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Proposal Development Services

The VPR's Proposal Development and Management service facilitates scientific and administrative development and enhances the competitiveness of complex, visible, and signature research proposals from ideation to submission.

Strategize

  • Refine a competitive strategy via sponsor profiling, solicitation analysis, competitor assessment, and/or strategic team development
  • Synthesize agency, program, and opportunity proposal requirements
  • Facilitate outreach to external stakeholders, team members, and sponsors
  • Develop a production timeline to meet internal and external deadlines

Develop

  • Plan, draft, and edit proposal content
  • Support development of ancillary proposal components

Review

  • Review all proposal components for quality, competitiveness, and responsiveness
  • Coordinate external Pink/Red Team reviews of near-final proposals

Elevate

  • Prepare proposal teams to deliver responsive, cohesive, and impactful finalist-stage presentations (interviews, site visits, reverse site visits)
  • Offer high-impact graphics development services to illustrate research concepts and enhance funding proposals

Graphics Portfolio

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  • Illustrations (journal covers)
  • Infographics
  • Iconography
  • Conceptual Diagramming
  • Cartography
  • Data Visualization
  • Motion Graphics & Animation
  • 3D Modeling
  • Branding
  • Graphic Design

Eligibility:
Funding opportunities eligible for PDM support include:

  • Large-scale, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research projects and center-level proposals
  • Signature, defining research opportunities for the university, college/school, center, or department
  • Nationally prominent single-PI opportunities that would be catalytic for early- and mid-career investigators' professional advancement
  • Applications to foundation, corporate, and government sponsors when the University of Maryland desires to create or enhance long-term strategic research partnerships
  • Proposals receiving support from Maryland Catalyst Fund Big Opportunity Funds and Grand Challenges Grants

Questions? Email us at proposals@umd.edu.

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