Strategies for making engagement work
Effective Practices for Including People with Developmental Disabilities and New Members on Boards and Committees, Green Mountain Self-Advocates
Ensuring Your Engagement is Accessible
This plain-language guide how to make board meetings and committees inclusive, supportive, and inviting spaces for people with different learning styles. It offers tips and suggestions for facilitation as well as recommended language.
Supporting Virtual Meeting Accessibility, NCAPPS
Ensuring Your Engagement is Accessible
This resource offers considerations and tips to support Virtual Meeting Accessibility
How to Make Surveys More Aphasia Friendly, BRIDGE
Ensuring Your Engagement is Accessible
This tool from Building Research Initiatives by Developing Group Effort offers strategies for making your surveys more aphasia-friendly, including step-by-step instructions on how to embed videos, add closed captioning, and create answer options.
Communication Tips for Working with Older Adults, CJE Senior Life
Ensuring Your Engagement is Accessible
Consolidated information from a variety of sources (listed at the end of this document) regarding how to communicate effectively with older adults in a range of circumstances.
Getting Your Message Across Communicating With People Who Have Intellectual Disabilities, Green Mountain Self-Advocates
Ensuring Your Engagement is Accessible
This plain-language guide explains how individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities understand disability and self-advocacy, to inform your new understanding. The guide also provides checklists and handouts for taking active roles in inclusion and self-advocacy allyship.
Introduction to Proposal Writing
Getting Engagement Funded
This resource covers the basics of proposal writing and best practices, including follow-up etiquette. It also provides hands-on exercises.
Grant Writing Tips
Getting Engagement Funded
This website provides tips for writing a grant proposal as well as offers samples.
Optimizing Funding Applications Presentation, PCORI
Getting Engagement Funded
This presentation from the National Organization for Rare Disorder, Rare Disease, and Orphan Product Breakthrough Summit, offers a step-by-step process for evaluating your funding proposal and optimizing it to include stakeholder engagement.
Budgeting for Engagement Activities, PCORI
Getting Engagement Funded
To help applicants incorporate engagement into their study proposal and budget, this document reviews budgetary items associated with engagement within a research study.
Compensation Framework, PCORI
Getting Engagement Funded
PCORI’s Compensation Framework provides guidance for establishing fair compensation levels for patients, caregivers, and organizations.
Toolkit for Stakeholder Asset Mapping, Collective Insight and NCAPPS
Identifying And Outreaching to Stakeholders
This toolkit describes the steps to effective asset mapping as a first step in the engagement process. It also provides agenda templates and sample asset maps
Initiating Partnerships for Patient-Centered Research, PCORI
Identifying And Outreaching to Stakeholders
Using data collected from research applicants, awardees, and partners, PCORI shares lessons about how researchers can engage with patients and other healthcare stakeholders to improve patient-centered research.
