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The Advantages of Asymmetric Information

ProposalPRO

PRO Tip: Learn the best way to respond to a grant by studying the agency issuing that grant - its mission, policy goals, and types of grants it awards. Sometimes agencies provide samples of awarded proposals (thank you, NEH) and sometimes they provide abstracts (Appreciated, NSF!). Or an advantage to experienced proposers. What is it?

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

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The overwhelming majority of government grants are awarded by a panel of outside reviewers, including 80% of the grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over 90% of those awarded by the National Science Foundation or NSF (Bendiscioli, 2019). 2001, Abdoul et al. 2006, Graves et al.,

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Is the Diminishing Number of Donors an Issue for Fundraisers?

Penelope Burk

When asked why, middle-age donors preferred to award larger gifts to fewer organizations in order to maximize the net value of their contributions. It’s Money that Matters The job of fundraisers is to make more money and they have consistently accomplished that for the last forty years. million [4]. You can’t argue with their logic.

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Microsoft's Ecohero: How Sean Nicholson Is Saving the Earth

Tech Soup

Each year the International Computer Refurbisher Summit awards a lifetime achievement award in my name (it's a long story on how that came to be). This year the award went to Sean Nicholson. Sean works for Microsoft on its corporate OEM team, focusing on redesign, reuse, and recycling. What started off as a U.S.

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Spotlight: State of North Dakota

GrantNews

Erected in 2001, it is 156 feet long, 100 feet tall, and weighs 75 tons. In the past, grants have been awarded to recreational and cultural organizations, parks, community hospitals, and police departments. In addition, GrantWatch offers a list of close to 1,700 grants in its Community and Economic Development grants listing category.

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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award. Thanks to the Reno Conference, the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Suicide was issued in 1999 and the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention followed in 2001.