Grant Money Research Articles

Who addresses pollution? Relationships among actors and grant money for waste management efforts in remote Alaskan communities

This study discusses waste-related issues in remote Alaskan villages, focusing on the relationships between the support providers, such as government officials and nonprofits, and the indigenous people, from the perspective of self-determination. With the increasing volume and variety of waste generated by recent lifestyle changes, health and environmental issues have become growing concerns. Each village is responsible for waste management and operating a disposal site. However, challenges exist regarding the current waste management regime, highlighting the importance of grant-funded initiatives and support from non-profit organizations. Based on interviews with supporters and observations of the negotiation process between supporters and indigenous people, this study analyzes the grants and collaborative efforts in Alaska. Through grants and collaborative initiatives, the assimilation of indigenous people into mainstream society is inevitable, although efforts to respect indigenous self-determination and communication are ongoing and serve as a framework for bridging the gap between the waste regime and status quo. However, two unsolved issues remain: the “support-in-waiting” dilemma, and the issues arising from the social, economic, and geographical diversity among settlements. The balance between respect for self-determination in environmental governance and provision of support extending beyond equality of opportunity will be the key to future relationships.

Pertanggungjawaban Penggunaan Dana Hibah Oleh Badan Hukum Keagamaan

In accordance with Chapter "and Article 1666 of the Civil Code. This grant is directly from the current state budget, namely the state budget (APBN), provincial budget (APBD), and District/City Budget (APBD). The gift giving process is canceled if the given things are not known at the moment or will only be accessible at a later date. Funds for regional activity programs can be financed with grant money sourced from the state budget / APBD. Naturally, there are different ways in which this grant money can be presented, including tangible or immaterial forms offered free of charge by one of the participants. A statement of responsibility proving that the use of funds provided by NPHD has been documented in the format of a grant report (text of a Regional grant agreement). Since the local government is the giver and recipient of the grant, it is officially and materially responsible for both processes. The purpose of the Accountability Report on the use of grants is to demonstrate that the grant funds were used and managed appropriately to achieve the desired results, in accordance with the original purpose of the grant.

‘Give the Grant Money to the Youth’: From Youth Departure to Belonging in the Ethnic Church

Abstract This paper uses sociological theories of religious change to explain findings from action research on intergenerational relations at two ethnic churches in the U.S. At the outset of our study, immigrant adults felt threatened that younger congregants preferred non-ethnic churches. When these churches used research funds to support youth development and outreach programs, they experienced intergenerational congregational belonging. We ask, do existing sociological theories sufficiently explain how these ethnic churches responded to the ecclesial problem of youth departure? Can we use action research to advance theories of how youth practice belonging within ethnic churches? We show how action research produced anomalous cases of intergenerational partnership that begs the integration of market-based and neo-institutional theories of religious change. We argue that future action research targeting youth ministries and civic activism in ethnic churches can explain how American religion is changing through the immigrant youth demographic.

Short on grant money? Five tips for crowdfunding success

Reproduced with permission from The Conversation 19 September 2013

The Perceptions of Caregivers and other Stakeholders on the Usefulness of the Child Support Grant: The Case Study of Emalahleni, Nkangala District

The South African government faces the triple challenge of poverty, unemployment and inequalities. This article focuses on the challenge of poverty. One of the ways in which the government of South Africa seeks to address the challenge of poverty is through the Child Support Grant (CSG) programme that was first implemented in 1998. The Child Support Grant is intended to ensure that the basic needs of the children of a vulnerable group of society are met. The context is Emalahleni Local Municipality, and the main objective is to investigate the perceptions of caregivers on the utilisation of the Child Support Grant. The study adopted qualitative research which focuses on the issues to be understood by applying qualitative measures. In this regard, qualitative data collection and analysis methods and primary and secondary data were used. The primary data was collected through a survey that focused on the residents of Emalahleni Local Municipality. Key findings of the study are that the Child Support Grant improves households’ ability to meet basic needs such as food and clothing. In addition, the grants assists families make investments in education, which increases the chances of breaking the cycle of poverty. However, there was some evidence from community members (who are not caregivers) suggesting that there are cases of abuse of Child Support Grant money by some recipients in the community. As a result of this, the researchers suggest that SASSA must employ social workers directly to monitor whether caregivers use the grants for the intended purpose, which is to take care of the needs of beneficiaries. This, however, does not in any way suggest that the Child Support grant is not making a positive impact on recipient households. The article makes a contribution to the body of knowledge by providing empirically backed conclusions on this important social security intervention by the South African government.

Grand strategy or grant strategy? Philanthropic foundations, strategic studies and the American academy

ABSTRACT The relationship between Strategic Studies and the American academy has always been a tenuous one. Tolerated when fully funded, the field quickly lost its place on campus when it failed to attract grant money. Only with the support of philanthropic foundations did it manage to gain a foothold in American universities. What emerges from our investigation is how the field has feasted during times when foundation money was available and suffered periods of famine when these funds were withdrawn. In addition, we show that during and immediately after the Cold War, the political interests of philanthropic foundations were broadly balanced. By contrast, over the last two decades, the field has been increasingly linked to financial support provided by politically right-leaning foundations. This is happening while funding from more centrist and left-leaning foundations has become much less prominent. When looking ahead at the field’s future health, we cannot but help be concerned about the implications of this development.

Former California nonprofit CEO pleads guilty to embezzlement

The former president and CEO of a Southern California anti‐poverty nonprofit has pleaded guilty to federal charges of embezzling money from the nonprofit for his personal benefit, taking more than $600,000 in grant money to pay for unauthorized expenses and lying on his tax returns, the Justice Department said.

In Case You Haven't Heard…

From the what's in a name department … If you're used to seeing Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment block grant, sometimes referred to as the Substance Abuse Block Grant, the omnibus bill late last December got rid of the nomenclature. What for years we have called SAPT BG or SABG is now called the SUPTRS (Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services) Block Grant. This is new language designed to get “abuse” out of the name. Interestingly, the agency still in charge of the grant, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has not had a name change yet. (Senior media advisor Chris Garrett told us: “SAMHSA appreciates that the FY23 Omnibus made changes to several programs to remove the stigmatizing and inaccurate use of the word ‘abuse.’ We look forwarding to continuing to work with Congress to eliminate the use of the word in other places in the statute in the future.” Our comment on this – SAMHSA employs people with the most open, non‐stigmatizing views toward substance use – than any other federal agency.) Also interestingly, really, preventing all substance use? And one more interesting fact: There is no recovery set‐aside in the block grant, which is the money that groups wanted. States, of course, are free to put their block grant money — whatever it's called — wherever the block grant authorization allows.

Optimism for the Future Use of Environmental DNA (eDNA) to Study Global Climate Change

Optimism for the Future Use of Environmental <scp>DNA</scp> (<scp>eDNA</scp>) to Study Global Climate Change

The Silent Mental Health and Well‐Being Crisis of Early Career Researchers in Aquatic Sciences

The Silent Mental Health and Well‐Being Crisis of Early Career Researchers in Aquatic Sciences

Effective project management of 3rd party funding in European Union Horizon Industry4.0 projects: sharing experiences from two use cases

To reduce the risk and the required bureaucracy for accessing public funding, the EC has developed a mechanism to grant money to consortia to be used to fund to startups, SMEs and Midcaps to start, evolve or transition their offer to increase their competitivity in the market, in turn providing benefit for the entire European economy.This paper presents the experience in managing what is actually 3rd party (or cascading) funding in two different European Innovation Action Projects in the manufacturing domain. The paper discusses the design and implementation phases and provides the detail on how to manage the processes to ensure fairness, efficiency, and effectiveness that is lacking from the EC's formal documentation.

Data-driven support for policy and decision-making in university research management: A case study from Germany

The management of universities requires data on teaching and research performance. While teaching quality can be measured via student performance and teacher evaluation programs, the connection between research output and its antecedents is much harder to check, test, and understand. To inform research governance and policy-making at universities, we clarify the relationship between grant money and research performance. We examine the interdependence structure between third-party expenses, publications, citations, and academic age. To describe the relationship between these factors, we analyze individual-level data from a sample of professorships and a Scopus database from 2001 to 2015. Using estimates from a panel vector autoregressive model with exogenous variables, impulse response functions, and forecast error variance decomposition, we show that decision-making based on university-level data is inappropriate and does not reflect the behavior of individual faculties. Our results quantify the difference between the quality and quantity of research output, a better understanding of which is important to design incentive schemes and promotion programs. The paper also proposes a visualization of the cooperation between faculties and research interdisciplinarity via the co-authorship structure among publications. We discuss the implications for policy and decision-making and make recommendations for university research management.

Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State

Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State

Media Relations Strategies of Philanthropic Foundations: A Longitudinal Analysis of News Releases Produced by Top U.S. Foundations

Given their role in funding programs and services provided by nonprofit organizations, foundations have a critical role as advocates for social change. However, grant money is by itself not enough to create that change. Agenda-setting theory highlights the critical role of organizations in bringing change issues to the attention of the media and, therefore, the public.

The Great Resignation I

The Great Resignation I

Rivers, lakes and revenue streams: The heterogeneous effects of Clean Water Act grants on local spending

The Clean Water Act (CWA) funded $167 billion (2020$) in grants to municipal governments for wastewater treatment upgrades. We leverage variation in the timing of grant receipt with a difference-in-differences design to estimate the effect of CWA grants on local spending. On average, each dollar of grant revenue caused a $0.45 increase in sewerage capital spending. Dividing previously estimated benefit-to-cost ratios of CWA grants by this estimate suggests that each CWA grant dollar that municipalities spent on sewerage capital generated an average return of $1.01. In addition to funding grants, the Act set new capital standards for all wastewater treatment facilities in the United States. We show that CWA grants caused a dollar-for-dollar increase in sewerage capital spending up to the amount needed to cover the costs of capital upgrades newly mandated by the CWA, but after municipalities met these capital requirements, or if the capital mandate was not binding, they reduced their own spending on sewerage capital in response to grant receipt. Municipalities then redistributed grant money to local residents by reducing water bills.

A new path to mentorship for emerging global health leaders in low-income and middle-income countries

A new path to mentorship for emerging global health leaders in low-income and middle-income countries

“Don’t Drink, Don’t Smoke, What Do You Do?”

“Don’t Drink, Don’t Smoke, What Do You Do?”

Do Women have More Barriers for Professional Development?

Women consistently fare worse than men in different professional metrics in terms of salary, promotions, grant money, and scholarly publishing. In clinical and management leadership roles, a similar trend of underrepresentation for women exists. It has been shown in academic publishing that women progressed to senior author positions at a slower pace, resulting in their ongoing underrepresentation as senior writers. Previous literature has shown that one of the most effective strategies for promoting women to leadership positions is the collaboration with men to identify attitudinal and institutional barriers, since gender equality is not only a “women’s concern.” To address this, a cross-sectional, multinational survey was disseminated in English (SurveyMonkey) to psychiatric trainees and psychiatrists across Europe. This study aims to explore the perspectives of female and male psychiatrists on the obstacles they face in their careers. The survey covered items on self-promotion, current institutional environment, and networking along with contextual information- age, gender, professional degree, current field, and years of professional experience in the current field. We hope that the presentation of these findings will serve as a springboard for future educational activities to address concerns connected to the gender gap. The speaker will present the comparison of female and male psychiatrists’ barriers and challenges they face during their professional development. This talk is hoped to elicit discussion in preparation for future action and inform a roadmap for addressing issues related to the gender gap with subsequent educational events.DisclosureNo significant relationships.

Effectiveness of Prescription Monitoring Data Programs: A Policy Analysis

As a nation, we have left it up to the individual states to monitor and manage the use of prescription drugs, specifically controlled substances. There have been many professional organizations, along with state and national agencies who have offered strategies to help states reduce over prescribing of controlled substances like opiates and benzodiazepines. Grant money has been available for program development and support with this endeavor. Prescription Monitoring Programs, or PDMPs is one strategy that has been in the forefront of state’s opportunities to monitor and manage the dispensing of controlled substance.