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Foundation Funding and Related Opportunities
- Substance Abuse Policy Research Program Designed to encourage experts in public health, law, political science, medicine, sociology, criminal justice, economics, psychology and other behavioral and policy sciences to address issues 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.
Deadline: November 7th, 2007
Award Amount: $Up to 400,000 / Up to $4 million dollars/ Up to 3 years
Eligibility: SAPRP encourages collaborative or multidisciplinary policy research projects involving researchers and community organizations or policy-making organizations.
Contact: Substance Abuse Policy Research Program, Center for Creative Leadership, saprp@leaders.ccl.org (336) 286-4548 - Awards for Advancing Minority Mental Health Recognizes psychiatrists, other health professionals, mental health programs and other organizations that have undertaken innovative and supportive efforts to raise awareness about mental illness and increase access to quality mental health services in underserved minority communities.
Deadline: November 1st, 2007
Award Amount: $5,000 / 4 Awards
Eligibility: Psychiatrists and other health professionals, programs and organizations.
Contact: Barbara Matos, American Psychiatric Foundation - Consumer Voices for Coverage Strengthening State Advocacy Networks to Expand Coverage Seeks to strengthen advocacy efforts to promote healthcare policies that will expand health insurance coverage.
Deadline: September 18th, 2007
Award Amount: $750,000 over three years / Ten states
Eligibility: Statewide consumer advocacy organizations with expertise in health policy
Contact: (617) 525-6167, Info@voicesforcoverage.org - Healthy Vision Community Awards For the development of innovative eye health education and promotion projects that support the vision objectives in Healthy People 2010.
Deadline: August 31, 2007
Award Amount: Up to $10,000/ Approx. 50 Awards
Eligibility: Community Based Organizations
Contact: HVCAmail@shs.net. - The Community Access To Child Health (CATCH) Provides grants for pediatricians to develop innovative, community-based initiatives that increase children's access to medical homes or to specific health services not otherwise available.
Deadline: July 31, 2007
Award Amount: $2500-$12,000/ Approx. 40 Awards
Eligibility: Pediatricians in the U.S. and its territories. The pediatrician must lead the project and be significantly involved in proposal development and project activities.
Contact: 847/434-7085 catch@aap.org - Harris Fund for Children's Dental Health Funds dental health promotion activities
Deadline: July 17, 2007
Award Amount: Up to $5000 / 60 Awards
Eligibility: Community-based, not-for-profit, oral health promotion programs in the United States and its territories
Contact: ADA Foundation at 312- 440-2547 or e-mail adaf@ada.org - Local Initiative Funding Partners ProgramThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) collaborates with local grantmakers to improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations. Local grant makers propose a funding partnership by nominating community initiatives that offer creative solutions to critical health or health care problems.
Deadline: July 10, 2007
Award Amount: $200,000 to $500,000 per project, which must be matched dollar for dollar by local grant makers such as community foundations, family foundations, corporate grant makers and others.
Eligibility: Public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Contact: Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey, (609) 275-4128, info@lifp.org - The Johnson & Johnson/UCLA Health Care Executive Program A management development program exclusively for executive directors and leaders of community-based health care organizations
Deadline: June 18 - June 29, 2007 and July 22 - August 3, 2007
Award Amount: All program and travel expenses paid
Eligibility: Community-based health care organizations partially or wholly, directly or indirectly funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Contact: Dana Lande, Program Manager (310) 794-9559 dana.lande@anderson.ucla.edu - American Psychiatric Foundation Advancing Public Understanding of Mental Illness Funds public education, information and outreach initiatives that promote the early recognition and treatment of mental illness.
Deadline: December 22, 2006 and August 1, 2007
Award Amount: Average is $50,000. Total funding available is 750,000
Eligibility: Florida 501 (c) 3 organizations.
Contact: Please review Frequently Asked Questions page. If the answer to your question does not appear email apf@psych.org
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- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Aetna Foundation Quality of care, health disparities, end of life care, diversity, cultural competency, oral health
- Endowment for Health
- Grantmakers In Health
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- The Commonwealth Fund
- National Guide to Funding in Health features current data on over 11,500 grantmakers who award millions of dollars each year to hospitals, universities, research institutes, healthcare associations, and many other organizations for a wide range of projects.
- The Foundation Center Online database of than 70,000 private and community foundations in the U.S.
- Public Welfare Foundation
- Resource Guide for Community Based Organizations in Florida Produced by Florida IMPACT, a nonprofit social justice advocacy organization.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Dedicated to improving the health and healthcare of all Americans.
- State Funding Guides From the National Association of City and County Health Officials.
- TIDES
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation