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The Pioneer Messenger Service (and Other Adventures of a Do-Gooder in Science and Politics)

Support documentation on social programs and the role of evaluation research in advocating, funding, developing, and implementing them.

Funds were granted to Gary Walker to write a book on social programs and the role of evaluation research in advocating, funding, developing, and implementing them. Walker will draw from his 40 years of experience running programs and directing support services, and later, working in and leading research organizations that evaluated programs.

About This Grant

Principal Investigator Gary Walker, Public/private Ventures
Grant Period December 2011 – November 2012
Programs Capacity-Building and Communications
Focus Areas Connecting Research / Policy / Practice
Topics Public Policy Broadly
Grant Amount
$25,000.00

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