FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Current listings include funding in the following areas: Adolescent/Children's
Health, Advocacy
/ Policy, Assessment, Community
Health, Fitness/Nutrition/Food
Security, Geriatric
Health, Health
Disparities, Patient
Education, Policy/Adovcacy, Substance
Use Prevention, Women's
Health, and Scholarships
/ Fellowships / Dissertation Funding. Opportunities
are listed in order of topic and application deadline with
ongoing opportunities listed last. We also recommend
checking out our list of other organizations that
announce funding opportunities (click
here).
News and Announcements
If you have an announcement to add to
this section, please email the CCLDHE
Webmaster.
 Adolescent & Children's
Health
Healthy Weight Collaborative
Amount: $4,000 for data collection and information technology capabilities
Deadline: January 27, 2012 at 3:00pm ET
The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) has embarked on a nationwide effort focused on the prevention and treatment of childhood and adult obesity. NICH!Q is looking for Teams who are interested in participating in Phase Two. This phase will bring together 40 multi-sector Teams from across the country to engage in a virtual learning community from February 2012-February 2013. All activities will be conducted virtually using web-based meeting software and other technologies, including a web-based project portal. DETAILS: Please click here to learn more.
Champ A Champion Fur Kids
Grants
Build a Bear Workshop
Amounts: Varies
Deadline: Rolling
Build-A-Bear Workshop® desire to provide direct
support for children in the areas of health and wellness
such as
childhood disease research foundations, child safety organizations
and organizations that serve children with special needs.
DETAILS: Please click
here to go tot he Build-a-Bear website.
Advocacy
& Policy Efforts
Call for Proposals for Public Health Law Research
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces
Amounts: Up to $100,000
Deadline: Open
As public health practitioners,
policy makers, and others consider how laws influence the
public's health, they need evidence to inform questions such
as: How does law influence health and health behavior? Which
laws have the greatest impact? Can current laws be made more
effective through better enforcement, or do they require
amendment? The purpose of RWJF's Public Health Law Research
program is to answer such questions by building a field of
research and practice in public health law. DETAILS: Please
click
here to access the RFP.
Citizen Engagement
Program
Amount: $1,000.00 to $7,500.00
Deadline:
Rolling
The Common Sense California
Citizen Engagement Grant Program supports municipalities,
school
districts,
and
non-profit
organizations throughout the state that are attempting
to engage citizens in the policy-making process. Common
Sense
California (CSC) understands that at both the city/region
and K-12 school district levels public officials are
looking for more effective ways to involve their publics
in significant
policy decisions. DETAILS: http://www.commonsenseca.org/grantprogram.asp
Community
Health / Assessment
Health Impact Assessment
(HIA) Grants
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
and Pew Charitable Trusts
Amount: $25,000 to $150,000
Deadline: None
The Health Impact
Project encourages the use of
health impact assessment (HIA) to help
decision-makers better assess proposed policies, projects
and programs with respect to their
impact on health, in order that they may avoid adverse
health consequences and costs and
improve health. DETAILS: Please click
here to visit the RWJF website.
Fitness/Nutrition/Food
Security
Healthy Weight Collaborative
Amount: $4,000 for data collection and information technology capabilities
Deadline: January 27, 2012 at 3:00pm ET
The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) has embarked on a nationwide effort focused on the prevention and treatment of childhood and adult obesity. NICH!Q is looking for Teams who are interested in participating in Phase Two. This phase will bring together 40 multi-sector Teams from across the country to engage in a virtual learning community from February 2012-February 2013. All activities will be conducted virtually using web-based meeting software and other technologies, including a web-based project portal. DETAILS: Please click here to learn more.
Wellness Promotion Grants
Cigna Foundation
Amounts: $5000 Average for first-time grants
Deadlines: None
The Cigna Foundation provides funding for programs
that enhance the health of individuals and families and the
well-being
of
communities. In the health arena, the Foundation is interested
in projects that build awareness, help people manage
their health challenges and make health services available
and affordable for all. Organizations must have 501(c)(3)
status. DETAILS: Please click
here to visit the Cigna Foundation
website.
Geriatric
Health
Archstone
Foundation
Health Prevention among the Elderly
Deadline: Rolling, reviewed quarterly
The Archstone Foundation gives grants to programs that maintain independence
and improving health through the aging process, including programs that prevent
injury, promote physical activity, emphasize good nutrition and encourage
social engagement-all aspects of healthy aging. While they give primarily
to private non-profits, they will consider requests from government organizations.
For more information and grant guidelines, visit: http://www.archstone.org/info-url_nocat2293/info-url_nocat.htm
Health
Disparities
Challenge Grants Program in Health
Kresge Foundation
Amounts: Not available
Deadlines: None
The Kresge Foundation's Health Team seeks to work with
a variety of partners: community-based organizations;
state and regional advocacy groups; academic institutions
focused
on solving community health problems; community and economic
development organizations; health and other social service
agencies; intermediaries; and others, including groups
involved in environmental justice, housing and land conservation.
They use various methods to further this work – convene
and support networks, employ strategic communications,
commission research, fund intermediaries, and invest
directly in projects
and nonprofit partners using grants or below-market-rate
loans, as appropriate. DETAILS: http://www.kresge.org/content/displaycontent.aspx?CID=151
Patient Education
Healthcare and Healthcare
Education Grants
Tenet Healthcare Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
The Tenet Healthcare Foundation is accepting applications for its Healthcare
and Healthcare Education grants program. The purpose of this program is to
support organizations in the area of healthcare and healthcare education,
particularly those that have working relationships with Tenet facilities.
Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations, schools and units of
government in areas where Tenet owns and operates businesses. For complete
program information and application guidelines, please visit
http://www.tenethealth.com/TenetHealth/TenetFoundation/HowToApply
Policy/Advocacy
Policy Innovation Contest
American Public Health Association
Amounts: Up to $40,000
Deadline: January 31, 2012
APHA is excited to announce a policy contest for health departments, The Power of Policy: Innovation to Improve Health. The purpose of the contest is to advance the development of innovative public health policy strategies, in particular those that aim to eliminate health inequities; and to strengthen health departments' capacity to use policy approaches. DETAILS: http://www.cdc.gov/ostlts/nphii/.
Substance
Abuse / Alcohol / Tobacco Prevention
Small Research
Grant: Prevention of Drug and Alcohol
Abuse
National Institutes of Health
Amount: Up to $50,000 per year, project
duration of up to two years
Deadline: Ongoing
Funding for health services research on the
prevention and treatment of drug and alcohol
abuse. Proposed research might emphasize any
of the following subjects: 1) Factors that
affect the delivery of drug and alcohol abuse
intervention and related
services, such as social factors, personal
behaviors and attributes, financing, organization,
management, and health technologies; 2) Dimensions
of drug and alcohol abuse intervention and
related services, such as accessibility,
utilization, quality, effectiveness, and costs; 3)
Processes of blending science-based practices
into community-based provision of drug and
alcohol abuse prevention services; and 4)
Research tools to facilitate higher quality
health services research on drug and alcohol
abuse. DETAILS: Please click
here to visit
the NIH website.
The National
Institute on Drug Abuse
Deadline: Ongoing
NIDA announces the availability of small grants (R03)
to support drug abuse doctoral dissertation research
in epidemiology, prevention, treatment, services
and women
and gender differences where there is a significant need for new investigators.
DETAILS: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-02-055.html
Women's
Health
Breast Cancer Education
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Amounts: Not available
Deadline: Rolling
In more than 18,000 communities across the
U.S., more than 75,000 Susan G. Komen for
the Cure
volunteers work to help fund breast cancer
education, screening and treatment projects
for those who
need it most. Over the past five years, Komen
for the Cure Affiliates—working in
concert with local organizations—have
awarded more than $160 million in needs-based
community
grants.
That's in addition to the many millions Komen
invests each year in promising research.
DETAILS: Click
here for the Foundation web site.
Scholarships,
Fellowships and Dissertation Funding
The AMA Foundation
Deadline: Ongoing
The foundation provides nearly $300,000 annually in scholarships and various
educational awards and approximately $1,000,000 in tuition assistance every
year to help young men and women achieve their dreams of becoming doctors. For
more info: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7621.html
NIH Financial Aid for Minority
Students
Deadline: Ongoing
The National Institutes of Health is eager to provide suppplemental support
to minority students for their doctoral training. The supplements require
a formal application. Anyone with an active
grant ( so long as it has two more years of funding left) can apply for supplemental
funds to support a minority student. Visit: http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-01-079.html.
Other valuable options to consider include the F31
grant mechanism, an individual training grant for underrepresented
minority students. Grants last up to five years and provide up to 70% of
tuition costs, a stipend and training related expenses. Visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-00-068.html
Additional
Listings
DHHS
FBO & CBO
Grants Guide
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/fbci/guide/
This guide provides information on HHS grant opportunities for faith-based
(FBO) and community-based (CBO) organizations. Each program has been rated
according to the type of opportunity it presents to these small grassroots
organizations.
DHHS
Funding Web Site
HTTP://WWW.GRANTS.GOV
The Department of Health and Human Services has created a new web site
designed to simplify and streamline the process for learning about and
applying for
various types of federal grants. The site includes powerful search capabilities
that make it possible to search by topic, key words, and agencies. You
can also register to receive email updates as new grant opportunities are
added
and download software for submitting grant applications online.
CCLDHE Web Site
Our Resources and Links
Section includes sections which list foundations,
single-issue organizations and government agencies,
all of which provide grant funding.
The Office of Minority Health
The OMH
maintains an online database
of public and private funders interested in minority
health issues at http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=1&lvlID=1
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