Since you are concerned with regard to time and money spent on paper
bulletins, I would suggest considering disseminating this information via
e-mail.  With most e-mail packages, sending messages to masses of people is
a quick, easy task, as is editing the mailing lists.  Here at Washington
University, just about everyone has access to e-mail (and hopefully this is
true at most institutions), although many do not have gopher and/or Internet
access via a browser.  (Some do not even have PC's - just dumb terminals.)

If you decide to go with e-mail, I would also suggest sending the
information to administrators and secretaries, since many of them are the
ones who sort through what is sent to PIs.

Violet E. Horvath
xxxxxx@medicine.wustl.edu

>Many of us spend a lot of time generating grant information bulletins
>and electronic bulletin boards for our faculty "clients."
>
>Given the amount of effort and money spent on this activity, I wonder
>whether anybody has ever conducted a cost/benefit analysis to see
>whether the return (as measured in grants won) justifies the investment.
>
>I am thinking in particular about effort and $ spent going after information
>about the relatively small foundations and agencies, not the large
>disease-specific associations (Heart, Lung, Cancer, Arthritis) that most
>faculty already know about.
>
>Regards
>
>Bob Bienkowski
>xxxxxx@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu
>
>