The purpose of the Conference Grant program is to disseminate knowledge about practices within the mental health services and substance abuse prevention and treatment fields and to integrate that knowledge into real-world practice as effectively and efficiently as possible. [Application deadline: recurring dates of October 31 of each year] [Funding]
Funding Opportunities
Summer Food Service Program - U.S. Department of Agriculture
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 The Program was created to ensure that children in lower-income areas could continue to receive nutritious meals during long school vacations, when they do not have access to school lunch or breakfast. [Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.] [Funding]
Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through HIT - Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 The purpose is to support short-term preparatory, pilot or feasibility studies that will inform larger scale real world health IT implementation and use or the conduct of more comprehensive health IT implementation research. Materials from AHRQ's January 13, 2009 Technical Assistance Conference Call on Health IT Funding Opportunity Announcements. [Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis; Cycle I due date 1-16-09; Cycle II due date 6-16-09; Cycle III due date 10-16-09] [Funding]
Family Respite Care Grant - Alzheimer's Foundation of America
Application deadline:
11/01/2013 Grant helps alleviate the cost of respite care for families caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Funds may be used for in-home care, adult day programs or other types of respite. Deadlines: Spring cycle May 1; Fall cycle November 1. [Funding]
Community Relations - Ameriprise Financial
Application deadline:
05/01/2014 The goal of the Program is: use resources and talents to improve the lives of individuals and build strong communities. Community outreach focuses on three key priorities: Meeting Basic Needs; Supporting Community Vitality; and Volunteer-Driven Causes. [Deadline on an annual basis] [Funding]
Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Children (R21) - National Institutes of Health
Application deadline:
01/14/2014 This initiative focuses on ethnic and racial minority children and underserved populations of children such as: children from low literacy, rural and low-income populations, geographically isolated children, hearing and visually impaired children, physically or mentally disabled children, children of migrant workers, children from immigrant and refugee families, and language minority children. Specific targeted areas of research include biobehavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities such as biological, lifestyle factors, environmental, social, 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 comparative effectiveness of health promotion interventions conducted in traditional and nontraditional settings. [Funding]
Distinguished Fellows Program - William T. Grant Foundation
Application deadline:
08/01/2013 Program is designed to increase the supply of, demand for, and use of high-quality research in the service of improved youth outcomes. To accomplish this goal, the program gives influential mid-career researchers the opportunity to immerse themselves in practice or policy settings, and conversely gives influential practitioners and policy makers the opportunity to work in research settings. [Funding]
AHRQ Mentored Career Enhancement Award in Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) for Mid-Career and Senior Investigators (K18)
Application deadline:
12/18/2014 The Affordable Care Act authorizing AHRQ to establish a grant program that provides for the training of researchers in comparative effectiveness methods and states that, at a minimum, such training shall be in methods that meet the methodological standards adopted [by PCORI]. AHRQ is also authorized to sponsor health services research career development programs under section 902(b) of the Public Health Service Act. This FOA addresses the Affordable Care Acts provision authorizing AHRQ to support the training of researchers in comparative clinical effectiveness research. AHRQ encourages submission of applications from minority serving institutions. [Funding]
