Resources & LOIs

LOI Templates and Guidance

• LOI and Proposal Writing Tips | Russell Sage Foundation

• Arnold Ventures LOI template

• Institute for Advanced Study LOI Guidance

• Sloan Foundation LOI Guidance

• Doris Duke Foundantion LOI Guidance

• Glenn W. Bailey Foundation LOI Guidance

LOI Examples

• LOI to Russell Sage Foundation

• Derenoncourt LOI

• Your Letter of Intent Template

Helpful Tools to Complete your LOI (on GitHub)

• For your team to get clearer on the Why and How of your research project:

  • Concept Map. Explains the proposed or probable answers to the question and anticipates organized skepticism about it; table that lays out the concepts how they are measured and the data sources (with type of requirements for getting those data - accessing admin data, existing free secondary data, original survey or observational data.

• For your team to unpack the How of your research:

  • Data Collection Plan. Worksheet for measures, data, and analyze

• For your team to think through the When (flow and timing) of your project:

  • GANTT Chart. Lays out who does what when - this will also help with scoping the project; Helps with producing an LOI Timeline