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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

The American Red Cross has spent and distributed all funds designated for Haiti relief on shelter, emergency relief, health, cholera prevention, water and sanitation, livelihoods, and disaster preparedness,” the statement continued. The post American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

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Is There Racial Bias in Awarding Federal Grants?

ProposalPRO

2016 , Ginther et al., NIH found that topic selection accounted for 21% of the funding gap between Black and White researchers. NIH also found that scientists who were the most experienced at proposing and implementing grants were also disproportionately more likely to be funded, and to be White. 2019 , Ginther et al.,

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Concentration of Nonprofit Giving Disenfranchises Civilians

The NonProfit Times

The nonprofit community’s ongoing trend of fewer donors providing increasing amounts of funding and volunteer hours is disturbing. Between 2000 and 2016 some 20 million households moved away from giving roles. If this trend continues, it could erode social cohesion and self-governance within the United States.

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Inclusion of senior investigators on junior investigator grant proposals

Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops

The goal for the recently announced NIH “Policy Supporting the Next Generation Researchers Initiative (NOT-OD-17-101),” is to fund approximately 200 more ESI awards in 2017 than were funded in FY 2016. The intent is to fund 200 more EEIs across the NIH in FY 2017 than in FY 2016.

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Stop What You're Doing NOW and Celebrate the FCC's Decision

Tech Soup

In The Tech That Will Change 2016 , I boldly predicted that this is the year that the digital divide will finally be bridged in the United States. Connected Nation provides extensive broadband planning services and policy positions for communities and states. Its excellent policy brief lays out the case for FCC Lifeline expansion.

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Stop What You're Doing NOW and Celebrate the FCC's Decision

Tech Soup

In The Tech That Will Change 2016 , I boldly predicted that this is the year that the digital divide will finally be bridged in the United States. Connected Nation provides extensive broadband planning services and policy positions for communities and states. Its excellent policy brief lays out the case for FCC Lifeline expansion.

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Guidance on authorship

Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops

Eur J Cancer, 2016) recently investigated the issue of Honorary and Ghost Authors of manuscripts describing results of randomized clinical trials, and found the problem to be pervasive. Med Ethics, 2016). Thus, if you find yourself struggling to decide who should or shouldn’t be included as an author of a manuscript, you’re not alone.