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The Art of Funding and Implementing Ideas
A Guide to Proposal Development and Project Management



June 2010 | 112 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This book was written in response to the needs of faculty and graduate students for a meaningful guide that starts where they begin a research project – with their very best ideas – and progresses in an orderly fashion to:

"Develop their starting ideas to the fullest

"Find sources of support that intersect most appropriately with their core interests

"Write a proposal that builds systematically on their ideas and interests and makes a beginning contribution to knowledge

"Conduct the project with innovative guidelines on project management that help the PI and the project team participate in and experience the excitement of bringing a research project to life

 
Preface
Acknowledgments

 
 
About the Authors
 
1. Introduction
The Purpose of the Book

 
The Logic of Our Approach

 
Demystifying Proposal Development

 
An Aside

 
The Key Role of Ideas

 
 
2. Idea Development
The Purposes of Ideas

 
Idea Gestation

 
An Aside

 
Written Sketches

 
Knowledge-Oriented Alternatives

 
Science of Preservation

 
Alternative Cost Sketch

 
A Budgetary Aside

 
Chapter Summary

 
Reflective Questions

 
 
3. Funding
Describing Your Project

 
Searching Funding Databases

 
Making Use of Initial Database Search Results

 
An Aside

 
Productive Exchanges With Program Officers

 
Chapter Summary

 
Reflective Questions

 
 
4. Proposals
Proposal Sections

 
An Aside

 
Chapter Summary

 
Reflective Questions

 
 
5. Managing a Funded Project
Managing a Project

 
The Proposal and the Project

 
An Aside: Learning and Coping Strategies

 
Why Include Project Management?

 
The PI/PD as CEO

 
Successfully Concluding a Project: Managing Multiple Directions

 
An Asie: Responsible Conduct of Research

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
6. Looking Backward and Forward
The Major Assumptions We Incurred

 
International Research and Its Support Structures

 
Conclusion

 
 
Recommended Resources and Selected Bibliography
 
Index

"This book will be of significant value to quite a few doctoral students and faculty members, especially in the arts, humanities, the less experimental social sciences and related professional schools."

Robert P. Lowman
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The book did not offer enough practical exercises and field examples to support class structure.

Dr Lason Hines
School Of Architecture, Prairie View A & M University
October 13, 2012

This text is too heavily focused on the hard sciences. I would like to see a similar text for Arts and Humanities researchers.

Dr Antonio Cuyler
Arts Management - School of The Arts, Suny College at Purchase
September 26, 2011

Of the books I reviewed on grant writing, this was the most current and the most appropriate for my law and policy class. The focus of the book was broad in scope and was not written just for educators. I will use this with the coley text. I will use a different grant book for my education classes.

Dr Kelly Conn
College of Professional Studies, Northeastern University
April 8, 2011

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Chapter 1 - Introduction


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