Broader Impacts in
Proposal Writing
Sally Bond
Assistant Director of Research Development Services
Proposal Coordination
Office of the Vice President for Research
Grant Writing Services at Purdue
Large and Small Proposal Development
http://www.purdue.edu/
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What do Funding Agencies Require?
Agencies have unique cultures in regard to criteria and broader impacts
• NSF criteria are Intellectual Merit
and Broader Impacts
• NIH core criteria are Significance,
Innovation, Approach,
Investigator(s) and Environment
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What do Funding Agencies Require?
NSF broader impacts requirements for all proposals per Grant Proposal Guide
• Summary page separate text box
• Separate section in narrative with
a Broader Impacts heading
• Prior NSF Support subheading
requirements for Broader Impacts
and Intellectual Merit.
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Broader Impacts in Your Proposal
Mistakes grant proposers make
• programs included in proposal
without their knowledge
• no budget for initiatives
• reinventing the wheel instead of
leveraging expertise
• too general to be meaningful
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Writing Broader Impacts
Good example 1: Underrepresented is more than ethnicity
Our vision for K-12 EOT includes leveraging high-impact
4-H youth development, the largest out-of-school
program in the nation that reaches over 7 million K-12
participants through more than 3,500 professional
cooperative extension educators and over 500,000
trained volunteers. We will partner with the head of the
Purdue University Department of Youth Development and
director of engineering-related projects in Indiana’s
statewide 4-H program to connect with regional and
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Writing Broader Impacts
Good example 1: Underrepresented is more than ethnicity
national 4-H. We will deliver engineering learning
experiences for elementary and middle school students in
after-school clubs and will submit this high-quality
curriculum for review and inclusion in the National 4-H
Product Catalog. We will bring high school students into
our laboratory to pilot a project-based workshop model
transferrable across our equipment sites and will develop
an earthquake engineering challenge for use at the
National 4-H Engineering Challenge held annually at
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Writing Broader Impacts
Good example 1: Underrepresented is more than ethnicity
Purdue since 1995. In year five, we will hold a National
Training Program for 4-H Professionals to promote our
4-H materials. We will showcase material by sponsoring a
booth at the National Association of Extension 4-H
Agents and will make curriculum accessible on our
project website.
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Writing Broader Impacts
Good example 1: Underrepresented is more than ethnicity
Why did this example
review well?
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Writing Broader Impacts
Good example 2: Infrastructure can create accessibility
We anticipate our cyberinfrastructure will move the
Center beyond accessibility to true usability of simulation
tools and content by non-specialists, and, as
demonstrated by nanoHUB data, participation by
minority institutions will increase85. Data and tools that
were previously only accessed and implemented with
extensive computational resources and test equipment
are now available with only an Internet connection and a
laptop. This allows for broader access to all of
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Writing Broader Impacts
Good example 2: Infrastructure can create accessibility
the resources regardless of bandwidth connection or
geographical location. Hub technology will also enable us
to quantify how many users are from minority institutions
and what resources were the most accessed.
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Writing Broader Impacts
Good example 1: Underrepresented is more than ethnicity
Why did this example
review well?
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Education and Outreach Partnerships
Virtual Rolodex of potential Purdue partners available on OVPR link
http://catalog.e-digitaleditions.com/i/249391
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Meet Broader Impact Partners
Join Us March 13, 2014
Education and Outreach Expo 2014:
Partnering for Broader Impacts
Date: March 13, 2014
Time: 12:30-2:30
Location: STEW 302-306
Purdue faculty and staff who will be writing
grant proposals can learn how to partner with
key education and outreach programs on the
Purdue campus. Expo 2014 includes extended
time to visit booths and talk with program
representatives about tailoring initiatives
and resources to your particular grant proposal.
Link : http://catalog.e-digitaleditions.com/i/249391
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