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A Wild Goose Chase in Grant Seeking

5/2/2013

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As promised, I dove back into school today and began the first assignment in my UCLA class, "Successful Grant Proposals."  The goals of the first assignment were to choose a topic and identify several potential funding sources using The Foundation Center website.  

That seemed easy enough.  I already had a topic - modeling global ultra-violet radiation exposure using GIS, courtesy of a colleague at the University of Southern California.  Part 1 - check!
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I figured I'd just jump on The Foundation Center website and enter a few search terms to finish the second part of the assignment.  I used their interactive mapping tool to identify the nearest cooperating center, The Santa Monica Library.  

A few more clicks and I'd be done!  I did a bit of a double-take when I read that you can only access the library's online database in-person unless you pay a subscription fee. 
 I checked several other nearby cooperating centers and found the same result.

Bummer!  It looks like I'm off to the library... just like in middle school.  I wonder if they still have those dusty card catalogs?
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