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Endowment Offers Funding for Improvement of Government
The PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government is offering three funding opportunities that will support new approaches to improving the effectiveness of government at the federal, state, local and international levels.
Competitive research grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to individuals working in universities or nonprofit organizations for the development of research papers in one of the following five areas:
- leveraging technology
- redefining public service for the 21st century
- managing for results: the nuts and bolts of government
- transforming public sector organizations
- leveraging the private sector
The Endowment also will support Thought Leadership Forums, 2-3 day executive conferences bringing together 25-30 participants to address one of the above areas. Forums are to be hosted by academic institutions or nonprofit organizations and may receive up to $20,000 from the Endowment to offset conference costs.
Through the Senior Executive Service Leadership Program, the Endowment supports 2-4 month research sabbaticals for officials from federal, state, local, or international government organizations. Recipients spend their sabbaticals at the PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment offices preparing a research paper examining one of the priority interest areas.
For more information, interested parties should visit: http://endowment.pwcglobal.com/about.asp