In larger institutions, such as Yale, you need to have both the cooperation
and autonomy of the Grant & Contract Office and the Development Office.
Grant & Contract Offices work with the respective Departmental Business
Offices for pre-award administration of grants & contracts.  The pre-award
administration of a potential gift or foundation specifically assigned to a
faculty member, needs the same type of coordination.   Grant & Contract
Offices have deadline issues, specific agency  knowledge, and the shear
volume of pre and post award administration, that makes it a very different
business from Development.   Development, on the otherhand, may be  working
with several faculty to coordinate a visit to a potential donor.  However,
there are other Development activities, such as Capital Campaigns and Alumni
affairs, which are clearly different and unique to themselves.

Gary P. Naegel
Administrator, Department of Pharmacology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT  06443
(203) 785-4373
xxxxxx@yale.edu
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From: RESADM-L
To: Multiple recipients of list RESADM-L
Subject: GRANTS & DEVELOPMENT...BAD IDEA?
Date: Tuesday, November 22, 1994 9:50AM

Greetings,

One thread that I picked up in the conversation about reporting lines for a
grants office is that it is a BAD IDEA to combine the functions of a
grants office and a development office.

I wonder if anybody out there might care to elaborate on this idea.
On the face of it, it would appear to offer some advantages, especially
for smaller institutions.

Cheers

Bob Bienkowski
xxxxxx@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu