Here’s What We’re Doing

- In 5 days or less, learning the 4-Part “Critical Path” to Funding Framework for writing a persuasive and fundable proposal

 
- Implementing each step immediately during the challenge, using your active proposal

 
- Reducing funding stress by learning a repeatable proposal framework based on high scoring proposals

 
- Identifying why your work is important to the field, and how it provides a unique (and innovative) solution to problems your colleagues and reviewers care about.

- Figuring out exactly what your specific reviewer community WANTS - down to the study section or RFP you are submitting to

 
- Writing your research in a clear and concise way, using a step by step guide, that is more likely to produce the positive reviewer response you desire, and less likely to trigger responses leading to rejection

 
- Making your current proposal the best it can be while obtaining skills for every future proposal

Here’s How We’re Doing It

- A 5 Day Challenge to make progress every day towards a written proposal

 
- Each morning, Dr. Giddings will be Live to explain each part of the framework, and then provide an exercise for you to work on to implement it

 
- The exercise will walk you through how to implement each part of the framework in your own proposal

 
- Access the recordings of each live session plus the exercises for the full week

 
- Interact with your peers on a 24/7 community of other members doing the challenge with you.

 
- Additional bonuses and surprises will be added for those who make it to the end!

By the end of this 5 day, highly interactive challenge, you’ll have outlined all 4 parts of the Critical Path to funding for your specific proposal, have a clear framework to complete the proposal and have drafted words on the page to put it all into place.

Schedule

Monday through Friday, July xx -xx

Morgan Giddings started writing grant proposals in 1995 with a ghostwritten informatics proposal that was funded in the name of her PhD adviser. 

She continued that trend writing and receiving both a K22 Genome Scholar grant from the NIH and a small institutional grant as a postdoctoral researcher.  

After starting as a faculty member at UNC Chapel Hill, she started getting rejections, having failed to "up her game" to the level required for R01 funding. Two years of repeat rejections was enough to get her attention, so she sought serious help. 

From repeated ego crushing by her grant writing mentor, she hit her stride in 2003 with her first R01 funded, on the first round of submission, followed in subsequent years by three more R01's funded without any further rejections or revisions. 

In addition, she wrote a successful "Grand Opportunities" (RC2) grant in 2009 worth over $2.1M in funding, and co-wrote a successful U24 in 2010, worth over $10M. All told, she directly participated in bringing in over $23M in funding by the time she was two years into her Associate Professorship at UNC Chapel Hill.

In 2010 she began consulting with clients on their grant writing, and in 2011 established the Grant Foundry program to provide an intensive learning experience to translate what she had learned to clients that want more ease getting their research funded.  After running over 17 iterations of Grant Foundry, she's learned a thing or two about teaching others how to implement these crucial skills, and for the first time ever, ready to break down the thinking process she uses in both her own writing, and to help clients.