Never stress about research funding again

Within 18 months of starting the program, 75% of clients have received funding. The average value of a single-investigator award, typically with a duration of 2-5 years, hovers around $350,000. Our homepage provides that exact figure, which is updated periodically.

Because the skills taught through the program support career success more broadly, our clients experience a range of positive outcomes beyond funding. These career-advancing opportunities include being recruited to move to a higher-ranked institution, establishment of collaborations with government scientists and engineers, selection for awards, and access to media opportunities.

If you have tenure, please send Julia an email or schedule a meeting with her through the Contact page. We may be able to support you with preparation of your proposal or with other funding-related tasks through our Concierge Support offering. 

If you have not received tenure, we cannot support you with only proposal development and preparation. This is because a proposal is not prepared in isolation. As just one example, you may be planning to prepare a proposal for an opportunity and not have spoken with or gotten feedback from a program officer. In this case, we will support you in making contact and getting feedback as part of the Wise Investigator program. 

If we were to work with you on only the proposal, one of two things would happen: (1) We would end up delivering the program materials ad hoc because of the many tasks that surround proposal preparation or (2) if we did not provide this support, we may end up working on a proposal that doesn’t have a good chance of being funded; this is a not a good use of your resources or ours.

If you have a proposal deadline approaching, contact us as soon as possible. We can usually modify the program schedule to meet a proposal deadline. This might mean putting parts of the program on hold until after the deadline. We work fully one-on-one to accommodate your schedule. We are a small, agile team with no middlemen, so we can move quickly. Often, we can start working together the same day you contact us. 

As part of the program, you will prepare a proposal for a good-fit opportunity. We will help you identify this opportunity if needed. We provide guidance along the entire proposal preparation timeline, from making contact with funders, preparing for meetings with them, preparing and gathering ancillary documents such as letters of support, establishing a timeline for proposal drafting, and iterating through rounds of feedback with your program coach. Finally, our editor will provide English-language editing of the proposal, not just for ‘readability’ but so that your proposal is truly well written. Your institution will create the budget, complete required forms, and submit the proposal for you. 

We understand. For this reason, meetings will be scheduled at times that work for you. You will view recorded materials when best fits your schedule. You can take a break from working on assignments or meetings because you are at a conference, wrapping up the semester, managing family responsibilities, or due to other circumstances. You will not be part of a cohort, so you will not get behind or miss information. 

Because you are not part of a cohort, we can move more quickly through material that you already have facility with and spend greater time on areas where you need more support. You will never sit through content that is not relevant to your situation.

Further, we have designed the program to be as time-efficient as possible, and we continuously review our programming and procedures to increase efficiency because we understand that your time is your most valuable resource.