Information society and public ICT policies in the Caribbean: a review of advances and challenges, policy instruments and country experiences

Includes bibliography

A practice-based culminating experience: Writing a HRSA grant application with Texas Organ Sharing Alliance for public education efforts to increase solid organ donation

In November 2010, nearly 110,000 people in the United States were waiting for organs for transplantation. Despite the fact that the organ donor registration rate has doubled in the last year, Texas has the lowest registration rate in the nation. Due to the need for improved registration rates in Texas, this practice-based culminating experience was to write an application for federal funding for the central Texas organ procurement organization, Texas Organ Sharing Alliance. The culminating experience has two levels of significance for public health – (1) to engage in an activity to promote organ donation registration, and (2) to provide professional experience in grant writing. ^ The process began with a literature review. The review was to identify successful intervention activities in motivating organ donation registration that could be used in intervention design for the grant application. Conclusions derived from the literature review included (1) the need to specifically encourage family discussions, (2) religious and community leaders can be leveraged to facilitate organ donation conversations in families, (3) communication content must be culturally sensitive and (4) ethnic disparities in transplantation must be acknowledged and discussed.^ Post the literature review; the experience followed a five step process of developing the grant application. The steps included securing permission to proceed, assembling a project team, creation of a project plan and timeline, writing each element of the grant application including the design of proposed intervention activities, and completion of the federal grant application. ^ After the grant application was written, an evaluation of the grant writing process was conducted. Opportunities for improvement were identified. The first opportunity was the need for better timeline management to allow for review of the application by an independent party, iterative development of the budget proposal, and development of collaborative partnerships. Another improvement opportunity was the management of conflict regarding the design of the intervention that stemmed from marketing versus evidence-based approaches. The most important improvement opportunity was the need to develop a more exhaustive evaluation plan.^ Eight supplementary files are attached to appendices: Feasibility Discussion in Appendix 1, Grant Guidance and Workshop Notes in Appendix 2, Presentation to Texas Organ Sharing Alliance in Appendix 3, Team Recruitment Presentation in Appendix 5, Grant Project Narrative in Appendix 7, Federal Application Form in Appendix 8, and Budget Workbook with Budget Narrative in Appendix 9.^

Measuring Success in Public Education: Whether Wanted or Not

Robert Sanborn and Angelo Giardino's introduction for Volume 3, Issue 2: Measuring Success in Public Education.

College and university public education in the Caribbean.

"Reprinted by permission from The Caribbean: contemporary education, University of Florida Press, 1960."

Public education in Puerto Rico,

"Issued by the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education. Harold L. Ickes is Secretary of the Interior and George F. Zook is Commissioner of Education. Katherine M. Cook ... is chief of the Division of Special Problems."--Verso of t.-p.

Vital points touching the public schools of a large city : an address before the Public Education Association of the City of Philadelphia, Monday, January 19th, 1903 /

Cover title.

Baseline data for public education about alcohol and highway safety in Vermont.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Model regulations and public education for rural-suburban pedestrian safety. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

A generation of progress in our public schools, 1881-1912; an intimate history of the Public education association of Philadelphia since its origin as a volunteer organization of citizens interested in the welfare of our public schools...

Mode of access: Internet.

A state equalizing fund for public education, showing how Louisiana can more adequately meet its educational responsibility.

At head of title: State department of education of Louisiana.

Public buildings policies oversight [microform] : hearings before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, March 16, June 6 and 15, 1979.

Reuse of record except for individual research requires license from Congressional Information Service, Inc.