Conventional wisdom says that the way to win more awards is to get researchers writing more proposals. Yet many incentives designed to stimulate proposal development can be hard on the bottom line, especially those that pay researchers for their time or to attend grant-writing workshops presented by outside consulting firms. This paper presents…

Grant seeking has become a crucial component in the continuation of support for research and program development. A model which could serve as the prototype for resource consolidation is described. (JN)

Guidelines and standards are presented for use in writing proposals to establish Area Continuing Education Councils, each of which will be responsible for planning and coordinating good continuing education programs for a broad section of the library, media, and information community in its geographic area of Pennsylvania. Topics covered include…

One college's multisemester community service learning project involves upper-level accounting-information students in field research, grant writing, and problem solving for nonprofit organizations. A professional organization provides the funding needed to perform this service for nonprofit organizations across the state. The approach may be…

Based on the expertise generated by years of work in minority engineering program development, this handbook consolidates the experiences of program directors, industry sponsors, and school system collaborators. Its purpose is to provide quidelines for setting up a comprehensive precollege engineering program. Discussions include: (1) history; (2)…

A faculty development workshop program at Southeast Missouri State University is designed to introduce faculty to the importance, techniques, and applications of classroom research, to expose faculty to prospective research project sponsors, and to discuss development of qualitative research proposals. Providing faculty with such opportunities is…