I don't think you can make that kind of conclusion based on one limited point of data. I too receive Grants.gov postings, but the messages to me are filtered according to the criteria that I have specified when I signed up. Sometimes I get one or two a week, sometimes not. Federal agencies operate on cycles, and there are some periods of time that are just busier than others. For a better sense on the state of federal funding, you could consult the NSF statistics: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf07303/pdf/nsf07303.pdf. According to this, in 2005-2006, funding for all categories increased by 3% than the previous year, and in 2006-2007, it increased by 1.2%. The proposed amount for this year is over 136 billion dollars. Of course, some money is shifted from one category to another. The biggest hits were in Agriculture and transportation, the biggest growth category was regional and community development, with an increase of 22% in 05-06 and 23% in 06-07. That actually seems to me that it would be one category of federal funding relevant to this particular community. Thus, I think both of your conclusions are wrong; federal funding has not disappeared, and funding that affects this community is certainly not non-existent. I don't have any data on private sources of funding. Randy Kluver, Ph.D. Director, Institute for Pacific Asia Texas A&M University 204 Coke 3371 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3371 Phone: (979) 845-3099 Fax: (979) 845-3085 http://international.tamu.edu/ipa/ 1. Grants (James Whyte) Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 09:09:55 -0700 (PDT) From: James Whyte <whyte.james@yahoo.com> Subject: [Air-l] Grants To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <940509.64390.qm@web59010.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I have, for several years, received the announcements of federal grants from http://grants.gov . When I first atarted in 2004 those announcements appeared in my inbox every day and sometimes twice a day. Today I received a posting that contained one announcement. This was the first posting in over a week. My point is that in 2 years the funding for research has almost disappeared. New funding that effects this community seems to have become non-existant. Is this true in the private sector? I have not found any single source that reports this sector. James
Randy, I have no filters set and what I reported is not one, but the last 10 weeks. While today's was the worst, the others have been a poor showing. I know that one swallow doesn't make a summer. IMHO an examination off the last year in all categories would affirm my point. If you have better information, I'm interested in seeing it. Regards, James luver, Randy" <rkluver@ipomail.tamu.edu> wrote: I don't think you can make that kind of conclusion based on one limited point of data. I too receive Grants.gov postings, but the messages to me are filtered according to the criteria that I have specified when I signed up. Sometimes I get one or two a week, sometimes not. Federal agencies operate on cycles, and there are some periods of time that are just busier than others. For a better sense on the state of federal funding, you could consult the NSF statistics: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf07303/pdf/nsf07303.pdf. According to this, in 2005-2006, funding for all categories increased by 3% than the previous year, and in 2006-2007, it increased by 1.2%. The proposed amount for this year is over 136 billion dollars. Of course, some money is shifted from one category to another. The biggest hits were in Agriculture and transportation, the biggest growth category was regional and community development, with an increase of 22% in 05-06 and 23% in 06-07. That actually seems to me that it would be one category of federal funding relevant to this particular community. Thus, I think both of your conclusions are wrong; federal funding has not disappeared, and funding that affects this community is certainly not non-existent. I don't have any data on private sources of funding. Randy Kluver, Ph.D. Director, Institute for Pacific Asia Texas A&M University 204 Coke 3371 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3371 Phone: (979) 845-3099 Fax: (979) 845-3085 http://international.tamu.edu/ipa/ 1. Grants (James Whyte) Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 09:09:55 -0700 (PDT) From: James Whyte Subject: [Air-l] Grants To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <940509.64390.qm@web59010.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I have, for several years, received the announcements of federal grants from http://grants.gov . When I first atarted in 2004 those announcements appeared in my inbox every day and sometimes twice a day. Today I received a posting that contained one announcement. This was the first posting in over a week. My point is that in 2 years the funding for research has almost disappeared. New funding that effects this community seems to have become non-existant. Is this true in the private sector? I have not found any single source that reports this sector. James _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ --------------------------------- Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.
Randy, Thanks for the link to the NSF report. However, it is not particularly supportive of your position. The first page makes it clear that the figures, you quoted, for 2007 are projections and not actual data. Also, it gives no deliniation of what kind of projects might be funded. Granted my original observation is ad hoc and anecdotal. subsequently I have revisted my archives which contain all to notifications in 2007. IMHO, based on these 4 months of postings, money for projects in Internet research seem to be at best limited. On reflection I wonder if we are seeing the same information even though we may be reading the same articles and papers. I'll be glad to forward you all the emails I have received. Finally, my observation was more in the form of a question than a declarative position. In this low stakes environment. I didn't realize I was writing for examination. Now, having read the NSF report, I am not moved by the tentative nature of the data and I question your conclusion. Do you have something more current? James --------------------------------- The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing.
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