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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

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). 2006, Graves et al., 2001, Abdoul et al. Stay tuned.

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The Aggravating Sustainability Question

Grant Professionals Association

Whether the funder is a private foundation or a government agency, their funding is an investment in your organization. Diverse Funding Streams Grants and Donations: We will actively pursue grants from government agencies, private foundations, and corporate sponsors. I am sure many grant writers will agree with me.

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How Nonprofits Can Positively Impact Climate Change on Blog Action Day 2009

Tech Soup

The Energy Information Administration , the US government's official source for energy statistics, reported that in 2006, electricity generation alone was responsible for 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the US.

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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

Tech Soup

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. Then there's the major work that nonprofits working with the California Emerging Technology Fund have done across California since 2006. How the Project Got Going.

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Using Technology to Build a More Accountable Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tech Soup

was the pre-election campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2006. In the end, the government lost the election, and the regional prime minister was forced by his party to resign from his position. After weeks of communication online, they all decided to create a movement and Dosta! was born in 2005. The first big event for Dosta!

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Turning Waste into Beautiful Art

Tech Soup

In the United States, we generated over 251 million tons of trash in 2006, the most recent year recorded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Waste management is also incredibly costly, and is causing crises for governments all over the world. Throw-Away Society.

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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. " To learn more, visit the TechSoup Community Challenges site. Video : TechSoup Romania.