Faculty & Instructor K Award Proposal Bootcamp

Wednesdays

2:00 pm - 3:20 pm (PST)

Sep 24 - Nov 19

Faculty
Instructors

Registration for the Autumn 2025 Bootcamp is now closed.

Our next Faculty & Instructor K Award Proposal Bootcamp will be in Autumn 2025 (Wednesdays September 24 – November 19, 2025 at 2-3:20PM).

You will have at your fingertips all of our amazing grant writing resources!

Why Join our Proposal Bootcamp?

To increase your potential for success! Prior Proposal Bootcamp participants had almost double the proposal success rates as non-Bootcamp trainees!

Check out our published outcomes in PLOS ONE.

Our Faculty & Instructor K Award Proposal Bootcamp includes:

Overview of grant writing fundamentals for fellowships & career development awards
In person peer review for impactful feedback
In person Time to Write to reserve time on your calendar to write
Tips & resources for writing compelling grants delivered through text & videos
Grant writing tips delivered directly to your in-box each week
Provided a copy of the The K Award Guidebook: Your Guide to Launching an Independent Research Career

Who this is for:

Instructors writing NIH K Awards (K12, K01, K08, K23, K99/R00, K22, K25, etc.)
Faculty (CE, UML, UTL, NTRL) writing NIH K Awards (K12, K01, K08, K23, K99/R00, K22, K25, etc.)
All participants must commit to attending weekly in person meetings on Wednesdays September 24 – November 19, 2025 at 2-3:20PM

This Bootcamp is only available to Stanford affiliates at this time.

This bootcamp is for you, if you can:

Attend at least 8 in person weekly meetings (Wednesdays September 24 – November 19, 2025 at 2-3:20PM)
Commit to a writing schedule during the entire course.
Set aside 1-2 hours per week to review materials on course website (Canvas) which are organized as 10 modules.
Build 2-3 writing blocks into your weekly schedule of at least 2-hours each to draft your proposal documents.

Comments from our participants

“The deadlines forced me to think about my drafts and writing a compelling grant in a timely manner. Otherwise, I would have crammed it into 2-3 weeks before the deadline.”

“The peer review process helped me see my proposal through the eyes of a critical reviewer”

“It improved my writing skills”

“I really appreciated the grant coach office hours”

“Meeting up with other people that were ‘in the same boat’ as me was helpful”

Helpful resources:

Offered Next:

This Bootcamp is offered in the Autumn quarters. This bootcamp will be offered next in Autumn 2026.

Other relevant Proposal Bootcamps

Questions?

For more information, please contact Crystal Botham, PhD.

Did you know? Our Proposal Bootcamp was honored with an Innovations in Research Education Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)! The award highlights innovations in PhD, MD-PhD, and postdoctoral education and training, or early career development that enhance the institutional research mission. We have been featured as Nature‘s Quote of the Day: “Done right, grant writing can reconnect you with the joy that led you to become a scientist in the first place.”

Accommodations:

If you need a disability related accommodation to participate in this event (captioning, sign language interpreting, Braille, etc.), please contact the Diversity & Access Office at disability.access@stanford.edu or 650.725.0326. Requests should be received at least one week prior to the event.