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Grant Opportunities
The first step of any grant application or letter of intent at Wesleyan is the Grant Checklist, found in the Electronic Portfolio under Administrative Applications, WFS-Production Database.
Please contact a member of the Foundation and Corporate Relations staff if we can be of any assistance. We look forward to working with you.
Carol Scully, director, x3964
Betsy McCormick, associate director, x2863
Carolyn Kaufman, assistant director, x2580
Trish Holycross, administrative assistant, x4875
Child Health Research Awards Program
The Charles H. Hood Foundation was incorporated in 1942 to improve the health and quality of life for children throughout New England. Today's research projects encompass many disciplines that have contributed to pediatric discoveries while launching the careers of promising junior faculty. The intent of the Award is to support newly independent faculty, provide the opportunity to demonstrate creativity, and assist in the transition to other sources of research funding. Research projects must be relevant to child health.
Online Application Deadline
Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 12:00 Noon (U.S. Eastern Time)
For Application Materials click on Read More Link below
Funding Period and Award Amount
-July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2014
Up to five $150,000 awards at $75,000 per year
(inclusive of 10% institutional overhead)
Applicant, Project and Geographic Eligibility
-Investigators within five years of their first faculty appointment
-Research with relevance to child health
-Hypothesis-driven clinical, basic science, public health, health services research and epidemiology projects
-Nonprofit academic, medical or research institutions in New England
-United States citizenship or residency is not required
Please direct any questions to 617-695-9439 or GLockwood@hria.org
NIH released the following FOA:
Adolescents Evaluation of NIAAA's Alcohol Screening Guide for Children and the purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to solicit applications to evaluate the new NIAAA alcohol screener for youth as described in "Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner's Guide". Although the questions were empirically developed, are based on a vast amount of data from national surveys as well as numerous prospective studies, and have high sensitivity and specificity in the sample studied, it is important that the precision of the screener be evaluated in practice.
Applications are being sought that will evaluate the two question screener in youth ages 9 to 18 both: 1) as a predictor of alcohol risk, alcohol use, and alcohol problems including AUDs; and 2) as an initial screen for other behavioral health problems, for example other drug use, smoking, or conduct disorder. Budgets for direct costs may not exceed $500,000 per year and there is a five year maximum grant period.
This proposal is using the RO1 funding mechanism. Letters of Intent are due by January 15th and full proposals are due on February 15th. Please keep in mind that because of the elimination of the error correction window we must submit NIH proposals two days in advance of the actual deadline, in this case February 13th.
Salud America!: "Fighting Obesity among Latino Children"
Salud America! ( http://www.salud-america.org/ ) is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ( http://www.rwjf.org/ ) that supports research on environmental and policy solutions to the epidemic of obesity among Latino children. The program also aims to develop a network of researchers whose findings will help identify the most promising obesity-prevention strategies specifically tailored for Latino communities. Findings will advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
The specific objectives of this Call For Proposals are to increase the skills and experience of researchers who are working to reduce and prevent obesity among Latino children and to identify the most promising policy-relevant strategies to reduce and prevent obesity among Latino children.
Investigators must propose a project in one of two general areas:
1) research that has strong potential to inform policy; or 2) the evaluation of an existing policy or program, its implementation, or its impact. Both research and evaluation proposals must focus on one topic from the detailed lists included in the full CFP.
Proposals must be submitted by an educational institution or non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that is not a private foundation under Section 509(a) of the IRS Code, that is located in the United States, and with which the proposed investigator is affiliated.
Because the projects funded under this program require close collaboration with Latino communities, proposals are strongly encouraged from investigators who are of Latino descent and who have demonstrated a commitment to working with the Latino community or who can demonstrate a desire and capability to work on the issue of Latino childhood obesity. Research proposals submitted by junior investigators will be considered separately from proposals that are submitted by more experienced investigators.
A maximum of twenty grants will be awarded through this single funding opportunity. Grants of up to $75,000 each, including indirect costs, will be awarded for a period of up to twenty-four months.
See Web site for the complete Call For Proposals below.
The Whitehall Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation
They focus exclusively on assisting basic research in vertebrate (excluding clinical) and invertebrate neurobiology in the United States. Investigations should specifically concern neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior. Research grants ($30,000 to $75,000 per year) are available to established scientists of all ages working at accredited institutions in the United States and a Grants-In-Aid program (one year, no more than $30,000) designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established but senior scientists may apply for these as well.
The next deadline for the mandatory letter of intent is April 15th. There are additional LOI deadlines on October 1st and January 15th.
For more information click link below:
The International Advisory Board is pleased to announce the Call for Papers on climate change
The Fourth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses will be held 12-13 July 2012 in partnership with the Climate Impacts Group at The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. This interdisciplinary conference is for scholars, teachers, and practitioners from any professional discipline who share an interest in-and concern for-the societal impacts of climate change. Within this broad context, this year's conference theme emphasizes local and regional responses to global issues of climate change and impact. Proposals are invited that address this theme through one of the following categories:
a) Scientific Evidence: What are our sources of evidence for global, regional, and local climate impacts? What methods and resources do we use that can be shared with others to help them construct knowledge useful to their regions and communities?
b) Ecosystem Impacts: How are specific ecosystems being managed to reduce or divert the impact of global or regional climate change effects? What lessons can be learned from studies of successful and unsuccessful interventions.
c) Human Impacts: How do we conceptualize the dual roles of humans as agents of climate change and as victims of climate change impacts? What are the results of climate change in developed and developing worlds? In agricultural and urban communities? Across different types of geological, political, and social environments?
d) Framing Responses: What initiatives, resource management and educational strategies can we design to address the environmental, human, and societal impacts of climate change? What roles do politics and government policy play at the local, regional, international, and global levels? How can we predict and prepare for the social, political, and legal ramifications of new initiatives?
Proposals for paper presentations, workshops, posters/exhibits, or colloquia are invited. The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 07 February 2012. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website -
Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication, as well as access to the Journal.
Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this conference, we also encourage you to present on the conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details. We also invite you to subscribe to our monthly email newsletter, and subscribe to our Facebook, RSS, or Twitter feeds at http://www.Climate-Conference.com
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Seattle in July 2012.