Cultivating and Funding Your Research

ATG has been delivering a new way of training in grant writing, actually realizing one of our founding goals: placing the proposal in the context of your larger research enterprise.  

We start with the big picture, framing your research program as an ecosystem of projects, funding, personnel, and scholarly products. Through a concrete visualization exercise, you can make well-grounded decisions about what project to pursue for funding and how to position it, where the funding opportunities are—before you write a word. 

Then we get into the writing. Across three focused sessions, we walk through the architecture of a compelling grant proposal, from the critical first page through the rationale and feasibility sections. We emphasize both what to do and why these strategies work. That reasoning is what makes the tools adaptable across funders, mechanisms, and disciplines. 

The research funding landscape is shifting, and we will help you navigate what's changing. But we also ground you in the fundamentals of clear, strategic writing that hold steady regardless of the funder, the mechanism, or the moment. You will leave with concrete tools you can use immediately, and a practice you can sustain. The principles of clear thinking and strategic writing don't expire, and neither will what you build in this session. 

 Cultivating and Funding Your Research has been given dozens of times over the last two years and has been refined over the last year to help you grow your research in a new paradigm. 

The program covers:

Part 1: Cultivating your research

Part 2: The critical first page of the proposal

Part 3: Providing the rationale for your project

Part 4: Demonstrating feasibility and all the finishing touches 

Grant writing is more than a skill — it's a practice. Like any serious practice, it develops with the right tools, a sound framework, and dedicated space to do the work.

Contact us about bringing this new program to your institution.