Additional Funding Opportunities for Week of November 2, 2009

• Title: Health Impact Project
  Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/The Pew Charitable Trusts
  URL: http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20921&cid=xrs_rss-fa
  Deadline: November 5, 2009 conference call for interested parties (registration required). No application deadline specified.
  Amount: Up to $150,000
  Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organizations
  Abstract: Promotes the use of health impact assessment (HIA) to help decision-makers in a wide variety of fields better assess proposed policies, programs and projects and make decisions that reduce unnecessary health risks, protect and improve health and, ultimately, decrease health and social costs. The Health Impact Project will support up to 15 HIA demonstration projects intended to inform decisions on proposed local, tribal or state policies, projects or programs. We may also fund a limited number of HIAs that address a federal decision that impacts a specific state, local community or region.

• Title: American Art
  Sponsor: The Henry Luce Foundation
  URL: http://www.hluce.org/lucefundinaa.aspx
  Deadline: April 1, 2010
  Amount: Unspecified
  Abstract: Supports scholarly exhibitions and their related publications that contribute significantly to the study of American art. Each proposed project must result in a tangible product that can be added to the body of scholarship in the field of American art. Applicants must be the originator of the exhibition project, not a subsequent venue. All periods and genres of American art history are included. Intellectual merit and potential contribution to scholarship are the most important criteria for evaluating proposals. Demonstrable impact of the artist or subject must be substantiated. The program is aesthetically and object-based and does not include projects that are primarily historical, documentary, sociological, or that concern private collections. Museum permanent collection projects are not included in this category.

• Title: Distinguished Fellows Program
  Sponsor: William T. Grant Foundation
  URL: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/funding_opportunities/fellowships/william_t__grant_distinguished_fellows
  Deadline: January 6, 2010
  Amount: Up to $175,000 over up to two years; possibility of $25,000 in support for the fellowship host site.
  Eligibility: 8–20 years of cumulative experience
  Abstract: The William T. Grant Distinguished Fellows Program is designed to increase the supply of, demand for, and use of high-quality research in the service of improved youth outcomes. To accomplish this goal, the program gives influential mid-career researchers the opportunity to immerse themselves in practice or policy settings and conversely influential practitioners and policymakers the opportunity to work in research settings.
  
  Examples of appropriate fellowships include:
  • A university professor, expert in research on teaching practices in high school, proposes to work for a school year in two large urban high schools (one semester per school).
  • A university-based sociologist, expert in using quantitative methods to estimate the effects of parental job loss on youth, proposes to work full-time for six months in a city’s Department of Labor.

  Note: Recipients are predominantly Ph.D.s and M.D.s affiliated with universities and medical schools.

• Title: 2010-11 Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program
  Sponsor: The Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program
  URL: http://www.whitaker.org/
  Deadline: January 25, 2010
  Amount: Stipend commensurate with recipient’s experience and expected expenses in the host country.
  Eligibility: U.S. citizen or permanent resident; no more than three years from most recent degree, or currently enrolled.
  Abstract: The Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program makes it possible for emerging leaders in U.S. biomedical engineering (or bioengineering) to undertake a self-designed project that will enhance their own careers within the field. For the 2010-11 competition, the Whitaker Program intends to fund approximately fifty high-quality projects. Biomedical engineers can use the Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program to go overseas to help further their careers as well as the field of BME. Potential overseas activities could include conducting research at an academic institution, interning at a policy institute, establishing ties between home and host institutions, or pursuing post-doctoral research.

• Title: 2011 KSTF Research Fellowships
  Sponsor: Knowles Science Teaching Foundation
  URL: http://www.kstf.org/fellowships/research.html
  Deadline: June 30, 2010 for pre-proposals; January 5, 2011 for full proposals
  Amount: $110,000 over two years
  Eligibility: Ph.D. and still pre-tenure as of July 1, 2010
  Abstract: The KSTF Research Fellowship is intended to support research aimed at explicating, understanding or enhancing the recruitment, preparation, induction, mentoring and retention of high school science and mathematics teachers in United States schools. The award is intended primarily for salary replacement. However, funds may also be used to purchase research equipment, provide stipends to research participants, travel to conferences to present the research proposed, hire research assistants, work with consultants or to pay for services such as transcription.