Join RIO Proposal Writer Jim Mazzouccolo for this webinar series covering the fundamentals of Proposal Writing.  The webinars are designed to help you to understand your audience, identify and satisfy review sponsor requirements, and develop a compelling narrative. Whether you choose to attend one webinar to sharpen specific skills or the whole series, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to improve your proposal writing. 

2022 Webinar Series: Considerations

Competitive proposals are planned out well before writing begins. This session will give an overview of how investigators can prepare before responding to a solicitation. Incorporating funder language and directly addressing stated review criteria increase proposal competitiveness. This session will address where this language can be found, as well as providing methods for addressing review criteria.

  • Who: All CU Boulder Faculty
  • When: Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 12:00-1:00 p.m. MT
  • Where: This event was hosted via Zoom and the recording is provided through Microsoft Stream

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A project narrative that is easy to read is one that is more likely to be read. In this session, we’ll cover the concepts of organization, word choice, transitions, and narrative flow. Take advantage of opportunities to remind the reviewer of the value of your project. Also in this session, we’ll discuss where these opportunities arise throughout the proposal writing process, and how to use them.

  • Who: All CU Boulder Faculty
  • When: Thursday, October 20, 2022, 12:00-1:00 p.m. MT
  • Where: This event was hosted via Zoom and the recording is provided through Microsoft Stream

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A robust, one-paragraph description of your project can quickly garner reviewer interest. Participants will be introduced to the necessary elements for creating a compelling one-paragraph description, general paragraph construction for the whole proposal as well as when and how to use imagery in your text.

  • Who: All CU Boulder Faculty
  • When: Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 12:00-1:00 p.m. MT
  • Where: This event was hosted via Zoom and the recording is provided through Microsoft Stream

Watch the recording (Note: You may need to log into CU Boulder Stream with your IdentiKey credentials to access this recording.)

2021 Webinar Series

Competitive proposals are planned out well before writing begins. This session will give an overview of how investigators can prepare before responding to a solicitation.

  • Who: All faculty
  • When: Friday, September 10, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
  • Where: This event will be hosted via Zoom

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Incorporating funder language and directly addressing stated review criteria increase proposal competitiveness. This session will address where this language can be found, as well as providing methods for addressing review criteria.

  • Who: All faculty
  • When: Friday, September 24, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
  • Where: This event will be hosted via Zoom

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A robust, one-paragraph description of your project can quickly garner reviewer interest. Participants will be introduced to the necessary elements for creating a compelling one paragraph description.

  • Who: All faculty
  • When: Friday, October 8, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
  • Where: This event will be hosted via Zoom

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The “one pager” has multiple uses and is arguably more difficult to write than other proposal components. In this session, participants will learn best practices for drafting a compelling “one pager.”

  • Who: All faculty
  • When: Friday, October 22, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
  • Where: This event will be hosted via Zoom

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A project narrative that is easy to read is one that is more likely to be read. In this session, we’ll cover the concepts of word choice, transitions, and narrative flow.

  • Who: All faculty
  • When: Friday, November 5, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
  • Where: This event will be hosted via Zoom

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Take advantage of opportunities to remind the reviewer of the value of your project. In this session, we’ll discuss where these opportunities arise throughout the proposal writing process, and how to use them.

  • Who: All faculty
  • When: Friday, November 12, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
  • Where: This event will be hosted via Zoom

Access the Recording Here Note: You will need to log into CU Boulder Stream with your IdentiKey credentials to access this recording.

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