Thank you Stephanie for your generous response here. Your
suggestions are helpful, although we are not planning training
sessions. You do address the need for essentials in nuggets, in
pockets of information, and I am intrigued by Irvine's generous
course. I would love to sign up!

Sincerely,

Gina

Gina Betcher, MFA
Grant Developer
Office of the VP for Research
TEL: 269.387-8204
FAX: 269.387-8276
EMAIL: xxxxxx@wmich.edu

>>> "Klinger, Stephanie L. S." <xxxxxx@BSU.EDU> 3/1/2007 10:33 AM
>>>
Hi Gina,

UC Irvine has a training program called the Research
Administration
Management Program (RAMP) which is a 15-course series designed to
familiarize faculty, staff and students with standard practices
and
policies of research administration.  Courses ranging from proposal
and
budget preparation to human subjects protection and intellectual
property management are included.  See
http://www.rgs.uci.edu/ora/ramp.htm for more information.  I
learned
about this while attending NCURA's SPA II a couple years ago.  It's
a
very organized and well-designed program.

For your purposes, it sounds like your training sessions will be
focused
specifically on proposal development?  Maybe you could address some
of
the "classics" which would be applicable to all attendees:

1. Making your proposal user friendly to reviewers: match any
suggested
headings; respond to all questions in the RFP; align writing with
reviewer evaluation criteria so the proposal speaks the language of
the
funder.

2. Budget development: encourage attendees to start costing out
items as
they are writing - think about their own time commitments,
students,
supplies, travel, equipment, etc.

3. Cost sharing considerations: this will vary among RFPs
obviously, but
it might be a good time to talk about how voluntary cost sharing
does
not necessarily increase the likelihood for funding; post-award
and
institutional implications, etc.

4. Indirect costs: everyone's favorite, but this might also be a
good
opportunity to start "educating" if you have resistance on campus.

5. Internal processing deadlines, electronic submission
considerations,
etc.

I haven't led short training sessions like the ones you're
planning, but
I have taught longer proposal and budget development courses.  I do
like
the idea of short informational breaks during an intensive writing
session.  Might be more challenging because you'll have to condense
very
relevant information into a brief presentation.  However, folks
will
probably feel less overwhelmed since they won't be facing a 2-hour
(or
longer) information-overload session.

Best of luck in planning,
Stephanie

-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Gina Betcher
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:42 PM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Grant Writing Cafe

WMU-OVPR are planning a Grant Writing Cafe for a set number of
faculty. The premise is they arrive with laptop and RFP in hand,
ready to write. We would like to offer 10-minute educational
components. Any advice on planning these 10-minute 'lessons'? On
how
to organize these? Any experience planning these? The questions
come
from the concern that there will be a variety of concentrations
and
RFPs. There will not be a set standard of instructions, in other
words. THANK YOU!

Gina Betcher, MFA
Grant Developer
Office of the VP for Research
TEL: 269.387-8204
FAX: 269.387-8276
EMAIL: xxxxxx@wmich.edu

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