NAC Best Practices

NAC purpose: to provide advice and recommendations to project steering committees.

• Invite NAC members.
  • If before grant submission, get Letter of Support from potential NAC members.
  • Make sure to include individuals of varied professions and perspectives, increase strength of proposal through strong advisors.
• Post NAC on website with credentials and affiliations.
  • Collect bios/biosketches from NAC.
• Create listserv for NAC.
• Schedule NAC initial meeting.
• Send initial welcome message to listserv with Save the Date for upcoming meeting.
• Send quarterly newsletters to NAC with updates.
• Periodically send various grant concepts, products, messaging, papers for comment to the NAC.
• Host yearly meeting – in-person or teleconference.
  • Send meeting and call minutes to NAC.

There will be two types of communication with the NAC:

• Updates
  • Quarterly newsletter
• Requests for feedback
  • In-person or phone meetings or via listserv
    • Materials review
    • Set deadlines for feedback