Rural Health Grants

Scholarships for Family & Youth Representatives to the Rural Behavioral Health Symposium

Practical Strategies to Address the Behavioral Health Needs of Children and Families in Rural America

September 21-23, 2010 Glendale, Arizona

Submission Deadline: August 1, 2010

Scholarships are available and will be awarded to a limited number of Family & Youth Representatives. The total value of the scholarship is $415 and includes:

* a modest meal per diem of $120 paid to the participant ($40 per day)
* a waiver of the $295 Symposium Registration Fee

Participants who may apply for scholarships include:

* Family Leaders/Representatives
* Youth Leaders/Representatives
* Caregivers/Foster Parents/Kinship Care
* Family and/or Youth Support/Other

Scholarships will be awarded to parents, youth, relatives, caregivers, supports, and those who are currently receiving behavioral healthcare services.

Please note that due to limited available funds, no scholarships will be awarded to Behavioral Healthcare providers or paraprofessionals.

For more information about the Rural Behavioral Health Symposium, please contact:

The National TA Center for Children’s Mental Health
at Georgetown University
Email: RuralSymposium2010@yahoo.com
Phone: 202- 687-5000

“Faith and Development” 2010 - 2011 SEVEN-Center For Interfaith Action on Global Poverty Essay Competition

The S.E.VEN Fund (SEVEN) is pleased to announce its 2010 Essay Competition in partnership with the Washington DC-based Center For Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA). We are seeking essays on faith-based and faith-inspired development efforts fighting poverty and disease around the globe. The competition will award two (2) prizes of US $5,000. The submission deadline is October 15, 2010 at midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST). Winners will be announced on December 15, 2010.

Essay Question

Are faith-based and faith-inspired enterprise based solutions more effective than conventional methods? Could interfaith efforts bridge gaps that secular efforts cannot? Could a stewardship-based understanding of entrepreneurship and profit-making infuse business with a profound moral purpose? Does the combination of concern for others and sound business principles result in sustainable, long-term solutions? While we readily learn of secular efforts in fighting poverty and disease, we very rarely hear the profound stories that describe the experiences of people who undertake this fight from a spiritual perspective. We aim to change that, and are interested in hearing your story or the story of someone you know who exemplifies faith-based or interfaith efforts to fight poverty and/or disease.

Foreign economic aid and government programs have spent billions of dollars over the past five decades to alleviate the high number of people living in poverty. No country has been lifted out of poverty solely as a result of these efforts. One-dimensional aid programs cannot alleviate poverty because they associate poverty solely with low to no levels of income for individuals and families. However, poverty in its broader and more relevant sense may be understood as stemming from an impoverished sense of self in relation to God, community, and the environment. A more holistic, integral approach that takes account of the full human person is necessary for effective poverty alleviation. Physical, emotional, social, and spiritual aspects need to be accounted for if we want to truly create abundance.

The notion of creating wealth is often stigmatized, and businesspeople can be regarded as too self-interested to be a force for positive social change. But what if they are informed by a spiritual worldview? A faith-based approach helps one to regard material rewards from a perspective of temporary stewardship and understand the responsibility that comes with that. Sound business principles ensure that efforts result in more than a handout, instead growing into a self-sustaining solution that affirms the dignity of all. Faith compels us to act in solidarity with others for the common good of all.

What if these efforts take place in an interfaith setting? Are communities of diverse faiths mutually called to tasks of love and service, collaborating to improve the human condition, and participating in their shared covenant with God? Does interfaith action and dialogue on a grassroots level grant opportunities to explore an empathetic mutuality and identify transformed behavior? Perhaps interfaith action redefines the boundaries of who is perceived as a neighbor and who is included in one’s community?

Share with us an inspiring story about a faith-based or faith-inspired effort in development addressing one or more of the following issues:

* Interfaith collaboration and action against poverty or disease;
* Faith-based or faith-inspired efforts addressing seemingly intractable problems;
* Bringing together faith-based efforts and sustainable enterprise based poverty alleviation, i.e. faith-inspired enterprises offering for-profit solutions to poverty.

We invite stories about individual action, or about collaborations between individuals or communities of different faiths on issues that affect global poverty. We are looking for stories and lessons learned about innovation, failures and projects, collaborations and businesses created, for-profit enterprises funding non-profit solutions, and the people helped by such efforts. The essay should be no longer than 2000 words, in English, and each submission should start with a 100-word abstract and a 100-word biography of the author.

SEVEN and CIFA are looking for stories in which people of faith or faith communities have decided to stimulate human and economic development through an “unorthodox mix” of faith, collaboration, for-profit entrepreneurship, business strategy, local wisdom, and mutual benefit. Potential essay writers are asked to read the four stories listed below and, informed by what they read, tell the story of faith-based or faith-inspired action/collaboration in solving issues (such as enterprise solutions to poverty) to help us inspire others and highlight where such efforts are taking root and flourishing around the world.

This competition is open to anyone who lives at the intersection of faith and entrepreneurship and seeks to find ways to alleviate poverty through faith-inspired, sustainable enterprise solutions, or has implemented this work in collaboration between individuals and communities of different faiths.

This essay competition is open to all participants globally.

Only applications submitted through the form on our website will be accepted. If you encounter problems, please contact SEVEN at info@sevenfund.org.

Important Dates

* Inaugural SEVEN-CIFA Call for Essays: April 10, 2010
* Deadline for Essay submission: 12:00AM Eastern Standard Time (EST), October 15, 2010
* SEVEN-CIFA Essay Award Announcements: December 15, 2010

Via Email

General Inquiries: info(at)sevenfund.org

Via Snail Mail

S.E.VEN Fund
1770 Massachusetts Avenue, 247
Cambridge, MA 02140
United States of America

2011 Nizar N. Oweida, MD, FACS, Scholarship

The Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons announces the availability of a scholarship for young surgeons serving small communities, the Nizar N. Oweida, MD, FACS, Scholarship of the American College of Surgeons.

Purpose
The Oweida Scholarship provides an award of $5,000 to subsidize the participation of a young Fellow or Associate Fellow serving small communities in attendance at the annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

Basic Requirements
The Oweida Scholarship is available to a member of the American College of Surgeons in any of the surgical specialties who meets the following requirements:

* Serves a small town or rural community in the U.S. or Canada
* Is a Fellow or Associate Fellow in good standing
* Is under 55 years of age on the date the application is filed

Activities
The Oweida Scholar will attend the annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, which will be held in San Francisco, CA, October 23–27, 2011. He or she will also attend the annual meeting of the Scholarships Committee and the rural surgeons forum, to meet with rural colleagues and to receive his or her check.

Financial Support
The successful applicant will receive the sum of $5,000 U.S. This amount is to be used to help defray travel expenses for the Clinical Congress, postgraduate course fees, hotel costs, and per diem expenses during the Clinical Congress. Preferential housing in a thrifty hotel near the Congress site will be made available to the scholar. The scholar will make his or her own travel arrangements.

The Executive Committee of the Board of Governors will select the scholar after review and evaluation of the applications.

Applicants for the Oweida Scholarship should submit the following items:

* One copy of the applicant’s current curriculum vitae
* One copy of a one-page essay, discussing the following specific items:
o Why the applicant wishes to receive the Oweida Scholarship
o Why the applicant believes he or she is qualified to receive the scholarship
o Why the applicant characterizes his or her practice as serving a small community

A scholar and an alternate will be selected, and all applicants will be notified of the outcome of the selection process by March 31, 2011.

Please send applications for this scholarship to: Scholarships Section, American College of Surgeons, 633 N. Saint Clair St., Chicago, IL 60611-3211.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is December 15, 2010.

The Oweida Scholar must attend the full week of the Clinical Congress in the year for which it is designated; the award cannot be postponed. The Oweida Scholar will provide a brief report on his or her experiences at the Clinical Congress for possible future publication in the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. A simple accounting for the award is also required. These items are due by December 1, 2011.

Questions may be directed to the ACS Scholarships Administrator, 312-202-5281.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships: Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships is a matching grants program that connects the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with local grantmakers to fund new, community-based projects to improve health and health care for vulnerable populations. This special solicitation seeks nominations from diversity-focused funders for projects to reduce violence in traditionally underserved communities that are defined by race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity or rural/frontier location.

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:
To be considered for funding through the RWJF Local Funding Partnerships, each proposal must include the following parties:

An eligible nominating funder who will propose a funding partnership with RWJF to support a proposed project of a local nonprofit organization; and
A nonprofit applicant organization classified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Eligible Nominating Funders
To nominate projects for Peaceful Pathways, a grantmaking organization must be tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and must represent a community of color or diversity that is traditionally underserved by mainstream philanthropy.

Selection criteria can be found in the complete call for proposals brochure or the program's Web site.

Key Dates:
Optional applicant conference calls will be scheduled. Information will be posted at www.localfundingpartnerships.org under How to Apply.
Proposals may be submitted at any time throughout 2010.
Submitted proposals will be processed for review on the following dates: May 5, 2010, September 1, 2010 and January 5, 2011.

Total Award:
Up to $1 million is available in 2010.
Up to eight matching grants of between $50,000 and $200,000 each will be awarded.

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)

Add-a-Day Scientific Conference Grants

These grants support Add-a-Day conferences which are those meetings that occur at the beginning or end of a scientific conference other than American Psychological Association.

Deadline: June 1, 2010; December 1, 2010

Sponsor: Science Directorate

Add-a-Day conferences are those meetings that occur at the beginning or end of a scientific conference other than APA (e.g., Society for Ingestive Behavior or Psychonomics Society). The other organization need not be primarily psychology oriented. The conference may result in a volume or an alternative form of publication.

The funding range is from $500 to $3,000.

Prospective applicants are urged to consult with APA Science Directorate staff for advice on the conference organization and application (e.g., formats or budget allowances). The committee makes recommendations for funding to the Science Directorate. The review period is approximately 8 weeks.

The requirements below must be met in order to submit a proposal.

* One of the primary organizers must be a member of APA.
* Only academic institutions accredited by a regional body may apply. Independent research institutions must provide evidence of affiliation with such an accredited institution. Joint proposals from cooperating institutions are encouraged.
* Conferences may be held only in the United States, its possessions, or Canada.
* APA governance groups including APA Divisions and related entities are not eligible for funding under this program.

Conference proceedings and presentation materials (including electronic presentations) must be submitted to APA three months after the date the conference is held. APA will hold the conference proceedings for three years. If a book has not been published by APA or another publisher within the three-year holding period, APA will place the conference proceedings in PsycEXTRA.

PsycEXTRA is a companion database to the scholarly PsycINFO, which is designed to link academics, clinicians, librarians, consumers, policy-makers, and researchers to a variety of information sources covering psychology, behavioral science, and health; PsycEXTRA provides the readership with original documents, including proceedings, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, technical and annual reports, government reports, and consumer brochures.

Organizers should send the original proposal and seven copies including all appendices to the Science Directorate by the deadline.

Contact:
APA Science Directorate
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
202/336-6000
202/336-6123 TDD
science@apa.org

Rural Access to Anesthesia Care Scholarship

The American Society of Anesthesiologists sponsors a scholarship for medical students introducing future physicians to rural anesthesia. Medical students can apply for scholarships valued up to $750 to pay for travel and lodging expenses for a rural clerkship.

Around 25 percent of the U.S. population lives in rural areas, but only 12.5 percent of surgeons practice in those areas. It is estimated that less than 5 percent of the total number of active anesthesiologists practice in rural areas.

As described by the United States Census Bureau, "rural areas comprise open country and settlements with fewer than 2,500 residents; areas designated as rural can have population densities as high as 999 per square mile or as low as one person per square mile."

Eligibility

Applicants must be a third or fourth year medical student in an approved U.S. program and a medical student member of the ASA ($10 annual fee). An ASA member mentor must oversee the medical student's activities during the rotation.

If you are interested in applying but not sure of a rural area or a mentor, the ASA can help. Contact the ASA Medical Student Component at medicalstudentcomponent@asahq.org or (847) 825-5586 for assistance in identifying a rural area and mentor.

Application Steps

Fill out the scholarship application and submit along with a 250 word essay explaining why you are interested in the Rural Anesthesia Grant Program to the ASA Medical Student Component, 520 N. Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068 or fax to (847) 825-5658.

Applications may be submitted four times each year based on this schedule.

By January 1 for a March 1 or later start of rotation
By April 1 for a June 1 or later start of rotation
By July 1 for a September 1 or later start of rotation
By October 1 for a December 1 or later start of rotation
The application will be forwarded to the Committee on Rural Access to Anesthesia Care for review and a final decision. The committee will notify the applicant of its decision by 30 days before the rotation starts.

Distribution of Funds

Approved applicants will receive an initial stipend of $250 at the time of acceptance. The balance of the grant, up to $500, will be paid when expenses including receipts are submitted, the student and mentor evaluation forms, along with the medical school registrar proof of completion have been received by the ASA.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I know if my rotation hospital is considered rural and qualifies for the program?

Contact the ASA Medical Student Component at medicalstudentcomponent@asahq.org or (847) 825-5586 to find out if your hospital is in a rural area and qualifies for the program.

Will my participation in this program count toward my medical school’s requirements for training and graduation?

The ASA is not involved in the decision whether this program will count toward graduation. Please contact your medical school.

What if my expenses exceed $750 during my rotation due to travel or living expenses?

The maximum grant for this ASA sponsored grant is $750. We encourage you to check with the sponsoring program for other possible support (funds, housing etc.) that may be available.

Once my application is approved, how soon will I receive the funds so I can make my travel plans and other arrangements?

The $250 initial check will be mailed to you within 5-7 business days after the committee has notified ASA of your acceptance.

Will the ASA provide me with something that shows I have successfully completed this program?

The ASA Committee on Rural Access to Anesthesia Care will send you a letter of completion to use as documentation for your medical school and to include in your curriculum vitae.