Funding Opportunities

Condition Specific
Below is a list of funding opportunities related to providing medical homes for children with special needs

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Active Living Research Program Seeks New Connections Applications
Deadline: August 28, 2008

Active Living Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that supports research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, decreasing sedentary behaviors, and preventing obesity among children and adolescents. The program places special emphasis on strategies with the potential to reach racial/ethnic populations and children living in low-income communities who are at highest risk for obesity. Grants funded under this Call for Proposals are expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

This funding opportunity is for New Connections grants awarded through the Active Living Research program. The New Connections initiative brings new perspectives to RWJF grantmaking by supporting researchers and investigators from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities. Two types of New Connections grants will be funded under this CFP: research grants and publication grants. Applicants must represent populations historically disadvantaged and underrepresented in research, including racial/ethnic minority researchers, those from low-income communities, and first-generation college graduates; have completed a doctorate or terminal degree (e.g., Ph.D., M.D., J.D.) within the past seven years (after September 1, 2001); and demonstrate evidence of research skills relevant to the proposed study or publication.

A total of up to $286,000 will be awarded for research and publication grants (five research grants for twelve- to eighteen-months of up to $50,000 each; and three publication grants for twelve months of up to $12,000 each).
Visit the RWJF Web site for complete program information and application procedures. http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20402

Comprehensive Centers of Excellence Grant, National Center on Minority
Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), National Institutes of Health
Deadline: August 29, 2008

The NCMHD solicits grant applications from institutions/organizations that
propose to establish a comprehensive Center of Excellence (COE)
contributing to either the improvement of minority health, the elimination
of health disparities, or both.
For more information about this announcement, go to
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17785.

Samsung's Hope for Education Technology Program Invites Essay Entries Deadline: August 31, 2008

Hope for Education was created by Samsung in 2004 to provide U.S. K-12 schools with the latest technology products to assist in the educational process. Each year the program challenges students, teachers, parents, or anyone who knows of a school in need to write an essay regarding the importance of technology in education, and how it can benefit a school in their community.

In the past four years, through a partnership with Microsoft Corporation, the Hope for Education program has provided more than $7 million in Samsung technology and software to K-12 schools in the United States. This year the program has added another partner, DIRECTV, Inc., who will provide cash grants and educational television programming packages to the winning schools.

Students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members can enter the contest by going to the program's Web site and submitting a 100-word essay about their school, answering the question: "How has technology educated you on helping the environment, and how or why has it changed your behavior to be more environmentally friendly?" Essay entries may be written in either Spanish or English.
Schools that submit essays are entered for the opportunity to win the grand prize of over $200,000 in Samsung technology, Microsoft software, a cash grant from DIRECTV, as well as the School Choice educational television programming package. Samsung will also be working with NEADS(Dogs For Deaf and Disabled Americans) to provide a classroom assistance dog to a special education teacher at the grand prize winning school. In addition, 30 first prize schools will each be awarded over $60,000 in Samsung technology, Microsoft software, and cash grants from DIRECTV, as well as the School Choice package.
Visit the Hope for Education Web site for complete program details.
http://pages.samsung.com/us/hopeforeducation/index.html

Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA), Office of Rural Health Policy, Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant
Deadline: September 15, 2008

The major focus of the Network Planning Grant Program is to provide support to rural entities in the development of formal health care networks.  The network members should not have a significant history of collaboration and prior collaboration among the Network members is not required.  Formative networks are not sufficiently evolved to apply for a three year Rural Health Network Development implementation grant and do not have a formalized structure.  The grant program supports one year of planning to develop and assist health care networks become operational.  For more information please visit, Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program.

Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities from the National Science Foundation
Deadline: September 15, 2008

The Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities (RAPD) program supports research that will lead to the development of new technologies, devices, or software for persons with disabilities. Research may be supported that is directed to the characterization, restoration, and/or substitution of human functional ability or cognition, or to the interaction of persons with disabilities and their environment. Areas of particular recent interest are disability-related research in neuroscience/neuroengineering and rehabilitation robotics.

For more information, go to http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=14823

Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Offers Support for Patient Needs
Deadline: October 1, 2008

The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation is accepting applications from individuals with multiple sclerosis across the United States for the Brighter Tomorrow grant program. The goal of the grant is to provide individuals with MS with goods or services (valued at up to $1,000 per recipient) to improve their quality of life by enhancing safety, self-sufficiency, comfort, or well-being. Recipients of the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation's Brighter Tomorrow grant have received car repairs, ramps, wheelchairs, walkers, eyeglasses, computers, appliances, televisions, furniture, therapeutic equipment, hobby supplies, retreats, and various home modifications.

To qualify, a person must be 18 years of age or older and diagnosed with MS, or the parent of a minor child diagnosed with MS, and be a permanent U.S. resident. They must not have any other means of fulfilling the need they express. Applicants are asked to provide basic personal and financial information, and to write a brief essay of 100 words or less to describe how the grant would help them have A Brighter Tomorrow.

United Healthcare Children's Foundation Grants Available for Families Struggling with Child Health-Related Costs
Deadline: Open

The UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation Children's Foundation has announced that new grants are available to help children who need critical health care treatment, services, or equipment not covered or not fully covered by their parents' health benefit plans.

UHCCF provides grants to families to help pay for child health care services such as speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy sessions, prescriptions, and medical equipment such as wheelchairs, orthotics, and eyeglasses. Parents and legal guardians may apply for grants of up to $5,000 each for child medical services and equipment by completing an online application at the UHCCF Web site. To be eligible for grants, children must be 16 years of age or younger. Families must meet economic guidelines, reside in the United States, and be covered by a commercial health benefit plan. To learn more visit http://www.uhccf.org/

Last Updated August 7, 2008