CIHR to simplify open-funding programs

CIHR to simplify open-funding programs.

Factors associated with cumulative research funding of investigators from CIHR: a major health-research funding agency.

PURPOSE Few systematic studies have focused on determinants of cumulative research funding (CRF), a measure of research productivity among career researchers world-wide. Using researchers funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), this exploratory study quantifies the association between CIHR-investigator roles and CRF obtained from the CIHR. METHODS CIHR grants and awards ...

Funding Stormwater Programs

Many communities have funded stormwater management from property taxes paid into their general funds. However, there is great competition for municipal general fund dollars from other worthy municipal programs. Stormwater management improvements typically have a low priority, unless the municipality is reacting to a recent major storm or regulatory action. The total cost of stormwater managemen...

Funding the Way to Open Access

I magine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notifi cation from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onto the Web to do a quick keyword search, and a link to the article is brought up on your...

Funding for Impact: How to Design Strategic Grantmaking Programs

Summative evaluations are helpful in showing what happened as a result of grantmaking, but all too often the findings do not influence future funding—the program is over, and the donor has moved on to new issues or strategies. The most significant way to increase the effectiveness of a foundation's grantmaking is to focus on the first steps in the process: grants program design. briefing paper ...