Good question. I am talking about federal and state government-funded
proposals. Those are the documents governed by the state and federal freedom
of information acts.

-- Karen

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>Karen,
>Are you saying that ALL funded proposals are "public documents"? or do you
>just mean Federal or state government-funded proposals?  If a proposal is
>funded by a private foundation is it then a public document?
>Our experience is that federal grants are public info and we can share them
>- removing the budget info and asking the PI as a courtesy.  For private
>funding, we would always get PI permission first, and still remove budget
>info.  Sometimes the PI gives us permission to share, and we put a note in
>the file that says we have permission to share (again, all but budget).
>
>Diana Thompson Vincelli
>Associate Director
>Office of Foundation & Government Grants
>Room G-14, Maryland Hall
>University of Richmond, VA  23173
>804/289-8005, 804/287-6491 fax
>xxxxxx@richmond.edu
>www.richmond.edu/~grants
*******************

Karen M. Markin, Ph.D.
Director of Research Development
University of Rhode Island
Research Office
70 Lower College Road, #2
Kingston, RI 02881
V 401 874.5576
F 401 874.7044
xxxxxx@uri.edu

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