Sentences with phrase «grant proposal»

They also agreed to a scaled - back block - grant proposal that would have allowed 7 states and 25 school districts to sign a performance contract with the federal government that would free them of most federal education regulations in exchange for a promise to improve student performance.

Before you submit your next grant proposal, make sure you know the Do's and Don'ts of successful proposal writing.

Part of MACA's growth process from a grant proposal to a brick - and - mortar learning institution has been the establishment of a healthy relationship between the OSSI (acting on behalf of its Gates and Meyer foundation partners) and the ground troops who administer and teach at the school.

He was writing a grant proposal recently to buy more technology for his school and realized he needed to learn more about document cameras.

For Schifter's students, that means choosing between two final projects: a mock Congressional markup on an education - related bill or a mock grant proposal similar to Race to the Top.

As the tuition grant proposal was aimed primarily at improving education for poor black children, the black - led coalition could not avoid being accused of promoting urban black interests at the expense of rural and suburban areas.

Quick says the odds are not in your favor when you write a grant proposal — because so many organizations apply, fewer than 5 percent of submitted proposals get funded — but there are several tricks that can increase your odds of snagging the loot.

She related that she and Charles Campbell, Worcester's technology liaison, were writing a Lighthouse Grant proposal to submit to the Massachusetts Department of Education.

The basic idea in the grant proposal was that teachers had to overcome their squeamishness in talking about sex; indeed, they needed to learn how to stand in front of the classroom and describe intimate body parts using their students» vernacular, rather than the technical terms found in biology textbooks.

Generally speaking, USED's role is simply to ensure that we are satisfying the commitments we made in the grant proposal.

You can start by sharing the reasoning behind everyday, small decisions, like why tutoring groups have been created in a specific way, how you've established budget numbers, or why you've written a grant proposal for iPads instead of laptops.

Tamara Jenkins dubs her own hyphenate intelligentsia yawp The Savages, casting Baumbach's Squid mom Laura Linney as Wendy Savage, a temp and frustrated writer submitting as the film opens her grant proposal for a new play about a dysfunctional family to various endowments.

She also co-authored a successful $ 600,000 grant proposal for the NSF S - STEM program.

She was co-author of a grant proposal that garnered Morningside a five - year, $ 1.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition, in support of training in - service teachers in preparation for English as a Second Language endorsement.

A key feature of the team's grant proposal was that the researchers are making information about how to build and use the device available for free to other scientists.

The website will be constructed and in partnership with Berman and Company [where Walter worked briefly as director of development], and CRC is collaborating with ALEC and the Heartland Institute to make use of their data as it builds the new website's profile list,» (Capital Research Center, Grant Proposal Record, 8/16/2016).

While there are a number of conservative resources that profile organizations and individuals on the Left (such as David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org, Heartland Institute's LeftExposed.org, Berman and Company's ActivistFacts.org and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's UndueInfluence.com) CDC will build upon and complement their efforts adding value through its more comprehensive coverage, superior search engine optimization, and wiki - style format,» (Capital Research Center, Grant Proposal Record, 8/16/2016).

Writing a grant proposal is another collaborative endeavor, even if it is for a fellowship.

The «I stand with ALEC website» came much too late and brought far too little to its defense» (EPI, Grant Proposal Record, 11/11/2014).

The exam consisted of a mock grant proposal and defense, and one person on my committee, that person who never likes anything, said it was the best he'd ever seen.

Mr. Carter is presenting the research that accompanied the grant proposal (and on which he will base his further work) at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in Providence this week.

Following this a career panel discussion will be held with Jeralyn Haraldsen (grant proposal manager, UVM Office for VP of Research), Cathleen Geiger (research professor, University of Delaware, adjunct professor, UVM), and Paul Held (lab manager, Biotek Instruments).

He quickly submitted a travel grant proposal to the Mandela Washington Fellowship's first «reverse exchange» program, which allows fellows to bring researchers (like me) from the United States to their countries to continue the projects hatched during their time in the U.S.

«The dollar amount associated with these grants is substantial,» said Timothy A. Kohler, professor of anthropology at WSU and coauthor of the NSF grant proposal.

Because writing and obtaining grants is a critically important aspect of an academic research career in pediatric hematology - oncology, all fellows are encouraged to write a grant proposal in support of their research.

I used your website and GrantSpace.org to learn how to write my first ever grant proposal... We won a $ 3,000 grant!»

«We are working on a grant proposal to test different combinations.

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is the central office for administration of all aspects of grant proposal review, electronic submission and contract facilitation with sponsors on behalf of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

So I stayed in the same lab for a postdoc, doing the same work, funding the position with a grant proposal written by me and submitted in my adviser's name.

There's no excuse for submitting a grant proposal without meticulously reviewing all the information about the program, including the fine print and recent changes, and talking to the program officer.

Groups receiving the grants can then, for example, put the grant proposal on the Web and advertise for postdoc candidates.

So says Donna Dean, the senior adviser to NIH's acting director who hosted a grants seminar, «Working on Preparing a Competitive Grant Proposal,» at the annual Howard Hughes Medical Institute's fellows» meeting on 25 - 27 September in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Celera has submitted a grant proposal to the U.S. National Institutes of Health to cover at least part of its costs.

If you can make a strong argument for longer - term funding — and it sounds like you can — put it your grant proposal.

Applicants should review the NSF Grant Proposal Guide for details on responding to solicitations and program announcements or submitting unsolicited proposals.

So the bill calls for greater reliance on preproposals, withholding the nonresearch components of a grant proposal until reviewers have given it a thumbs up, and creating a centralized database with the biosketches of applicants so that information doesn't have to be recreated for every agency.

First off, Strømme says, the letter was not in «support» of the grant proposal, but instead a boilerplate statement included in many proposals.

Vul wanted to test that idea before he joined researchers from UC Berkeley in submitting the CPS grant proposal to NSF.

Adhere to the NSF format described in the Grant Proposal Guide and, in doing so, either reference or list your own papers.

If I use the policies and the practices that I learned 40 years ago to prepare a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant proposal now, it will fail.

Is a grant proposal a contract, or is it more like an audition, an opportunity to show that you've got what it takes to do good work?

It seems like this back - breaking, mind - numbing behavior will stop only when I have results for this project and I'm comfortable with the progress I've made (translation, when Jeff is comfortable, has enough data for his grant proposal, and leaves me alone).

It's about the grant proposal that may or may not be up for renewal, and the egos served or starved by it.

«I've heard comments like, «I can write a great grant proposal, and it doesn't get funded.»

Because the project I'm working on is Jeff's pet project, the one that he's writing a big fat grant proposal on.

Nevertheless, there are many advantages to starting a grant proposal while you're still a postdoc.

NIH officials were delighted when Apostolopoulos's grant proposal arrived in January 2002.

NIH now requires a recipient of a grant in excess of $ 500,000 in any year to develop a data sharing plan that is reviewed by the study section that assesses the grant proposal, Liu said.

According to Michael B. Amey, Johns Hopkins University's assistant dean for research administration, even though some JHU postdocs are classified as employees, «the only postdocs who would be allowed to submit an independent research grant proposal (as opposed to a fellowship grant) would be those who had been offered faculty positions that would begin no later than the proposed start date of the grant proposal.»

When you're writing an NIH grant proposal, you can actually get to know your audience pretty well.