"For us as librarians, this is exactly what we do," said Doreen Bradley, one of the librarians who helped with the course proposal.
Wherever there's a hole in your proposal, a place where your arguments are unconvincing and your knowledge is untested, bring in someone to help revise the proposal and assist you with the work.
But creating a White House office that reports directly to the president and revives HUD from its depressed slumber are more likely than not to help with the implementation of Obama's specific proposals.
He said he was bringing in people from the business sector to assist with budgeting and had already had voluntary help in coming up with the proposals.
Another mentor mentioned, "Most of the post graduate students approach me personally for help with writing proposals, theses, abstracts etc; and often the demand becomes too overwhelming for me to handle".
Cox said the search for a new superintendent would begin soon, starting with a call for proposals from firms to help with the process.
She is exactly the type of person Barack Obama is trying to help with a new proposal to make at least two years of community college free.Mr Obama says 9m students could benefit from his plan, which will feature in his state-of-the-union address on January 20th.
"I began getting tapped by the fundraising and development department to help with some proposals," she says.
Under the proposal, about 100 federal inspectors would be hired to help with the sampling.
Transparency International was engaged by the suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter to help with reform proposals in 2011 but cut its ties in frustration months later after its proposals were ignored.
