CSRHA
is pleased to provide the following funding announcements for
the advancement of health in rural areas
Funding
opportunities in this member update:
Child
Health Foundation -- Innovative Small Grants Program
Foster
G. McGaw Prize for Health Delivery Organizations
Finding Answers:
Disparities Research for Change
New Access Points
in High Poverty Counties
Child
Health Foundation -- Innovative Small Grants Program
Application Deadline: Letters of intent
(required): March 31, 2007
Description: Child Health Foundation wishes
to receive proposals from interested health workers, investigators,
or community organizations for innovative research or innovative
service projects directed at improving the health of infants
and young children. Proposals may be submitted by individuals
or groups.
Areas of priority include:
• development of biomedical and social technologies
• adaptation and implementation of technologies in local
situations that may have widespread applications.
Projects that involve only general medical care of children
with no innovative aspects will not be considered.
Funding Amount: Budgets should not exceed $5,000.
The number of projects approved depends on the amount of funding
available.
Who May Apply: Health workers, investigators,
or community organizations. The projects may address child health
issues in a developing country or in the United States.
Link to full announcement: http://www.childhealthfoundation.org/guidelines.htm
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Foster
G. McGaw Prize for Health Delivery Organizations
The Baxter International Foundation, Cardinal Health Foundation
and the American Hospital Association
Application Deadline: April 6, 2007
The prize
honors health delivery organizations (hospitals, health systems,
integrated networks, or self-defined community partnerships)
that have demonstrated exceptional commitment to community service.
Applicants
must establish that they meet the following criteria for excellence
in community service:
1) Leadership
-- the health delivery organization takes a proactive role in
establishing the web of relationships needed to address the
community's health and social issues and to improve the community's
well-being;
2)
Commitment -- individuals and departments throughout
the organization are involved on an ongoing basis in the organization's
community service plan and/or initiatives;
3)
Partnerships -- the organization has alliances with
the community, including physicians, other health-related organizations,
business, and government, to identify and meet community health
needs;
4) Breadth
and Depth of Initiatives -- the organization's community
service initiatives exceed the provision of just acute medical
and healthcare services, address major health-related issues
in the community, constitute a significant and ongoing effort
by the health delivery organization, and demonstrate an impact
on the community's health status and/or quality of life; and
5) Community Involvement -- there is a high level of community
response to, acceptance of, and participation in the organization's
community service initiatives.
Awards:
(3)
Three $10,000 prizes
(1) One $100,000 prize
Link
full announcement: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10006613/baxter
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Finding
Answers: Disparities Research for Change
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Application Deadline: May 7, 2007
Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change seeks to improve
the quality of health care provided to patients from racial
and ethnic backgrounds likely to experience disparities.
Finding Answers will:
•
grant funds to discover and evaluate practical and replicable
solutions designed to reduce and eliminate disease-specific
racial and ethnic health care disparities;
• focus on interventions aimed at health care delivery
for one or more of the following
health concerns: cardiovascular disease, depression or diabetes;
• conduct systematic reviews of the literature regarding
racial and ethnic health care
disparities interventions; and
• disseminate results from these research efforts and
systematic reviews to encourage health care systems to address
racial and ethnic gaps in care.
Link
to full announcement: http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=19505
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New
Access Points in High Poverty Counties
Health Resources and Services Administration
Application Deadline: May 23, 2007
The purpose of this activity is to support the establishment
of new service delivery sites in high poverty counties funded
under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. Each application
for support to establish a new site must identify a population
in need of primary health care services, and propose a specific
plan to increase access to care and reduce disparities identified
in the population or community to be served. Eligible applications
will propose to establish a new access point in an underserved
high poverty county. Fiscal year 2007 represents the first year
of a new five year Presidential Initiative to establish health
centers in poor counties under the Consolidated Health Center
comprehensive primary and preventive health services (including
mental health, substance abuse and oral health services) and
supplemental services to populations currently without access
to such services, and to improve their health status.
The program includes:
1) Community Health Centers, section 330(e);
2) Migrant Health Centers, section 330(g);
3) Health Care for the Homeless, section 330(h); and
4) Public Housing Section 330(i).
The populations served by these programs are: medically underserved
populations in urban and rural areas; migratory and seasonal
agricultural workers and their families; homeless people, including
children and families and; residents of publicly subsidized
housing.
Average size of award: $600,000
Link to full announcement: https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=E3B20D5F-CB02-4051-AD2F-FBC213944D1D
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