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With guidance from the Sponsored Programs team, participants will construct a basic budget & budget justification for their proposals.
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About this Event
For many grant writers, the budget is the most daunting section of the proposal to develop. It requires negotiating several fronts: your own needs as the project leader; the requirements of your collaborators, students, and staff; the restrictions of your research or creative environment; and the rules of the funding agency you’re applying to, often complex and not always clear. As a result, researchers sometimes form a habit of preparing the budget late in the grant writing process, or devoting less time to budget materials than other components (e.g., the project narrative).
For funders, however, budget materials are some of the most closely-scrutinized components of the proposal. The best-written budgets and justifications can "tell their own story" of the research activities in a proposal, and funders are keen to know their money will be handled with care.
That is why, for the fifth session of the UC Davis Grant Writing Bootcamp, we're talking about budgets and their justifications: how to construct them, the various ways they are used during review, and the top traits of strong (and weak!) budget materials.
Throughout this session participants will apply our discussion of the budgeting process to their own proposals. By the end of the hour, attendees will have draft versions of their budget and budget justification, which they will continue to refine as they prepare their remaining proposal documents.
All UC Davis faculty and staff researchers, postdoctoral scholars, administrative staff and graduate students are warmly invited to attend this event. To confirm your UC Davis affiliation, be sure to use your @ucdavis.edu email address when registering.
For questions, comments, or concerns, please contact the Bootcamp facilitator, Dr. Sarah Messbauer, at smessbauer@ucdavis.edu.
This session is the fifth in the IRS team's Fall Quarter Grant Writing Bootcamp, a series of 7 highly-interactive workshops designed to increase researchers' knowledge of (and facility with) the grant writing process. By the end of the series, participants will walk away with written materials for all major components of the grant proposal of their choice.