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Is There Racial Bias in Awarding Federal Grants?

ProposalPRO

There is evidence that government grants are not distributed equitably. 2016 , Ginther et al., 2011 ), that Black scientists are only half as likely as White scientists to win NIH R01 research grants, one of the agency’s most common research project grants. Agencies tend to award grants to the usual suspects.

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

If you’re won a federal grant, you know you owe your good fortune to the independent grant reviewers who highly rated your proposal. 2016, Danthi et al., 2016, Danthi et al., Perhaps most concerning, Johnson (2008) found that reviewer bias affected as much as a quarter of funding decisions.

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Grant Writing: 3 Tips for Crafting Need Statements in Federal Grant Proposals

Grants.gov

In this space, we have previously shared tips about the pre-writing phase of completing a federal grant application – for example, the importance of reading (and re-reading) the grant announcement, and the importance of understanding the criteria by which your application will be evaluated.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

Analysis tip: The increased size of Candid’s grants data during the period from 2013-2015 shouldn’t be conflated with an increase in giving by donors. 2016-2019 – Young adult In 2016, we increased collection of federal grantmaking by U.S. government agencies ii.

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Interest rates are up and venture capitalists (VCs) are hurting, so companies are suddenly interested in government grants

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Federal grants could still be attractive in the low-interest-rate 2010s environment —the linked post is from 2016—since those grants were non-dilutive and could fund some projects much earlier than VCs typically would.

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A Grant Writer’s Assessment of One Month of Trump 2.0—“Watch the skies!”

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

As we experience the fourth week of the second Trump administration, much remains in flux in the federal grant world that S + A occupies. I assume this payment issue, if true, relates to their Section 330 grants, which I think only amount to about 15% of FQHC operating budgets. We work for many FQHCs.

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