The Graduate Student Center

Navigating the Grant is an innovative, student-initiated program that offers guidance on grant writing to graduate students. The program's central purpose is to provide graduate students with the basic elements of researching funding options and to help them in the development of the confidence and skills to develop successful grant proposals.

Introductory Workshops
-The Grant: Getting Started (TBA)

Introductory Workshops

The Grant: Getting Started
Graduate Student Center, Room 305

What is a grant and how do I apply? What are the campus resources available to me? Come out to this informative workshop as Jen Wofford Ph.D., Dean of School of Continuing Studies at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's program in Reading/Writing/Literacy, and Nicole Maurantonio, Ph.D candidate in History and Communications, give the answers to these questions as well as develop a strategy for successful grant applications.

**If you wish to be a GRANT ADVISOR, please register below.**

Navigating the Grant is offering peer-to-peer grant help to those students currently applying for grants. The program utilizes graduate students as Grant Advisors who have won specific grants in the past. These Grant Advisors will sit down with you and offer one-on-one advice and help with your current grant application. There is no fee associated with this program.

Interested graduate student grant applicants will need to register and submit their current application to the Grad Center to be reviewed by the Grant Advisor. After the Grant Advisor reviews the grant application, s/he will meet for one hour with the grant applicant to review the application and offer critique, advice, insight and help. This is an opportunity for you to "workshop" your grant application with someone who has been sucessful with the same grant!

Currently, we are offering advising help for the NSF (National Science Foundation), NRSA (National Research Service Award) Training, and Ford Foundation grants. If you are currently applying for the NSF or NRSA and wish to have your grant reviewed by an Advisor, please register. You will then be contacted within 3 business days by the NavGrant Fellow about submitting your materials and setting up a meeting time with a Grant Advisor.

PLEASE NOTE: You are welcome to register if you are applying for a grant that is not the NSF or NRSA. We will keep your information on file and when we obtain a grant advisor who can advise you, we will contact you. Please be aware that we will not be actively soliciting for non-NSF or -NRSA grant advisors until spring 2006.

We make every effort to match applicants with Grant Advisors, but we have a limited number of Advisors. Please be aware that by registering you are not guaranteed a one-on-one session. You will hear within 3 business days if we were able to (or not able to) match you.

Be a NavGrant Peer Advisor!

We are now soliciting for grant advisors in a variety of different grants! If you have won a grant that is not listed, please select other and list the grant(s) you are capable of advising.

What a grant advisor does:
A grant advisor helps the student who is applying for a grant by 1) reading the student's already completed materials and 2) sitting down with the student for an hour to offer suggestions, field questions, etc. drawing on your own knowledge of the grant process. We envision (1) and (2) taking 1 hour each for a total of 2 hours per student. The current maximum is 5 students, i.e., you can earn up to but no more than $250.

The Navigating Series is generously funded
by the Graduate Student Associations Council (GSAC).

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