The Strategic Pitch Workshop

October 21, 2025, 2:00–3:30pm
UCHI Conference Room, HBL Fourth Floor

The Strategic Pitch Workshop is designed to guide attendees through the process of distilling a project idea into a compelling summary. Like the spoken-word, two-minute elevator pitch, the strategic pitch is a brief written document used during early project conceptualization as well as pre-proposal activities. Its purpose is to gain early support, connect with collaborators, and garner feedback and recommendations along the way to a grant proposal. Attendees need not have a project already in mind. Those who do will be able to develop their ideas during the session.

The Incubator for Collaborative Humanities Grants series is a program of UCHI and Greenhouse Studios at Internal Insights & Innovation (GS@i3). Our mission is to help those working in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences to connect with each other, other disciplines, and community partners in order to conceptualize, develop, and implement collaborative grants. Stay tuned for future workshops and news.

If you require accommodation to attend this event, please contact us at uchi@uconn.edu or by phone (860) 486-9057. We can request ASL interpreting, computer-assisted real time transcription, and other accommodations offered by the Center for Students with Disabilities.

The Incubator for Collaborative Grants Series

Getting the Grant Started: Turning Ideas into Action

September 26, 2024, 2:00–4:00pm
UCHI Conference, HBL 4-209

A collaboration between UCHI and Greenhouse Studios, the Incubator series is designed to help UConn faculty and colleagues in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to conceptualize, develop, and implement large collaborative grants that put your research strengths in conversation with potential partners in the community.

Clarissa J. Ceglio, UCHI’s Associate Director of Collaborative Research, and Sara Sikes, Managing Director, Greenhouse Studios, will be the lead facilitators.

Attendees from UConn and community organizations will learn how to work across organizations and disciplines to generate ideas for collaboration and then plan the immediate next steps in the grant proposal process. Attendees need not have a specific grant idea already in mind; rather, we hope that the conversation among attendees will lay the groundwork for future collaborations. Please share this invitation with colleagues and collaborators within the community and across UConn. Select projects will receive support from UCHI and/or Greenhouse Studios to facilitate moving the grant through the writing, application, and implementation process. This event is part of a series designed to offer multiple forms of support for viable grant proposals in the humanities.