Grant Proposal Writer

Install in one command

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/grant-proposal-writer && curl -fsSL https://eliteaiadvantage.com/skills/grant-proposal-writer/SKILL.md -o ~/.claude/skills/grant-proposal-writer/SKILL.md

Grant Proposal Writer scaffolds a full grant proposal, abstract, statement of need, goals and objectives, methods, evaluation, timeline, budget with justification, personnel, organizational capacity, and sustainability, and aligns the writing to the funder type. NSF, NIH, NEA, NEH, Ford, Mellon, MacArthur, corporate, and institutional grants each get their own treatment, including review criteria the proposal has to satisfy.

It's built for the writer who knows the project but is staring at a blank reviewer rubric. The skill enforces SMART objectives, cross-checks the budget against the narrative, and replaces hedge-phrasing ('we hope to,' 'this may') with the committed claims reviewers actually fund. Includes an 8-week writing timeline so the work doesn't compress into the last weekend.

• →Maps your project to the funder's review criteria (NSF Merit Review, NEH Significance, foundation mission alignment) before you write a word.
• →Enforces SMART objectives so reviewers can trace activities to measurable outcomes.
• →Cross-checks the budget against the narrative, every line item ties to a stated activity.
• →Replaces hedge-phrasing ('we hope to,' 'this may') with committed verbs reviewers fund.
• →Includes an 8-week writing timeline so the proposal isn't compressed into the last weekend.
• →Covers research, creative/arts, and fellowship variants, not just one template.

• •Writing an NSF, NIH, NEA, or NEH proposal from scratch.
• •Drafting a foundation grant for Ford, Mellon, MacArthur, or similar.
• •Building a budget with justification that holds up to reviewer scrutiny.
• •Tightening hedge-phrasing in an existing draft before submission.
• •Writing a fellowship application that needs a personal statement plus a research proposal.
• •Planning the 8-week writing arc so the proposal isn't a last-weekend job.

Without this skill, Claude tends to write generic grant prose that doesn't map to a specific funder's rubric. Grant Proposal Writer reshapes the response into a funder-aware draft with explicit alignment to review criteria, a budget that ties to the narrative line by line, and SMART-tested objectives. You stop getting plausible essays and start getting submission-ready proposals.