# Center for Family and Demographic Research

> **NIH NIH P2C** · BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $132,490

## Abstract

ADMINISTRATIVE CORE: Summary
The Administrative Core provides both organizational and administrative support for the CFDR. The Core is
staffed with experienced and responsive personnel that provide efficient services to ensure affiliates,
especially junior, can advance their research. This core manages the day-to day operations of the Center,
organizes opportunities for affiliates to interact and exchange ideas, and relieves researchers of several
administrative details so that they can focus on the substance of grants and manuscripts. The CFDR's
experienced leadership team with proven success will guide the CFDR toward new and innovative scientific
advances. An underlying and consistent goal is to remain cost efficient and avoid duplication of services
offered on campus. To serve the needs of the affiliates the Administrative Core strives to achieve the
following specific aims: 1) provide efficient and well-integrated administrative support to affiliates and their
research teams; 2) foster a collaborative and stimulating research community; 3) coordinate and oversee
the Center cores to ensure excellent and cost-effective services; and 4) interface with the affiliates, BGSU
administration, and broader scientific community to ensure CFDR research has wide visibility and impact.
To support the specific aims and the mission of the Center, there are four broad types of activities. 1)
Provide direct research support to help researchers and their teams produce high impact research. The
services include preparing grants for submission, providing information about human subjects (HSRB)
requirements, and managing grants. 2) Ensure support to the Cores with a special emphasis on the
Development Core. The administrative core envisions and organizes events, sets up travel, orders
equipment and supplies, administers faculty development and training grant opportunities, and maintains
the budget. 3) Maintain and plan for growth of the Center by interfacing with BGSU administrators, working
with the Executive Committee, assisting with Progress Reports, tracking publications with PubMed Central,
following grant flow, anticipating and planning for future needs, and assessing the Center. 4) Disseminate
resources to the affiliates, BGSU, and broader research community. The dissemination activities include
weekly communication with affiliates, maintenance of web page, preparing and distributing working papers,
and engaging with social media. Despite our relatively small size and comparably very low budget there is
an outstanding return on investment. CFDR affiliations have national visibility and strong reputations in the
demographic community. One measure of success is the grantsmanship at CFDR. The Core has assisted
the submission of 16 applications per year, with a 28% success rate. The work of the affiliates is central to
the mission of PDB as evidenced by the 6 new grants from PDB during this cycle. Resources have been
leveraged to garner matching funds from BGS...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9949729
- **Project number:** 5P2CHD050959-17
- **Recipient organization:** BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** WENDY D. MANNING
- **Activity code:** P2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $132,490
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9949729

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9949729, Center for Family and Demographic Research (5P2CHD050959-17). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9949729. Licensed CC0.

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