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CATCH Residency Training Grants
Deadline: December 3, 2008
The Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Residency Training Funds program supports residency programs in building sustainable opportunities for residents to gain experience working on innovative, community-based initiatives that increase children’s access to medical homes or specific health services not otherwise available.
Grants of up to $12,000 will be awarded on a competitive basis for residency programs to address the needs of children in their communities and enhance community pediatrics training activities in their program. These community-based initiatives should lead to the development of successful projects that could be replicated in other communities and training programs. A pediatric faculty mentor must lead the project and be significantly involved in proposal development and project activities.
Info: http://www.aap.org/commpeds/cpti/Opportunities.htm
CATCH Resident Funds
Deadline: January 30, 2009
The Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Resident Funds program supports pediatric residents in the planning of community-based child health initiatives. Grants of up to $3,000 are available for pediatric residents to work with local communities to ensure that all children, especially underserved children, have medical homes and access to any needed health care services.
Info: http://www.aap.org/catch/residentgrants.htm
CATCH Implementation Funds
Deadline: January 30, 2009
The Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Program is accepting applications for its CATCH Implementation Funds grants. CATCH supports pediatricians in the initial and/or pilot stage of developing and implementing a community-based child health initiative. Grants of up to $12,000 are awarded annually on a competitive basis to pediatricians who want to address the local needs of children in their community.
Info: http://www.aap.org/catch/implementgrants.htm
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Deadline: December 1, 2008
State Farm is now accepting nominations for the 2009 State Farm Service-Learning Champion Award. This award recognizes the valuable role played by a non-traditional advocate of service-learning such as a community member, business leader, or public official.
State Farm supports service-learning as a teaching method that enhances the academic
achievement of students while engaging in service to the community.
To be eligible, the nominee must be an adult community member, business leader, or public official from outside the traditional service-learning ranks (cannot be a classroom teacher, practitioner, or associate of a service-learning organization). The nominee must have added significant value to the success of a youth-led service-learning project that addressed a community need(s). The nominee must be a resident of the United States (one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia) or Canada (provinces of Alberta, New Brunswick, or Ontario.)
Nominations may be submitted by students, teachers, principals, community members, business leaders, and public officials.
The award will be presented to the recipient at the 20th Annual National Service-Learning Conference in March 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee. Transportation, lodging, and conference registration costs for the award recipient will be provided by State Farm.
Complete program information is available at http://www.statefarm.com/about/part_spos/community/slchamp_award.asp
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Deadline: Dec 16, 2008
Program Area: Public Health
Purpose: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is committed to increasing the successful application of quality improvement (QI) methods in health departments. We believe that the use of QI will enable local, state, tribal and territorial health departments to improve their performance and their ability to protect, promote and preserve health in the communities they serve. Additionally, in preparation for national public health accreditation, many health departments are looking at QI as a means of improving performance to meet accreditation standards. Currently, however, there is little published evidence on the value and impact of QI in public health, and only preliminary evidence exists about the factors that promote the successful implementation and spread of QI efforts in governmental health departments.
RWJF seeks to build the evidence regarding the:
- scope and nature of QI efforts in governmental health departments;
- value of QI efforts to improve public health processes, service delivery and health status outcomes;
- QI techniques best suited for different types of processes and outcomes;
- data sources and methods required to evaluate QI efforts;
- barriers that impede health departments’ efforts to apply QI, and the factors that enable the successful application of QI; and
- resources and/or conditions needed for QI efforts to yield meaningful improvements in the delivery and impact of public health services.
The University of Minnesota, School of Public Health is managing this solicitation and seeks proposals from local, state, tribal and territorial health departments to evaluate and document the effects of QI efforts conducted by health departments. All health departments must identify an evaluator, either internal or external to the health department, who will conduct the evaluation. The University of Minnesota will offer assistance in identifying qualified evaluators, if needed, and all selected health departments will be offered technical assistance on designing and implementing their QI efforts and evaluations.
Program Information:
 Call for Proposals (PDF)
Apply Online
Contact:
Tim Crowley
info-QIPublicHealth@rwjf.org
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Deadline: December 31, 2008
The National Organization on Disability's Accessible America Award program is a $25,000 award competition open to all cities and towns across the United States. The program seeks to recognize and promote replication of exemplary practices that communities use to facilitate the comprehensive involvement of citizens with disabilities in community life.
NOD is issuing the call for entries in celebration of National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month. American mayors and chief elected officials are invited to enter their communities in the competition. Communities compete for a $25,000 cash prize and the distinction of being identified as one of the best places in the U.S. for people with disabilities to live, learn, work, and play. The cash award will be presented to the chief elected official in the winning city, town, or county. The funds should be used to further the community's efforts in closing the participation gaps for citizens with disabilities.
Any city, town, county, or sovereign tribal government in the United States and its territories may submit entries for the award competition.Visit the NOD Web site for program guidelines and application materials http://www.nod.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&PageID=1560 |
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Deadline: January 31, 2009
Pfizer Inc is proud to sponsor the Pfizer Visiting Professorships in Obesity. Up to 8 grants of $7500 each will be awarded to selected organizations ("host institutions") to cover the visiting professors' honoraria, travel expenses, and other direct expenses related to the visit.
A visit may occur between July 2009 and June 2010. The purpose of the visit is to bring new educational value to the institution; therefore, it should not be part of or adjunct to a previously planned or regularly scheduled program/event. For more information, please visit: http://www.promisingminds.com/AwardDetails.aspx?AwardID=2158.
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Deadline: December 31, 2008
Organic yogurt makerStonyfield Farm is teaming with KaBOOM! , the national nonprofit dedicated to bringing play back to the lives of children, to provide much-needed places to play for two deserving schools or youth organizations.
The Stonyfield KaBOOM! Double Play Program is being promoted via Stonyfield Farm yogurt lids. Schools, clubs, and other organizations can collect specially marked yogurt lids and mail them with an entry form to Stonyfield Farm. The group that collects the most lids will be the winner.
The winner of the first phase of the program will receive a $50,000 grant to build or improve a playground, skate park, basketball court, sports field, or other type of play space. That school organization will then help select a second $50,000 grant recipient from a list of KaBOOM! applicants chosen on the basis of their financial need.
Complete rules and entry forms can be found at the Stonyfield Farm Web site at http://www.stonyfield.com/ .
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