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This collection should be seen as sample proposals and not necessarily model proposals. In reviewing them, keep in mind that some are dated and do not necessarily reflect current funding priorities and proposal requirements of these same grantmaking agencies. Nevertheless, sample proposals are a source of ideas; sometimes they point out things you may want to emulate in your proposals, and other times they illustrate qualities you wish to avoid. Either way, you learn something.
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National Science Foundation
CAREER Proposals
Sample CAREER Proposal: Biomedical Engineering (Rucker)
Sample CAREER Proposal: Civil and Environmental Engineering (Truster)
Sample CAREER Proposal: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Materassi)
Sample CAREER Proposal: Physics (Ekici)
Sample CAREER Proposal: Physics (Mannik)
Sample CAREER Proposal: Civil and Environmental Engineering (Hathaway)
Sample CAREER Proposal: Biomedical Engineering (Reinbolt)
Sample CAREER Proposal: Chemistry (Jenkins)
Sample CAREER Proposal: Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology (Das)
Sample CAREER Proposal: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Budke)
NSF Proposals
NSF Sample Proposal: Computer Science at UT
NSF Sample Proposal: DGE – NATO Donations for Fellowships (Va Tech)
NSF sample proposal: Division of Biological Infrastructure
NSF sample proposal: Division of Earth Sciences
NSF Sample Proposal: Directorate for Education and Human Resources (Rosenberg)
NSF Sample Proposal: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) (Parker)
NSF Sample Proposal: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) (Pharr)
NSF Sample Proposal: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) (Sayler)
NSF PIRE Proposals
NSF Sample PIRE Proposal: Physics
NSF Sample PIRE Proposal: Mathematics, Mechanics and Materials Science
NSF Sample PIRE Proposal: Psychology, Linguistics and Neuroscience
NSF Sample PIRE Proposal: Ecosystems
Other NSF Proposals
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Proposal: Cultural Anthropology (Florida)
National Institutes of Health
NIH Sample R15 Proposal – Center for Environmental Biotechnology
NIH Sample R15 Proposal – Biochemistry
NIH Sample R15 Proposal – Microbiology
NIH Sample R21 Proposal – Nursing
NIH Sample R01 Proposal – Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology
NIH Sample R01 Proposal – Microbiology
NIH Sample R15 Proposal- Psychology
NIH Sample R21 Proposal – Pharmaceutical Sciences
NIH Sample R25 Proposal – PEER
DHHS: Sample F32 Fellowship Proposal
NIH Sample K01 Mentored Research proposal – Nursing
Multiple Samples of NIH Proposal Components
National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH: Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project (TNDP) Narrative by UT Libraries
NEH: Bridging Communities – Conversations and
Collaborations in the Humanities
NEH: Challenge Grant – Cleveland Museum of Art
NEH Fellowships
NEH Fellowship: Beizer
NEH Fellowship: Goldman
NEH Fellowship: Greenspan
NEH Fellowship: Gustafson
NEH Fellowship: Horwich
NEH Fellowship: Kilcup
NEH Fellowship: Kment
NEH Fellowship: Lynch
NEH Fellowship: Marsden
NEH Fellowship: Mendelsohn
NEH Fellowship: Rudy
NEH Fellowship: Sha
National Endowment for the Arts
NEA: Bloomsburg Theater Project
Education
Education: K-12 School Grants (US Dept of Ed and other agencies)
Other Government Agencies
Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science: Dr. David Joy, whitepaper
Department of Defense (DoD) Agencies
US Army Research Office – Young Investigator Program (YIP)
US Naval Office of Research – Minerva Project proposal
Private Foundations
Performing Arts: Proposal Template
Social Science Research Council
A Research Proposal Funded by the Social Science Research Council