Research

Research is digging facts. Digging facts is as hard a job as mining coal. It means blowing them out from underground, cutting them, picking them, shoveling them, loading them, pushing them to the surface, weighing them and then turning them loose on . . . the. . .public for fuel—for light and heat. Facts make a fire which cannot be put out. To get coal requires miners. To get facts requires miners too: fact miners.

John Brophy, United Mine Workers of America, 1921

Major research projects and funding sources

Kellogg Foundation–Community Organizational Development, 1971.
Ford Foundation–Cross Cultural Research in Latin America, 1974.
American Psychological Association–Travel Funds to Europe and the Caribbean, 1980‑81.
Economic Development Administration–$40,000 grant to research worker-ownership, 1980‑81.
British Social Science Research Council–U.S. Representative to meetings of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), 1981.
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services–$24,000 to provide technical assistance in labor/management cooperation, 1981-82.
American Sociological Association–Travel Grant, 1982.
The German Marshall Fund–on European industrial cooperatives, Summer 1983.
West German Ministry of Labor Grant, Summer 1985.
Center for International Business and Economic Research, Eastern Europe, 1992.
David M. Kennedy Center, Russian Research Grant, 1992-94.
Marriott School, Economic Development of Western China, $30,000 during 2000-2001.
Global Management Center, Guatemalan Microfinance Impacts Study, $5000 in 2003.
FINCA International, developing research instruments to assess the impacts of microcredit on family well-being, mentoring 16 BYU students doing field studies in 16 countries of Latin America, the former USSR, and Africa, $56,000, 1998-2004.
Marriott School funding to carry out field studies on microcredit in the Philippines, Peru, and Mexico, $7,500 summer 2004.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Voltaire, French Philosopher