They recommend providing graduate students with better career information, increasing postdoc pay, making changes in grant review, and changing the "perverse incentives" that encourage universities to expand facilities and hire faculty on soft money.
In this instance, research output may change dramatically in response to changes in grant appropriations.
Komen founder Nancy Brinker and its public relations team maintained throughout the Planned Parenthood controversy that their decision was based on a routine change in grant criteria that disqualified organizations who were under federal, state or local investigation.
To test the hypothesis that participation in the SRGP would have a positive effect on grant-writing skills, we evaluated the change in grant scores for the subset of applicants who resubmitted grants (n = 6 from 2011, n = 6 from 2012).
Changes in government grants and support for concessions exacerbated problems in a bus business that had been generally regarded as a safe cash cow, leading to a profits warning last year.
The National Science Board has made two subtle but potentially important changes in how grant applications are reviewed at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
When asked what aspects of the Global Fund were most in need of improvement, PRs identified three broad areas: 1) clarifying the functions of actors, 2) improving processes, and 3), building the capacity of PRs to adapt to new changes in the grant management system.
For instance, Spain implemented legal changes in 2002 that grant all undocumented migrants the right to medical cards and free medical care on the same terms as regular migrants and citizens [ 26, 42].
Ms. Sherman changed that with $240,000 in grants over the last nine years, enabling the Independence Foundation New Play Showcase to pay for local workshops, readings and extra rehearsal time for 17 works.
