Workshops & Events
A page within Research & Sponsored Programs
Upcoming Events
- UWL Research & Creativity Symposium
- May 9, 2025
Workshop Materials by Topic
Budget Development
- Budget Building Fundamentals (webinar recording & slides)
- Building a Believable Budget (slides)
- Budgets 101 (slides)
- Budget Development for CSH (slides)
- Budget Development for CASSH (slides)
Proposal Planning & Writing
Proposal Planning
- Collaborative Grant Seeking
- Grants: The Iceberg of Compliance & Submission Timeline Compass (Prezi)
- Improving Your Odds for Success Before the Writing Begins
- Pre-Proposal Contacts: Who You Need to Talk to & What You Need to Know Before Writing Your Next Grant Proposal (slides)
- Planning for Grant Success (register to view webinar recording)
- The Sustainability Challenge: Designing Projects for Success Beyond the Grant Period (slides)
- The Timeline from Great Idea to Project Execution (slides)
Proposal Writing
- Analyzing RFPs for Sponsor Hot Buttons
- Collaborative Grant Seeking: Accumulating Precious "Wins" & Avoiding Painful "Losses"
- Common Grant Writing Pitfalls (register to view webinar recording)
- Goals, Objectives, & Outcomes: The "GOO" that Holds a Proposal Together
- Grant Writing Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them
- Half Points: Making Your Grant Proposal Distinctively Different
- Power of Grants for an Academic Career (recording)
Finding Funding
- Accelerate & Diversify Your Funding Search Results with Pivot (register to view webinar recording)
- Finding Funding for Your Scholarship & Creative Endeavors in the Humanities, Social Sciences, & Fine Arts (register to view webinar recording)
- Funding for New & Early Stage Investigators (register to view webinar recording)
- Getting Started: An Introduction to Pivot & Grants Resource Center Funding Databases (recording)
- Tools for Finding Funding: Pivot and Grants Resource Center (recording & slides)
- Creative Grant Seeking for Instructional Academic Staff (IAS) (Prezi)
- Education Grants & Grant Seeking (slides)
- Funding Opportunities for Your Teaching, Research, & Scholarship (slides)
- Grant Writing: Finding Funding & Fending Off Failure (Prezi)
- Grants and Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences (slides)
- Humanities & Social Sciences: Getting Funded, Getting Published (slides)
- Searching for Non-Federal Grant Funding (slides)
Federal Funding
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
- NEA Grants (Douglas Sonntag, NEA Program Officer, September 17, 2010 at UWL)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- NEH Funding for Digital Projects (Elizabeth Tran, NEH Office of Digital Humanities, fall 2020) (webinar slides)
- Overview of Programs at NEH (Russell Wyland, NEH Program Officer, September 17, 2010 at UWL)
- NEH Summer Stipend Program (webinar recording & slides)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Spotlight on the NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) (register to view webinar recording)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Spotlight on the National Science Foundation (NSF) (register to view webinar recording)
- Navigating NSF: Conversation with a Rotating Program Director (webinar recording)
- Finding Funding: Spotlight on the NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program (webinar recording & slides)
- Funding Focus: NSF's Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) (slides)
- NSF Fall 2019 Grants Conference Webcast Recordings (multiple topics) (webinar recordings & slides)
- Writing Grants at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution (Dr. Kathleen McCloud, NSF Program Director for the Division of Physics, May 17, 2017 at UWL)
- Please note: Any opinions or recommendations expressed in this material (presentation slides or recording) are those of the presenter and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
- NSF Support for the Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences (SBE) (Dr. Thomas J. Baerwald, Senior Science Advisor, NSF Directorate for SBE, September 17, 2010 at UWL)
US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Spotlight on the USDA National Institute of Food & Agriculture (NIFA) (register to view webinar recording)
UWL, UWSA, & WiSys Funding
- UWL Faculty Research Grants: Grant-Saving Proposal Development Best Practices (Prezi) - Updated for Fall 2022
- UWL Grant Seeking Support & Internal Grants for Instructional Academic Staff (IAS) (Prezi)
- WiSys Spark and Ignite Grants for Applied Research: Get Your Research Off the Ground (webinar recording & slides)
- UW System & WiSys Ignite Grant Program (slides)