Templates · Funding
The grant proposal template.
A funder-shaped scaffold for proposals: aims, significance, approach, timeline, and budget justification — with section-level word budgets and the whole team writing against the same deadline in one document.
What's included
Everything the format demands, seeded.
Funder-shaped sections
Specific aims, significance, innovation, and approach seeded in the order reviewers read them, with guidance on what each panel section rewards.
Length budgets per section
Set page or word limits per section and watch them live — no discovering at midnight that the approach runs two pages over.
Team writing with roles
Co-investigators draft their sections in parallel; the PI reviews and approves. One document, no merging emailed fragments the night before deadline.
Reusable lab boilerplate
Facilities, equipment, and data-management text maintained once in the lab library and pulled into every proposal current.
Structure
The sections this template seeds.
Every section is a structured block: rename, reorder, or remove any of them — the template is where the manuscript starts, not where it must end.
- 01Project summaryOne-page abstract with length budget
- 02Specific aimsAims, hypotheses, and expected outcomes
- 03Significance & innovationWhy the problem, why now, why you
- 04ApproachPreliminary data, design, pitfalls and alternatives
- 05Timeline & milestonesWork plan with milestone table
- 06Budget justificationPersonnel, equipment, travel narratives
- 07Data management & sharingRepository, formats, access plan
- 08References citedDOI-resolved, funder-styled bibliography
Who it’s for
Built for this kind of writing.
- PIs assembling proposals with co-investigators across institutions
- Labs maintaining reusable boilerplate — facilities, equipment, biosketch material
- Research offices reviewing proposals before institutional sign-off
Export
Formatted for the destination.
Exports to clean PDF and DOCX that submission portals accept without reformatting, with references styled to funder requirements.
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Open the grant proposal template.
Available on every plan, including Free — sign in with ORCID and the structure is waiting.