Grant Proposal Development Webinar Series

Grant Proposal Development Webinar Series

Members of the Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB), particularly early career scientists, members in transition, and graduate/undergraduate students, are invited to participate in a 3-session webinar series presented by Fiorini & Associates (F&A). Each session will comprise of approximately 30 minutes of F&A presentation followed by approx. 30 minutes of interactive activities. Session I will begin with an overview of funding types and structures, such as Federal grants vs. contracts, and include smaller grant opportunities ideal for building resumes. Session II will continue with key aspects of proposal development and discuss how reviewers evaluate grant proposals. Session III will cover the negotiations implicit in an award as well as how to follow up if there is no award.

F&A will provide an advance survey which SLB will send to webinar registrants to determine participant career stage, interests for grant proposal development, and questions. The webinar will incorporate these to the greatest extent possible during the interactive portions of each session.

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Sessions

 Friday, 6 May 2022, 12:00noon (New York Time) - Funding types and sources for leukocyte biologists

  • Funding sources:  government, industry, academic, foundations
  • Funding types:  scholarship/fellowship, seed/pilot grants, project and center grants
  • Funding objectives: research, educational, STEM diversity-focused, etc.
  • Ideation and sourcing: pairing an idea/problem with an RFP/solicitation, and vice-versa
  • Interactive activity, Part I: breakout rooms (each guided by an F&A associate) in which small teams of participants investigate a solicitation of potential interest using a template provided by F&A (Teams will take notes to summarize their discussion)
  • Interactive activity, Part II: Breakout teams return to the main room to share a summary of each team’s discussion

 Friday, 13 May 2022, 12:00noon (New York Time) - Proposal development and evaluation

  • Highlights of proposal development: resources, outreach, project/program design, budgeting, timing
  • Coordinating with your Grants, Development, Communications, and Tech Transfer Offices
  • Interactive activity, Part I:  breakout rooms in which last week’s teams blueprint a mock proposal using a template provided by F&A
  • Interactive activity, Part II: Breakout teams return to the main room to share and critique blueprints

 Friday, 20 May 2022, 12:00noon (New York Time) - Submission and beyond

  • How proposals are reviewed and scored; common problems and pitfalls; How funding decisions are made
  • Submission: internal and external deadlines
  • Moving forward whether funding is awarded or declined
  • Interactive activity:  group discussion and evaluation of team blueprints

About F&A

Fiorini & Associates (F&A) collectively has more than 50 years of experience with all stages of grant proposal development, peer review, administration, and reporting. Our team has served as PI, co-PI, or senior personnel on successful awards totaling more than $3.6 million. F&A has been instrumental in the administration of additional grants, ranging between $5,000 and $15 million, addressing topics as diverse as STEM education, mathematics, cell biology, computer science, genetics, forensics, cybersecurity, medical informatics, environmental science, sustainability, and international initiatives and partnerships. F&A has successfully submitted proposals to federal and state agencies (NSF, NIH, DoD, DHS, USAID, Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Environmental Protection), private foundations and professional organizations (Trexler Foundation, the Mathematical Association of America), and industry (Burroughs-Wellcome, New England Biolabs, GlaxoSmithKline, Telcordia). F&A also has conducted workshops for groups such as the International Union of Biological Sciences, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, and the Command Control Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis.

Fiorini and Associates:

Dr. Eugene Fiorini

Prof. Gail Marsella

Dr. Jean L. Scholz

Dr. Jack Jarmon