Health Policy Grants

Genetic Alliance 2010 Annual Conference Scholarships

Genetic Alliance offers a very limited number of scholarships to help reduce the cost of participation in 2010 Genetic Alliance Annual Conference.

To apply for a scholarship, please submit:
1. Scholarship application form.
2. Cover letter, explaining your financial need and why you are interested in Genetic Alliance 2010 Annual Conference.

Submit your application by May 10th, 2010.
We will respond to your request by May 17th, 2010.

Please return this form to:
Kristin Queen Shaffer
Fax: 202.966.8553
E-mail: events@geneticalliance.org

Mail:
Genetic Alliance
4301 Connecticut Ave. NW #404
Washington, DC 20008-2369

** If you are submitting an application for scholarship, please do not register for conference until you receive notification of our decision.

Requirements:
* You can apply for up to $615, including conference registration ($315).
* Applicants must attend the entire three-day conference (7/16-7/18) in order to be eligible for the scholarship reimbursement.
* All expenses must be submitted with receipts by Friday, July 30th, 2010. Expenses submitted after July 30th will not be reimbursed.
* Fellows or sponsoring organizations must cover all up-front costs. Expenses can be submitted for reimbursement beginning July 19th, 2010.
* Expenses can be submitted for transportation, hotel, and airfare only. Registration fees will be waived.
* Receipts must be dated Wednesday, July 14 through Sunday, July 18, 2010.

Things to remember:
* You can apply for up to $615, including conference registration ($315). The conference is approaching swiftly. A limited number of hotel rooms are available at the Bethesda North Marriott at a discounted rate of $120 per night per single/double/triple/quad room. To reserve a room, please call the Bethesda North Marriott at 1-800-859-8003 and ask for the Genetic Alliance group rate.

Don’t forget to check out Genetics Day on the Hill and Gene Screen at www.geneticalliance.org/events.

Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging Academic Research Grant

The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging underwrites an Academic Research Grant Program to further scholarship about new or improved public policies, laws and/or programs that will enhance the quality of life for the elderly. Each grant recipient is required to publish an article on the subject of their research in a top flight journal.

Academic Research Grant Program Information and Request for Proposals

The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging awards up to 4 grants of $20,000 each year. Selections are made on or about December 15 of each year. The award period runs from January 1 through December 30 following the selection announcements.

What Are the Objectives of the Grants?
The Center recognizes the need for further research and scholarship about new or improved public policies, laws and/or programs that will enhance the quality of life for the elderly (including those who are poor or otherwise isolated by lack of education, language, culture, disability, or other barriers).

What Kinds of Projects Will be Funded?
The Center expects grantees to meet the objectives of the grant program through individual or collaborative research projects that:

* Analyze and recommend changes in one or more important existing public policies, laws, and/or programs relating to the elderly; or
* Anticipate the need for and recommend new public policies, laws, and/or programs for the elderly necessitated by changes in the number and demographics of the country’s and the world’s elderly populations, by advances in science and technology, by changes in the health care system, or by other developments.

Scholars in the fields of health, law, medicine and sociology have been awarded grants. Topics are demonstrated by past recipients. IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE RESEARCH PRODUCT WILL BE PUBLISHABLE IN A FIRST-RATE JOURNAL.

Who May Apply?
This Academic Research Grant Program is open to all interested and qualified legal, health sciences, social sciences, and gerontology scholars and professionals. Organizations per se, whether profit or non-profit, are not eligible to apply, although they may administer the grant. However, two or more individuals in the same institution or different institutions may submit a collaborative proposal. Grant recipients must be U.S. citizens or legal residents of the U.S. and must be affiliated with a U.S. based institution or organization.

How Much Funding is Available and How is Funding Used?
The Center makes no more than 4 grants of up to $20,000 each annually. Larger budgets using outside matching funds are encouraged but not required. Favorable weight will be given to proposals that indicate, where appropriate, that active attempts will be made to solicit required additional funds for the project (including a list of sources to be approached). Grant funds may be used for the approved budget purposes, which may include reasonable compensation for the principal investigator(s), consultant(s) and research assistants, print and computer-based research materials, and other necessary expenses. Ordinarily, summer salary support will not be approved where the applicant(s) is eligible for significant support from his or her university or other institutions. Grant funds may not be used for university overhead or administrative charges, and the Foundation will not otherwise pay any such costs.
How to Apply?

We accept only online submissions. The Research Grant Proposal should include:

* a description of the research project;
* a discussion of how the research meets the objectives of our grant program;
* why the project is otherwise important;
* a description of both your intended written research product and the publication(s) to which your work product will be submitted for publication;
* curriculum vitae of the applicant(s); and
* a detailed budget (including matching support).

The proposal narrative should be limited to five pages. The five-page limit does not include the curriculum vitae or budget description.

Appendices may be added only if necessary to support the proposal narrative.

If two or more individuals are submitting a collaborative proposal, please complete the online application for the principal researcher but explain the collaboration in the proposal narrative and attach a curriculum vitae for each of the individuals involved in the collaborative proposal.

Letters of support are accepted only if the applicant is working in collaboration with another organization. Letters of support should be submitted separately and mailed to The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging, 335 4th Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103.

Application and Grant Annual Timeline:
* Online application submission date: September 30
* Application review process: October 1 through December 15
* Grant awards announced: No later than December 30
* Grant Period: January 1 through December 30
* Grant reports due: No later than December 31 following the award year

Who Reviews Applications and Awards Grants?
Applications are reviewed and grants awarded by a committee composed of the Foundation Center’s academic advisory board members, executive director, and assistant director.

What are the Reporting Requirements?
Upon completion of the research project, but not later than December 31 of the year following the award (unless the committee, for good cause, extends the completion date), grantees must submit seven (7) copies of a final written report that includes a description and chronology of the research and results, an accounting for grant funds, and copies of any publications/products developed. In addition, a short written progress and status report must be submitted not later than June 30 of the year the award is granted. ??Upon publication of the research product, seven (7) reprints must be given to the Center.

Questions? E-mail Mary Jane Ciccarello, Assistant Director, at mjc@borchardcenter.org

Borchard Fellowship in Law & Aging

The Borchard Fellowship in Law & Aging affords one year for two law school graduates interested in, and perhaps already in the early stages of pursuing, an academic and/or professional career in law and aging, the opportunity to pursue their research and professional interests.

During the Fellowship period, the Center’s Executive Director and Assistant Director stand ready to assist each Fellow with the further development of his/her knowledge, skills, and contacts. A legal services or other non-profit organization involved in law and aging must supervise a Fellow’s activities and projects. In addition to the Fellow's planned activities and project (unless the Fellow's project includes the provision of legal services), the Fellow must also provide some pro bono direct legal services to older persons under appropriate supervision. A Fellow is expected to provide the Center with monthly activities reports.

The Fellowship is $40,000 and is intended as a full-time position only. The Fellow’s sponsoring agency is responsible for providing employee benefits, workspace, administrative support, computer, telephone, email access, and employer’s FICA payment. Fellows may live and work where they choose in the United States; Fellows must be either U.S. citizens or legal residents of the U.S.

The Fellowship period runs from July 1 to June 30 each year, or for the calendar year beginning the month after the Fellow’s completion of a state Bar examination.

Examples of activities and projects by recent Borchard Fellows include:

* Writing and publication of law review articles on law and aging issues;
* Writing and publication of state specific, consumer oriented handbooks on legal issues affecting older persons;
* Teaching elder law and related courses at law schools where fellows reside;
* Development of a non-profit senior law resource center providing direct legal services and public education;
* Development of an interdisciplinary elder law clinical program at a major public university law school;
* Development of a mediation component for a legal services program elder law hotline;
* Development of an interdisciplinary project for graduate students in law, medicine, and health advocacy to foster understanding and collaboration between professions;
* Development of training materials and statewide trainings for lawyers, judges and other court personnel, and social service providers on new comprehensive state guardianship laws;
* Organizing and/or attending national conferences on law and aging issues;
* Providing supervised pro bono legal representation of older clients;
* Analysis of Medicare policies;
* Development of legal services programs for older clients in consumer law and small claims matters.

Fellowship Application Annual Timeline

* Application submission deadline: April 15
* Application review process: April 16 through May 31
* Fellows announced: No later than June 15
* Fellowship period: July 1 though June 30 (unless otherwise arranged)
* Reports due: Monthly reports during the Fellowship period; final report no later than one month following the end of the Fellowship period.

Application Requirements

Applicants must submit a completed online application including an explanation of the applicant’s planned activities and projects, a current curriculum vitae, a law school transcript, a letter of support from the proposed supervisor, and two other letters of support.

Email:

mjc@borchardcenter.org

Mailing Address:

The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging
335 4th Avenue
Salt Lake City, Utah 84103

Phone: 801-598-5810

Annette U. Rickel Dissertation Award

This award supports dissertation research on public policy, which has the potential to improve services for children and families facing psychosocial issues.

Deadline: November 1, 2010

Sponsor: American Psychological Foundation

Description
Examples of eligible topics include but are not limited to issues with at-risk populations, prevention of child abuse, services for youth in the criminal justice system, effectiveness of school programs for children with psychological issues, using psychology in public policy to improve math and science education, and promoting healthy parenting.

The scholarship amount is $1,000.

Applicants must be graduate students in psychology enrolled full time and in good standing in a graduate program in psychology at a regionally ‐ accredited university or college located in the United States or Canada. Applicants must also have:

* Approval of dissertation proposal by the dissertation committee prior to application;
* No record of having received either an APA or APF dissertation award

APF encourages applications from individuals who represent diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, and sexual orientation.

American Psychological Association
750 First Street NE,
Washington, DC 20002-4242

Telephone: 800-374-2721; 202-336-5500. TDD/TTY: 202-336-6123

Call for Housing Research Proposals 2010 Competition: How Housing Matters to Families & Communities

2010 Call for Research Abstracts

In the 2010 competition, the MacArthur Foundation seeks to expand further the body of empirical evidence on the difference that living in decent and affordable housing makes in the lives of children, their families and communities; and with a special emphasis on how such evidence can be put to use by decision-makers to strengthen policies and programs.

In this year’s competition, in order to maximize the impact that funded research will have on policy, the Foundation requires that every applicant clearly identify the specific policy audience or level of government that will be able to utilize the research to improve or enhance a specific policy intervention and improve outcomes being studied.

Technical Information
1. Applicants should submit electronically an abstract of the proposed research by March 22, 2010 (6 p.m. Central Standard Time). The abstract should not exceed three single-spaced typewritten pages (12-point font, one-inch margins) and identify the specific housing problem and non-housing outcomes or issues that the empirical study would address, and its relevance for policy.

Specifically, the abstract should include a brief description of each of the following:
1. the hypotheses to be tested;
2. data sets required;
3. the proposed methodology;
4. anticipated outcomes; and
5. the policy audience and justification for the project, and how the research results would meet known policy needs.

NOTE: Should an abstract lead to an invitation to submit a full proposal in the second phase of the competition, additional information will be required not only about a project’s link to policy, but also how the results will be communicated to policymakers and can be used in the policy process.

2. Research abstracts should also state the desired terms of the grant.
1. The Foundation will consider supporting studies of one-, two-, or three-year duration.
2. The summary should indicate total budget and project term requested and desired allocation of grant payments over that term. No detailed line-item budget is required at this time.
3. The total cost to the Foundation over the project term may not exceed $1 million. More costly projects are also eligible for consideration if resources are available from other funders, who should be identified in the submission.
3. Individuals can only submit or participate in a single proposal.
4. Research abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to housingmatters@macfound.org with the subject line “HHM Proposal.”

1. Abstracts must be attached to the email, in Microsoft Word.
2. The e-mail text must include a preferred contact’s full name, title, institution, address, and telephone/fax numbers.

NOTE: The Foundation will use the email address from the submission and the contact information for all communications dealing with the competition. Only one preferred contact may be provided for each research summary submitted.

5. Applicants will be notified whether they have been selected to submit a full proposal no later than May 17, 2010. Applicants will be notified of the Foundation’s decision via the email address provided from the research abstract submission.
6. Complete proposals must be received by the Foundation by 11:59 p.m. Central Standard Time, July 2, 2010. Further guidelines and required supplementary materials will be provided to successful applicants who are invited to submit full proposals through the Foundation's RFP process, including transmittal instructions. All RFP responses will be subject to an external peer review process.

Who Is Eligible to Apply?
Applicants must be affiliated with a nonprofit entity and comply with the Foundation’s indirect cost policies that generally limit such costs to no more than 15 percent of total direct costs. U.S. and non-U.S. citizens are eligible to apply, as are studies by non-U.S. based researchers and that deal with non-U.S.-based housing-family and community linkages, as long as they meet all program guidelines. Units of government are also eligible to apply for a grant as long as such entities are permitted by their applicable law to receive a grant. Previous award winners are eligible to apply.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Office of Grants Management
140 S. Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60603-5285

Phone: (312) 726-8000
Fax: (312) 920-6258
TDD: (312) 920-6285
E-mail: 4answers@macfound.org
www.macfound.org

Excellence in Survivor Advocacy Award

Supported by the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS)

Award: Monetary award of $1000 and a plaque.

Purpose: To recognize and support achievements and involvement of patient advocacy across the cancer treatment continuum, particularly as it relates to survivorship issues.

Nominee's Eligibility Criteria:
The candidate must meet the following criteria:

* Be a registered professional nurse and an active ONS member
* Have at least two years of oncology nursing experience
* Been actively engaged in patient and survivor advocacy (e.g., legislative, regulatory, insurance discrimination issues) at the federal, state, or local level for at least two years immediately preceding nomination

Criteria: The scoring criteria for judging this nomination packet is as follows:

* Demonstrated patient and survivor advocacy on a consistent basis in a work setting that cares for individuals with cancer.
* Helped to recruit nurses or other health professionals to become engaged in survivor advocacy.
* Collaborated with other organizations, entities, and individual advocates to further recognition of survivorship priorities and issues.
* Served as a role model for other healthcare professionals and the public by active involvement in cancer support groups, survivor groups, and/or other identified networks or organizations for individuals with cancer.

Application deadline: August 16, 2010, 5pm (ET).

For more information on any of the ONS awards, contact ONS at customer.service@ons.org. Both nominees and nominators will be notified once an application is received.

Oncology Nursing Society
125 Enterprise Drive Pittsburgh, PA15275
866-257-4ONS (866-257-4667)
412-859-6100
877-369-5497 (toll free fax)
412-859-6162 (fax)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2009-2010: Call for Nominations

Background: APPAM created this award in 1990. All funding for the award comes from APPAM's operating budget, and this is the only award given through the association that is funded in this manner. The practice of naming two honorable mentions in addition to the winner began in 1997. There is no requirement that a winner or honorable mentions be named in given year if the selection committee believes the submissions are not of sufficient quality to merit recognition.

Purpose of Award: The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) seeks to recognize emergent scholars in the field of public policy and management by presenting an award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in public policy and management.

Nature of Award: Winners receive a cash award in the amount of $1,500 in addition to a plaque, recognition at the annual APPAM Fall Research Conference, and publication of an abstract in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. A separate grant covering travel costs to the fall conference also will be provided. The award winner, and two honorable mentions, will be offered the opportunity to present posters of their dissertations during the research conference.

Eligibility: Any dissertation that has been completed in the academic years 2009 or 2010 and granted a degree in that period is eligible for consideration. No dissertation that has been completed prior to May 1, 2008 will be accepted. No previously submitted dissertations will be considered. Dissertations from any discipline are acceptable as long as they deal substantively with public policy issues and are nominated through an institutional member of APPAM.

Nominating Procedure and Deadline: Nominations must come from programs that are institutional members of APPAM. Please send a letter of nomination (with the nominee's current address, email address, and phone number) carefully detailing the unique contributions this dissertation makes to the field and three (3) copies of the dissertation to the APPAM office.

Deadline for Nominations: All nominating materials must be received by 9 July 2010.

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
1029 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 1150
Washington, DC 20005

Tel: 202-496-0130
FAX: 202-496-0134

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Programming (for Midcareer Consultants) 2010 Call for Proposals-Round 5

Deadline: Apr 7, 2010

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming aims to expand the diversity of perspectives that informs RWJF programming; to introduce new researchers and scholars to the Foundation and; to help meet staff needs for data analysis that measures progress toward program objectives. In Round 5 New Connections invites Mid-Career Consultants from historically underrepresented groups to submit proposals to either: 1) address research questions using environmental scans or syntheses; or 2) evaluate specific programs funded by or connected to RWJF programming areas.

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:
Mid-Career Consultants applying for the New Connections program must:

* have no less than 10 and no more than 15 years of research and/or evaluation experience related to relevant health and health care fields;
* be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or its territories;
* be from a group that has been historically underrepresented in the research activities supported by RWJF;
* be a first time RWJF principal investigator/program contract grantee; and
* be committed to the goals and mission of New Connections and RWJF.

Key Dates:

* April 7, 2010 (3 p.m. ET)-Deadline for receipt of brief proposals.
* July 7, 2010 (3 p.m. ET)-Deadline for receipt of online full proposals.
* August 31, 2010-Notification of awards.
* November 1, 2010-Start of awards.

Total Award:
* Up to five Mid-Career Consultant grants of up to $75,000 each for 12 months.

Contact:

Edith G. Arrington, Ph.D., deputy director
info@rwjf-newconnections.org
Office: (215) 732-2200 ext. 234
http://www.rwjf-newconnections.org

Mailing Address

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
P.O. Box 2316
Route 1 and College Road East
Princeton, NJ 08543

Telephone Number (877) 843-RWJF (7953)

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Programming (for Junior Investigators) 2010 Call for Proposals-Round 5

Deadline: Apr 7, 2010

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming aims to expand the diversity of perspectives that inform RWJF programming and introduce new researchers and scholars to the Foundation, while simultaneously helping to meet staff needs for data analysis. The program invites Junior Investigators scholars from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to address specific questions posed by one of RWJF's program areas including: Childhood Obesity, Coverage, Human Capital, Public Health and Vulnerable Populations.

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:
Junior Investigator applicants to the New Connections program must:

* have completed a doctorate [a J.D. is appropriate for Public Health Law Research–New Connections (PHLR-NC) applicants] by November 2003 or later;
* be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or its territories;
* be affiliated with or sponsored by a nonprofit university or an organization that is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code;
* not be a private foundation as defined under Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code;
* have the sponsoring institution agree to administer and be the grant recipient;
* be from a group that has been historically underrepresented in the research activities supported by RWJF, such as people from ethnic or racial minority groups, first-generation college graduates and people from low-income communities;
* be a first-time grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; provide evidence of research skills addressing various aspects of health and health care (research fellowship or equivalent training or experience); and
* be committed to the goals and mission of New Connections and RWJF.

Key Dates:
* April 7, 2010 (3 p.m. ET)—Deadline for receipt of online brief proposals.
* July 7, 2010 (3 p.m. ET)—Deadline for receipt of online full proposals.
* August 31, 2010—Notification of awards.

Total Award:
* Up to 13 Junior Investigators grants, including up to five grants for Public Health Law Research (PHLR) awards of up to $75,000 each for 24 months.

Contact:

Edith G. Arrington, Ph.D., deputy director
info@rwjf-newconnections.org
Office: (215) 732-2200 ext. 234
http://www.rwjf-newconnections.org

Mailing Address

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
P.O. Box 2316
Route 1 and College Road East
Princeton, NJ 08543

Telephone Number
(877) 843-RWJF (7953)

Law Students and Professionals: Paralyzed Veterans of America's 2009-2010 Legal Writing Competition
is Now Open for Entries

Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed Veterans) is pleased to announce its sixth annual legal writing competition. The nationwide contest is designed to encourage debate within the current and next generation of the legal profession on public policy issues affecting today’s veterans.

Entries should address the topic:  Adjudication within the Department of Veterans Affairs: Judicial Independence, Quality Control, Consumer Perception and the Paradoxes Present in the VA’s System of Administrative Adjudication

Paralyzed Veterans of America hosts this contest in the hopes of encouraging vigorous discussion of veterans issues. Entrants may choose any result and should feel free to offer well-supported praise, criticism, or suggestions.

Entrants may wish to consider information available from the VA’s web site, the Court’s web site, and, of course, cases decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

The competition is open to all law students enrolled in ABA-accredited law schools, for entry in the law student division, as well as law school graduates and law professors for entry in the professional division. Prizes of $3,000.00 each will be awarded in two divisions, law student and professional. The prizes will be awarded to the entries deemed by the judges to be the best in each division. In addition, the winners will receive assistance from Paralyzed Veterans in publishing the paper in appropriate professional publications and/or presenting the paper at appropriate professional association gatherings.

Submissions must be received no later than June 1, 2010.

Paralyzed Veterans of America
801 Eighteenth Street, NW | Washington, DC 20006-3517 

1-800-555-9140 | info@pva.org