This workshop will teach you what it’s like to read and score grant applications once they’re submitted for funding review. Did you ever wonder what happens once you mail your grant application? What exactly is the peer review process? How can one grant application be awarded funding and another is rejected when both grant applicants filled out all of the forms and followed the instructions for writing the narrative? This dynamic session will take you through the grant application peer review process. Working alone and in small peer view teams, Dr. Beverly A. Browning, will show you how to:
-Identify technical errors that can eliminate your grant application prior to its' reaching the peer review process.
-Spot weaknesses in the grant application narrative.
-Write objective feedback for failed grant applicants.
-Work alone and in peer review teams to come to a group consensus on approvals and rejections.
-How to turn weaknesses into strengths—skills that can carry over to your own grant writing efforts and improve your chances of winning a highly competitive grant award.
Participants will leave with the following learning outcomes:
-Understanding of how to become a peer reviewer for government grantmaking agencies.
-Understanding of the peer review process.
-Understanding of how to spot grant writing errors and weaknesses and correct them (completion of correction exercises at workshop).
-Understanding of how poorly written grant applications often slip through the cracks and are funded.
-Understanding of how to use the Freedom of Information Act to request copies of funded government grant applications. |
