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  • The RRDi is looking for volunteer professional or amateur grant writers who would be willing to apply for corporate grants in behalf of the institute. Our volunteers have received three educational grants from Galderma, and if you are willing to learn how to become a grant writer, jump through all the hoops Galderma requires you to jump through, you could receive a portion of the grant money as a service to the RRDi since this is allowed in our charter. If you are a professional grant writer who has rosacea please consider spending some volunteer time organizing the RRDi's amateur grant writers committee. We prefer grant writers who have rosacea but if you don't have rosacea we still warmly invite you to write grants for our non profit organization. Anyone who wants to join the RRDi as a corporate member may volunteer to learn how to write grants as a volunteer amateur for the RRDi and become in time a professional grant writer. Please join. After logging into your account, contact us that you want to write grants for the RRDi. We will steer you into the correct direction, but basically you will be a volunteer writing grants for the RRDi and if you receive a grant you will be compensated. You may also receive a letter of recommendation if you volunteer for our non profit writing grants, get compensated, and help our non profit receive grants for rosacea research. 

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    Grant Writers Needed

    The RRDi will pay compensation to the grant writer upon successful allocation of money donated to the RRDi. Applying for Education Grants to Galderma has been our focus. You can also apply for grants to other sources.

    Grant writers are enouraged to join the RRDi and use the private members forum in the GRANT WRITERS forum to discuss a team approach and discuss their concerns in the ASK THE MAC forum with our volunteer Medical Advisory Committee members.

    If you are interested please join the RRDi and enter the members forum and look for the public and private grant writers sections. When you join online, please mention in the volunteer skills box that you are a grant writer or would like to write grants for the RRDi.

    If you have any further questions please use our contact form.

    Steps to Begin the Process to Be a Grant Writer for the RRDi

    (1) Join the RRDi as a member

    Be sure to fill in your contact details in your member profile including your mobile number, mailing address and at least two email addresses. You will be REQUIRED to confirm your primary email address to complete your registration, so please look for the confirmation email and follow the directions. 

    (2)  Be sure to login AFTER you have done step 1 above and be sure that your profile shows all your contact information. 

    (3) Contact us using our contact form indicating you have joined the RRDi as a grant writer volunteer.

    (4) Read ALL the posts in the Grant Writer Public Forum

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    How many total hours does it take to write a scientific grant proposal?

    10 Things You Wish You Knew About Grant Writing

    Volunteer Grant Writers

    The RRDi relies on volunteer grant writers. However, if you are successful, we do reward your efforts. If you suffer from rosacea, that is definitely a plus for our organization that you understand what rosacea sufferers are going through and are actually doing something, writing rosacea grants, totally involved in trying to find the cure for rosacea, educating newbie rosaceans, or investigating the cause of rosacea through scientific study. 



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