title: A Community-Academic Partnered Grant Writing Series to Build Infrastructure for Partnered Research.
abstract: Grant writing is an essential skill necessary to secure financial support for community programs and research projects. Increasingly, funding opportunities for translational biomedical research require studies to engage community partners, patients, or other stakeholders in the research process to address their concerns. However, there is little evidence on strategies to prepare teams of academic and community partners to collaborate on grants. This paper presents the description and formative evaluation of a two-part community-academic partnered grant writing series designed to help community organizations and academic institutions build infrastructure for collaborative research projects using a partnered approach. The first phase of the series was a half-day workshop on grant readiness, which was open to all interested community partners. The second phase, open only to community-academic teams that met eligibility criteria, was a 12-week session that covered partnered grant writing for foundation grants and National Institutes of Health grants. Participants in both phases reported an increase in knowledge and self-efficacy for writing partnered proposals. At 1-year follow-up, participants in Phase 2 had secured approximately $1.87 million in funding. This community-academic partnered grant writing series helped participants obtain proposal development skills and helped community-academic teams successfully compete for funding.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Keyonna M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: King
authors.affiliation: Assist Management and Consulting, LLC, Pasadena, California, USA.
authors.forename: Yvette-Janine
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Pardo
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Keith C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Norris
authors.affiliation: Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diaz-Romero
authors.affiliation: Los Angeles Urban League, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: D'Ann
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Stefanie D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Vassar
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Arleen F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D057191:Capacity Building / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D017712:Peer Review, Research / Q000379:methods*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000191:economics; D014956:Writing
keywords: evidence based medicine; outcomes research; structure; translational research