Examples of Exemplary and Rejected Grant Applications

Examples of exemplary grant applications (click titles below to read):

• Dyadic Responding to Stress and Relationship Functioning
• Encouraging Critical Thinking: The Role of Attachment, Cognitive Individual Differences, and Parent-Child Interaction on How Children Evaluate Information
• Illness Perceptions of Patients with Advanced Stage Cancer and Their Partners 
• Parental Involvement in Diabetes Care Among Latino and Caucasian Youth

Meanwhile, these are 13 characteristics of rejected projects:

1. Reliance on unreliable or invalid research measures
2. Inadequate procedures for obtaining or maintaining research participants
3. Ignoring powerful confounding variables
4. Selection of low-impact topic
5. Reliance on negatively motivated data collectors
6. Need for repeated or multi-grantor funding
7. Requests to cover costs of doing business
8. Failure to follow application guidelines
9. Educational or service project with no integral research component
10. Project not within our mission area
11. Procedures that are unlikely to work
12. Absence of clear scientific or practical benefits
13. Research alliance with a for-profit entity