Description: Letter from Siddiqi to K VijayRaghavan requesting financial support from NCBS for the period 2001-2002. He wishes to recruit JRFs and post-doc students who intend to spend at least 2 or 3 years, in order to easily maintain continuity in projects. He requests financial support to maintain four permanent academic staff. Accession Number: MS-001_1_3_7_20_0001-0002 Collection: Series:MS-001 Sub-Series: 1 Container 1: 3 Container 2: 7 Source: 20 Repository: Siddiqi Papers -...
Topic: Financial support
Description: Letter from Siddiqi to Jayant Udgaonkar proposing to drop the shadowgraphy project in order to reduce the budget. Accession Number: MS-001_1_3_7_20_P_0037 Collection: Series:MS-001 Sub-Series: 1 Container 1: 3 Container 2: 7 Source: 20 Repository: Siddiqi Papers - Correspondence Dimensions: 11x8.5 inches Extent: 1p Location: Bangalore Access: Letter Format: Printed page
Topic: Financial support
This report, which is issued biennially, analyzes gifts to 256 public institutions from corporations, foundations, private individuals, and community organizations. Ten universities, those of Texas, California, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Colorado, and Delaware, and Pennsylvania State, received more private gifts and grants than the other 246 combined. The greatest 10-year increase was registered in gifts from community, labor, and other organizations, followed by gifts...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Financial Support, Higher Education, Private Financial Support, Public Education
This report presents the results of the 10th national biennial Survey of Corporate Support of Higher Education. Survey findings indicate: (1) There was a pronounced upturn in corporate support of education between 1970 and 1972. (2) Among 19 industries, ten reported increased dollar support of education between 1970 and 1972, while nine industries reported less dollar support of education in 1972 than in 1970. In two cases this was accompanied by a decline in pre-tax net income (PTNI). (3) A...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Economics, Financial Support, Higher Education, Private Financial...
This statement calls attention to the importance of private investment in the nation's public colleges and universities. It was prepared by the Voluntary Support Committee of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and is being distributed in cooperation with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. These 2 associations together represent some 350 public institutions enrolling about one-half of all students in higher education today. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Financial Support, Higher Education, Private Financial Support, State Colleges, State...
An evaluation of the capacity of Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in the area of externally sponsored funding was completed at the request of the university's executive vice president for administration. The director of the university's Office of Grants and Contracts used various data sources to examine the university's capacity for externally sponsored funding in the context of other institutions and to prepare recommendations for pursuing sponsored funding. The findings suggest that NSU has...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Grantsmanship, Private Financial Support,...
This report presents the results of the twelfth "Survey of Voluntary Support of Education" conducted by the Council for Financial Aid to Education. Highlights of the findings of the survey include: (1) The total voluntary support of colleges and universities in 1970-71 is estimated at a new record high of $1.860 billion. (2) All of the increase in total support was due to increased giving by alumni and nonalumni individuals, and much of this resulted from a sharp gain in bequests. (3)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Higher Education,...
Voluntary initiative and voluntary support have been of fundamental importance in the establishment and development of the system of higher education in the U.S. Much of the superior quality of higher education is due to its diversity and its freedom from outside control. Voluntary financial support is one of the vital factors responsible for the independence of educational institutions, public and private alike. Voluntarism is now being challenged through the consideration of several proposals...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Higher Education,...
This speech gives advice on eliciting annual donations to small colleges. The annual campaign or capital campaign is suggested to be the most challenging, all-embracing, pervasive, and exhausting program in fund raising. Campaign success is defined and elements of the annual campaign that help insure success are discussed. (TT)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Colleges, Developmental Programs, Financial Support, Private Financial Support,...
This report of the survey of corporation support of higher education comes at a time when the corporation and the campus are still suffering from the effects of one of the sharpest economic declines in recent history. As a result, for the first time since the survey was begun in 1956, corporate giving to education declined. Virtually all of the decrease in educational support in 1970 is accounted for by the industries which sustained the greatest slump in pre-tax net income. The overall...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Financial Needs, Financial Support,...
REPRESENTATIVES OF JUNIOR COLLEGES AND FOUNDATIONS MET IN THIS CONFERENCE TO EXPLORE THE MEANS BY WHICH FOUNDATION SUPPORT MIGHT BE BROUGHT INTO A MORE EFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH JUNIOR COLLEGE PROGRAMS. FIVE TYPES OF FOUNDATIONS WERE DISCUSSED--(1) GENERAL RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS, (2) SPECIFIC PURPOSE OF ACTIVITY FOUNDATIONS, (3) COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS, (4) COMPANY-SPONSORED FOUNDATIONS, AND (5) FAMILY FOUNDATIONS. THE DOCUMENT INCLUDES THE TEXTS OF 19 PAPERS, IN WHICH (1) REPRESENTATIVES OF THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Grants, Philanthropic Foundations, Private...
The constituency research process outlined gives guidelines for establishing committees on resources to screen potential contributors to an institution. The concept, practice, and results of finding, reaching, and "selling" the ten percent of an institution's constituency which can make the difference in dollar support is an "a priori" management policy and administrative practice. (JMF)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Capital, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Educational Resources, Financial...
This report discusses the National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSP) and the National Achievement Scholarship Program (NASP) for 1968-69 in terms of student participation, awards made, and sponsor participation. Two types of Merit scholarships were awarded: scholarships renewable for up to 4 years of college, which are underwritten by sponsors in the Merit Program, and one-time non-renewable $1,000 scholarships financed by both NMSC and sponsors. The NASP is designed for outstanding black...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academically Gifted, Black Students, College Bound Students, Financial Support,...
This document is the final report for 1975 of the Stichting voor onderzoek van het onderwijs, a Dutch educational foundation. It reports: (1) general affairs; (2) research and development activities including funding, project management, institutionalizing research activities, programming, innovations, experiments in "participation-education," documentation and information dissemination, international affairs, and the Council of Europe; (3) financial administration; (4) review of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Development, Educational Finance, Educational Research, Financial...
This document details voluntary giving to higher education, private secondary, and elementary education. Highlights indicate: (1) The total voluntary support of the institutions of higher education in 1972-73 is estimated at $2.240 billion, an increase of $220 million from 1971-72. (2) All classes of colleges and universities reported increased support in 1972-73 except the private men's colleges. (3) About half of the increase in total support was attributed to increased giving by nonalumni...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alumni, Colleges, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Higher Education,...
The information in this report, compiled from Internet searches, conversations, and research, provides a broad range of material on how to apply for a grant. It is designed to serve as an introduction for counselors to sources of grant funding and particular grant programs, and to the grant application and dissemination process. Section 1 provides information on sources of funding in both private and government sectors. Section 2 explains the process of grant writing. The parts of a grant...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counselors, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Grants, Grantsmanship, Private Financial...
Because the United States spends comparatively more than other countries on higher education, when expenditures on all levels of education are calculated--pre-primary, primary, secondary, and post-secondary--America is in a three-way tie for second place among the 16 industrialized countries examined within this report; however, when spending for primary and secondary education alone is compared with expenditures abroad, the U.S. ranking falls to a tie for 12th place. And when adjustments are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial...
The development and administration of a corporate gift-matching program designed to support American higher education is discussed. Emphasis is placed on the importance of alumni support to colleges and universities, gift-matching programs and policies, the mechanics of gift-matching, and questions and answers about gift-matching. The appendix includes sample gift-matching forms, a rule of thumb for estimating the initial cost of a new matching plan, and references. (MJM)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Higher Education,...
The information in this report, compiled from Internet searches, conversations, and research, provides a broad range of material on how to apply for a grant. It is designed to serve as an introduction for counselors to sources of grant funding and particular grant programs, and to the grant application and dissemination process. Section 1 provides information on sources of funding in both private and government sectors. Section 2 explains the process of grant writing. The parts of a grant...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counselors, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Grants, Grantsmanship, Private Financial...
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) study, by measuring comparative education spending levels between the United States and other industrialized nations, shifts the focus of the education debate from the critical issue of how to reform American's education system to matching spending with other nations. The EPI calculates a country's education spending as the ratio of that country's educational expenditures to its national income. A superior method for equating education expenditure levels...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial...
COVID-19, declared as a global pandemic by WHO, is the ‘eye and ear’ of the world and disturbed the economic, social and political situations of almost all countries regardless of the economic development. In an effort to combat the virus, this descriptive survey tried to assess the role of institutional collaborations in Dessie City Administration, South Wollo and Oromia Special zones of Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia. It also tried to examine the material, financial, technical...
Topics: COVID-19, Institutional Collaboration, Material support, Financial support
A survey of financial institutions was undertaken by the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation to evaluate the demand and availability of private credit for enterprises that provide outdoor recreation. The survey provided basic information for (1) evaluating legislative proposals for loan guarantee programs, (2) nationwide planning, and (3) assessing the role and problems of the private sector in providing outdoor recreation. Out of a sample of 2,091 banks, savings and loan associations, and life...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Banking, Credit (Finance), Financial Problems, Financial Support, National Surveys,...
This survey of voluntary giving to education emphasizes the national picture, the survey picture, and details of support by participating institutions. Highlights indicate: (1) The total voluntary support of the institutions of higher education in 1971-72 is estimated to have been $2.020 billion, an increase of $160 million; (2) all categories of colleges and universities reported increases in support in 1971-72 except private professional and specialized schools; (3) the overall gain in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Financial Needs, Financial Support,...
Longrange planning is the key to continued successful development of colleges and universities. Essential elements of effective developmental planning include (1) clearly stated institutional objectives, (2) a careful inventory of resources, (3) a thorough understanding of operations, (4) a realistic timetable, (5) an unambiguous philosophy of institutional finance, (6) a sensitivity to social, economic, technological, and educational trends which condition an institution's development, and (7)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Planning, Cost Effectiveness,...
To obtain private endowments as a source of library funds the following needs to be done: (1) work hard with a definite goal in view; (2) plan a course of action; (3) contact those individuals whom investigations show may help; (4) search out help from newspapers, banks, radio and television stations; (5) consider the employment of a full time employee to search out money, federal, state and private and (6) constantly follow-up leads and prepare new avenues of approach. Another important road...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administration, Budgeting, Financial Support, Foundation Programs, Libraries, Library...
This report presents some of the results of the first annual Survey of Corporate Contributions. The information included in this document relates primarily to corporate support of education. Tables cover: (1) national trends in corporate pre-tax net income and contributions; (2) corporate support of education as a percentage of total corporate contributions; (3) total corporate contributions and corporate support of education as percentages of pre-tax net income; (4) corporate support in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Financial Support, Higher Education, Private Financial Support,...
How can colleges and universities best plan for international programs? Where are applications made for funding? This brochure is an attempt to provide an initial response to these questions and to offer some general guidelines. The list of sources of funding are suggestive, not exhaustive. It is geared to the institution that has not been involved in planning and funding international programs. (Author/KE)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Guidelines, Higher Education,...
This document analyzes gifts received by 307 public colleges and universities from corporations, foundations, private individuals, and community organizations during 1970-71. Altogether, the 307 public institutions attracted $328.7 million in gifts and grants from private sources with the University of California (System) receiving $40,617,520; the University of Texas (System) receiving $28,267,995; the University of Michigan receiving $21,798,995; the University of Wisconsin receiving...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Fund Raising, Higher Education, Philanthropic...
This report provides a comparative perspective on financial support for the arts in six western European countries, the United States, and Canada. It was designed so that American support for the arts could be compared with governmental support for the arts in other countries, whose philosophies and governmental systems might be similar or quite different from the United States. Chapter I deals with the issue of what is defined as art for the purpose of public funding. Chapter II details the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art, Comparative Analysis, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Government Role,...
Private higher education in North Carolina and all over the nation is experiencing increasing financial difficulty. Educational costs are rising more rapidly than the national economy because the greatest expenditures of educational institutions are for items with steeper-than-average price rises. Because of these financial straits, institutions have been forced to raise tuition and fees beyond the means of most North Carolina families; therefore, underenrollment is increasing the money...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Financial Needs, Financial Support,...
This essay by the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York (reprinted from the 1998 annual report) opens by noting that the year 1999 marks the 100th anniversary of Andrew Carnegie's support for the planning and development of 65 branch libraries of the New York Public Library System, a gift that came to more than $5.2 million. Discussion then moves to the role and significance of libraries and the importance of books and reading. A brief history, beginning with the first...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Donors, Financial Support, Grants, Library Development, Library Funding, Library...
This report is a follow-up study of a survey conducted to determine projected financial problems in private colleges and universities during the academic years of 1969-70 and 1970-71. The same 507 institutions were used in the present study and the findings of the survey show that during 1969-70, the actual deficit figures were 26% greater per institution than the projected figures had been. If the actual deficit figures for 1970-71 prove to be as much greater than the projected figures for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Financial Needs, Financial Support,...
This study was undertaken to assemble up-to-date hard financial data on all accredited private institutions of higher education, and to analyze and evaluate these data in order to present a solidly based description of the current situation. The questionnaires returned illustrate that private colleges and universities have reason to be apprehensive about their future. For institutions running deficits, the financial situation goes from serious to critical, and for those colleges operating in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Financial Needs, Financial Support,...
This paper explores possible contributions of the philanthropic community to education, describing the basics of grantmaking foundations and the growing positive climate for educational support. The paper describes different types of foundations, including community, corporate, and family foundations. It is noted that there are 54,000 grantmaking foundations in the United States, an increase from 22,000 in 20 years. Education receives almost one-fourth of all foundation grant dollars. Social...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support, Models,...
This paper first examines the economics of higher education and the five economic problems that face institutions of higher learning: inflation, expansion of educational services, fluctuating student enrollments, need for an enlarged and modernized capital plant, and uncertain sources of income. The paper then reviews the trends and potential of three major sources of private philanthropy: foundations, corporations, and private individuals, and argues for the importance and necessity of private...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Financial Needs, Financial Support, Fund Raising, Higher...
The financing of outdoor education should be the responsibility of the school district according to the same policies that pertain to other emphases in the curriculum. However, sources of funding other than local school tax funds are state funds, Federal funds, and private funds. State funds that might be used for outdoor education programs include funds for inservice education of teachers, urban education, vocational education, and education of the handicapped. Federal financial assistance is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agencies, Curriculum Enrichment, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Outdoor Education,...
IN ORDER TO PROVIDE DEFINITIVE INFORMATION ABOUT PHILANTHROPY FOR PUBLIC COMMUNITY COLLEGES, QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM 294 INSTITUTIONS ARE ANALYZED. OF THIS NUMBER, 44.5 PERCENT RECEIVED NO VOLUNTARY SUPPORT. THE AMOUNT RECEIVED BY 163 COLLEGES DURING THE PERIOD UNDER STUDY--JULY 1960 THROUGH JUNE 1963--INCREASED 70.9 PERCENT TO AN AVERAGE ANNUAL AMOUNT OF $6,334,659, WITH THE GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF SUPPORT IN THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC AND NORTH CENTRAL REGIONS. COLLEGES IN THE MIDDLE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Private Financial Support, School Support,...
This document presents a compilation of facts and trends on American philanthropy for the year 1973. Emphasis is placed on donors, recipients, sources of philanthropy (individuals, bequests, foundations, and corporations), and areas of philanthropic opportunity (religion, education, health and hospitals, social welfare, arts and humanities, civic and public affairs, and international affairs and foreign aid). Tables and graphs presenting statistical data are included. (MJM)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annual Reports, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Grants, Higher Education,...
During his career, George Peabody financially supported educational endeavors and went beyond the accumulation of money to leave for one's children. His support began in the mid-1800s and his educational legacy remains. He established: (1) a $2 million Peabody Education Fund to promote public schools and teacher training in 12 civil war devastated southern states; (2) three museums of science; (3) the Baltimore Peabody Institute Library and Peabody Conservatory of Music, both now part of Johns...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Entrepreneurship, Financial...
This publication resulted from a forum entitled "Support for Environmental Education: Where Do We Go From Here?" which was sponsored by the Conservation Foundation as a part of its continuing series of environment forums initiated in 1970 to provide leaders of diverse citizen and professional organizations the opportunity to obtain authoritative information and to explore alternative solutions to environmental problems. The transcript of the March 2, 1973 forum was prepared and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conference Reports, Environment, Environmental Education, Financial Support
Research is a movement, a movement from the known to unknown. It is actually a voyage of discovery. In short, the search for knowledge through objective and systematic method of finding solution to a problem is research. When research is seen as a process carried on by people, question can be asked, such as where do research topics come from Where is research come Why does research Who uses research How it is shared How it is funded Research is an academic activity in all the disciplines...
Topics: Research, Research themes, Financial support, Publication, Screening, Monitoring Project
There are many different agencies and organizations which provide funding for those involved in research, community development, education, the provision of health and social services, and other activities. This publication is designed to serve as an introduction for counselors to sources of grant funding and particular grant programs, and to the grant application and dissemination process. There are three major sources of grant funding: foundations, state and local governments, and the federal...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Federal Government, Federal Aid, State Aid, Philanthropic Foundations, Private...
This annotated bibliography contains selected books, pamphlets, doctoral dissertations, and articles dealing with most aspects of voluntary private support for higher education by foundations, business firms, alumni, and individuals, plus fund raising by colleges and universities. The entries cover the period since 1960 for books and dissertations and since 1963 for articles. (HW)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Developmental Programs, Federal Aid, Financial Support,...
Information on obtaining financial support to meet the needs of disabled college students is presented. Institutional planning components that are needed include a planning and support team, involvement of the disabled, and coordination of long-range planning with the service delivery system. Two publications on federal categorical funds and a directory of private and public grant funds are identified. Information is provided on five federal funding sources for programs for handicapped...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Disabilities, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Grants, Higher...
This annotated bibliography assists professional educators in developing and exploring sources of external funding for their institutions. The newsletters, publications, and documents listed provide information regarding program eligibility, guidelines, and other information necessary for researching potential funding sources. The document is intended not only as a tool for planning and procuring financial assistance, but also as a guide in developing a resource library, since one of the major...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Support,...
This report was written by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and offers suggestions to the President of the United States on ways to strengthen the system of support for the arts and the humanities in the United States. The document describes a vital cultural life as essential to a functioning democracy. It also examines the many aspects of the country's complex, interdependent support system which includes individual, foundation, and corporate support; government grants; and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Culture, Drama, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Fine Arts, Fund Raising, Humanities,...
Our society is at a point where a number of interlocking crises-inflation, ever rising expectations, war, urban problems, youth's discontent-are coming together. Money is needed at every point and the private college cannot rely on the federal government or private sources to save them from financial disaster. The private college can tackle its problems on three fronts. (1) It can improve its educational program, be more innovative, imaginative and flexible. It can set itself the task of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Federal Aid, Financial Policy, Financial Support, Higher Education, Innovation,...
This document is concerned with the issue of who benefits from higher education and who should pay for it. Those who believe that society is the main beneficiary of higher education feel that state and federal budgets should bear the majority of educational costs; however, those who believe that the benefits of higher education are minimal in relation to social improvement believe that the students and their families should bear their own educational costs. The present mode of support to higher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Financial Problems, Financial Support, Higher Education, Private...
This document contains 11 papers from the ninth World Conference of Therapeutic Communities (TCs) that deal with management issues and innovations within TCs. Papers include: (1) "Support or Restriction of TCs: Governmental Interation vs. Self-Reliance" (Richard Pruss); (2) "Governmental Support: A Swedish Perspective" (Lars Bremberg); (3) "Delancey Street Foundation: An Example of Self-Reliance" (Mimi Silbert); (4) "Threat to National Security: Drugs in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administration, Computers, Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Employee Assistance...
Problems in evaluating the success of an institutional resource development program are examined and suggestions are offered for effective assessment. Such a program is seen as a sequence of events in the artful management of people, from the planning stage to obtaining a financial commitment in writing from persons who want to share their assets for the benefits of others. Certain conditions are identified under which the development officer and the development program will not suffer low...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Capital, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Financial Needs,...
