President’s Discretionary Grant Award
Connecticut Health Foundation (CT Health) | Changing Health Systems
Deadline: Continuous Submission
Award Amount: Up to $25,000
Summary: CT Health awards grants of $1,000 to $25,000 to organizations and institutions that respond to the foundation’s overall mission. Discretionary grant funding is often provided on a one-time basis for immediate projects that align with CT Health’s strategic plan. Examples include projects that are testing new ideas, time-sensitive, or work that requires emergency funding. Discretionary grant funding is often provided on a one-time basis for immediate projects that align with CT Health’s strategic plan. Examples include projects that are testing new ideas, time-sensitive, or work that requires emergency funding.
National Institute for Health (NIH) Care Management Research & Educational Foundation
Deadline: Oct. 25, 2024
Award Amount: $500,000/year
Summary: NIHCM Foundation supports health reporting and education projects that inform public and policymaker awareness about health issues in ways that improve health and health care.
Grants provide funding for:
- Health reporting by national or local outlets, non-profit media organizations, and freelancers
- Education for journalists
- Visual storytelling
- Documentary film public engagement campaigns
Research Grants to Rigorously Evaluate Innovative and Promising Strategies to Prevent Firearm-Related Violence and Injuries
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control/CDC/DHHS
Deadline:
Award Amount: $1,950,000 over 3 years ($650K/year)
Summary: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC, Injury Center) is soliciting investigator-initiated research to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of innovative and promising strategies to prevent all forms of firearm-related violence and injuries. For the purposes of this announcement, firearm-related violence includes mass shooting incidents, other firearm homicides/assaults, firearm suicides/self-harm, unintentional firearm deaths and injuries, and firearm-related crime. The intent of this announcement is to support research to evaluate the effectiveness of strategies to keep individuals, families, schools, and communities safe from firearm-related violence, injuries, deaths, or crime.
Evaluate STEADI-based Fall Prevention in Assisted Living Facilities
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control/CDC/DHHS
Deadline:
Amount: $2,800,000 over 4 years ($700K/year)
Summary: This NOFO is intended to fund the adaptation, implementation, and evaluation of the effectiveness of CDC’s Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries (STEADI) fall prevention initiative and related tools in nursing home, assisted living facility, or long-term care facility settings (referred to collectively as assisted living facilities). CDC will fund an awardee to adapt the STEADI algorithm and materials for two or more assisted living facilities, implement, and then evaluate the use of those materials and programming. Of particular interest is research that focuses on populations experiencing high rates of older adult falls and fall injuries within these assisted living facilities. These disproportionately affected populations could include: Tribal populations; rural populations; populations disadvantaged by reduced economic stability or limited education attainment; and populations with cognitive (e.g., dementia, Alzheimer’s disease), comorbidities, or physical limitations.
Mental Health Research Dissertation Grant to Enhance Workforce Diversity (R36 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
Deadline: Dec. 10, 2024
Summary: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to enhance the diversity of the mental health research workforce by providing dissertation awards in all research areas within the strategic priorities of the NIMH to individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences research. This FOA provides support to complete a mental health-related doctoral research project and includes funds not readily available in NRSA predoctoral (F31) awards, which limit support to stipends, tuition and fees, and institutional allowan