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Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiving Legacy Awards

With continuing support from The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) is pleased to oversee the annual Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer's Disease Caregiving Legacy Awards program in its sixth year.

Three awards of $20,000 each will be awarded to nonprofit organizations, government agencies or universities responding to a community need with a program or project which focuses primarily on family/informal caregivers of adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Only agencies operating within the continental United States are eligible to apply. One award will be granted in each of these categories:

Creative Expression: This award will go to programs or projects that use imaginative and creative approaches in supporting persons with dementia or family/informal caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Some examples are programs or projects using art, music, theatre, journaling, multimedia (e.g. film, documentary, radio) or other types of creative expression.

Diverse/Multicultural Communities: This award will go to programs or projects that provide services, support or other types of outreach to family/informal caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias in diverse ethnic, age diversity, religion/spirituality, gender, rural, low income, and LGBT or other communities.

Policy and Advocacy: This award will go to programs or projects that advocate for systems change for the benefit of family/informal caregivers or care recipients with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias. These efforts could focus on legislation, executive or administrative changes, advocacy campaigns, or any other action to strengthen the public or private sector's recognition and support of family/informal caregivers.

Award Timeline

Applications are available, online only. The closing deadline for 2013 applications is 5 p.m. (Pacific Time), Friday, August 16, 2013. Award announcements will be made by late November 2013. Award recipients will be honored at the 2014 Annual Conference of the American Society on Aging (ASA). Participates will be invited to present information about their awarded program or project at the conference. Travel stipends will be available for the conference.

Eligibility and Submission Conditions

Nonprofit organizations, government agencies and universities responding to a community need with a program or project that focuses primarily on family/ informal caregivers of adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are eligible to apply. Family or informal caregivers are unpaid caregivers. The term includes family members, friends, domestic partners and neighbors. Support for family/informal caregivers need not be the primary mission of the organization, agency or university.

Nonprofit applicants must submit proof of their 501(c) (3) status or other nonprofit status by attaching a copy of their nonprofit designation letter to their application. For-profit entities are not eligible to apply.

The nominated program or project has to have been active during the calendar year of 2012 and/or 2013. If the program or project involves a major culminating event, that event must have occurred prior to application deadline.

For the Policy & Advocacy and Creative Expression categories, program or project may be related to either family/informal caregivers or persons with dementia or both.

For the Diversity/Multicultural Communities category, program/project must be specific to family/informal caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias.

The applicant or other designated program or project representatives must be willing to share information about their program with others, including a presentation at a national professional conference, and to write up additional information to appear on FCA's website and/or future publications. Award recipients may also be asked to provide information about how the award was used to further advance the mission of the organization, agency, or university.

Application must be received by the extended deadline of 5 p.m. (Pacific Time), on Friday, August 16, 2013.

Applicants must apply electronically using the designated online system.

Applicants must designate the category in which they would like to be considered. Applicants are competing only against others within their chosen category. If the judges feel that the applicant would be better suited for another category, they will contact the applicant directly.

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

Reward

Recipient chapter will receive a $100 award, a certificate, and recognition at the ARN annual conference.

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.

Nominations will be reviewed based on the following criteria:

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.

Reward

Recipient chapter will receive a $100 award, a certificate, and recognition at the ARN annual conference.

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.

Nominations will be reviewed based on the following criteria:

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

Reward

Recipient chapter will receive a $100 award, a certificate, and recognition at the ARN annual conference.

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.

Reward

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.

Call for Nominations: Pan American Health Organization/Pan American Health and Education Foundation 2013 Sérgio Arouca Award for Excellence in Universal Health Care

The call for nominations is now open for the 2013 PAHO/PAHEF Awards for Excellence in Inter-American Public Health. The deadline to submit a nomination is June 14, 2013 at 5:00 pm ET (Washington, D.C., time).

Form of the Award

The award consists of a cash prize, certificate of honor, and a symbolic representation of the award.

In 2009, the Sergio Arouca Award for Excellence in Universal Health Care was created by the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF) in cooperation with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to promote the availability of universal healthcare with equity in the Americas. The award honors Dr. Sérgio Arouca who was a physician, researcher, and professor in the National School of Public Health and served as the Secretary of Health in Rio de Janeiro, and the Secretary of Social Participation in the Ministry of Health, Brazil. As president of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a highly recognized Brazilian institution, he helped to develop the scientific, teaching, and technological development in the Brazilian sanitary movement. Dr. Arouca devoted his entire career to the advancement of public health in the Americas with a focus in advocacy and increasing the access of health care services. The award seeks to recognize extraordinary efforts by the Latin American and Caribbean countries in improving their health systems and in achieving better access to health care by the most vulnerable population groups.

This award is one of the awards in the Awards for Excellence in Inter-American Public Health Program, a joint partnership of PAHO and PAHEF.

Qualifications

The winner of the Sérgio Arouca Award for Excellence in Universal Health Care will have made a significant health impact, demonstrated leadership and excellence in public health, and contributed significantly to the advancement of care, ideally in more than one country in the Americas, with a focus in Latin America and/or the Caribbean.

The Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF) will accept nominations from one
or more people or one or more institutions, which may be governmental or nongovernmental, that have together accomplished a significant contribution in the following:

a) the development and implementation of a policy and/or national strategy of health for all; b) the promotion of health programs that have made considerable advances in increasing the coverage and quality of care; c) improving the effectiveness of the management of health systems; d) the development and implementation of policies and/or health and ethical legislation in the framework of a nation’s health structure; e) innovative programs that target socially-excluded and geographically-disadvantaged populations; f) innovatively-designed programs in the field of education and formalized training of health care workers with the aim of expanding universal health care; g) efficacy in efforts to interest communities in the planning, management, and appraisal of health programs; h) the preparation and execution of relevant research on primary health systems. The nominee’s works ideally should have demonstrated impact in more than one country in the region of the Americas, with a focus in Latin America and/or the Caribbean.

Staff members, consultants, and interns in active service of PAHO, the World Health Organization (WHO), and other United Nations agencies; current official representatives to PAHO's governing bodies (e.g., ministers of health and their delegates); sitting members of PAHEF’s board of directors; PAHEF staff, consultants, advisors, and interns; members of the Sérgio Arouca Award for Excellence in Universal Health Care jury; and current employees of the Brazilian Federal Ministry of Health are ineligible to receive the award.

Call for Nominations: Pan American Health Organization/Pan American Health and Education Foundation 2013 Abraham Horwitz Award for Excellence in Leadership in Inter-American Public Health

The call for nominations is now open for the 2013 PAHO/PAHEF Awards for Excellence in Inter-American Public Health. The deadline to submit a nomination is June 14, 2013 at 5:00 pm ET (Washington, D.C., time).

If you have questions, contact awards@pahef.org.

The award consists of a cash prize, a certificate of honor, and a symbolic representation of the award.

This award honors Dr. Abraham Horwitz, former director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and former president of the Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF). national of Chile, he served as director of PAHO from 1958 to 1975 and as president of PAHEF from 1975 to 2000. His professional career spanned six decades. Among his many achievements, he laid the groundwork for the eradication of smallpox in the Americas and is known for organizing Chile’s National Health Service.

It was created by his friends and the PAHEF board of directors to recognize his outstanding contribution to health in the Americas. This award is one of the awards in the Awards for Excellence in Inter-American Public Health Program, a joint partnership of PAHO and PAHEF.

Qualifications

The award is intended to recognize the achievements of leaders and their contributions to public health that have resulted in improvements in the lives of people across the Americas, with an emphasis in Latin America and/or the Caribbean. Candidates must have an outstanding lifetime career in medicine or public health demonstrating innovation, cross-border impact, and have stimulated excellence in his or her area of expertise and in others. At the time of nomination, candidates must be contributing actively to the field, even if he or she is in formal retirement.
Staff members, consultants, and interns in active service of PAHO, the World Health Organization (WHO), and other United Nations agencies; current official representatives to PAHO's governing bodies (e.g., ministers of health); sitting members of the PAHEF board of directors; PAHEF staff, consultants, advisors and interns; and members of the Abraham Horwitz Award for Excellence in Leadership in Inter-American Public Health jury are ineligible to receive the award.

Call for Nominations: Prince Mahidol Award 2013

On of the two decades of the Award and 122th anniversary of the Birthday of His Royal Highness Prince Mahidol of Songkla which is closely approaching  in 2014, we would like to invite you to nominate individual (s) or institution(s) for their outstanding performance and/or research that contributes directly to the betterment of society.

Two Prince Mahidol Awards will be conferred on an annual basis, one in medicine and one in public health, each prize increase from $50,000 to $100,000 plus a medal and a certificate.

The Prince Mahidol Award Ceremony will be held in Bangkok on the last week of January of the following year and presided over by His Majesty the King of Thailand who is the youngest son of Prince Mahidol and has graciously granted Royal Patronage to the Foundation.

Submission Methods

1. All nominations can be submitted by three methods:

(1) PREFERRED METHOD: Submit online via the Nomination Submission Online. Nominators are strongly encouraged to use this method.

(2) E-mail the nomination form and all supporting materials as attached files to  supat.van@mahidol.ac.th

 
(3) Regular mail delivery. Please send the complete nomination and all supporting materials to:

Secretary-General
Prince Mahidol Award Foundation
2nd Floor, Mahidol-Bumpen Building,
Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University,
2 Prannok Road, Bangkoknoi, Bangkok 10700 THAILAND

2. Nominations must be received no later than midnight local time on May 31, 2013.

3. Nominations that arrive after the deadline will be held over to the following year for consideration.  Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years.

4. Self-nominations are NOT ACCEPTED.

For more information about the submission process, please contact Prof. Supat Vanichakarn,M.D., secretary-general at Supat.van@mahidol.ac.th or pmaf@mahidol.ac.th

American Society for Microbiology Moselio Schaechter Distinguished Service Award

This award, named in honor of Professor Moselio Schaechter, former ASM President, honors an ASM member who has shown exemplary leadership and commitment towards the substantial furthering of the profession of microbiology in research, education or technology in the developing world.

Eligibility:
Individuals (for example: microbiologists who have been instrumental in setting up properly functioning clinical microbiology laboratories or successful biotechnology services based on microbiology; academicians who have developed high quality undergraduate or graduate training programs; researchers who have demonstrated leadership in the context of the region) from the upper-middle, lower-middle, and low-income countries as determined per World Bank’s classification. The nominee must be a national or a permanent resident of a qualifying country and have or have had a full-time professional appointment in the microbiological sciences or a related field for at least ten years in a country or region of the developing world. The nominees may not be currently serving on any ASM Board or Committee and can not be an ASM Ambassador or Country Liaison at the time of the nomination deadline. The nominee must be an active ASM member at the time of nomination deadline.

Award:
The award consists of a $4,000 cash prize to defray expenses associated with traveling to and attending the ASM General Meeting; an engraved plaque to be presented during the International Reception at the ASM General Meeting; publication of the awardee profile in the International Affairs section of Microbe.

Deadline for Applications: July 1

Nominations:
Nominations will be considered without updating for three years. Self-nominations and more than one nomination per nominee will not be accepted. Only one nominating form and two supporting forms are accepted per nomination. The two supporters must be persons other than the nominator who are familiar with the nominee's qualifications and accomplishments. Only one of the three individuals involved in the nomination may be employed at the nominee's institution. The nominator and supporters must not share employers. Nominations must consist of the following:

Curriculum vitae, including a list of publications, emailed to awards@asmusa.org
Nominating form
Supporting form

ASM awards are granted at the discretion of award selection committees and may not be awarded every year.

Sponsor: GlaxoSmithKline

Gen-Probe Joseph Public Health Award

Honors a distinguished microbiologist who has exhibited exemplary leadership and service in the field of public health. This award has been established in memory of J. Mehsen Joseph, Ph.D., who dedicated his life toward the advancement of both microbiology and public health.

Eligibility:
The nominee must be a microbiologist identified with public health. The recipient will be recognized for significant achievements in integrating the science of microbiology into the practice of public health and for promoting the importance of linking these two disciplines.

Award:
A cash prize of $2,000, a commemorative piece, and travel to the ASM General Meeting where the laureate will deliver the Gen-Probe Joseph Public Health Award lecture.

Deadline: July 1.

Nominations:
Nominations will be considered without updating for three years. Self-nominations and more than one nomination per nominee will not be accepted. Only one nominating form and two supporting forms are accepted per nomination. The two supporters must be persons other than the nominator who are familiar with the nominee's qualifications and accomplishments. Only one of the three individuals involved in the nomination may be employed at the nominee's institution. The nominator and supporters must not share employers. Nominations must consist of the following:

Curriculum vitae, including a list of publications, emailed to awards@asmusa.org
Nominating form
Supporting form

ASM awards are granted at the discretion of award selection committees and may not be awarded every year.