Proposal library - Samples of successful grant proposals and project overviews
Research & Proposal Development Services maintains a library of recent successful grant proposals and project overviews written by ÍƼöÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ faculty. This library has been created to support our faculty in their grant writing and has been made possible by recent award recipients who have generously agreed to share their work. These proposals are available for viewing only, and only to full-time ÍƼöÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ faculty members.
If you are interested in viewing a successful sample from any of the funding programs listed below, please submit a request, and our office will contact you to discuss the loan.
Proposals
Currently the library includes samples for these funding programs:
Nevada Endowment for the Humanities
- Fellowship
- Public Scholars
- Summer Stipend
U.S. Department of Energy
- Early CAREER (Pre-proposal)
- Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (Pre-application)
- Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
U.S. Department of Defense
- Office of Naval Research – Young Investigator Program (ONR YIP)
- Defense University Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Young Faculty Award (DARPA YFA)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
National Institutes of Health
- COBRE Phase I – Overviews and Cores
- Research Career Development Awards (K)
- Research Project (R01)
- Small Research Grants (R03)
- Exploratory/Developmental Grants (R21)
- Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) (R35)
- Research Enhancement Awards (R15)
- Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG)
- Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II
National Science Foundation
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)
- EPSCoR Track 4 Fellowship
- Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
- Research Traineeship (NRT)
- Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE)
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)
- Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
- Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
- Small Grant for Cyber-Human Systems
Mountain West CTR-IN
- Pilot Grant
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Sample Proposal
Arts, Humanities or Social Science (AHSS) Foundations
- American Council for Learned Societies – Fellowship
- American Political Science Association – Centennial Center Grant
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar
- Kauffman Foundation
- Sloan Foundation – Fellowship
Project overviews
, or contact us to discuss best practices in writing overviews and white papers.
- Department of Defense – Executive summary (Office of Naval Research)
- Department of Energy – Office of Science preproposal
- Fulbright Scholar Program – Overview
- National Institutes of Health – Specific aims
- National Science Foundation – CAREER proposal overview
- National Science Foundation – Core proposal overview
- United State Department of Agriculture – Logic model
- M. Keck Foundation – Concept paper
Successful sample proposals are also available on the following websites: and the . We caution our faculty about proposals available at websites like Jabberwocky and Open Grants – these sites contain both funded and unfunded proposals, often out of date.