Markus - given your background you likely know about grants. There are things that The Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation issue grants for, a couple we might even qualify for since they have to do with reduction of disease through education etc. Bottom line is, writing intelligent grants with all the financial projections and measuring end results requirements takes days to do one. Many institutions have hired professional grant writers to keep working on getting money this way. I don't have any help to do it, and am not that experienced at doing them myself (Let alone I am doing 14+ hour days as it is). More than that, the Gates Foundation gets over 3,000 grant requests a day. So even well written, you have to be chosen out of a pretty big field. If we had a grant writer, we would also apply to The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation and even the NIDCR who all have grants available that we could qualify for. (Still competing with other groups, organizations for these grants.)

As to Internet Explorer, it is no longer a web browser that is in the league of the others out there. In the day, it was THE browser, but it has certainly been left in the dust. Once I got away from it, I had less issues with spyware, viruses, pop up pages, pages that didn't display right, and so much more. But like most I was afraid of changing from something familiar. Chester got me started in FireFox which was a painless transition in retrospect. Sites that I thought were lame in the past actually display well and work right.... guess it wasn't them after all.