Abstract
The entire grant-seeking process in a sense may be viewed as finding the means to facilitate good ideas. Now that we have examined the possibilities of affiliation and degrees of independence that a grant seeker may strive for, let us look at the step-by-step process of getting a grant. This chapter will help you learn to evaluate your own ideas as potential vehicles for grants.
“But if you do not express your original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself Also you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution to the whole.”
Rollo May.
The Courage to Create
Even the best of ideas is doomed if time and money are not available to push it to fruition.
James L. Adams.
Conceptual Blockbusting
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Margolin, J.B. (1983). In The Beginning is an Idea. In: The Individual’s Guide to Grants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4520-6_3
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