Regarding the question on training.

I have been watching the videos here, from NIH

http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/training.htm#4

This is about all you would need to create your own local materials.
First there is an excellent verbal presentation by Marcia Hahn with
nice power point slides.  Perhaps you would not put Marcia in front
of your admin staff in the units who will be filling out the
applications.  She is good for the Grants Office staff.  She says
"you " quite often and it is not always clear if this refers to the
PI, the PI admin staff or the Grants Office staff.  It is all good
info for the latter.  However, I think too much for the first two
audiences.

I plan to create my own 2 hour power point presentation based on
Marcia's comments and draw from her slides combined with some
relevant to what we do here.

Do look at the note that is shown here.  The one day review time for
accepted applications is troublesome. The note says "was changed" but
I can find no such information.  Did anyone else get this?   Also, we
need to redo many of our website pages because of the Grants.gov
cosmetic changes.  Where did they get the extra money to just change
pages, which were pretty good in the first place?

 From NIH web
Note: The above video was recorded before NIH’s expected turnaround
time for an eRA Commons response to an application submission was
changed from two business days to one business day. The screenshots
of the Grants.gov website in the video also do not reflect the new
look of that website.

We have some useful information on our site which anyone can use.  We
are in the process of updating this for our fall (starting in late
August) training schedule.

http://www.research.umich.edu/era/grantsgov/index.html

Bob
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UMich Grants.gov Liaison
xxxxxx@umich.edu   (734) 936-1283
Learn more about Grants.gov @ UMICH
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On Aug 2, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Foschia, Chris wrote:

In the fall, we will be submitting our first NIH proposal and our
first proposal through grants.gov.  I was wondering if anyone could
recommend any resources or training that might help us through this
very daunting process.

Thanks so much.

Chris

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Director
Foundation and Government Grantseeking
Saint Vincent College
300 Fraser Purchase Road
Latrobe, PA 15650-2690
Phone: (724) 805-2524
Email: xxxxxx@email.stvincent.edu

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