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¶ … fundraising activities and particularly grant seeking behaviors is a significant issue for any organization that relies on such funding. According to Jacobson (2006) the manner in which fundraising is integrated into existing systems is also important, as are the promotion of systems that are supportive of existing structures and innovative structure standards. Fundraising systems are so important in the health care field that they potentially make or break significant progress in provision of care for hospitals and other organizations in the industry. Grant funding is exceptionally important for growth and development of hospitals, supporting existing and new developments beyond the ability of nearly any other kind of funding, including but not limited to patient payment, insurance reimbursements and other more traditional forms of funding. Granting unlike other forms of hospital revenue can be used to supercharge projects that would otherwise not have seed money to begin, research infrastructural growth, specialization growth, improved recruitment of quality staff and even specialized and general quality improvement (Solnik, 2004) (Hayes, 2006) ("Cancer center campaign…" 2002) ("Johnson & Johnson Campaign Helping…"2004) (Kelly, 2006).
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Such a department would support both outer agency grant work and create a whole network of staff and systems, similar to those already in place in the organization to engender independent grant fundraising (Hayes, 2006). It is clear from much of the literature that major campaigns, and especially those associated with a formal structured department are more effective than a more organic approach that relies on existing staff to volunteer and often spend their own spare time working toward grant procurement (Hayes, 2006) (McCardle, Rajaram, & Tang, 2009) (Blanckaert, 2010). It is not uncommon and is in fact one of the most logical manners in which to develop grant fundraising, for a whole unit of the organization, set up in a supportive and structurally similar way to the parent organization to manage major fundraising (Powderly, 2005). Any organization that relies upon grant fundraising as a major source of financial support is more likely to have an active systems-based unit that manages such affairs and many organizations do not go far without such as system (King, 2000). According to one research study on fundraising activities in non-profit organizations; "the group that…
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Cancer Center Campaign Tops $20 Million. (2002). Grand Rapids Business Journal, 20(15), 3. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
Hayes, R.A. (2006). Behavioral health care fundraising comes of age: Why fundraising now?. Getting Paid in Behavioral Healthcare, 11(5), 1-6. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
Jacobson, L. (2006). A healing prescription. Marketing Magazine, 111(8), 21. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
In the last decades, the repositioning of knowledge generation and research has been the trend. New fields of knowledge have been introduced and would continue to be introduced. Along with these new fields and new social issues, there would be application-oriented research within industrial structures, which are likely to retain focus. Higher education is viewed to increase further. New information technologies will open more doors to new knowledge and
Because of the newer mobility of a significant amount of suburban America, driving to national parks was even more an option. The more people visited the Parks, it seemed, the more of a synergistic effect upon their funding and use (Jensen and Guthrie, 2006). By the Johnson Administration in the 1960s, coupled with more media attention, there was increased public awareness of America's natural treasures. This was now that "Parks
diversity of learning styles and needs represented in a typical 21st century classroom. As the United States continues to see an increase in multi-ethnic, multinational populations, the children of immigrants that bring diverse cultures and ethnicities to American shores are represented in the classroom. This presents a serious challenge for the educator, since the diversity of students reflect a wide range of competencies, skills and levels of intellectual comprehension.
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