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Community
Based Mini-Grants ODPHP has contracted with John Snow to administer these mini-grants in collaboration with the Health and Human Services (HHS) Regional Health Administrators. Across the U.S., up to 270 grants will be awarded; grants will cover the period from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2007; each grant will range from $2,000 to $5,000 for the grant period. The intention of the mini-grant is that it provides seed money for a local level project. It is possible that additional resources may be leveraged by the mini-grant recipients. In general, small, community-based organizations, including faith-based groups, after school programs, coalitions and others with budgets of less than $750,000 per year can apply for these funds. ODPHP is currently in the process of developing the mini-grant application, and anticipate it will be release in early 2007. If you would like to added to the distribution list, send your contact information, including email address to lenee_simon@hhs.gov. If you have any questions, please contact Lenee Simon (240-453-8252) or Carter Blakey (240-452-8254) in ODPHP. 2007
Seed Grant Program The Nancy R. Gelman Foundation (NRGF) announces its 2007 Seed Grant Program. We are extremely pleased to fund projects aimed at improving outcomes for women with breast cancer. Applications should be submitted with one hard copy and one email copy and should be both postmarked and sent by email to grants@nrgf.org. The deadline
for grant applications to be received by email at grants@nrgf.org
and to be postmarked for receipt at NRGF's offices is Wednesday, January
17, 2007. The NRGF Medical Advisory Board will render its decisions regarding
funding on or before Friday, March 2, 2007; NRGF officials may contact
applicants with suggestions for revision of proposals, including budget
revisions, at any time. The total amount disbursed in this or any given
year will be determined by the strength of the overall applicant pool.
Types of projects which these “seed grants” might fund could include:
Link to full announcement: http://www.nrgf.org/grants.html#information. 2007
Rural People, Rural Policy Cohort A program of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Rural People, Rural Policy is a multi-year national initiative designed to energize and equip organizations and networks to shape policy that improves the lives of rural people and the vitality of rural communities. A primary component of the program is the creation of Rural Policy Networks — sets of organizations selected from four specific geographic regions and "at large" from the United States. The five networks engage in a process that develops their individual and collective strategies, skills, and efforts to improve the impact of public and private policy on rural people and rural places. The foundation encourages any nonprofit organization that seeks to improve policy that affects rural people and rural places to apply to participate in a Rural Policy Network. This includes organizations working in economic development, education, community philanthropy, health, and/or other issues critical to rural vitality. Applying organizations may be anywhere on a spectrum from small to large, focused on one community or more than state, focused on a single issue or a wide range of issues, and/or young and learning to highly experienced. Four networks are based in specific regions where WKKF has invested considerable resources in recent years: Central Appalachia (West Virginia and the Appalachian counties of Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia); the Mid South (Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi); the Midwest/Great Plains (Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana); and the Southwest (New Mexico and Arizona). In addition, there is one At-Large Network that includes organizations that meet all the criteria for participation and are from outside the four specified geographic regions. Rural People, Rural Policy selects a cohort of up to twenty-five organizations every year, with five organizations joining each of the five Rural Policy Networks. This year, each selected network member organization will receive a grant of $100,000 from WKKF, spread over five years, to support its participation. The grant amount covers travel and staff time related to participation in the initiative. Link to
full announcement: www.wkkf.org/rprp.
Link to full announcement: click here. Minority
Health Initiative Wellstone Fellowship The Wellstone Fellow plays an integral role in the work of Families USA’s Minority Health Initiatives Department. The Wellstone Fellow’s primary responsibilities include assisting in the organization of trainings for community leaders and journalists and drafting policy briefs, fact sheets, and other publications. During the year, the Wellstone Fellow will learn about Medicare, Medicaid, efforts to achieve universal coverage, and other important health policy issues. Specifically, the fellow will learn how these issues play a role in reducing racial and ethnic health disparities and improving the health of communities of color. At the same time, the Wellstone Fellow will learn about conducting health care campaigns through communication and collaboration with our network of state grassroots advocates and organizations. The fellowship will last one year, from August 2007 through July 2008, and fellows will receive a compensatory package that includes an annual stipend of $35,000 and excellent health care benefits. One fellow is selected each year. Link
to full announcement: http://www.familiesusa.org/about/wellstone-fellowship-about.html. The General Mills Foundation and the American Dietetic Association Foundation, in partnership with the President’s Challenge, are accepting applications for the 2007 Champions for Healthy Kids Champions Awards. Each year the Champions program awards fifty grants of $10,000 each to schools and community groups. Grant recipients have used grant dollars to teach kids about healthy snacks, trying new vegetables, or navigating obstacle courses; training peer educators who deliver health education; and purchasing sports equipment. Community-based,
nonprofit organizations and agencies are eligible to apply. Organizations
must have 501c(3) or 509(a) status. Preschools, as well as elementary,
middle, and high schools are also eligible. The target audience must be
youth between the ages of 2 and 20, and the proposal must have at least
one nutrition objective and one physical activity objective. In addition,
a registered dietician must be an integral part of the program's planning
and activities. Link to
full announcement: http://www.generalmills.com/corporate/commitment/champions.aspx. Grants are awarded to eligible institutions to provide financial support through traineeships for registered nurses enrolled in advanced education nursing programs to prepare nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists, nurse administrators, nurse educators, public health nurses and nurses in other specialties requiring advanced education. The traineeship program is a formula program so all approved applicants will receive funds. Eligible applicants are collegiate schools of nursing, academic health centers, and other private or public entities accredited by a recognized body or bodies or State agency, approved by the Secretary of Education for the purpose of conducting nursing education. Link to
full announcement: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=11953. Healthy Eating Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that supports research on environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among low-income and racial/ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance the foundation’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. This second round of funding focuses on children’s food environments and policies in selected community settings — preschool, child-care, school and after-school environments, as well as nearby food outlets. Preference will be given to those applicants that may be either public entities or nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or U.S. territories. To help build a multi-disciplinary field of research, Healthy Eating seeks proposals from a variety of investigators in a range of fields, including agriculture, behavioral science, business, economics, education, law, marketing, medicine, nutrition, political science, psychology, public health, public policy, and urban planning. Approximately
$3 million in total funding will be awarded for two types of research
grants: 1) Studies to identify and evaluate promising food environments
and policy changes with potential to prevent obesity among children (12-
to 18-month awards of up to $100,000 each, and 18- to 36-month awards
of up to $400,000 each); and 2) Analyses of macro-level policy or system
determinants of food environments and policies that relate to the targeted
community settings (12- to 18-month awards of up to $75,000 each). Rural
Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Child
Abuse Enforcement Assistance Program The primary purpose of the Rural Program is to enhance the safety of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and child victimization by supporting projects uniquely designed to address and prevent these crimes in rural jurisdictions. The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) welcomes applications that propose innovative solutions for achieving this goal. The Rural Program challenges victim advocates, law enforcement officers, pre-trial service personnel, prosecutors, judges and other court personnel, probation and parole officers, and faith- and/or community-based leaders to collaborate to overcome the problem of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking and child victimization and to ensure that victim safety is paramount in providing services to victims and their children. Link to
full announcement: http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/docs/rural_2007.pdf. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) announces the availability of FY 2007 funds for grants to deliver peer-to-peer recovery support services that help prevent relapse and promote sustained recovery from alcohol and drug use disorders. Successful applicants will provide peer-to-peer recovery support services that are responsive to community needs and strengths, and will carry out a performance assessment of these services. Link to
Full announcement: http://www.samhsa.gov/Grants/2007/TI_07_002.aspx. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment is accepting applications for Fiscal Year 2007 funds for grants to enhance and expand substance abuse treatment and/or outreach and pretreatment services in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services in African American, Latino/Hispanic, and/or other racial or ethnic communities highly affected by the twin epidemics of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. The latest
reported AIDS rates (CDC HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2004, Vol. 16)
are higher among African Americans and Hispanic/Latinos than other population
groups in the United States. A recent report from the Centers for Disease
Control found that AIDS rates surpass 72.1 per 100,000 for non-Hispanic
Black, 25.0 per 100,000 for Hispanic, 4.4 per 100,000 for Asian/Pacific
Islander and 9.9 per 100,000 for American Indian/Alaska Native adults
and adolescents (HIV/AIDS Surveillance Supplemental Report 2006, Vol.
12, No. 1). In addition, the minority AIDS rate is also greater than 20
per 100,000 in all 51 Eligible Metropolitan Areas (Ryan White Title I
grantees). Therefore, funding will be directed to activities designed
to improve the delivery of services to racial and ethnic minority populations
disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS in all 50 States, Puerto Rico,
and the District of Columbia, including the 51 Eligible Metropolitan Areas
identified as Ryan White Title I eligible. Link to
full announcement: http://www.samhsa.gov/grants/2007/ti_07_004.aspx. The SPNS Information Technology Networks of Care Initiative will award funds for up to 4 years to support organizations that promote the enhancement and evaluation of existing health information networks for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in underserved communities. These organizations will hereupon be referred as demonstration projects. SPNS will also fund one Evaluation and Support Center that will conduct a cross-site evaluation of services and provide technical assistance and support to the demonstration projects. Link to
full announcement: click
here. The purpose of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program (LRP) is to ensure an adequate supply of health professionals to provide primary health services (through a culturally competent, interdisciplinary team of clinicians) to populations located in selected health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) identified by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. HPSAs can be found in rural and urban communities across the Nation. The NHSC LRP recruits fully trained health professionals who agree to provide primary health services in NHSC community sites. In return, the NHSC LRP assists clinicians in their repayment of qualifying educational loans that are still owed. The NHSC is seeking clinicians that demonstrate the characteristics for and interest in serving the Nation's medically underserved populations and remaining in HPSAs beyond their service commitment. It is important to remember that service to medically underserved populations is the primary purpose of the NHSC LRP and not the repayment of educational loans. Link to
full announcement: http://nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov/applications/lrp_07/index.asp. The primary objective of the program is to improve the economic conditions of rural areas. Assistance provided to rural areas under this program may include technical assistance for business development and economic development planning. Link to
full announcement: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rd/nofas/2006/120806rbog.pdf. Saucony,
a subsidiary of the Stride Rite Corporation, is committed to addressing
the national epidemic of childhood obesity by cultivating a new wave of
young runners. As part of this commitment, the company has partnered with
Runner’s World magazine to launch the Saucony Run For Good Red Laces
Program, which provides grants to communities and nonprofit organizations
that support after-school running and physical fitness programs for kids. The selection of grant recipients will be based on the following: utilization of running participation for enhanced health and/or well-being in children; ability to serve youth populations not traditionally exposed to running programs; and the ability to demonstrate support and inspiration in creating a program that exemplifies the Saucony Run For Good Program’s mission of inspiring the community of runners. Link to full announcement: http://www.sauconyrunforgood.com/.
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