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Assessing the Markey General Organizational Grants Program
Pages 19-21

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... In addition, the Committee conducted a series of site visits to grant recipients who provided training in basic research to young physicians. These sites were selected because they represented a wide range of the types of programs that introduced physicians to basic research.
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... Third, because no explicit requirements were systematically imposed by the Trust for evaluation, the outcome data collected by grantees were limited and not systematically collected; in addition, for more recently funded programs an insufficient amount of time had passed for expected outcomes to occur. Fourth, institutions were selected for General Organizational Grants partially because of their track record in biomedical research and training.
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... The Committee believes intensive tracking, monitoring, and data collection and analysis for the Scholars program is both feasible and the best use of the Committee's limited resources. This report does provide an explanation of the Markey Trust's funding mechanism for the General Organizational Grants, a description of some of the best practices of the recipient organizations, and a summary of Committee insights to help guide other philanthropic funders.
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