The Grant Writing and Crowdfunding Guide for Young Investigators in Science

The Grant Writing and Crowdfunding Guide for Young Investigators in Science is a guide that prepares young investigators in Science to step up to the challenge of funding their own research. Writing a successful grant demands much more than a first-class inquisitive scientific mind, as young investigators soon discover. The book presents the best strategies they should adopt to prepare themselves prior to taking the grant plunge. It then helps them draft a reasonable budget plan, assemble a winning grant team, write a stellar preproposal, and reassure the funding agencies that the financial risk they take in investing in them will produce great returns. The book also helps them write a grant title, abstract, and a specific aims section that highlight the significance, impact, and innovativeness of their project. It presents specific tools to catch problems early and avoid rejection. To improve the submission, the book presents a new source of funding: crowdfunding. It gives the young investigator a way to collect preliminary results and involve the public in their work.

New investigators are usually lost when attempting to write their first grant application. The book is dedicated to them. It acts as a coach that supplements the work of the mentor. It is meant to be concrete. Although it considers the review practices of two of the largest grant organizations in the world, NIH and NSF, it is sufficiently generic to apply to other science funding agencies.
Contents: Grant Ecosystem:Grant Call — The Matching GameThe New Investigator — The First StepsThe Grant Team — Strength in NumbersThe Confusing Vocabulary of GrantsGrant Parts:Title — The Eye CatcherGrant Abstract — The Marketing PitchGrant Specific Aims — The Work PlanGrant Budget — The Movie Scenario ApproachGrant Significance — Unearthing the ValueGrant Evaluation:Novelty and Innovation — The Perception of NewnessBehind the Scenes — The Reviewing ProcessRisk Management — The Reality CheckNot Granted — How to Deal with RejectionFunding Through Social Media:Crowdfunding Science
Readership: Doctoral students, PhDs, postdocs, associate professors, principal investigators, junior faculty, research scientists, clinicians.
Grant Writing;Principal Investigator;Science Grant;Crowdfunding ScienceKey Features:The authors are supplemented by a palette of 8 grant experts whose advice is given in marginsThe book provides a novel way to develop the grant idea in story form: the synopsis, which easily translates into a list of tasks, cost, staff, and equipmentThe book features two chapters you will not see in grant writing books. Grants are rarely looked at as risks. We borrowed from the field of risk management to systematically review the risks to the grantor, the investigator, and the institution (grantee); For each risk identified, we propose ways to manage the risk. We even propose a new way, crowdfunding, to address the risk of having no preliminary work