Strategy Development
Every awarded proposal started with a great idea and a specific strategy to get there. Sometimes, the idea needs crafting, and sometimes, the researcher needs someone to help them best position themselves for their future. Our capacity building services position you for a fundable future.
Research Trajectory
What is it? Your research trajectory is your road-map to get to your personal long-term research goals. Before you can be considered competitive for the larger, federal funds, you must demonstrate your ability to procure, manage, and deliver on smaller grants. This requires a strategic research trajectory.
Thinking strategically when it comes to one’s own research is much more difficult than it seems. Practically speaking, to acquire smaller grants, what foundational elements do you need? What pilot studies must be put into place as the data basis for next-step funding? Each step (each grant), however, must align with your long-term goals as a researcher. Our consultants can help you map out your research trajectory, so that you stay focused and on track to your long-term research goals taking through calculated steps.
How can we help you?
- Understand and navigate the opportunity landscape
- Validate the key gaps identified in your field
- Identifying the steps to get to long-term goals
- Clarify your long-term goals
- Identify the steps to get to long-term goals
- Map out an ideal funding trajectory
- Help you build a collaborative team
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Building a Collaborative Team
Building a collaborative team is an important element for successful funding, as it an increasing requirement for funding.
Learn MoreCoaching & Training
Coaching and training are about capacity building. Our coaching and training services can offer support through broader nuanced processes such as grant writing or through developing evaluation plans, or more task-specific items.
Learn MoreOpportunity Landscape
The opportunity landscape is the who’s and what’s of the grant funding world, and it is varied, yet specific.
Learn MoreEarly Career Mentorship & Training
Early career mentorship and training services are geared towards researchers with less than 3 years of relevant work experience.
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Read MoreFAQ About Research Trajectory
For one project, it should focus on only one goal to address one problem/issue. To achieve the goal, there could be mutiple objectives (typically 1-3), all of which are related to the goal but should not be inter-dependent to each other.
Your timeline should cover your proposal’s major milestones. Great timelines will also include those responsible at each point.
If you are pursuing large scale funding without having the experience of small then medium sized funding, more than likely you will not be funded. Large scale funders need confidence to know that you can manage and be successful with smaller funding.
The submission criteria is what gets your proposal through the gates (so to speak). It is also what reviewers use to review and rate your proposal (the contents). However, you want to build and write your proposal in a way that when a reviewer is down to two equally strong proposals, they remember yours.
Coaches provide oversight and guidance to a client to help them reach pre-established goals; a mentor is someone in a similiar field (usually) that imparts or shares their knowledge and experience for the growth and development of another.
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