Last week, I covered a few general, but still important topics in the grant preparation process.

Discovery 2010 – Important Links included a list of links to important instructions and other sources of information.

Discovery 2010 – making your plan includes a list of the tasks involved in Discovery grant preparation to help prepare a work plan to the (now) 5 week away deadline.

DG2010 – proposal structure describes the necessary parts of the written proposal and provides a suggested structure for headings within the five page document. There is also some discussion of the different information that should be provided on HQP in the proposal and the CV attachments.

DG2010 – Selection Criteria & Indicators builds on the proposal structure post and provides additional links and discussion of how to relate the proposal to the selection criteria and evaluation indicators. The evaluation indicator matrix is a new document for this competition that provides an “at a glance” reference to how reviewers will score the applications.

DG2010 – presentation guidelines jumps back into the mundane details of what the free-form attachments need to look like and also discusses the challenge of selecting an appropriate font.

This week will include a discussion of some of the changes to the DG program as well as begin a series on developing a grant application budget.