Funding opportunities
New NIH Funding for Community-Linked Infrastructure
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced a new funding opportunity to support the development of community-academic partnerships for health research. The goal of the program is to “support the development, expansion, or reconfiguration of infrastructures needed to facilitate collaboration between academic health centers and community-based organizations for health science research.” As part of [...]
NIH: Community Programs to Reduce Childhood Obesity
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, (NHLBI), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has issued a request for information about studying community programs to reduce childhood obesity. According to the request, NHLBI plans to conduct “an evaluation study of communities that will examine outcomes associated with community programs to reduce childhood [...]
RWJF Community Health Leaders
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is calling for nominations for its Community Health Leaders program. They intend to make 10 awards in the amount of $125,000 each to “outstanding and otherwise unrecognized individuals who overcome daunting odds to improve health and health care, especially to underserved populations in communities across the United States. The nomination [...]
CFP: Faith-based advocacy to end childhood obesity
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is seeking proposals from faith-based coalitions to end childhood obesity. According to the call for proposals, the aim of this funding opportunity is “to advance community policies or environmental changes that improve access to healthy foods and/or opportunities for physical activity.” RWJF is particularly interested in funding coalitions that [...]
CFP: Peer support in diabetes management
Peers for Progress, an organization sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians, has released a call for proposals (CFP) to evaluate the benefits of peer support for people with diabetes. Successful proposals will be awarded grants for between $500,000 and $1,000,000. According to the CFP, eligible applicants include “university-based researchers, health systems, and other [...]
APHA scholarships for community-based organizations
The Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association is offering a limited number of scholarships to representatives of community-based organizations to defray the costs of travel to the APHA annual meeting in San Diego, CA, October 25-29, 2008. Community representatives who are members of the Caucus or are co-presenting in APHA sessions [...]
HUD funding for community development
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced FY08 Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs) for six HUD Office of University Partnership Programs. Three of the programs target support for graduate students and for HBCUs to incorporate community assistance and development into their work. The purpose of the HBCU program, for example, is: [...]
Merck Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes
Merck Company Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck Pharmaceuticals, has announced a new initiative to reduce disparities in diabetes care. According to the Merck website, the initiative will commit $15 million over the next five years for evidence-based diabetes programs that will: Apply program models that address health care disparities related to type 2 diabetes [...]
