How to Evaluate and Improve Your Grants Effort

David G. Bauer--acknowledged expert on grantsmanship--reveals that most institutions do not invest enough time, effort, or money into the grants process. Bauer offers grantseekers a dynamic, flexible, and adaptable system for the efficient procurement, and administration, of external funds. Already a popular guide for administrators, this new edition will ensure continued support as it demonstrates how to contact funding sources and submit proposals. In addition, Bauer offers ethical guidelines and practical management procedures, plus insight into budgets, records, and personnel management. Includes chapters on: BL Developing and Maintaining a Dynamic and Efficient Grants Program BL Measuring the Success of Your Grants System BL Increasing Faculty and Staff Interest in Proposal Development and Grant Involvement BL Evaluating and Improving Your Grant Opportunity Research System BL The Role of the Grants Office in Contacting Funding Sources BL The Role of the Grants Office in Assurances, Certifications, Institutional Reviews, and Research Compliance BL The Role of the Grants Office in Tracking Proposals, Sign-Off, Submission, and Follow-up BL The Role of the Grants Office in the Administration of Privte Funds BL The Role of the Grants Office in the Administration of Federal Funds BL The Role of the Grants Office in the Politics of the Funding Process In addition, the book contains many helpful worksheets and checklists suitable for photocopying, as well as inventories and questions for surveying staff, faculty, and administrators. As a culmination to his recommended approach, Bauer suggests an exercise to create a plan for change and then perform a cost-analysis on what it will take to support a dynamic grants office.

DAVID G. BAUER, one of the most highly sought-after speakers on grant seeking is president of David G. Bauer Associates, Inc., a consulting firm created in 1981 to provide educationally based grantseeking and fundraising seminars and materials.