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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Current listings include funding in the following areas: Adolescent/Children's Health, Advocacy / Policy, Community Health, Domestic Violence, Fitness/Nutrition, Geriatric Health, Health Disparities, Health Education/Health Games Research, Injury Prevention, Oral Health, Substance Use Prevention, Vision 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

6/23/09 | NEW RWJF POLL ON PREVENTION: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America’s Health have released a new poll showing overwhelming support by Americans for investment in prevention. DETAILS: http://www.rwjf.org/publichealth/product.jsp?id=43811

6/15/09 | THE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP PROJECT is a partnership between the David and Lucile Packard, James Irvine, and William and Flora Hewlett foundations — has announced grants totaling $5.7 million to organizations working to strengthen nonprofits that are led by or serve people of color and low-income communities in California and beyond. http://www.communityleadershipproject.org/CLP_PRJune2009.html

 Adolescent & Children's Health

Evaluation Grants: Youth Programs
Ruddie Memorial Youth Foundation
Amounts: $5,000 to $25,000
Deadline: July 31, 2009
The foundation supports programs that provide youth (birth to 25 years of age) with new opportunities for health, personal growth, and success in the United States. Applications will be accepted from nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations based in the greater metropolitan areas of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Madison, Milwaukee, New York City, Philadelphia (new this year), San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. DETAILS: Please click here to go to the foundation web site.

Global Youth Service Day Grants
Youth Service America
Amount: $2,000
Deadline: July 17, 2009
Youth Service America invites organizations engaging youth in community service in one or more of the 50 U.S. states to apply to serve as lead agencies for Global Youth Service Day (April 23-25, 2010). Lead agencies will receive a $2,000 planning grant sponsored by State Farm Companies Foundation, travel support to attend the Youth Service Institute in Washington, D.C., and direct assistance from Youth Service America to ensure a successful Global Youth Service Day. DETAILS: Please click here to procede to the organization's web site.

Project Ignition High School Driver Safety Projects
National Youth Leadership Council & State Farm
Amount: $2,000 + possible $10,000 Award
Deadline: June 30, 2009

Project Ignition invites teams of high school students, teachers, and community program leaders to create innovative service-learning projects that promote teen driver safety. Project teams design safety-awareness campaigns using their choice of media — TV commercials, print ads, radio spots, Web sites, direct mail, special events, performances, art exhibitions, publications, short films, etc. Grants will be awarded to a maximum of twenty-five programs. DETAILS: http://www.nylc.org/pages-programs-initiatives-Project_Ignition?oid=4968

Children's Bereavement Services
The Hospice Foundation of America
Amounts: $5000
Deadline: None

Hospice Foundation of America is now accepting applications for its new funding program in support of children’s grief camps and other bereavement services. Applicants must be non-profit hospices or other bereavement organizations whose programs are available to the entire community in which they are located. DETAILS: http://www.hospicefoundation.org/newsroom/releases/080917.asp

Underserved Children Grants
The Eisner Foundation
(Los Angeles, Orange County, CA)
Deadline: Rolling

The Eisner Foundation is accepting applications for its Underserved Children Grants program. The purpose of this program is to support organizations in innovative and concrete programs that enrich the lives of underserved children, or who have learning or other disabilities. Grants are available to support existing programs, new or expanded programs, capacity building, capital campaigns, and general operating grants. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations that serve Los Angeles and Orange County, CA. DETAILS: http://www.eisnerfoundation.org/

Improving the Lives of Children
Herbalife Family Foundation
Deadline: Rolling

The Herbalife Family Foundation provides financial assistance to nonprofit organizations around the world dedicated to improving the lives of children. The Foundation funds programs that aim to: improve nutrition; support children and families; provide early intervention; correct problem behavior and enhance self-esteem; prevent substance abuse; and promote physical and emotional health. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status. DETAILS: http://www.herbalifefamily.org/our_guidelines.html

Advocacy & Policy Efforts

Active Living Research
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Amounts: Four 12- to 18-month grants @ $75,000 each
Deadline: July 29, 2009

This initiative supports research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, decreasing sedentary behaviors, and preventing obesity among children and adolescents. The program puts special emphasis on strategies with the potential to reach racial/ethnic populations and children living in lower-income communities who are at highest risk for obesity. DETAILS: Please click here to see the full RFP.

Citizen Engagement Program
Amonut: $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

Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative
Amount: Up to $200,000
Deadline: June 30, 2009
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is accepting applications for the Neighborhood Builders and Local Heroes components of its Neighborhood Excellence Initiative. In 2009, the foundation will allocate a total of $20 million globally to the initiative, which is designed to recognize, nurture, and reward organizations, local heroes, and student leaders helping to strengthen and revitalize their communities in forty-five of the bank's major markets. Click here to access the complete RFP.

Robert Wood Johnson Local Funding Partnerships
Amount: Up to $500,000
Deadline: July 7, 2009 (3 p.m. ET) for Stage 1 brief proposals

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships (LFP) program forges relationships between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and local grantmakers to fund promising, original projects that can significantly improve the health of vulnerable people in their communities. Projects must be new, innovative, collaborative and community-based. Significant program expansions—into new regions or to new populations—may also be considered. Please note that these funds may not be used to maintain existing projects. DETAILS: http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20605

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships
Amounts: $50,000 to $200,000
Closing date: December 31, 2009

Through a special solicitation from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is seeking to partner with diversity-focused funders and other local grantmakers to fund projects that reduce violence in specific communities such as those defined by race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity, or rural/frontier location. Projects must be new, community-based, and culturally appropriate, reflecting how language skills, significant cultural differences, education, income, and discrimination affect health outcomes. Community members should be engaged in planning and leadership. DETAILS: Click here to go to the RWJF website.

Fitness/Nutrition

Active Living Research
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Amounts: Four 12- to 18-month grants @ $75,000 each
Deadline: July 29, 2009

This initiative supports research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, decreasing sedentary behaviors, and preventing obesity among children and adolescents. The program puts special emphasis on strategies with the potential to reach racial/ethnic populations and children living in lower-income communities who are at highest risk for obesity. DETAILS: Please click here to see the full RFP.

Community Health Grants Program - Obesity & Health Literacy
Aetna Foundation
Amounts: $25,000 - $50,000
Deadline (California): July 15, 2009

Through its Regional Community Health Grants Program, the Aetna Foundation will award grants in support of initiatives focused on fighting obesity and increasing health literacy in selected communities across the United States. The obesity proposal category seeks to fund community-based health education, prevention, and early detection efforts aimed at fighting obesity. Health Literacy proposals must incorporate and/or demonstrate impact in one or more of the following: plain language approach to communications; public education and awareness programs; and/or training and education for health care professionals, staff, and patients. Only nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations serving specific markets/geographic areas are eligible to apply. Geographic eligibility/ RFP: http://www.aetna.com/foundation/grants_reg/apply.html.

Skatepark Grants
Tony Hawk Foundation
Amount: Up to $25,000
Deadline: October 1, 2009

Grants of will be awarded to nonprofits working to design, develop, construct, and operate new skateboard parks and facilities in low-income areas and/or neighborhoods with a high population of at-risk youth. Click here for the full RFP.

Youth Garden Grants Program
National Gardening Association
Amounts: $500 - $1000 Home Depot Gift Cards
Deadline: November 2, 2009

NGA annually awards Youth Garden Grants to schools and community organizations with child-centered garden programs across the United States. Schools, youth groups, community centers, camps, clubs, treatment facilities, and intergenerational groups throughout the United States are eligible. Applicants must plan to garden with at least 15 children between the ages of three and 18 years. DETAILS: Please click here for the full RFP.

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

National Institutes of Health
Reducing Health Disparities among Minority and Underserved Children
Amounts: $250,000 annually or less
Number: (R01) (PA-07-392)
Deadlines: September 25, January 25 and May 25 through 2010

This initiative is designed to stimulate research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children. Specific targeted areas of research include biobehavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular, organ systems), lifestyle factors, environmental (physical and family environments) social (e.g. peer influences), economic, institutional, and cultural and family influences; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known illness and/or disability; and studies that test and evaluate the cost effectiveness of health promotion interventions conducted in nontraditional settings. DETAILS: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-392.html

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

Health & Healthcare 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

Healthcare Grant Program
Walgreens
Deadline: Rolling

The purpose of Walgreen's Healthcare Grant Program is to support organizations in non-hospital based health. Programs should be located in an area Walgreens serves and should reflect the demographics of the local community. Within all categories of interest health education is a priority. For complete program info and application guidelines, visit:
http://www.walgreens.com/about/community/guidelines.jsp#Funding

Injury Prevention

Project Ignition High School Driver Safety Projects
National Youth Leadership Council & State Farm
Amount: $2,000 + possible $10,000 Award
Deadline: June 30, 2009

Project Ignition invites teams of high school students, teachers, and community program leaders to create innovative service-learning projects that promote teen driver safety. Project teams design safety-awareness campaigns using their choice of media — TV commercials, print ads, radio spots, Web sites, direct mail, special events, performances, art exhibitions, publications, short films, etc. Grants will be awarded to a maximum of twenty-five programs. DETAILS: http://www.nylc.org/pages-programs-initiatives-Project_Ignition?oid=4968

Oral Health

Dental Health Services Grants
California Dental Association
Amounts: Up to $25,000
Deadline: August 31, 2009

The CDA Foundation Grant Program awards to California community nonprofit organizations that provide dental services to underserved populations. Grants support oral health projects that address preventive care, consumer education, restorative care, the expansion and preservation of community water fluoridation systems or other programs that demonstrate methods for increasing access to oral health care, particularly for children, uninsured families, caregivers and the elderly. DETAILS: http://www.cdafoundation.org/receive

Substance Abuse / Alcohol / Tobacco Prevention

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. Info: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-02-055.html

Vision Health

2010 Healthy Vision Community Awards Program
National Eye Institute
Amount: $10,000
Deadline: August 31, 2009
This program provides funding up to $10,000 for the implementation of eye health education and promotion activities that support the Healthy Vision 2010 objectives and the Healthy People 2010 goals to reduce health disparities and improve quality of life. The focus of each program must be eye health education. DETAILS: http://www.healthyvision2010.org/news/hvca/


 Scholarships, Fellowship Opportunites and Dissertation Funding

William T. Grant Scholars Program
Deadline: July 8, 2009

The program supports promising early-career researchers from diverse disciplines, who have demonstrated success in conducting high-quality research and are seeking to further develop and broaden their expertise. Researchers must address issues that have compelling relevance for theory, and policies or practices, affecting the settings of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States or a vulnerable subpopulation of those youth. Every year, four to six William T. Grant Scholars are selected and each receives $350,000 distributed over a five-year period. Click here to access the RFP (web page).

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://www.omhrc.gov/omh/fundingdb.htm

 

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