A Community-Academic Partnered Grant Writing Series to Build Infrastructure for Partnered Research.

ABSTRACT: Grant writing is an essential skill necessary to secure financial support for community programs and research projects. Increasingly, funding opportunities for translational biomedical research require studies to engage community partners, patients, or other stakeholders in the research process to address their concerns. However, there is little evidence on strategies to prepare teams of academic and community partners to collaborate on grants. This paper presents the description and formative evaluation of a two-part community-academic partnered grant writing series designed to help community organizations and academic institutions build infrastructure for collaborative research projects using a partnered approach. The first phase of the series was a half-day workshop on grant readiness,

SUBMITTER: King KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5300023 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature