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Call for Research Proposals: Cardon Rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Products Research Grants
The Cardon Rehabilitation Grant up to $6,000
The Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Products Grant up to $4,000
Proposals must be e-mailed in PDF or MSWord format no later than June 1, 2013.
Eligibility:
The principal investigator must be a me mber in good standing of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT).
Topic Area: A study that relates to orthopaedic manual physical therapy (OMPT).
AAOMPT 8550 United Plaza Boulevard Suite 1001 Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Phone: (225) 360-3124 Fax: (225) 408-4422 office@aaompt.org
Call for Nominations: Association of Rehabilitation Nurses Role Awards
To nominate a member for the role award, you must submit the application to ARN by June 1, 2013. A supervisor, colleague, family member, or rehabilitation nurse can submit a nomination.
Exceptional rehabilitation nurses deserve recognition for their contributions to rehabilitation nursing. ARN Role Awards recognize colleagues in each of the categories below. Supervisors, colleagues, or family members can submit nominations-and ARN members can nominate themselves!
In addition to receiving special recognition at the ARN Annual Educational Conference, role award winners receive one free year of ARN membership.
Role Awards are available in the following categories.
Advanced Practice Nurse
Case Manager
Doctorate Prepared Researcher
Educator
Masters Prepared Researcher
Nurse Executive
Nurse Manager
Staff Nurse
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses Chapter Awards
Deadline: Saturday, June 01, 2013
Community Service Award
This award will be granted to a chapter that has made a significant contribution to the community in the last year.
Nominations will be reviewed based on the following criteria:
• How the activity benefited those with disabilities within the community.
• External support (e.g., community agencies that assisted with the project).
• Number of chapter members involved in the project.
• Number of people that benefited from the project.
• The focus of the activity (e.g., fundraiser, service, etc.).
Reward
Recipient chapter will receive a $100 award, a certificate, and recognition at the ARN annual conference.
Communication Award
This award will be granted to a chapter that has excelled in regularly communicating with its members. Communication can include newsletters, Web sites, and blast e-mails.
Nominations will be reviewed and based on the following criteria:
Design and Format
• Content is attractively arranged
• Size and coloring of print and ease of reading
• Graphics are included for visual appeal, but do not clutter the media format
• Pages are linked and arranged to provide user-friendly navigation (for Web site submissions only)
• Various information sections and links are clearly marked (for Web site submissions only)
• Volunteers that contribute to the production and maintenance of the Web site Professionally maintained Web sites without significant member participation will not be eligible
Content
• Mission/description of chapter and national ARN are provided
• Chapter contact information is provided and easily accessible
• Membership activities are highlighted
• Content is updated frequently (for Web site submissions only)
• Printed newsletter is distributed on a timely basis (newsletter submissions only)
• Educational content (e.g., future or past local or national events)
• Professional resources are provided (e.g., Web sites, educational articles, printed media or professional regulations and licensure and certification updates)
• Additional rehabilitation and rehabilitation nursing links/resources provided
Education Award
This award will be granted to a chapter that provided an extraordinary educational event above and beyond the requirements designated by ARN (chapters are required to present one educational offering per year). The educational event must reflect principles of the current trends in rehabilitation nursing and have been presented within the last calendar year. Applicants should highlight why the chapter feels the educational event exceeded their normal chapter educational meetings.
Educational Goals:
• The presentation must have established educational goals consistent with ARN's philosophy for ongoing continuing education.
• The educational program should demonstrate consistency between the educational goals and current trends in rehabilitation nursing.
Planning and Implementation Process:
• Applicants must provide a narrative description of the planning process, description of the activity, objective and content outline which demonstrate support for the achievement of goals.
CEU Approval:
• Applicants must provide documentation that the educational program was approved for continuing nursing education contact hours.
Evaluation Process:
• Applicants must provide a summary of the evaluation process. The summary should include a copy of the attendee evaluation form and results.
Membership Recruitment/Retention Award
This award will be granted to a chapter that has exceptional membership recruitment and retention methods. Applicants should present documentation of the chapter's membership campaigns along with documented recruitment and retention statistics displaying both what was done to increase membership and support of the success of the efforts.
Chapter Size:
• Number of chapter members over the last 3 years
• Percent increase in chapter membership over the last 3 years
Chapter Composition:
• Percent of national ARN members residing in chapter area that are members of the chapter Leadership:
• Display consistent chapter member excellence through:
1. Active governance (i.e., administration)
2. Stability of participation by members
• Diverse membership base (i.e., chapter officers turn over rate)
• Member innovation (i.e., creative recruitment methods or outstanding growth)
• Programs that the chapter has developed/presented over the previous 3 years to promote chapter leadership
Chapter Activities:
• Best practices implemented to improve the chapter and services provided to members
• Outstanding programming (i.e., co-sponsorship of events with another chapter or overall programming excellence)
• Member volunteer opportunities (i.e., speakers, moderators in seminars, annual conferences, and panels) Chapter Finances:
• Financial incentives to members that attend conferences
Chapter of the Year
This award will be granted to a chapter that meets the criteria of the communications, community service, education, and membership recruitment awards.
Recipient chapter will receive a $500 award, a certificate, and recognition at the ARN annual conference.
Applications are formatted as electronic form fillable Word documents. Please type required information directly into each field.
Foundation for Physical Therapy Research Grants
The Foundation, like the physical therapy profession, is dedicated to the goal of improving the quality and delivery of patient care. The Foundation accomplishes this by providing support to emerging investigators to promote scientifically based and clinically relevant research related to the effectiveness of physical therapist practice.
The Foundation supports research projects in any specialty. The Foundation supports only those intervention studies in which the interventions are provided by physical therapists, or selected components of the interventions are provided by physical therapist assistants under the direction and supervision of physical therapists.
The maximum grant amount is $40,000 (salary, fringe benefits, and direct expenses only). The grant period of performance may be one or two years. No overhead is allowed.
Foundation Research Grant
Funds clinically relevant research by emerging investigators seeking to evaluate the effectiveness of physical therapy interventions. These grants are generously supported in part by the student fundraising efforts in the Marquette Challenge.
Application Deadline: August 14, 2013, 12:00 pm, noon, ET
Florence P. Kendall Doctoral Scholarship
Kendall Doctoral Scholarships, part of the Foundation’s Doctoral Opportunities for Clinicians and Scholars (DOCS) program, assist physical therapists and physical therapist assistants with outstanding potential within their first year of post-professional doctoral degree studies. Applicants must be formally accepted as a student in a regionally accredited post-professional doctoral program whose content has a demonstrated relationship to physical therapy.
Awards of $5,000 are given to Kendall Doctoral Scholarship recipients to meet any type of tuition expense or academic fees reasonably and logically associated with the doctoral program.
Award Notification: December 2013
Call for Applications: Gale Gibson International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals Educational Scholarship
Gale Gibson, entrepreneur in the field of occupational databases and founder of VERTEK, creator of OccuBrowse and OASYS software, was generous with his time and knowledge. He shared what he learned along the way with many in the rehabilitation community. In honor of his memory, IARP, along with his family, have instituted the Gale Gibson IARP Educational Scholarship. The goal of the scholarship fund is twofold: to provide funding for IARP members for professional growth opportunities; and to provide scholarship recipients venues to share their new knowledge with IARP members. Although this scholarship program originated within the IARP Forensic Section it is available to any IARP member.
This scholarship is funded by IARP members for IARP members. As long as members contribute, scholarships will be available.
Requirements: Members needs to present a proposal on an approved form outlining course/class/independent study/research project they propose to complete including:
• for course or class: course title and description; educational provider; method of delivery; timeframe; rationale for taking course; potential idea for sharing the knowledge with members; and the amount of funding requested.
• independent study: area of study; method of study; timeframe for study; rationale for independent study; potential method for sharing information with the members; and amount of funding requested.
• Research project: area of research; research proposal; methodology; questions the research hopes to answer; timeframe; potential method for sharing the information with the members; and the amount of funding requested.
Funding Amounts: Scholarships will be funded anywhere from $100.00 to a maximum of $1500 per proposal, depending on funding availability.
Timeline: There are two selection points each year. Scholarship requests must be submitted to the IARP Education Committee by either February 1st of each year or by August 1st of each year. Requests for proposals will be published in the Experts Express and on the IARP website.
The Education Committee will notify requesters of their status within 60 days of the due date (April or October) and the funds will be immediately available.
Awards will be announced in the Experts Express. An official presentation of the scholarship will occur at the following IARP Forensic Conference if the scholarship winner(s) choose to attend.
Submission: Please use our Online Scholarship Application form to submit your application.
If you have any questions, please send an email to Pat Sistler, IARP Director of Education at pats@tcag.com.
Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grants Program
The Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grants Program awards grants to nonprofit organizations that provide services to individuals with paralysis.
Quality of Life grants, conceived by the late Dana Reeve, are awarded to programs or projects that improve the daily lives of people with paralysis, with some emphasis on but not limited to paralysis caused by spinal caused by spinal cord injuries. She started the Quality of Life grants program to recognize and support organizations that recognize and support organizations that help disabled individuals, their families and caregivers in ways that more immediately give them increased independence, day-to-day happiness, and improved access.
Funding is awarded twice yearly to nonprofit organizations that provide critical life-enhancing and life-changing programs and services that improve physical and emotional health. Funded projects offer a diversity of services and approaches: improving access; providing education and job training; sponsoring organized sporting opportunities; and more to individuals living with paralysis and their communities.
Quality of Life grants are funded through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Award #1U59DD000338-1).These grants are awarded to nonprofit organizations that address that needs of people living with paralysis caused by spinal cord and other injuries, diseases and birth conditions, including (but not limited to) stroke, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
The Reeve Foundation gives special consideration to organizations that serve returning wounded military and their families, and to those that provide targeted services to diverse cultural communities.
Since 1999, the Reeve Foundation has provide 2,055 grants totalling over $15.7 million to organizations worldwide that help improve opportunities, access and quality of life for individuals living with paralysis, their families and their communities. This program recognizes the unique and numerous needs of these individuals and the importance of providing services and programs that enable them to participate in all areas of life.
Who Should Apply?
The Reeve Foundation supports, through Quality of Life grants, nonprofit organizations that serve individuals with physical disabilities, particularly paralysis, and their families. The Foundation aids larger organizations in representing and protecting the individuals with physical disabilities on a national level as well as local groups in having an immediate and practical impact on individual lives.
Quality of Life grants are most often awarded to nonprofit organizations that have IRS 501(c)(3) status, but may also be awarded to community parks, schools, veterans hospitals, tribal entities, etc. Most Quality of Life grants are awarded within the United States of America, although the Reeve Foundation does award a small number of grants to nonprofit organizations based outside the United States.
2013 Program Timeline
• 1st Cycle online application submission period opens January 2, 2013
• 1st Cycle application submission deadline: March 1, 2013 at 11:59 pm
• Decisions announced (and checks shipped) early June 2013
• 2nd Cycle online application submission period opens July 1, 2013
• 2nd Cycle application sumbission deadline September 3, 2013 at 11:59 pm
• Decisions announced (and checks shipped) early January 2014.
ALL APPLICANTS PLEASE NOTE: When crafting your application, please be mindful of the 2013 Program Timeline above to ensure that the proposed project correlates with the program funding schedule.
Should you have any questions, concerns or technical difficulties with the online application, please contact the Quality of Life department as soon as possible at QoL@ChristopherReeve.org, dvalente@ChristopherReeve.org, rsultzbaugh@ChristopherReeve.org or pmehta@ChristopherReeve.org or call 800-539-7309.
Multiple Sclerosis International Federation McDonald Fellowship
The MSIF McDonald Fellowship was established in 2007 to honour the memory of Professor Ian McDonald, a world leader in MS research and former Chairman of MSIF’s International Medical and Scientific Board (IMSB).
Prof McDonald had a monumental impact on MS research, treatment and understanding, providing invaluable breakthroughs in the field.
Prof McDonald also gave hours of time and expertise to MSIF. He was a member of MSIF’s IMSB from 1980 and its Chairman from 1999 to 2003.
MSIF offers a number of McDonald Fellowships annually to young and talented researchers from emerging countries*.
The Fellowship enables the recipient to travel to an established research institution to work with the world's leading researchers in MS with a view to returning to their own country to establish a programme of MS research that involves the application of the newly learned techniques.
The Fellowship consists of a two year grant, in the region of UK£30,000 per year, to cover travel and living costs, and an additional contribution of UK£2,000 per year to the host institution.
In 2013, we accept applications from all areas of research related to MS and encourage applications in the areas of symptom relief, rehabilitation and palliative care
Eligibility
Candidates must not be older than 35 years of age at the time of application
Candidates must be citizens of an emerging country* as defined by the World Bank.
Candidates must be working or studying in an emerging country* at the time of nomination OR working or studying in another country on a project which commenced within the 6 months prior to nomination OR studying in another country on a project supported by an MSIF grant
The candidate’s focus of research should be in an area of neuroscience appropriate to MS.
Before nomination, candidates need to have identified a suitable project and discussed their involvement with the project supervisor of the institution.
It is anticipated that the award may be seen as a contribution to the country from which the candidate comes, as a step toward establishing greater expertise in MS research in that country.
The Fellowship may also be used as a supplement for work related to MS by a candidate who has been accepted for training in a recognised institute (within the 6 months prior to nomination) but for whom there are insufficient funds available to cover the total cost.
The research should be in an area that makes it likely that the studies and expertise can be transferred in the candidate’s home country.
*Emerging countries are all countries with a low, lower middle or upper middle income as defined by the World Bank.
Nomination of candidates
University departments must nominate a candidate. This nomination should include:
2013 McDonald Fellowship Nomination Form
Candidate letter - a letter from the candidate detailing their reasons for nomination.
Supervisor letter - a signed letter from the candidate’s current supervisor supporting the nomination.
CV - the candidate's current curriculum vitae clarifying his or her previous experience.
References -testimonies from at least two people with whom he or she has worked.
Project proposal - a description of the field of research that the candidate wishes to be trained in or the research project that he/she wishes to carry out. This should be written by the applicant and should be a maximum of four A4 pages including the background to project, aims and methodology to be used and the anticipated outcomes. A list of references should be added as an appendix which may also include figures.
Host letter - a signed letter of support from the project supervisor of the host institution, indicating that appropriate facilities will be made available. The letter should be on institution-headed notepaper.
Future plans - a one-page statement from the candidate as to what their future plans might be when he/she returns to their country of origin.
Candidates are required to submit all of the above documents by email to Dr. Dhia Chandraratna by the deadline stated below.
Deadline
The deadline for nominations is 30 June 2013
Selection
The members of the MSIF IMSB Executive Committee consider and select successful candidates.
Fellowship recipient(s) will be announced the week commencing 21 October 2013
Evidence of results
MSIF requires a short report at the end of the first year of the Fellowship. Second year funding is dependent on the submission of this report.
Upon completion of the Fellowship, a final report is required. This should detail:
What the recipient has gained from the Fellowship
Their achievements in the project field
The particular area of expertise which is being transferred back to the country of origin
In addition, MSIF requests electronic copies of papers, abstracts and posters resulting from the Fellowship.
Papers produced as a result of or in connection with McDonald Fellowship funded research should acknowledge the MSIF McDonald Fellowship. If possible, such acknowledgements should also reference MSIF's website.
For further information
Contact Dr. Dhia Chandraratna Head of Medical & Scientific Research.
International Rett Syndrome Foundation Basic Research Grant Program
IRSF announces the availability of Regular Research grants for international biomedical research to promote the understanding of MeCP2 in the pathogenesis of the neurobehavioral phenotype of Rett syndrome (RTT). We seek to gain a better understanding of the underlying pathology of the disorder leading to an amelioration of the symptoms and a cure for RTT. IRSF seeks to encourage research that encompasses innovative therapeutic approaches and state of the art diagnostic techniques.
IRSF encourages applications within the following emphasis areas:
Understanding the role of MeCP2 during normal brain development
Characterizing the role of MeCP2, including MeCP2 target genes, in normal structure and function of the developing and adult nervous system
Determination of the relationship between patterns of expression of MeCP2, FoxG1, CDKL5, and related proteins in the nervous system and the neurologic and behavioral phenotypes of patients with RTT and/or related animal models
The investigation of neuronal abnormalities that result from MeCP2 dysfunction
The role of microglial and macroglial cells in development as it relates to RTT
Understanding mechanisms and systems leading to aberrant behavior in RTT
The development of assistive technologies to improve the quality of life of individuals affected by RTT
Support for other advances in therapy such as physical therapy, communication and education
The two year Regular Research Grants are designed to assist investigators establish hypotheses relevant to Rett syndrome research and obtain future funding from other agencies. The maximum funding level for research grants is $100,000 over two years.
Frequency: Awards will be made in one cycle in 2013
Timeline: Letters of Intent due: July 1, 2013
Invitation of full applications by: July 19, 2013
Applications due: August 19, 2013
Please Note: IRSF requires all applicants to use our online submission process.
For application submission inquiries, please contact:
Janice Ascano, Ph.D. Manager of Grants and Research - jascano@rettsyndrome.org | 917-267-4504
For program related inquiries, please contact:
Steve Kaminsky, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer - skaminsky@rettsyndrome.org | 301-961-1559
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