• Kraft General Foods Foundation (1989-1992) 

This $385,000 grant to the Delaware RE:Learning initiative expanded the scope of our work, including a $60,000 allocation for the research and evaluation project I oversaw. I coauthored the grant proposal with Joseph FitzPatrick, coordinator of Delaware RE: Learning.
 
• Southwestern Bell Foundation (1989-1991) 

This $47,500 grant to Delaware RE: Learning funded conferences, publications and other outreach to local policymakers. I assisted the Education Advisor to Governor Castle with the draft of the proposal.
 
• National Principals Leadership Academy (1991-1992) 

I helped Profs. Smoley and Archbald write the successful grant, one of five half-million dollar, competitively awarded federal grants for leadership academies. In the first Academy I was one of the core faculty.

• For the "School Change Study" sponsored by the Coalition of Essential Schools, I was one of three writers of successful grant proposals to the Exxon Education Foundation, the DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Total funding from 1991 to 1997: $1.1 million dollars.
  
  
• $20,000 grant to evaluate the 1998 Summer Institute of Teach For America. Arthur G. Powell, Barbara Powell and I spent twelve days in Houston and New York City studying the intensive training of 655 Corps members. Report written, October 1998.