Roberta, At Penn State's Hershey Medical Center, we have evolved a
cooperative and generally harmonious relationship with our University
Development office over more than a decade. We provide them with basic
information on all new grant and contract awards every month and they
involve us when "gifts" are proposed that would come with some strings
attached. The result is that our Research office negotiates, tracks and
reports all grant and contract awards and University Development focuses
primarily on other types of fundraising including gifts from donors and
awards from corporate and foundation sponsors. In addition, University
Development periodically refers special grant/contract funding leads to us
and we help them identify investigators with expertise of interest to
potential donors and occasionally prepare proposals for special types of
funding opportunities. Although this results in some duplicate reporting,
that is openly acknowledged and it is recognized that our end-of-the-year
numbers are not simply additive. In summary, we don't compete with our
University Development office, we cooperate- and this approach has worked
well not only for both offices but also for the University which has been
the real beneficiary. I hope our experience will be helpful to
you. Regards, Ernie
Ernest W. Johnson, Ph.D.
Director, Research Development
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
500 University Drive
Hershey, PA 17033
Phone: 717-531-8495
Fax: 717-531-2077
Email: xxxxxx@psu.edu
At 04:30 PM 8/17/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>There is an ongoing disagreement at this institution between the Office
>of Academic Grants and Sponsored Research and the Development Office,
>and I am looking for some advice on how others may have handled similar
>situations.
>
>The Development Office believes that they should receive credit for any
>funds that come from corporations, foundations and private sources. They
>would like for that funding, even if it is for research and comes with
>reporting or other requirements, to be counted as Development money.
>What follows is a typical example.
>
>The College recently received funding from a corporation that paid
>summer stipends to chemistry students for research projects, and that
>required a reporting on that research to the sponsor at the end of the
>summer. Development refers to this as "a gift that requires a report"
>and is arguing that the money ought to be processed through the College
>Foundation because it came from a corporation and would help inform
>Development's future fund raising efforts with that corporate sponsor.
>
>Further, since this Grants office is already a One Stop Shop, and is
>well-equipped to administer and monitor grants, Development would also
>would like us make this "a cooperative effort" whereby we would handle
>the work of budgeting, reporting and general administration of the
>funds, after they have been counted as Development money.
>
>To us (in Grants) it seems obvious that the function rather than the
>source of the funds determines how they are to be processed. All
>parties agree that this argument has been put forward many times, but
>folks outside of the Grants office are simply not convinced.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Roberta Truscello
>Pre-Award Specialist
>The College of New Jersey
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Ernest W. Johnson, Ph.D.
Director, Research Development
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
500 University Drive
Hershey, PA 17033
Phone: 717-531-8495
Fax: 717-531-2077
Email: xxxxxx@psu.edu
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