Some Thoughts About Academic and Scientific Grants

Grant consulting is hard work.  I am fortunate to belong to the Grant Professionals Association.  It is a great group and I’ve found some great colleagues.  Scientist members are pretty rare within the organization, but there are large higher education and health care special interest groups.  Once I got more involved with the local chapter and then attended the national convention, I was stunned to realize how much I knew about grants just from preparing NSF and similar proposals.  This past January, I was the invited  guest for #grantchat on Twitter.   Here is a link to the Storify archive of that chat. There is more at grantchat.org.