Frday Report - Health Sample

The Friday Report - Health Upcoming Grants for Healthcare Organizations Friday, October 26, 2007 [Sample Issue - Omits Links to Funding Sources] The Friday Report - Education is published weekly by Robert J. Miller & Associates, Inc. 124 Delaware Street, Tonawanda, NY 14150 Telephone 716-694-8181; rjma@rjma.com www.rjma.com Copyright 2007: All Rights Reserved
Source	Description [Program titles of new entries this week displayed in red type]	Deadline
NIH	Outcomes in Children with Mild to Severe Hearing Loss: Grants support research on the outcomes of young children with mild to severe hearing loss, focusing on the impact of intervention, child, and family factors on communicative, educational and social development outcomes.	November 5
NIH	Identifying and Reducing Diabetes and Obesity Related Health Disparities within Healthcare Systems (R01): Funding aims to identify or address factors or barriers that result in disparate outcomes within a healthcare system. All applications should measure the impact of identified factors or interventions on health outcomes. Research is sought that examines at least one of the following factors in a healthcare system and/or the interaction between these factors; healthcare professionals, healthcare organizations, and the patients and communities they serve.	November 5
Yoplait	Program to Honor Individuals for Efforts in Fight Against Breast Cancer: Grants are available to honor 25 individuals for their extraordinary efforts in the fight against breast cancer through the Yoplait Champions Program. Champions must demonstrate a strong and sustained commitment to the breast cancer cause, including personal sacrifice, and have had an impact on others’ lives or the community. Nominations must illustrate a creative and innovative concept the nominee has put forth that furthers the goals of fighting breast cancer, as well as identify changes that have been made as a result of the individual’s activities.	November 6
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	Substance Abuse Policy Research Program: Funding supports research addressing issues related to substance use. Projects should increase understanding of public and private policy interventions to prevent, treat and reduce the harm caused by the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.	November 7
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Children in Balance	Bringing Healthy Eating and Active Living to Children's Environments Project: Grants are available to help communities create an environment that provides children with healthier eating options and a focus on active living.	November 15 Letter of intent
Lalor Foudation	Human Reproduction Education Projects: Grants are available to educate young women about human reproduction in order to broaden and enhance their options in life. The program focuses particularly on young women who have inadequate access to information regarding reproductive health, including the subjects of contraception and pregnancy termination, and as such may be particularly lacking options in their lives.	November 15 and May 15
US Department of Health and Human Services	Nursing Workforce Diversity Grants: Grants aim to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals who come from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses) by providing student scholarships or stipends, pre-entry preparation, and retention activities.	November 16
US Department of Health and Human Services	Fire Prevention and Safety Grant Program: Grants support fire prevention activities, research and the development of improvements to firefighter safety. Fire prevention grants are designed to reach high-risk target groups and mitigate incidences of deaths and injuries caused by fire and related hazards. Fire Prevention and Safety grants are separated into two "activities". The projects that can be funded are: fire prevention and safety and firefighter safety research and development.	November 30
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Verizon Foundation	Building Healthy Communities: Grants for programs that focus on technology for healthcare and healthcare accessibility aim to support innovative technologies that enhance the efficiency and delivery of healthcare services, and improve access to information and services through technologies that address the needs of persons with disabilities.	November 30
GlaxoSmithKline	Research and Education Foundation for Cardiovascular Disease - Competitive Grants Award Program for Young Investigators: This funding program enables young investigators who have completed medical school within the past 10 years to obtain funding for innovative research on cardiovascular disease.	November 30
American Medical Association	Seed Grant Research Program: Grants supports young physicians as they conduct small basic science, applied, or clinical research projects. Specifically, the funding organization is awarding research projects targeting cardiovascular/pulmonary disease; HIV/AIDS; leukemia; neoplastic disease; and secondhand smoke.	December 3
Health and Human Services	Healthy Start Initiative-Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities: Grants are available to address significant disparities in perinatal health indicators. Eliminating disparities in Perinatal Health focuses on disparities in Hispanics, American Indians, African Americans, Alaskan Natives, Asian Pacific Islanders, Immigrant Populations or differences occurring by education, income, disability, or living in rural, isolated areas by enhancing a community's service system. Communities must provide a scope of project services that will cover pregnancy and interconceptional phases for women and infants residing in the proposed project area. Services are to be given to both mother and infant for two years following delivery to promote longer interconceptional periods and prevent relapses of unhealthy risk behaviors.	December 6
Health and Human Services	Healthy Behaviors in Women: Grants are available to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate novel approaches that concurrently address the relationship between women's healthy eating and mental health during the perinatal period. For the purposes of this grant the perinatal period is defined as during pregnancy and up to one year after delivery, including women who may not have had a positive birth outcome.	December 7
NIH	Centers Program for Research on HIV/AIDS and Mental Health (P30): Grants are available for for multidisciplinary research programs focused on mental health and HIV/AIDS.	December 7 Letters of intent (annually)
Health and Human Services	Faculty Development in Primary Care: The grant aims to plan, develop, and operate (including provision of financial assistance) programs for the training of physicians who plan to teach in family medicine (including geriatrics), general internal medicine, and/or general pediatrics training programs.	December 10
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention	Suicide Research Grants: Grants support research that contributes to the understanding of suicide and suicide prevention.	December 15
Glenn Foundation for Medical Research	Gerontology Research Grants: Grants are available to provide timely support to a small number of pilot research programs that may be of relatively high risk but which offer significant promise of yielding transforming discoveries in the fundamental biology of aging.	December 17
Waksman Foundation for Microbiology	Microbiology Grants: The foundation supports research and education in the general field of microbiology, including: medical disciplines; agricultural and soil microbiology; marine microbiology; and the diverse environmental interactions of microbes. information	January 1 and May 1 annually
NIH	HIV Treatment Adherence Research: Grants aim to advance scientific research to advance the scientific understanding of HIV treatment adherence and to enhance and expand available intervention strategies to promote, improve, and sustain adherence. The overarching emphasis is on the development of innovative behavioral and structural adherence interventions that could be rapidly translated into clinical practice, community venues, and public health policy within domestic and international settings.	January 7
Brookdale Foundation	Relatives as Parents Program: We are pleased to announce the Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP) Local and State Seed Grant Initiatives for the year 2008. RAPP is designed to encourage and promote the creation or expansion of services for grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the responsibility of surrogate parenting when the biological parents are unable to do so.	January 10
Muscular Dystrophy Association	Research Grants: Grants are available to support research aimed at developing treatments for the muscular dystrophies and related diseases of the neuromuscular system. These are the muscular dystrophies (among which are Duchenne and Becker); motor neuron diseases (including ALS and SMA); the peripheral nerve disorders (CMT and Friedreich's ataxia); inflammatory myopathies; disorders of the neuromuscular junction; metabolic diseases of muscle as well as other myopathies.	January 15
General Mills Foundation	Healthy Kids Grant Program: This national program will award fifty grants of $10,000 each to community-based groups across the United States that develop creative ways to help youth adopt a balanced diet and physically active lifestyle.	January 15
Michael J. Fox Foundation	Therapeutics Development Initiative: Grants are available to promote industry investment in pre-clinical research for Parkinson's disease. Through the initiative the foundation will commit up to $5 million in total funding to drive translational Parkinson's Disease research that otherwise would be likely to stall.	January 24 Pre-proposals
The Center for Communications Disorders	The Callier Prize in Communication Disorders: The prize, which will include a $10,000 cash award, will be given annually to an individual selected by an ad hoc committee who has shown outstanding contributions to the fields of audiology, speech pathology or language pathology.	January 31
NIH	Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award: Funding supports the development and evaluation of innovative model programs and materials for enhancing knowledge and understanding of neuroscience and the biology of drug abuse and addiction among K-12 students, the general public, health care practitioners and other groups. The award provides support partnerships between scientists and educators, media experts, community leaders and other interested organizations for the development and evaluation of programs and materials that will enhance knowledge and understanding of science related to drug abuse. The intended focus is on topics not well addressed in existing efforts by educational, community or media activities. information	February1, June 1, October 1, annually
NIH	Short Term Career Development Award in the Environmental Health Sciences for Established Investigators: This grant program aims to allow established, well funded clinician investigators to expand research programs to answer questions relevant to the environmental health sciences, and to provide established environmental health sciences research investigators the tools to expand their efforts to translational research.	February 12, June 12, and October 12
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation	Gates Award for Global Health: Grants are available to recognize an organization that has made a major and lasting contribution to the field of global health. The annual award rewards organizations which have developed processes for improving health, especially in resource poor settings, with measurable results. The award recognizes past achievements and the promise of continuing activity and improvement. Any organization from any country in the world that has substantively improved the health and the lives of people in need may be nominated for the Gates Award; the organization may be a charitable institution, a private company, or a public entity. information	October 31 (annually)
The Leroy Butler Foundation	Breast Cancer Treatment Grants: The foundation supports women who are going through breast cancer treatment to obtain the assistance they need for hospital and individual expenses, allowing them to focus on the job of healing versus the financial impact to their families.	Ongoing
Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation	Children’s Health and Wellness Grant Program: The grant program supports children's health and wellness initiatives, in addition to many causes. Projects that these grants would support include, but are not limited to: childhood disease research foundations; organizations that promote child safety; and charities that serve children with special needs. information	Ongoing
National Institutes of Health	SCHOOL-BASED INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT OBESITY: This Program Announcement (PA) encourages the formation of partnerships between academic institutions and school systems in order to develop and implement controlled, school-based intervention strategies designed to reduce the prevalence of obesity in childhood. This initiative also encourages evaluative comparisons of different intervention strategies, as well as the use of methods to detect synergistic interactions between different types of interventions. information	Ongoing through November 2, 2007
amfAR	Front-Line Groups Working on HIV in Developing Countries: One-year awards of up to $20,000 for individual organizations and up to $50,000 for networks in Africa, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia will be given for work to address HIV among men who have sex with men.... The deadlines for submitting proposals are: October 25, 2007 for organizations in the Caribbean; November 15, 2007 for Southeast Asia (Greater Mekong Subregion); and December 4, 2007 for Africa. amfAR will issue a second series of RFPs in 2008 for Central and South America, Eastern Europe, Central and East Asia, and China.	Various: Check website
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation	Breast Cancer Needs in Wake of Hurricane Katrina: Grants of up to $1 million are available to support efforts to rebuild nonprofit institutions and providers of breast health and breast cancer care in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina and to help organizations maintain the continuum of patient services in communities responding to the needs of displaced populations. There are two types of relief grants for which organizations are encouraged to apply: rebuilding grants and patient services grants. information	Various: Check website
Drug Policy Alliance	Drug Policy Alliance Advocacy Grants Program: The Drug Policy Alliance is pleased to announce that the Advocacy Grants Program 2005 Cycle will have two components: Promoting Policy Change and Rapid Response/Special Opportunities. information	Various: Check website
Bristol-Myers Squibb	Distinguished Medical Research Achievement Awards -- a component of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Biomedical Research Grants Program -- are presented annually to individuals for outstanding contributions in the fields of cancer, cardiovascular, infectious diseases, metabolic diseases, neuroscience and nutrition. Award recipients in each field receive a $50,000 prize and a silver medallion. Independent peer-review committees, comprised of the principal investigators of Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Research Grants, evaluate nominees and select the Distinguished Achievement Award recipients. information	Various: Check website
Aetna	The Regional Community Health Grants Program aims to address critical health issues in communities within Aetna's six business regions. Since inception of this program in 2001, Aetna has awarded than $5.5 million, including $3 million for disparities in health programs. The 2004 program will once again focus on reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care. information	Various: Check website
The Herbalife Family Foundation	Children Nutrition Grants: The foundation provides financial support to organizations around the world dedicated to improving the lives of children. Funds support programs that: improve nutrition; support children and families; provide early intervention; correct problem behavior and enhance self-esteem; prevent substance abuse; prevent physical/emotional abuse; create better home environments; and promote physical and emotional health. information	Ongoing
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	Fresh Ideas: Improve Care for Vulnerable Populations: Grants are available to support new community-based approaches to health and health care problems that intersect with social factors - such as inadequate housing, poor education and poverty. They are interested in projects that serve hard-to-reach individuals and families, especially new immigrants and refugees, frail older adults and at-risk adolescents. information	Ongoing
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	Disparity Issues: Grants are available to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the care of patients with cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus type 2, and/or depression. To that end, RWJF invites research proposals that offer solutions toward reducing healthcare disparities. information	Ongoing
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)/Immune Tolerance Network (ITN)	Partnership in Immune Tolerance Program: Support is available to encourage and support early stage clinical development of tolerogenic protocols in Type 1 diabetes. This initiative aims to foster the development of partnerships between academia and industry in order to bridge early clinical efforts by supporting pre-clinical toxicology studies, phase 1 safety trials and small efficacy trials that will provide proof-of-principle in controlled, safe settings. information - PDF	Ongoing
Cigna Foundation	Women's Health: Proposals emphasizing women's health issues such as maternal and infant care, breast cancer, cancer of the reproductive organs and women's safety issues such as domestic violence receive high consideration. Of particular interest are efforts to improve the accessibility and adequacy of prenatal and infant health care. Studies that examine the cost of health care and ways to control health-care costs are also of interest. information	Ongoing
American Cancer Society	Research Opportunity Grants provide rapid, one-time funding for novel ideas or for targeting urgent problems with immediate human benefit. information	Ongoing
United Cerebral Palsy Foudation	United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) Research and Educational Foundation - Research Grant Program (national): Funding is provided for pilot studies on research important to the prevention and treatment of cerebral palsy, including improvement in the quality of life of persons with disabilities due to cerebral palsy and closely related developmental brain disorders. This broad research agenda includes basic, clinical and applied research in the biomedical and bioengineering sciences. information	Ongoing
Roche Pharmaceuticals	Health Promotion Grants: Grants are available to support domestic, charitable non-profit organizations where Roche has a significant presence and interest and which are engaged in initiatives that are closely aligned with the business objectives of the company which include health promotion and health education (with an emphasis on cardiology, dermatology, infectious diseases, metabolic diseases, neurology, oncology, transplantation and virology/HIV) and K-12 science and math education focusing on teacher enrichment. information	Ongoing
Disabilities Funders Network	Rapid Response Fund for People With Disabilities in Gulf Region: Grants from the fund will be disbursed directly to non-profit organizations with the capacity to affect the greatest need among hurricane victims and/or evacuees with disabilities. Initially, grants will focus on immediate needs of the targeted population, but it is anticipated that future awards will be made to address long-term needs as well. Grants will continue to be awarded until funds are depleted. The maximum grant amount is $5,000. information	Ongoing
Fantastic Foods	*Striving to Make A Difference For A Healthier America:* At Fantastic Foods, we are working hard to help Americans eat healthy meals that are quick and easy to prepare. During 2004, we'll be considering requests for product donations from U.S.-based programs that educate consumers about the benefits of a healthy diet. information	Ongoing
Payless Shoes	Community Quality of Life Grants: The Payless ShoeSource Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the communities where our associates and customers live. Through the Foundation, we support programs that achieve measurable results in these communities. If you're interested in applying for a grant, please read the following information. information	Ongoing
Tellabs Foundation	Hospital Wellness Grants: The Tellabs Foundation supports projects involving health and wellness-related, research, education and treatment in the United States. The primary focus is on projects involving hospitals and health care facilities. information	Ongoing
UCP Foundation	Cerebral Palsy Research Grants: The Foundation provides funding for pilot studies on research important to the prevention and treatment of cerebral palsy, including improvement in the quality of life of persons with disabilities due to cerebral palsy and closely related developmental brain disorders. This broad research agenda includes basic, clinical and applied research. Research grant applications are reviewed for scientific merit by the Foundation's Research Advisory Council and then for funding by the Foundation’s Board of Directors. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis taking into account scientific merit, scientific and clinical significance and relevance to areas designated by the Foundation. Grants are generally awarded for up to 2 years at a maximum of $50,000 a year. information	Ongoing
Hasbro Children's Foundation	Children's Health Grants: The Hasbro Children's Foundation is committed to improving the emotional, social and physical well-being of children, birth through age twelve, and their families through the support of innovative direct service programs in the areas of health, education and social services. information	Ongoing
Baxter International Foundation	Access to Health Grants: The Baxter International Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Baxter International Inc., helps organizations expand access to health care in the United States and around the world. The foundation, established in 1981, began to focus exclusively on increasing access to health care in 2002 - particularly for the disadvantaged and underserved - in communities where Baxter employees live and work. . information	Ongoing
Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation	Cardiovascular Research Fellowships: The Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation operates an internationally renowned post-doctoral fellowship training program in cardiology. The fellowship, designed for mid-career physicians from developing countries incorporates a multidisciplinary curriculum which includes education in cardiovascular medicine, internal medicine, epidemiology, public health, prevention and other issues surrounding global health. The aim is to combine our minimalist interventional style with disciplines focused on prevention and public health to forge an approach most suitable for coping with resource poor environment when confronting an epidemic of cardiovascular disease. information	Ongoing
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Milken Family Foundation	Education and Medical Research Grants: Developing human potential through education and protecting human well-being through the channels of medicine are the chief means by which the Foundation pursues this aim. information	Ongoing
National Emergency Medicine Association	Injury and Illness Prevention Grants: NEMA awards grants in accordance with its mission of preventing injury and illness by addressing health and social issues through education, applied research, and equipment. Through our special programs, the National Heart Council and the National Stroke Council, grants provide essential funding to hospitals, health clinics, trauma centers, fire departments, and physicians. Awards go to small, under-funded rural organizations as well as to well-established entities. information	Ongoing
Agilent Technologies	Healthy Communities Grants: Target areas are: Improve air and water quality in areas where Agilent has a presence. Strengthen the ability of communities to address health and human services issues. information	Ongoing
U.S. Justice Department	Crime Victims Outreach Program: The Office of Victims of Crime offers $5,000 grants to grassroots, nonprofit, community- and faith-based victim organizations and coalitions to improve outreach and services to victims of crime. This program is designed for grassroots, nonprofit, community- and faith-based victim organizations and coalitions whose annual budgets are less than $50,000 and who are not linked to mainstream victim service programs and who do not have access to traditional funding for services, outreach, and networking. Funds may be used to develop program literature, train advocates, produce a newsletter, support victim outreach efforts, and recruit volunteers. information	Ongoing
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation	Professional Medical Education: Grants are available to "develop, monitor, and evaluate projects which demonstrate new approaches to addressing problems in health professions education." With the guidance of that mission statement, the new president, June E. Osborn, M.D., formulated four areas of particular emphasis in grant-making. They are: 1) projects to improve medical and health professional education in the context of the changing health care system; 2) projects that will increase diversity among health care professionals; 3) projects that demonstrate or encourage ways to increase teamwork between and among health care professionals; and 4) educational strategies to increase care for underserved populations. information	Ongoing
RGK Foundation	Childrens' Health Grants: The Foundation's current interests in the area of Medicine/Health include programs that promote the health and well-being of children, programs that promote access to health services, and Foundation-initiated programs focusing on ALS. RGK Foundation prefers to provide programmatic support for new programs or expansion of ongoing successful programs. information	Ongoing
Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation	Health Research Grants: The Foundation makes grants of up to $75,000 to tax exempt institutions for projects or programs carried out in the United States for advancement of medicine and pharmacy, including scientific research, post-graduate scholarship and fellowship assistance, and studies in nutrition, blindness, deafness and other physical disabilities. information	Ongoing
Cure Autism Now Foundation	Autism Grants: Cure Autism Now recognizes the urgent need to develop effective therapies to treat both core and domain specific features of autism. Research proposals focused on all aspects of treatment, from basic research models, to clinical trails, to biomarker identification are acceptable for submission. Due to the current lack of effective treatment and absence of known biomarkers, applications are reviewed as they are received. information	Ongoing
Campbell Foundation	Alternative/Nontraditional Medical Research: The focus of the Campbell Foundation's funding lies in alternative, nontraditional avenues of research into the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and related conditions and illnesses. information	Ongoing
Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation	Medicine, Pharmacy, and Medical Research Grants: The Foundation makes grants of up to $75,000 to tax exempt institutions for projects or programs carried out in the United States for advancement of medicine and pharmacy, including scientific research, post-graduate scholarship and fellowship assistance, and studies in nutrition, blindness, deafness and other physical disabilities. information	Ongoing
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Albertsons Stores	Health and Nutrition Grants: Albertsons provides grants to fund health and nutrition-oriented programs or community resources that affect the availability of adequate health care and human service support. The company is particularly interested in community programs that bring health and nutrition resources to its stores. Applying organizations must be within Albertsons operating area. For store locator, visit http://www.albertsons.com/abs_careers/default.asp information	Ongoing
Ellison Medical Foundation	Aging Research Grants: The Ellison Medical Foundation Aging Program supports basic biomedical research on aging relevant to understanding aging processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. information	Ongoing
Doris Duke Foundation	Biomedical Research Grants: The Medical Research Program seeks to further the prevention and cure of disease by supporting clinical research. Program grants focus on narrowing the gap between basic biomedical discoveries and their translation into new treatments, preventions and cures for human diseases. information	Ongoing
Mayday Fund	Pain Management Grants: The Mayday Fund’s current grant-making targets are: • projects that result in clinical interventions to reduce the toll of physical pain, • pediatric pain, • pain in non-verbal populations • pain in the context of emergency medicine information	Ongoing
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Public Welfare Foundation	Disadvantaged Elderly Grants: Grants are awarded in the following areas of eldercare: Direct Services and General Advocacy - Programs that focus on the basic needs of the indigent elderly, including health care, personal care, social services, the prevention of abuse, and nursing home reform. Community-Based Long Term Care - Programs that promote non-institutional community-based long term care and comprehensive social services to promote independent living. Provider Workforce - Programs that develop trained and appropriately compensated health service workers. information	Ongoing
Public Welfare Foundation	Basic Health Care Grants: Grants are available in the following categories: Health Advocacy, Access and Reform - Local and state consumer organizations that interact with providers and government to improve community and state-based health care delivery systems, ensure that the medically under served participate in systemic reform and seek to preserve non-profit assets for use by communities to provide services to under served people. Preventive and Primary Services - Programs that provide services to the medically under served, with prevention services as a primary component. Hunger and Nutrition - Community-based and national organizations that promote changes in food policy to eradicate hunger in the United States, especially among vulnerable populations including children, the elderly and the disabled. Occupational Health and Safety - Programs that work to improve hazardous working conditions, particularly as they affect workers with little power or means, and promote adequate health care and benefits for workers injured on the job. Mental Health Advocacy and Services - Mental health consumer organizations that promote the empowerment, self-help and recovery of mental health care consumers. information	Ongoing
Gerber Foundation	Infant/Young Children Nutrition Grants: The Foundation’s mission focuses on infants and young children. Accordingly, priority is given to projects that improve infant and young children nutrition, care and development from the first year before birth to three years of age. Programs should support a specific nutrition intervention and have defined outcome parameters. information	Ongoing
Kresge Foundation	Scientific Instrument Grants: The Kresge Foundation Science Initiative is a challenge grant program to upgrade and endow scientific instrumentation and laboratories in colleges and universities, teaching hospitals, medical schools, and research institutions. information	Ongoing
The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation	Adolescent Depression/ADHD Grants: The board of The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation believes that it can make a significant contribution to the mental health field by funding innovative programs principally in the areas of childhood/adolescent depression, and ADHD. This strategy has primarily focused on clinical intervention and prevention programs, or adapting proven but under-utilized programs to clinical settings. The foundation has funded the development of pilot programs, including the development of treatment manuals, training, and dissemination. Generally grant requests for direct service programs will not be considered unless they include a research or program evaluation component, or unless they represent the application of research findings to a clinical setting. information	Ongoing
Playboy Foundation	Reproductive Health Care and Human Sexuality Small Grants Program: The Playboy Foundation seeks to foster social change by confining its grants and other support to projects of national impact and scope involved in fostering open communication about, and research into, human sexuality, reproductive health and rights; protecting and fostering civil rights and civil liberties in the United States for all people, including women, people affected and impacted by HIV/AIDS, gays and lesbians, racial minorities, the poor and the disadvantaged; and eliminating censorship and protecting freedom of expression. information	Ongoing
Commonwealth Fund	Healthcare Access Improvement Grants: The quality of the American health care system has long been a central concern of The Commonwealth Fund. Over the years, a number of major programs have addressed the challenges of providing high-quality care to all Americans, including vulnerable populations such as children, elderly people, low-income families, minority Americans, and the uninsured. inforamtion	Ongoing
Philip Morris USA	Youth Smoking Prevention Grants This positive youth development grant-making initiative supports the objectives of Philip Morris USA's Youth Smoking Prevention department by funding programs that focus on positive youth development that provide young people with the protective factors needed to help them make the right decisions in their lives, including the decision not to smoke. information	Ongoing
Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation	Medicine & Pharmacy Research Grants: The Foundation makes grants of up to $75,000 to tax exempt institutions for projects or programs carried out in the United States for advancement of medicine and pharmacy, including scientific research, post-graduate scholarship and fellowship assistance, and studies in nutrition, blindness, deafness and other physical disabilities. information	Ongoing
Kresge Foundation	Capital Construction Grants: Tax-exempt, charitable organizations operating in fields of higher education (awarding baccalaureate and/or graduate degrees), health care and long-term care, human services, science and the environment, arts and humanities, and public affairs are eligible to apply. Governmental agencies are also eligible to apply. information	Ongoing
W.K. Kellogg Foundation	Health Care Systems Grants: The goal of health programming at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is to improve the health of people in communities through increased access to integrated, comprehensive health care systems that are organized around public health, prevention, and primary health care, and that are guided, managed, and staffed by a broad range of appropriately prepared personnel. information	Ongoing
Archstone Foundation	Long Term Care Grants: In 1996 the foundation's focus was refined and targeted to the needs of the elderly, in particular to maintaining their independence in the community as long as possible, improving their quality of life in the long term care setting and improving the experience at the end of life. information	Ongoing
Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation	Childhood/adolescent depression, and ADHD Grants: The board of The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation believes that it can make a significant contribution to the mental health field by funding innovative programs principally in the areas of childhood/adolescent depression, and ADHD. information	Ongoing
The Whitehall Foundation	Life Science Research Grants: The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. information	Ongoing
The Hearst Foundation	Health Care Access Grants: The Hearst Foundations are committed to supporting programs that seek to improve and assure access to quality health care for underserved populations in both urban and rural areas. Grants are awarded primarily to leading regional hospitals, medical centers and specialized medical institutions, such as children's and women's hospitals. information	Ongoing
Hearst Foundation	Grants for Underserved Populations: The Hearst Foundations are committed to supporting programs that seek to improve and assure access to quality health care for underserved populations in both urban and rural areas. (LF) information	Ongoing
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