Cost goals

Cost goal activities for the point focusing parabolic dish program are reported. Cost goals involve three tasks: (1) determination of the value of the dish systems to potential users; (2) the cost targets of the dish system are set out; (3) the value side and cost side are integrated to provide information concerning the potential size of the market for parabolic dishes. The latter two activities are emphasized

Deficit Reduction Act Citizenship Requirements Through the Eyes of Covering Kids & Families Grantees

Based on interviews, summarizes how grantees of RWJF's Covering Kids & Families initiative to increase Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program enrollment expect the 2005 proof-of-citizenship requirement for Medicaid to affect enrollment

Improving Processes and Increasing Efficiency: The Case for States Participating in a Process Improvement Collaborative

Examines the experiences of Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program agencies using a process change model to streamline procedures in order to enhance enrollment and retention. Looks at required factors, challenges, and promising practices

Critical current degradation in wide samples of high field strip superconductors

Anisotropy determination of critical current density in wide samples of strip semiconductors as function of magnetic field directio

Covering Kids & Families Evaluation: Expectations of Sustainability: What Do CKF Grantees and State Officials Predict Will Happen Once RWJF Funding Ends?

Based on a survey of CKF state grantees and Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program officials, examines prospects for continuing efforts to increase enrollment, factors contributing to survival, alternative funding sources, and priorities

BUDGET PLANNER: USER-ORIENTED WHOLE-FARM BUDGETING SOFTWARE

Budget Planner is a whole-farm or enterprise budgeting software program that is simple to use for farmers, extension agents, and other budgeters who are sometimes inexperienced, but that also provides the detail necessary to be accurate. Program defaults eliminate repetitive questions that change little from budget to budget. Defaults can be temporarily overridden, or they can be permanently changed with a detailed modify program. The program leads a user through a sequence similar to that a producer might utilize. Input forms were created to enlarge the user clientele and eventually increase computer use by farmers and extension agents.Farm Management,

Covering Kids & Families Evaluation: Improving Medicaid and SCHIP Through Simplification and Coordination

Based on a survey of CKF state grantees and Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program officials, outlines procedural simplifications and better coordination achieved to improve programs and increase enrollment, CKF's role, and contributing factors

Improving Public Coverage for Children: Lessons From CKF in Colorado

Reviews the impact of RWJF's Covering Kids & Families (CKF) grant on outreach for the state's Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program. Shares lessons on the role of advocates in monitoring the effects of policy and procedural changes

Improving Public Coverage for Children: Lessons From CKF in Washington

Reviews the impact of RWJF's Covering Kids & Families (CKF) grant on the state's enrollment and retention in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Shares lessons learned on advocacy, the programs' coalition model, and sustainability

Outliving Grant Funding: A Review of State CKF Projects and Coalitions and the Roles of Funding and In-Kind Support in Their Survival

Examines how the requirements built into RWJF's grants for projects to increase enrollment in Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs affected the sustainability, evolution, and activities of grantees and coalitions after the grants ended