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Volume 1 No.1 HEA
No. Name of Grant Funding Source
1 Foster's Community Grants Foster's Group
Limited
2 Allen Foundation Grants Allen Foundation, Inc.
3 Champ Children's Health and Wellness Build-A-Bear
Workshop Bear Hugs
Grant Program Foundation
4 Quality of Life Grants Program Christopher Reeve
Foundation
5 Needle Exchange Program Comer Foundation
6 Caremark Community Grants CVS/Pharmacy
7 Federated Department Stores Foundation Macy's Foundation
Grants
8 Gerber Foundation Grants Gerber Foundation
9 Jeff Gordon Foundation Grants Jeff Gordon
Foundation
10 M·A·C AIDS Fund Grants MAC
11 Nathan Cummings Foundation Grants Nathan Cummings
Foundation
12 W.H.O. Foundation Grants W.H.O. Foundation
13 The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations The Arthur Vining
Davis Foundations
Grants
14 Chatlos Foundation Grants Chatlos Foundation
15 The Commonwealth Fund Grants The Commonwealth
Fund
16 Capacity Building Grants William J. and
Dorothy K. O’Neill
Foundation
17 Public Health Conference Support CDC
Program (CDC-PA-HM08-801) (CFDA:
93.283)
18 Nutrition and Alcohol-Related Health NIH
Outcomes (PA-07-403) (CFDA: 23.273,
93.293)
19 Adult Viral Hepatitis Prevention CDC
Coordinator (CDC-RFA-PS08-801) (CFDA:
93.283)
20 Health Promotion Among Racial and NIH
Ethnic Minority Males (PA-07-421) (CFDA:
93.361, 93.393, 93.837)
21 truth® or Consequences Youth Tobacco Amercian Legacy
Foundation
Prevention Grants Program
Grant announcements are provided as leads to interested organizations,
Please report nonworking links to: paul.overly@baltimorecity.gov
e 1 No.1 HEALTH GRANTS ALERT for Baltimore Community Ba
Focus Available Funding
Projects promoting wellness, culture, or environment Not stated
"… projects that primarily benefit programs for human nutrition in Not stated
the areas of health, education, training, and research."
1. childhood disease research foundations Grant amounts typically range
2. organizations that promote child safety from $1,000 to $5,000
3. charities that serve children with special needs
"… support nonprofit organizations that address the needs of Maximum award: $25,000
persons living with paralysis (particularly spinal cord injury) and their
families and caregivers. Funding is awarded in thirteen categories:
accessibility, advocacy, arts, assistive technology, children,
counseling, education, employment, health promotion, independent
living, practical service, sports and recreation, and therapeutic
riding."
"...support to not-for-profit organizations focused on needle Average single-year grants
exchange and other harm-reduction strategies within the drug-using range from $5,000 to $30,000
community, and seeks to facilitate the process between
organizations and communities committed to creating and
maintaining health."
"… programs targeting children under age 18 with disabilities that Not stated
address any of the following: health and rehabilitation services;
public schools promoting a greater level of inclusion in student
activities and extracurricular programs; creating opportunities or
facilities which give greater access to physical movement and play;
and health-care services for uninsured people [all ages]."
"… education, arts/culture, women's issues, HIV/AIDS, and Not stated
programs to assist youth and minorities."
"Priority is given to projects that improve infants' and young Not stated, but they indicate
children's nutrition, care, and development from the year before birth that projects should have
to three years of age. Programs should support a specific nutrition national or regional impact and
intervention and have defined outcome parameters. The foundation that the funding request
gives priority to projects of national or regional impact. Projects should reflect that scope… but
should be sufficiently focused to make a felt difference in the field of don't ask for too much!
interest."
"programs that support the physical and emotional health of children, Up to $15,000 per award
medical research for childhood diseases, and patient-assistance
programs for children. "
"Link Between Poverty and AIDS : ... basic needs such as food Grant amounts typically range
and housing to those living with HIV/AIDS;Models of Care: from $5,000 to $25,000
Developing hospitals and increasing the number of doctors and
nurses in countries that need it the most.Treatment Adherence:
Developing peer-based programs to help people adhere to their
treatment regimes.Prevention: Programs with a specific focus on
high risk populations such as youth, people over 50, and African
Americans."
Focus is on equal access to health care Not stated
"...grass-roots charities serving the overlooked needs of women and Not stated, but past grants
children." have ranged between $10,000
and $30,000 per award
"… efforts to encourage caring attitudes in the delivery of patient Grant awards range from
care. Projects should have potential for widespread practical $100,000 to $200,000
application and should be of interest to other groups. New ideas are
encouraged, especially if they facilitate communication between
patients (and their families) and doctors, nurses, and other
caregivers; ameliorate patient anxieties; strengthen trust and
cooperation; and foster caring attitudes."
"Medical concerns" and "Social concerns" are among the Grant awards range from
foundation's areas of interest $2,500 to $25,000
"To promote a high-performing health-care system that achieves Not stated
better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly
for society's most vulnerable members, including low-income people,
uninsured people, minority Americans, young children, and elderly
adults. The fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent
research on health-care issues and making grants to improve health-
care practice and policy."
"… develop or improve the effectiveness, impact and strength of the Not stated, but in 2006, they
organization’s Board of Trustees and/or its Board leadership; the made 36 health-related grants
organization’s strategic plan; the organization’s staff; the totalling approximately $1
organization’s programs" million, ranging from $1,000 to
$100,000 per award
"… dissemination and implementation of new cost-effective $2.6 million total for 100
intervention strategies through conference support funding. The awards
purpose of conference support funding is to provide partial support
for specific non-Federal conferences in the areas of health
promotion and disease prevention, education programs, and applied
research. "
"… broad range of research on the role of nutrition in the Not stated
development, prevention, and treatment of a variety of alcohol-
related health outcomes including alcohol dependence and
psychiatric co-morbidities, chronic and acute diseases, and organ
function and damage. Study designs may include biomedical
research, epidemiologic approaches, and intervention studies."
"… to improve the delivery of viral hepatitis prevention services in $5.2 million total for 56 awards
health-care settings and public health programs that serve adults at
risk for viral hepatitis."
"1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors (e.g., Total not stated; award ceiling:
sociodemographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the $200,000
health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males and
their subpopulations across the life cycle, and 2) solicit applications
focusing on the development and testing of culturally and
linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to
reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males
and their subpopulations age 21 and older.Focus
"… by developing local tobacco-use-prevention projects that are $70,000-$125,000 per year for
relevant to open-to-smoking, 12-to-17-year-old youth in the 2 years
community, and engage and promote young people as agents of
social change. Specifically, grantees will design and implement a
youth-driven tobacco-use-prevention project focused on creating
change in the community."
sted organizations, under the premise that they will explore further to determine their own eligibility a
altimorecity.gov
ore Community Based Organizations July 30, 2007
Deadlines Additional Information/ Comment
Application: September 19, 2007 On-line application required
Application: December 31, 2007
Deadlines not specified, but there are
two funding cycles annually; a Letter
of Inquiry is the first step in the
application process
Application: September 4, 2007
Applications: March 1, July 1, and
November 1 annually
Not stated On-line application required
No deadlines stated; trustees meet 4 "...organization[s] must be invited to apply online by a contributions
times per year to consider contact of the company. We are unable to accept unsolicited
applications applications. Organizations should contact the division that operates
a store in their geographic area." On-line application required.
Grant awards are approved in May
and November. Initial letters of inquiry
are accepted at any time but should
be submitted no later than five
months prior to these award dates.
For the May round, submit letters
prior to December 1; for the
November round, submit letters prior
to June 1.
Application: August 15, 2007
Application: September 15, 2007
Board considers applications twice a Process: letter of inquiry required, then the foundation may request a
year. Deadlines: August 15 and full application.
January 15.
Application: September 11, 2007
Ongoing "Preference will be given to institutions and organizations with the
visibility and organizational capacity to develop programs likely to be
replicated nationally. "
Ongoing
Ongoing
Application: September 17, 2007
Letter of Intent Deadlines: Cycle A:
November 9, 2007 Cycle B: February
1, 2008 Application Deadlines: Cycle
A: December 10, 2007 Cycle B:
March 3, 2008
k This FOA will utilize the NIH Research Project Grant (R01) award
mechanism and runs in parallel with an FOA of identical scientific
scope, PA -07-404 and PA-07-405 that solicits applications under the
R03 and R21 mechanisms, respectively.
Application: August 31, 2007
Multiple receipt dates per NIH "This FOA will use the Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant
schedule: 10/1, 2/1, 6/1 mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA ofidentical scientific
scope, PA-07-422 that solicits applications under the R01
mechanism. "
Letter of Intent: September 7, 2007;
Application: November 20, 2007
termine their own eligibility and likelihood of receiving funding.
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http://www.allenfoundation.
org/
http://www.buildabear.com/
aboutus/community/grants/
champ.aspx
http://www.christopherreeve
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1029295/k.64F6/Quality_of
_Life_Grants.htm
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http://www.cvs.com/corpInf
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rg/WHO_Funding.htm
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http://www.chatlos.org/defa
ult.htm
http://www.commonwealthf
und.org/grantinfo/grantinfo_
show.htm?doc_id=224828
http://www.oneillfdn.org/app
lication.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/f
unding/HM08-801.htm
Click here for PA-07-403 Click here Click here
for PA-07- for PA-07-
404 405
Hepatitis Prevention
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/ For PA-07-
guide/pa-files/PA-07- 422, click
421.html here
http://www.americanlegacy.
org/808.htm
Volume 1 No.2 HEALTH GRANT
No. Name of Grant Funding
Source
1 Tommy Hilfinger Foundation Grants Tommy Hilfinger
Corporate
Foundation, Inc.
2 MetLife Foundation Grants MetLife
Foundation
3 Public Welfare Foundation Grants Public Welfare
Foundation
4 RGK Foundation Grants RGK Foundation
5 Wachovia Foundation Grants Wachovia
Foundation
6 Walgreens Grants Walgreens
7 Advancing Measurement of Equity Robert Wood
Johnson
and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Foundation
Health Care Quality
Grant announcements are provided as leads to interested organizations, under th
eligibility and likelihood of receiving funding.
Please report nonworking links to: paul.overly@baltimorecity.gov
2 HEALTH GRANTS ALERT for Baltimore Community Based Org
Focus Available Funding
"… the foundation is committed to investing in health-related Grant awards range
organizations and cultural programs that impact a diverse from $10,000 to
population of youth. $25,000
Health is one of the "broad areas of concern" that MetLife Not stated
Foundation funds. No more specific information is available.
"… Advocacy for policies to reform community and state-based Approximately $5.5
health care systems to serve everyone better; Elimination of million total awarded in
hunger, especially among vulnerable populations such as children health areas during
and disabled people; Promotion of self-determination, self-help and 2007
recovery of mental health care consumers; Education to prevent
HIV/AIDS where the rate of infection is growing rapidly and to
enlighten public policy on HIV/AIDS; Comprehensive education
aimed at high-risk youth and adults responsible for youth, focusing
on preventing unplanned pregnancies, halting the spread of
HIV/AIDS and addressing other reproductive health issues. Also,
education to advance public policy on reproductive healthl The right
of all women to make informed, consensual, safe and affordable
choices on all aspects of reproductive health."
Health is one of the "broad areas " that RGK Foundation funds, While the foundation
including "programs that promote the health and well-being of does award some
children, [and]programs that promote access to health services." grants of more than
$25,000, they anticipate
that most grants
awarded will be under
$25,000.
Health is a secondary emphasis: "enable and sustain independence Not stated
for individuals and families; ensure access to health education
programs; ensure access to quality health care"
Walgreens awards grants in the following program areas: (1) non- Not stated
hospital-based health agencies (2) Walgreens One-on-One tutorial
programs in inner city neighborhoods where Walgreens operates.
"… improve our understanding of how to measure equity and $3 million total for
patient-centered care and the role of both in promoting quality … projects lasting up to
Three topics have been identified to address specific knowledge two years
gaps needed to advance our regional quality strategy:
Topic 1—Performance Measurement
Topic 2—Patients' Experience with Care and Survey Instruments
Topic 3—Shared Decision-making and Diverse Populations"
sted organizations, under the premise that they will explore further to determine their own
altimorecity.gov
Community Based Organizations August 21, 2007
Deadlines Additional Information/ Link
Comment
Application: October 1, http://usa.tommy.com/opencms/opencms
2007 /companyinfo/foundation/aboutthefounda
tion.html
No deadlines http://www.metlife.com/Applications/Corp
orate/WPS/CDA/PageGenerator/0,1674,
P296,00.html
No deadlines http://www.publicwelfare.org/
No deadlines http://www.rgkfoundation.org/guidelines.p
hp
No deadlines http://www.wachovia.com/inside/page/0,,
139_414_430,00.html
No deadlines http://www.walgreens.com/about/commu
nity/guidelines.jsp?cf=ln
Brief proposals: September http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/
25, 2007 cfp.jsp?ID=19921
to determine their own
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