Experience With Grant Writing: Where Do I Even Begin?

Abstract At first, grant writing may look like a daunting task. You may ask yourself, “Is it really worth the time and effort?” With today's economic situation, teachers and therapists need ways to supplement their programs and grants provide such an opportunity. However, many of us do not know how to get started. After a few experiences and many lessons learned, I have come to enjoy researching and writing grants to supplement my students' learning. It is well worth the time and effort. This article provides information about a personal journey, lessons learned, and resources to get you started.

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Challenges and Strategies of Successful Mentoring: The Perspective of LEADS Scholars and Mentors from Minority Serving Institutions

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18116155 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (11) ◽

pp. 6155

Author(s):

Patricia Y. Talbert ◽

George Perry ◽

Luisel Ricks-Santi ◽

Lourdes E. Soto de Laurido ◽

Magda Shaheen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Junior Faculty ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Grant Writing ◽

Senior Faculty ◽

Additional Insight ◽

Professional Goals ◽

Funding Opportunities ◽

Faculty And Administrators ◽

Minority Serving Institutions

Mentoring continues to be a salient conversation in academia among junior and senior faculty and administrators. Mentors provide guidance and structure to junior faculty so that they can meet their academic and professional goals. Mentors also convey skills in balancing life and academic pursuits. Therefore, the purpose of this descriptive study was to provide additional insight from a training program called Leading Emerging and Diverse Scientists to Success (LEADS) regarding successful strategies and challenges of mentoring relating to lessons learned from the scholars and mentees’ perspective. The LEADS program provided multiple training platforms to increase skills and knowledge regarding research to promote expertise in grant writing and submission for funding opportunities among diverse scientists. These findings reinforce the knowledge about the value of a mentor in helping define the research pathway of their mentee and underscoring the importance of mentoring.

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Measuring the performance of project risk management: a preliminary model

Organization Technology and Management in Construction An International Journal ◽

10.2478/otmcj-2019-0005 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 1984-1991

Author(s):

Alfredo Federico Serpell ◽

Ximena Ferrada ◽

Larissa Rubio

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Construction Projects ◽

Research Literature ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Project Risk Management ◽

Project Risk ◽

Know How ◽

Construction Companies ◽

Important Concern ◽

Preliminary Model

Abstract The function of project risk management (PRM) is to understand the uncertainty that surrounds a project and to identify the potential threats than can affect it as well as to know how to handle these risks in an appropriate way. Then, the measurement of the performance of PRM becomes an important concern, an issue that has not yet been addressed in the research literature. It is necessary to know how successful the application of the PRM process is and how capable is the process within the organization. Regarding construction projects, it is essential to know whether the selected responses to mitigate or eliminate identified risks were suitable and well implemented after the execution of the project. This paper presents a critical analysis of the relevance of measuring the performance of PRM and the benefits of doing so. Additionally, it presents a preliminary and pioneering methodology to measure the performance of PRM through the evaluation of the adequacy of responses applied to mitigate risks as well as to evaluate the resulting impacts as indicators of the effectiveness of these actions at the end of the project. This knowledge will allow construction companies to incorporate good practices, generate lessons learned, and thereby to promote a continuous improvement of the whole PRM process.

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The Improved Health Outcomes Program (iHOP): A Unique Model to Promote Provider-Driven Research in a Medicaid Population

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17145079 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (14) ◽

pp. 5079

Author(s):

Tara J. Schapmire ◽

Jill Bell ◽

Mark P. Pfeifer

Keyword(s):

Managed Care ◽

Project Selection ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Grant Writing ◽

Community Based ◽

Medicaid Managed Care ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Public Health Agencies ◽

Length Relationship ◽

Medicaid Population

We describe an effort to improve the care of Medicaid and uninsured individuals through a three-way partnership between a Medicaid managed care insurer, front-line providers, and an academic university. The project provided annual funding over eleven years, for research, pilot programs, and demonstration projects. Projects were provider-driven in design and methods. The Medicaid-managed care insurer-funded proposals were vetted by a neutral university team experienced in grant writing and community-based research and scored by a community-based review panel. The grant program ran from 2007 to 2018, funding 41 projects, totaling USD 2,097,842. The partnership of an insurer, a university, and frontline providers was not only viable and sustainable for over a decade, but also flexible, free of project selection issues, and well-received by all stakeholders. Funded providers worked in both urban and rural settings and included hospitals, community non-profits, outpatient clinics, academic and community health partnerships, and public health agencies. The projects generally reflected common issues in the Medicaid and uninsured population needs, such as childhood obesity, and they were consistent with the targeted goals of the program. Broad health foci included child and/or maternal health, chronic conditions, mental health, preventive health, screening, system effectiveness, special populations including refugees, Latinos, and rural individuals, and substance use disorders. Details of the awarded grantee goals, the grants management process, and lessons learned from the partnership are presented. The partnership triad model was effective and stable, with each partner adding unique value. The use of the academic institution to administrate the program provided an arms-length relationship between the insurer and the providers in project selection and allowed assistance to less experienced researchers in community settings.

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Microenvironment, Oncoantigens, and Antitumor Vaccination: Lessons Learned from BALB-neuT Mice

BioMed Research International ◽

10.1155/2014/534969 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 ◽

pp. 1-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Laura Conti ◽

Roberto Ruiu ◽

Giuseppina Barutello ◽

Marco Macagno ◽

Silvio Bandini ◽

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Keyword(s):

Crucial Role ◽

Tumor Development ◽

Growth Factor Receptor ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Breast Cancers ◽

Human Breast ◽

Know How ◽

Epidermal Growth ◽

Aggressive Clinical Course

The tyrosine kinase human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) gene is amplified in approximately 20% of human breast cancers and is associated with an aggressive clinical course and the early development of metastasis. Its crucial role in tumor growth and progression makes HER2 a prototypic oncoantigen, the targeting of which may be critical for the development of effective anticancer therapies. The setup of anti-HER2 targeting strategies has revolutionized the clinical outcome of HER2+breast cancer. However, their initial success has been overshadowed by the onset of pharmacological resistance that renders them ineffective. Since the tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a crucial role in drug resistance, the design of more effective anticancer therapies should depend on the targeting of both cancer cells and their TME as a whole. In this review, starting from the successful know-how obtained with a HER2+mouse model of mammary carcinogenesis, the BALB-neuT mice, we discuss the role of TME in mammary tumor development. Indeed, a deeper knowledge of antigens critical for cancer outbreak and progression and of the mechanisms that regulate the interplay between cancer and stromal cell populations could advise promising ways for the development of the best anticancer strategy.

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Access to Mainstream Microfinance Services for Persons with Disabilities – Lessons Learned from Uganda

Disability Studies Quarterly ◽

10.18061/dsq.v29i1.168 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Flavia Nakabuye Bwire ◽

George Mukasa ◽

Roy Mersland

Keyword(s):

Business Model ◽

Pilot Project ◽

Economic Incentives ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Market Opportunity ◽

Font Size ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Know How

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">This article reports from a pilot project in Uganda where the aim is to enable persons with disabilities to have access to mainstream microfinance services. Several lessons have already been learned: 1) entrepreneurs with disabilities are an untapped market opportunity for Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs); 2) to influence MFIs it is important to understand their business model and team up with key actors from the industry; 3) persons with disabilities are often misinformed about MFIs’ terms and services and don’t know how to tap these opportunities. Gradually a change in attitudes in MFIs and Disabled Peoples Organizations (DPOs) is observed. All MFIs participating in the project now report an increase in the number of clients with disabilities served. This is happening without the use of any economic incentives.</span>

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Building Effective Clusters and Industrial Parks

The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198793847.013.13 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 290-308

Author(s):

Xiaobo Zhang

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Local Governments ◽

Central Government ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Industrial Districts ◽

Industrial Park ◽

International Firms ◽

Know How ◽

Industrial Parks ◽

Informational Advantage

This chapter discusses some of the strategies that are commonly used to build effective clusters and industrial parks. Industrial districts (clusters) offer three major advantages: better access to suppliers and markets, labour market pooling, and spillovers of technological know-how. Compared to the central government, local governments are in a better position to identify and solve the bottlenecks that affect clusters and industrial parks, mainly because of their informational advantage. The chapter first provides an overview of clusters and industrial parks before analysing the experiences of—and the lessons learned by—developing countries such as China in building them. Four strategies to increase the chances of success of a cluster and industrial park are highlighted: targeting international firms, targeting grouped businesses, incentivizing first movers, and adopting a step-by-step approach. The chapter also considers a number of reasons why clusters and industrial parks failed in countries like India, Egypt, and Senegal.

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Designing Marketplace Literacy Education in Resource-Constrained Contexts: Implications for Public Policy and Marketing

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing ◽

10.1509/jppm.28.1.85 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 85-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 73

Author(s):

Madhubalan Viswanathan ◽

Srinivas Sridharan ◽

Roland Gau ◽

Robin Ritchie

Keyword(s):

Procedural Knowledge ◽

Market Access ◽

Marketing Research ◽

Field Research ◽

Educational Interventions ◽

Literacy Education ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Key Factors ◽

Know How ◽

Informed Consumer

This article describes the findings of an immersive program of field research on consumers living in poverty in South India and the lessons learned from the development and operation of educational interventions designed to enhance the marketplace literacy of these consumers. Whereas extant research and practice have traditionally addressed two key factors that facilitate market participation for the poor—market access and financial resources—the current research focuses on a third critical and complementary factor—namely, marketplace literacy. The authors contend that to sustainably benefit from enhanced market access and resources, (1) people living in subsistence conditions need to develop tactical or procedural knowledge, or concrete “know-how,” regarding how to be an informed consumer or seller, and (2) this know-how must be grounded in conceptual/strategic knowledge, or “know-why” understanding, of marketplace exchanges. To that end, the educational program outlined begins by familiarizing participants with the purpose and logic of marketplaces and then transitions to the tangible aspects of how these marketplaces function. The article concludes with reflection on the implications for consumer policy, marketing research, and business practice.

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Know-How in the Bank: Instituting a Lessons Learned System to Capitalize on Intellectual Assets

Global Business and Organizational Excellence ◽

10.1002/joe.21493 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 36-48

Author(s):

Eileen Newman Rubin

Keyword(s):

Lessons Learned ◽

Know How ◽

Intellectual Assets

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A Dedicated Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Unit during a Respiratory Pandemic: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Part I: System Planning and Care Teams

Membranes ◽

10.3390/membranes11040258 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 258

Author(s):

Sagar Dave ◽

Aakash Shah ◽

Samuel Galvagno ◽

Kristen George ◽

Ashley R. Menne ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation ◽

Critically Ill ◽

Critically Ill Patients ◽

Care Physician ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

System Level ◽

Incident Command ◽

Membrane Oxygenation ◽

Daunting Task ◽

Vv Ecmo

Background: The most critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may require advanced support modalities, such as veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO). A systematic, methodical approach to a respiratory pandemic on a state and institutional level is critical. Methods: We conducted retrospective review of our institutional response to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the creation of a dedicated airlock biocontainment unit (BCU) to treat patients with refractory COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome (CARDS). Data were collected through conversations with staff on varying levels in the BCU, those leading the effort to make the BCU and hospital incident command system, email communications regarding logistic changes being implemented, and a review of COVID-19 patient census at our institution from March through June 2020. Results: Over 2100 patients were successfully admitted to system hospitals; 29% of these patients required critical care. The response to this respiratory pandemic augmented intensive care physician staffing, created a 70-member nursing team, and increased the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) capability by nearly 200%. During this time period, 40 COVID-19 patients on VV-ECMO were managed in the BCU. Challenges in an airlock unit included communication, scarcity of resources, double-bunking, and maintaining routine care. Conclusions: Preparing for a surge of critically ill patients during a pandemic can be a daunting task. The implementation of a coordinated, system-level approach can help with the allocation of resources as needed. Focusing on established strengths of hospitals within the system can guide triage based on individual patient needs. The management of ECMO patients is still a specialty care, and a systematic and hospital based approach requiring an ECMO team composed of multiple experienced individuals is paramount during a respiratory viral pandemic.

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DNA.Land: A digital biobank using a massive crowdsourcing approach

10.1101/135715 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jie Yuan ◽

Assaf Gordon ◽

Daniel Speyer ◽

Richard Aufrichtig ◽

Dina Zielinski ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Return Of Results ◽

Crowd Sourcing ◽

Direct To Consumer ◽

Genomic Technologies ◽

Daunting Task ◽

Types Of Information ◽

Number Of Individuals ◽

Technical Framework

AbstractPrecision medicine necessitates large scale collections of genomes and phenomes. Despite decreases in the costs of genomic technologies, collecting these types of information at scale is still a daunting task that poses logistical challenges and requires consortium-scale resources. Here, we describe DNA.Land, a digital biobank to collect genome and phenomes with a fraction of the resources of traditional studies at the same scale. Our approach relies on crowd-sourcing data from the rapidly growing number of individuals that have access to their own genomic datasets through Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) companies. To recruit participants, we developed a series of automatic return-of-results features in DNA.Land that increase users’ engagement while stratifying human subject research protection. So far, DNA.Land has collected over 43,000 genomes in 20 months of operation, orders of magnitude higher than previous digital attempts by academic groups. We report lessons learned in running a digital biobank, our technical framework, and our approach regarding ethical, legal, and social implications.

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