"Coffee with a Colleague" Success: Mike Ludwick

Mike Ludwick, Associate Director for Grants and Contracts in OSP, met with Katie Shevlin, Director of Foundation Relations in University Advancement, as part of the “Coffee with a Colleague” program.  Katie and Mike discussed ways to make faculty and administrators more aware of the importance of utilizing Foundation Relations to help them with proposals going to major foundations. As a result of the meeting, Mike was able to share information about proposals going to foundations of which Katie was not aware. Katie shared a list of the Top 50 Foundations that her office tracks and Mike sent out a notice to research administrators around grounds asking them to coordinate proposals being submitted to those foundations with Foundation Relations. They plan to continue to share information informally and meet quarterly.