School Effectiveness Grant and Pupil Deprivation Grant 2012–2013

"This is a guidance document for schools, local authorities and education consortia in Wales on the School Effectiveness Grant and Pupil Deprivation Grant. It includes priorities for expenditure in 2012–2013, grant allocations and arrangements for claiming the grant" - inside front cover

Pilot Planning Grant

Report summarizing key findings of focus groups assessing Georgians' attitudes and opinions regarding the development of a plan for providing affordable insurance coverage statewide

Grant Helps Broaden Perspectives

Fulbright winner Alexis Lien ’05 is spending the 2005-2006 academic year teaching, studying and conducting research in Austria

Davis Digital Repository Grant

The HELIN (Higher Education Library Information Network) Consortium, consisting of academic and health sciences libraries in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, has developed a plan to create a digital repository to archive, preserve and make accessible materials to serve the needs of its students and faculty. This grant application outlines the project purpose, methods, costs, and timetable

The Art of Refusal: Promising Practice for Grant Makers and Grant Seekers

The full report of this research project provides the findings of a study of communication experiences and practices, at the point of grant refusal, among selected grant making and grant seeking organisations. Its context was the frustration and disappointment being experienced by many grant seekers in a period of enhanced competition for funding, alongside the multiple pressures facing grant makers, in responding to grant seekers' needs and in meeting their own range of obligations. The overall purpose of the research was to support learning and improvement in policy and practice among grant makers and grant seekers. A summary of the findings from the qualitative research undertaken for the project is provided at the end of this paper. In this practice paper, we focus on the direct learning question posed by the research - 'what promising practices in grant refusal communications may be identified from grant makers' and grant seekers' perspectives on their experiences?' Many respondents during the research process highlighted what were, for them, preferred and promising practices in communicating and managing grant refusal among grant seekers and grant makers. These were sometimes their own approaches and sometimes those which they had observed and welcomed. These insights, examples and possibilities are now distilled and presented below as promising practice learning and action points, illustrated by anonymous quotations taken from our research respondents