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From Idea to Funded Project Grant Proposals for the Digital Age, 5th Edition
Julia M. Jacobsen and Jan Fay Kress
ISBN: 0-275-99087-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99087-9
176 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2007
List Price: $34.95 (UK Sterling Price: £24.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 8 1/2 x 11
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Description: Ideas are products of individual human minds. Some of the ideas that emerge in educational, cultural, health-related, community, service, and faith-based organizations are potentially as important to the institutions as their endowments. These ideas are the concern of this guidebook: how to encourage their articulation, how to muster the cooperation necessary to turn them into formal blueprints, and how to secure whatever support is needed to see them materialize as projects serving the interests of the originators and their institutions.

Designed for grant seekers in the digital age, this book helps readers make sense of the various printed and Web-based resources that are available to improve the quality of proposals and find successful funding. The chapters cover origins and early development of an idea, drawing up a proposal, finding funding sources, submitting a proposal, evaluation of a project, grant administration, and basic resources.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Acknowledgements
    PART I: A PROCESS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS
    Introduction
    Origin and Early Development of an Idea
    The Proposal: A Design for Putting an Idea to Work
    Finding a Source of Support
    Submission of a Proposal
    Grant Administration
    Evaluation
    Conclusion
    Part II: BASIC RESOURCES
    Acronyms
    Essential Basic Information Sources
    Other Sources of Assistance and Training
    Annotated Bibliography
    Forms and Required Information
    Index
About the Author: Julia M. Jacobsen is retired Research Administrator, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA. She has had extensive experience seeking funds and was chair of an organization that sought and made re-grants. She was formerly Director of Government Relations and Sponsored Programs at Sweet Briar College for over twenty years, and prior to that was Special Assistant, Contracts and Grants, at the University of Southern California.

Jan Fay Kress is an occupational therapy practitioner with a joint appointment as Instructor in Howard University's Department of Occupational Therapy and Clinical Supervisor at Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C. Kress is Founder and Volunteer Director of Safe at Home, a community home safety project for older Americans. She has raised substantial funds from area and national foundations and individuals for Safe at Home.
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