Title: Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry
Sponsor: Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
URL: http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/postdoctoral_program.shtml
Deadline: August 12, 2010
Amount: $120,000
Eligibility: Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional
Abstract: The Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry provides an award to a principal investigator to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in environmental chemistry. Applications most likely to be of interest should describe innovative fundamental research in the chemical sciences or engineering related to the environment. Examples include but are not limited to the chemistry associated with: the climate, the atmosphere, aquatic or marine settings, toxicology, soil or groundwater. Also of interest are chemistry-related energy research (renewable sources, sequestration, etc.), and new or green approaches to chemical synthesis and processing, with a clearly stated relation to the environment.
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Title: 2010 Grant Program
Sponsor: Aetna Foundation
URL: http://www.aetna.com/about-aetna-insurance/aetna-foundation/aetna-grants/grants-for-2010-and-beyond.html
Deadline: May 15, 2010
Amount: National grants: up to $250,000 for two years
Eligibility: U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations
Abstract: For 2010, the foundation will focus its grantmaking on issues that improve health and the healthcare system in three areas: obesity (addressing the rising rate of obesity among U.S. adults and children); racial and ethnic healthcare equity (promoting equity in health and health care for common chronic conditions and infant mortality); and integrated health care (advancing high-quality health care by improving care coordination and communications among healthcare professionals, creating informed and involved patients, and promoting cost-effective, affordable care). Grant applications that address more than one of these areas will receive priority consideration.
Within the three program areas, the foundation will award the following types of grants: research grants to generate new knowledge, making use of either quantitative or qualitative techniques; project grants to test, apply, or disseminate new practices designed to improve health and health care; and policy grants to analyze and promote policies to ensure that programs and practices to improve health and health care can be replicated and disseminated broadly. In addition, the foundation will consider applications for sponsorship of fundraising events such as galas and walks, outreach activities (e.g., health fairs), and other community-based health and wellness initiatives aligned with the foundation's funding priorities.
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Title: Culture and Heritage Grant Awards
Sponsor: The National Italian American Foundation
URL: https://www.niaf.org/grants/2008/2008-user/about.asp
Deadline: July 30, 2010
Amount: Up to $15,000
Eligibility: Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional
Abstract: Available to organizations pursuing projects to promote, research, educate, or preserve Italian American culture, history, or heritage. Examples include: documentaries, doctoral research, exhibits, conferences, books, media stereotyping/anti-defamation surveys, campaigns, etc., plays, and course syllabi.
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Title: International Collaborative Research Grant (ICRG)
Sponsor: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
URL: http://www.wennergren.org/programs/international-collaborative-research-grants/eligibility
Deadline: June 1, 2010 or December 1, 2010
Amount: up to $30,000
Eligibility: Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional
Abstract: This grant supports international research collaborations between two or more qualified scholars, where the principal investigators bring different and complementary perspectives, knowledge, or skills to the project. Supplemental funds are also available to provide essential training for academic research participants in ICRG-funded projects (co-applicants, students, as well as other professional colleagues). By encouraging international collaborations, the grant contributes to the development of an international anthropology that values and incorporates different national perspectives and resources. By providing training funds, the grant helps to build capacity in countries where anthropology may be under-resourced.
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Title: Southern Africa - U.S. Tuberculosis (TB) Research Initiative
Sponsor: United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF)
URL: http://www.crdf.org/funding/funding_show.htm?doc_id=1192695
Deadline: April 30, 2010
Amount: $25,000
Eligibility: Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional
Abstract: The goal of this grant competition is to foster new or expanded biomedical research collaborations between U.S. and Southern African investigators and institutions. It is expected that grant applications will focus on questions of direct relevance to Southern Africa and that will add to global knowledge about TB and TB-HIV co-infection. The grants will provide one year of support to joint research teams of U.S. and Southern African scientists with the possibility of up to a one year no-cost extension, if justified.
It is anticipated that research implemented through these awards will provide a foundation for future grant proposals to NIAID and other funding agencies that support TB research.
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Title: Research Grants
Sponsor: Uniting Against Lung Cancer (formerly Joan's Legacy)
URL: http://unitingagainstlungcancer.org/research/research-grants/applications
Deadline: May 14, 2010
Amount: $100,000
Eligibility: Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional
Abstract: Uniting Against Lung Cancer (formerly Joan's Legacy) invites grant applications for institutional research that studies lung cancer. The foundation is particularly interested in the genetic basis and biology of lung cancer, including that in never smokers, as well as novel therapeutic approaches for the treatment of this disease. There will be two tracks of Lung Cancer Research Awards:
- Adenocarcinoma, to include bronchioalveolar carcinoma (BAC)
- Small cell lung cancer
This funding is intended primarily as seed money for promising new work. It is not for supporting research where funding has either lapsed or has been previously disapproved.
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Title: Large Grants for Research on Gambling Disorders
Sponsor: National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCRG) Institute for Research on Gambling Disorders
URL: http://www.gamblingdisorders.org/project-grants/funding-opportunities
Deadline: May 1, 2010
Amount: up to $150,000 over two years
Eligibility: Scientists at all stages of career, including Early-Stage Investigators, and from a broad range of fields including psychiatry, psychology, epidemiology, neuroscience, public health, sociology and other related areas of study are eligible to apply.
Abstract: The Institute has designated prevention and treatment as priority research topics for 2010. Applications may focus on a broad range of investigator-initiated research that develops and tests psychosocial or pharmacological approaches for prevention, intervention, treatment or relapse prevention of problem and pathological gambling. The Institute is especially interested in brief interventions targeted at underrepresented populations, such as minorities, young adults and persons with subclinical gambling disorders (e.g., at-risk for problem gambling).
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Title: Research Proposals Directed at Poor and Underserved Populations
Sponsor: American Cancer Society (ACS)
URL: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/RES/content/RES_5_2x_Targeted_Grants_for_Research_Directed_at_Poor_and_Underserved_Populations.asp?sitearea=RES
Deadline: October 15, 2010
Amount: up to $200,000
Eligibility: Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional
Abstract: The Extramural Grants Department of the Research Department has launched a special initiative to decrease disparities. Funds have been set aside (up to 10% of the research budget) to support research that addresses the disparity in cancer morbidity and mortality in poor and underserved populations. This initiative includes research that addresses a variety of clinical, cancer control, behavioral, epidemiologic, health policy, health services and basic science questions.
Application Mechanisms: Applications will be accepted via one of the following three mechanisms: (1) Postdoctoral Fellowships; (2) Mentored Research Scholar Grants and (3) Research Scholar Grants.
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Title: 2010 Program Areas
Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
URL: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/how-to-apply-to-areas-of-inquiry
Deadline: April 30, 2010; July 9, 2010; October 1, 2010, and December 3, 2010
Amount:
- Small Grants: budget of $40,000 or less
- Major Grants: budget over $40,000
Eligibility: Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional
Abstracts of five program areas:
- The Relation between Education and Social Opportunity: Education enriches and expands people's lives in many ways, including through their employment opportunities, their civic and political involvements, and the quality of their personal lives. Spencer's interests therefore extend to studies that examine the ways in which differences in educational experiences (including quality and character of schooling as well as number of years in school) translate into differences in employment, earnings, and civic and social outcomes.
- Organizational Learning in Schools, School Systems, and Higher Education Institutions: The Foundation is interested in advancing understanding of ways to strengthen the capacity of schools and education systems as learning organizations.
- Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources: Concerned with advancing the learning and development of children and adults, Spencer is interested in studies that lead to better understanding and improvements in the intellectual, material, and organizational resources that contribute to successful teaching and learning. A key aim of research in this initiative is to support investigations of questions that are grounded directly in teaching practice as well as in research about important aspects of teaching and learning processes that hold promise for enriching opportunities to learn and for guiding informed policymaking. The Foundation is particularly interested in studies of teaching and teacher development.
- Purposes and Values of Education: Spencer is interested in research that studies the question of the relationship between public and political understandings of educational purposes and values, on the one hand, and educational policies and practices on the other. Analytical, historical and empirical work that probes effectively and creatively into these deeply challenging and permanently important issues can contribute mightily toward social decision-making that moves education along constructive paths.
- Field-initiated proposals: Projects related to educational improvement outside of foundation's declared interests.
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Title: Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences
Sponsor: Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
URL: http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/special_grant_program_chemical.shtml
Deadline: June 3, 2010
Amount: up to $80,000
Eligibility: Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional
Abstract: The Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences supports innovative projects in any area consistent with the Foundation's broad objective to advance the chemical sciences. The Foundation encourages proposals that are judged likely to significantly advance the chemical sciences. Examples of areas of interest include (but are not limited to): the increase in public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the chemical sciences; innovative approaches to chemistry education at all levels (K-12, undergraduate, and graduate); and efforts to make chemistry careers more attractive. Research proposals are not customarily considered.
