don'ts of Writing the Statement of Purpose for a Humanities/Social Sciences Funding Application

October 2024 [PDF]

October 2024

  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
  • Academic Writing as if Readers Matter by Cassuto Leonard
  • Redesigned NIH Grants and Funding Website & Writing Tips
  • FY2025 Continuation of Solicitation for the DOE Office of Science
  • A Summary of NSF Funding for the Bioeconomy
  • Understanding NSF's Expectations for the 2026 STC Competition
  • NSF BioFoundries & Related Programs
  • What is Use-Inspired Science

September 2024 [PDF]

September 2024

  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
  • Developing Applications to EPA Under New Guidelines
  • NSF-USDA-NIFA Programmatic Funding Alignments
  • Overview of Funding by Department of Energy
  • NSF TIP Directorate’s New Roadmap
  • Avoid the Generic Introduction
  • Narrative Silos Are Like Weeds

August 2024 [PDF]

August 2024

  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
  • Writing for NIH’s New Review Criteria
  • Supplemental Funding Requests to NSF
  • You’ve Submitted Your CAREER Proposal: What Now?
  • Special Considerations When You’re Proposing to Address a Well-Known Challenge
  • Forecasted Funding & Notice of Intent Opportunities
  • Tensed about Tenses
  • Understanding the Role of Your PO
  • Research Grant Writing Web Resources
  • Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
  • Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
  • New Funding Opportunities

July 2024 [PDF]

July 2024

  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
  • NEH Humanities Connections Projects: A Funding Opportunity for Curricular Innovation at Two- and Four-Year Projects
  • Funding Strategies: National Climate Resilience Framework by Federal Agency
  • An Overview of ED’s FIPSE Program
  • Last-Minute NSF CAREER Proposal Checklist 2024
  • Preview of FY 2025 House Research Spending Bills
  • Does an NSF MRI Fit Your Situation?
  • Editing the Proposal Introduction: the What, Why, How, and So-What of a Preliminary Review

Updated October 21, 2025