Rick Nader

Principal Consultant, Global Proposal Solutions

Principal Consultant Dr. Richard (Rick) Nader has 35 years of experience developing and writing proposals to federal, private and corporate foundations and international funding sources at major R1 as well as Primarily Undergraduate Institutions, Emerging Research Institutions and Minority-serving Institutions (HBCU, HIS, AANAPISI).  He previously served as a program manager at the Office of International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation. Nader has served as PI or Co-PI on NSF, Department of Education, State Department, as well as public-private funding, international awards.

Nader carried out evaluation research while a Senior Research Associate at the Public Policy Research Institute and specializes in evaluation and research design in cross-cultural settings. Nader has evaluation experience with NSF, Department of Education and Texas Department of Health and Human Services.

While at Texas A&M in the 1990s, Nader worked closely with the Proposal Development team at Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) while he was director of the Center for Community Support (CCS) located at the Public Policy Research Institute, also at Texas A&M. Nader worked with community-based organizations to consult and develop large demonstration grant proposals to secure federal funding.  Nader served as Program Manager for East Asia (China) in the Office of International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF).  After his term at NSF, he became founding Director for Research Development at the University of North Texas (UNT), and most recently supervised and advanced the Global Research Development units at UNT and Mississippi State.

Nader’s experience includes designing and delivering workshops on how to be successful in competing for grants and contracts, assessing declined proposals (proposal post-mortem), what makes for a successful international research or development proposal, understanding the review process, and building your institution’s “Global Research IQ.”  He has directly helped hundreds of faculty be successful with proposals to federal agencies, private foundations and foreign funders, including strategies for fundraising, international development and engaging corporations and foundations.

Rick has a BA in English, a Master’s degree in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration.