Grant Writing Support
Purpose
To support College of Information, Data and Society faculty in developing and drafting their grant-funded project proposals.
Eligibility
- The College of Information, Data and Society has a pool of funds to pay for grant-writing support through Your Writing Helper.
- Awards are made on a first-come, first-served basis until funds are exhausted, with preference given to applications for external grants.
- All tenured/ tenure-track faculty and full-time lecturers (including .8s) in the Department of Applied Data Science and the School of Information are eligible to apply.
- Note that we must confirm grant-writer availability as early as possible. Given sufficient time/availability, the services below will be provided. However, some of these services may be unavailable if projects arise late.
- For support in finding potential funders and proposal development, go to SJSU’s Research Development.
Services Provided
Grant-writing support includes the following services:
- Organize, edit and provide guidance on proposals, which includes:
- analyzing calls for proposal and sponsor materials;
- building compliance plans and timelines to ensure the development of appropriate content;
- strategizing with the Principal Investigator (PI) on the most competitive approach to respond to a sponsor’s call;
- building templates to support proposal development, when requested;
- coordinating with proposal writers to help facilitate draft production (as needed);
- iteratively editing proposal for clarity, concision, formatting and grammatical correctness;
- providing intermittent content to supplement the proposer’s draft;
- confirming compliance and competitiveness; and,
- performing final quality checks.
- Provide individual coaching on the development/writing of technical proposals.
Support Amount
Faculty in the College of Information, Data and Society can request up to 20 hours of grant-writing support per grant proposal. The 20 hours is typically split between preliminary proposals (5 hours) and full proposals (15 hours), not to exceed 20 hours per grant proposal.
