Regarding funding your own position, I would like to direct you to the website for the Association of Fundraising Professionals: http://www.afpnet.org/
They have well defined ethics outlined on their site and have addressed some important issues of compensating the grant writer.
This might be a good place to start when formulating your own institutional policies.
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