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Digest of Federal Grants with Faith-Based and Community Organization Eligibility
The grant opportunities this week for community and faith-based organizations are through programs administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Potential applicants should be aware that some grant programs require specific technical expertise, or experience in particular foreign countries. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Strengthening Graduate-Level Public Health Education in the Government of the Republic of Namibia under PEPFAR grant. The purpose of this announcement is to strengthen graduate-level public health education in Namibia, to expand HIV/AIDS expertise, and to mobilize faculty and students in order to more comprehensively address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Namibia. The objectives of this announcement are to: enhance the graduate-level program at the University of Namibia to provide a masters level program in Health Policy and Management, and certificate programs in nutrition and strategic information; promote graduate-level education in public health to Namibians, including attracting Masters of Public Health students without a degree in nursing or medicine into the training; increase the applicability of graduate-level public health education to HIV/AIDS; sustain the cadre of public-health professionals in Namibia; and expand the type and expertise of people available to work in public health. The application deadline is October 21, 2008. Approximately $2.5 million is available to fund one award over a five year project period. The full program announcement can be found here http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/PS09-908.htm. National Institutes of Health Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Archiving and Development of Socialbehavioral Datasets in Aging Related Studies (R03) grant. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) is seeking small grant R03 applications to stimulate and facilitate data archiving and development related to cognitive psychology, behavioral interventions in the context of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), demography, economics, epidemiology, behavioral genetics and other behavioral research on aging for secondary analysis. The data sets proposed for archiving and development should be of national significance and relate to the NIA/Division of Behavioral and Social Research (DBSR) priority areas of (1) Health Disparities; (2) Aging Minds; (3) Increasing Health Expectancy; (4) Health, Work, and Retirement; (5) Interventions and Behavior Change; (6) Genetics, Behavior, and the Social Environment; and (7) The Burden of Illness and the Efficiency of Health Systems. The creation of data extraction web tools for public use databases, such as Health and Retirement Study (HRS), National Long-Term Care Survey (NLTCS) or National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) is also of interest to NIA. The development of ex post harmonized cross-national data files is also encouraged. Similarly, archiving extracted files used for analysis with rich variable and codebook are encouraged. Applications under this announcement are due October 16, 2008. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The full announcement can be found here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-252.html. Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Centers of Excellence in Symptom Management Research or Centers of Excellence in Health Promotion/Disease Prevention (P30) grant. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will utilize the P30 grant mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA of identical scientific scope, Centers in Symptom Management Research or Centers in Health Promotion Disease Prevention: Building Research Teams for the Future (P20) that solicits applications under the P20 grant mechanism. The P30 announcement supports applications to develop interdisciplinary biobehavioral nursing research capacity in Symptom Management Research OR Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Research. Both proposed grant programs serve to sustain and enhance interdisciplinary, biobehavioral research for scientists conducting Symptom Management Research or Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Research by enabling development of research infrastructure and centralized resources in support of independent research programs in these science areas. Activities may: enhance research infrastructure by expanding and targeting research resources available to promote and support Symptom Management research or Health Promotion/Disease Prevention research; expand the number and quality of research projects aimed at improving (a) symptom management in persons of all ages with chronic and acute disorders, (b) the quality of life in persons with function-impairing symptoms and their caregivers, OR (c) expand the number and quality of research projects aimed at improving health and quality of life in both healthy and chronically ill persons of all ages; expand the number of research investigators involved in interdisciplinary nursing science research; increase the quantity and quality of research projects utilizing biobehavioral methods; or plan for and develop sustainability of research programs by building an active and growing research program with collaborations and partnerships both inside and outside of the applicant organization. A letter of intent should be received no later than November 15, 2008 and the full application deadline is December 15, 2008. Depending on availability of funds, support for this P30 FOA and the companion P20 FOA is anticipated to be approximately $2.0 million. The P30 full announcement can be found here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NR-09-002.html. The P20 announcement can be found here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NR-09-001.html. Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the R01 or R21 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Pathophysiology and Treatment grant. The R01 and R21 annoucements have identical scientific scope, but the R21 mechanism is intended to encourage new exploratory and developmental research projects [long-term projects or projects designed to increase knowledge in a well-established area will not be considered for R21 awards]. This announcement encourages investigator(s)-initiated applications that propose to examine the etiology, diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), in diverse groups and across the lifespan. Applications that address gaps in the understanding of the environmental and biological risk factors, the determinants of heterogeneity among patient populations, the common mechanisms influencing the multiple body systems that are affected in CFS are encouraged. The NIH is particularly interested in funding interdisciplinary research that will enhance our knowledge of the disease process and provide evidence based solutions to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and quality of life of all persons with CFS. This interdisciplinary research may include the building of scientific teams to study and develop biomarkers, innovative treatment modalities, and/or the modifiable risk and protective processes specifically targeted by preventive and/or treatment interventions. Innovative, well designed studies are needed to provide a better understanding of CFS, prevalence, pathogenesis, and pathophysiology, with the goal of developing improved diagnostic and intervention strategies The heterogeneity of the CFS population should be recognized in both basic, translational and clinical research; thus, sex, age/developmental stage, racial and ethnic variations should be considered along with any subtyping of CFS in the study designs. In addition studies using girls and women of reproductive age should control for phase of the menstrual cycle. This program encourages the integration of basic research with clinical observations in forming study hypotheses. The multisystemic nature of the disorder will benefit from a collaborative multidisciplinary (across scientific disciplines) team approach that will lead to the interdisciplinary solutions necessary to provide a foundation for understanding, diagnosing and treating this complex illness. The deadline for applications submitted under the R01 announcement is October 5, 2008 and October 16, 2008 for those submitted under the R21 announcement. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary for both announcements. The full R01 announcement can be accessed here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-246.html. The R21 can be found here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-247.html. Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (U10) grant. This Funding Opportunity Announcement, (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), invites applications from investigators interested in participating with the NICHD in an ongoing multi-center network -- called the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN) -- designed to investigate the safety and efficacy of treatment and management strategies to care for critically ill children, as well as to better understand the pathophysiological bases of critical illness and injury in childhood. The purpose of this FOA is to support the CPCCRN in the study of these problems by establishing and maintaining the infrastructure required for a network of academic centers to perform clinical trials and pertinent descriptive and translational research for children who are critically ill. This network, by rigorous use of appropriate scientific methodology, can study the required number of patients and provide answers more rapidly than individual centers acting alone. The CPCCRN will achieve its objectives through conducting clinical trials as well as translational and descriptive studies. Therapeutic trials may involve investigational drugs, drugs already approved but not currently labeled for use in pediatric populations, as well as diverse innovative and more traditional management strategies. Patients might be randomized between different doses, as well as modes and techniques of treatment or novel treatment versus standard therapy. It is also recognized that not all prioritized studies will be clinical trials. Pilot clinical trials and adequately powered descriptive studies are essential to the development of the database necessary to conduct successful Phase III trials. Indeed, the unique complexity of multiple organ system failure in the young and the pathophysiology that precedes or precipitates it, is not well understood. For examples of research appropriate to this program please see the full announcement. A letter of intent must be received by February 28, 2008 while the full application must be submitted by March 31, 2008. The NICHD intends to commit approximately $2.5 million to fund up to 6 to 8 new and/or competing continuation awards for CPCCRN clinical sites. The full announcement can be found here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-08-025.html. Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Genome-wide Association Studies of Treatment Response in Randomized Clinical Trials Coordinating Centers (U01) grant. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support a Coordinating Center (CC) to serve as a centralized resource to facilitate and support genome-wide association (GWA) studies in randomized controlled clinical trials to identify genetic variants associated with response to treatments for conditions of clinical or public health significance. The goal of this U01 program is to provide centralized support and infrastructure for the studies supported by the “Genome-wide Association Studies of Treatment Response in Randomized Clinical Trials - Study Investigators,” which will utilize existing clinical trial data and sample resources to: identify genetic variants that influence an individual's response to treatment; determine whether specific treatments are more or less effective in groups defined by genotype; and develop and disseminate innovative methods for adding genome-wide technologies to randomized clinical trials and interpreting the results in the context of a randomized treatment assignment. A letter of intent should be received no later than October 13, 2008 and the full application deadline is November 13, 2008. The total amount of funding to be awarded through this FOA is $3.7 million; it is anticipated that 1 award will be made under this announcement. The full program announcement can be found here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-08-005.html. Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Genome-wide Association Studies of Treatment Response in Randomized Clinical Trials Study Investigators (U01) grant. This funding opportunity announcement support genome-wide association (GWA) studies in randomized clinical trials to identify genetic variants associated with response to treatments for conditions of clinical or public health significance. The goal of this U01 program is to utilize existing clinical trial data and sample resources to: identify genetic variants that influence an individual's response to treatment; determine whether specific treatments are more or less effective in groups defined by genotype; and develop and disseminate innovative methods for adding genome-wide technologies to randomized clinical trials and interpreting the results in the context of a randomized treatment assignment. A letter of intent should be received no later than October 13, 2008 and the full application deadline is November 13, 2008. The total amount of funding to be awarded through this FOA is $8.8 million; it is anticipated that 3-5 awards will be made under this announcement. The full program announcement can be found here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-08-004.html. Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Innovative Computational and Statistical Methodologies for the Design and Analysis of Multilevel Studies on Childhood Obesity (R01) grant. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI),and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR),National Institutes of Health, solicits Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to develop, refine, and apply innovative statistical or computational methods for the analysis of multilevel determinants of childhood obesity or for the design of multilevel interventions. Multilevel observational and intervention studies include those that consider the range of biological, family, community, socio-cultural, environmental, policy, and macro-level economic factors that influence diet and physical activity in children. This FOA aims to encourage the development and application of novel methodologies, using secondary or simulated data, that can simultaneously examine factors of energy balance that span more than 3 levels of influence in children. The focus of this FOA is on the development and application of methods that can better cope with complex multi-source, multi-scale data structures in multilevel observational or intervention studies. Responsive applications should encompass factors that drive diet, physical activity, and/or sedentary behaviors in children that span across more than 3 levels of behavioral influence, ranging from genetic, molecular, cellular, and organ-system levels (i.e., beneath the skin) to family, institutions (schools, work sites or health care), community or municipality, state, national, and global levels (i.e., above the skin). At least two of the levels should be above the skin. Factors above the skin can encompass the social, cultural, physical, and policy environment. A letter of intent should be received no later than October 28, 2008 and the full application deadline is November 28, 2008. The participating organization(s) intend to commit $3.5 million to fund 7-8 applications over a five year project period. The full announcement can be found here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-08-023.html. Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Metals in Medicine (R01) grant. The objective of this announcement is to encourage research that bridges the areas of inorganic chemistry and medicine. The mechanisms by which organisms control transition metal ions and the roles of these metals in cellular regulation and signaling in health and disease are of principal interest. The interactions of synthetic inorganic complexes with living systems and their components are an additional area of interest. These areas are linked by the need to involve researchers having a deep understanding of inorganic chemistry in medically relevant research. Much of the work is expected to involve collaborations including chemists, biologists, and medical researchers. The results will be relevant to understanding the mechanisms of metal handling by biological systems and the basic cellular roles underlying the nutritional requirement for essential metals. It is expected that this research will also contribute to the identification of new targets for drug discovery, diagnostics, and future therapeutic approaches involving metal complexes, although drug development, per se, is not a focus of the program. The objective is to stimulate additional research in selected areas of bioinorganic chemistry and medicine. These areas include: (1) mechanisms of metal metabolism as well as the roles of metals in regulation of cell function and cell-cell interaction; and (2) basic research toward diagnostic and therapeutic applications of metal complexes and of metal chelators and to exploit the unique properties of metals for therapeutic applications. The emphasis of this announcement is on the ions, complexes, and organometallic compounds of the transition metals, lanthanides and actinides, post-transition metals, and metalloid elements. The deadline for applications under this announcement is October 5, 2008. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The full program announcement can be found here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-251.html. Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the NIAMS Building Interdisciplinary Research Team (BIRT) Revision Awards (R01) grant. This FOA issued by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health, solicits applications that promote collaborations among groups of investigators with a clear shared scientific area of interest in basic and/or translational research with high innovation and potentially high impact in the specific NIAMS mission-relevant areas solicited in this FOA. The scientific areas include: (1). Autoimmunity - Gender and sex factors; (2). Autoimmunity- Systems biology; (3). Developmental biology - Systems biology; (4).Regenerative Medicine - Immunology; (5). Soft tissue biology - Imaging technologies; (6).Tissue engineering -Developmental biology It is understood that such an application may entail high risk. Teams developed under this award are expected to make significant advances beyond the progress expected from the individual researchers alone. A successful interdisciplinary approach is defined as combining aspects of individual disciplines to provide a new conceptual approach to solving a problem that is likely to yield insights that could not have been achieved by an isolated laboratory. This FOA pilots the BIRT awards that provide up to one year of research revisions (formerly referred to as “supplements”) to active NIAMS R01s in order to establish collaborations in basic and/or translational research among groups of investigators with expertise in specific NIAMS mission-relevant areas. Revisions must either: (1) Develop new interdisciplinary collaborations among funded projects in different disciplines, or (2) Develop new interdisciplinary collaborations that significantly expand the scope of a funded project by adding expertise and approaches from another discipline. It is anticipated that a successful collaboration will result in development of new competitive research projects (such as new multi-PI R01s), or new directions for the competitive renewal of the parent grant, or creation of resources and facilities shared in scientific communities, or establishment of a series of scientific meetings/workshops that will effectively exchange ideas and disseminate information/knowledge of an interdisciplinary nature. A letter of intent must be received by January 19, 2008 and the full application is due February 19, 2009. Please see the full announcement for availability of funding. Please view the full announcements here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AR-09-001.html. Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the NIAMS Building Interdisciplinary Research Team (BIRT) Revision Awards (U01, U54, P01, P50, and P60) grants . The NIAMS intends to build interdisciplinary research teams that will lead to new scientific advances beyond the progress attainable in the absence of collaboration. A successful interdisciplinary approach is defined as combining aspects of individual disciplines to provide a new conceptual approach to solving a problem that is likely to yield insights that could not have been achieved by an isolated laboratory. This FOA pilots the BIRT awards that provide up to one (1) year of research revisions (formerly referred to as “supplements”) to active NIAMS U01, U54, P01, P50, or P60s in order to establish collaborations in basic and/or translational research among groups of investigators with expertise in specific NIAMS mission-relevant areas that: (1) Develop new interdisciplinary collaborations among funded projects in different disciplines, or (2) Develop new interdisciplinary collaborations that significantly expand the scope of a funded project by adding expertise and approaches from another discipline. Revision applications for incremental additions to existing projects that do not meet these criteria are outside the scope of this FOA. It is anticipated that a successful collaboration will result in development of new competitive research projects (such as new multi-PI R01s), or new directions for the competitive renewal of the parent grant, or creation of resources and facilities shared in scientific communities, or establishment of a series of scientific meetings/workshops that will effectively exchange ideas and disseminate information/knowledge of an interdisciplinary nature. A letter of intent must be received by January 19, 2008 and the full application is due February 19, 2009. Please see the full announcement for availability of funding. The full announcement can be found here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AR-09-002.htm. Office of Public Health and Science Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Family Planning Services Grants. This announcement seeks applications as authorized by Title X of the Public Health Service Act from public and nonprofit private entities to establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects, which shall provide family planning services to all persons desiring such services, with priority for services to persons from low-income families. Family planning services include clinical family planning and related preventive health services; information, education, and counseling related to family planning; and, referral services as indicated. Each year the OFP establishes program priorities that represent overarching goals for the Title X program. Project plans should be developed that address the 2009 Title X program priorities, and should provide evidence of the project's capacity to address program priorities as they evolve in future years. The 2009 program priorities are as follows: (1) Assuring the delivery of quality family planning and related preventive health services, where evidence exists that those services should lead to improvement in the overall health of individuals, with priority for services to individuals from low-income families; (2) Assuring access to a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and related preventive health services that include natural family planning methods, infertility services, and services for adolescents, including adolescent abstinence counseling. The broad range of services does not include abortion as a method of family planning; (3) Providing preventive health care services in accordance with nationally recognized standards of care. This includes, but is not limited to, breast and cervical cancer screening and prevention services; sexually transmitted disease (STD) and HIV prevention education, testing, and referral; and, other preventive health services; (4) Assuring compliance with State laws requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest; (5) Encouraging participation of families, parents, and/or legal guardians in the decision of minors to seek family planning services; and providing counseling to minors on how to resist attempts to coerce minors into engaging in sexual activities; and (6) Addressing the comprehensive family planning and other health needs of individuals, families, and communities through outreach to hard-to-reach and/or vulnerable populations, and partnering with other community-based health and social service providers that provide needed services. Approximately $74 million is available for competing Title X family planning services grant awards in 19 states, populations, and/or areas. Competing grant applications are invited for the following areas: Massachusetts - approximate available funding is $6,016,000. The application due date for this region is October 1, 2008. U.S. Virgin Islands - approximate available funding is $853,000. The application due date for this region is June 1, 2009. Delaware - approximate available funding is $1,091,000. The application due date for this region is December 1, 2008. Pennsylvania, Western and Northeast Area - approximate available funding is $ 5,709,000. The application due date for this region is March 1, 2009. Florida - approximate available funding is $ 9,662,000. The application due date for this region is March 1, 2009. Mississippi - approximate available funding is $ 4,980,000. The application due date for this region is March 1, 2009. Tennessee - approximate available funding is $ 6,491,000. The application due date for this region is March 1, 2009. Indiana - approximate available funding is $5,112,000. The application due date for this region is October 1, 2008. Ohio - approximate available funding is $4,852,000. The application due date for this region is November 1, 2008. Ohio: Central Ohio and Summit, Portage & Medina counties (Northeast Area) - approximate available funding is $859,000. The application due date for this region is March 1, 2008. For more detailed information please view the full program announcement. The full announcement can be found here https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/servlet/document.DownloadPdfPublicServlet?document_id=88910. UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Food Price Crisis in the Sahel Region West Africa grant. Livelihoods for rural and urban households across the Sahel remain precarious, and significant numbers of families live in a permanently vulnerable state. Forty-five percent of the Sahelian population lives on less than $1/day while the majority spends from 60% to 80% of their income on food. Because of this, even small shocks, like relatively minor changes in rainfall or food prices, can push households into a critical situation. In addition, acute malnutrition rates across the Sahel remain at or above critical levels for emergency response, and spikes in the rates that reach well above these levels are common among urban, rural, and pastoralist populations. As prices of food staples rise, this will exacerbate an already tenuous nutrition situation. In order to address the impact of food price increases in the Sahel, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) is targeting five countries for funding: Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal. OFDA's primary objective will be dual-fold: 1) to address high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition while 2) reducing the risk of increased food insecurity, malnutrition and further deterioration of livelihoods. OFDA realizes that the most affected households may not be located in the same geographic areas where potential partners are currently operating. Populations that are most vulnerable to market shocks and subsequent rising food prices will be prioritized for all interventions. Specifically, OFDA will aim to 1) improve the purchasing power of food insecure populations; 2) improve access to markets among rural, urban, and pastoral populations; 3) increase productivity of subsistence farmers and pastoralists; 4) reduce current spikes in acute malnutrition; and 5) reduce the risk of increased acute malnutrition. To improve purchasing power and market access, OFDA will prioritize interventions that promote context-appropriate income generating activities including cash-for-work, food-for-work, micro-finance, and livelihood diversification. Where appropriate, OFDA will support interventions that link into longer-term food security, nutrition, and livelihood. The deadline for applications is October 17, 2008. USAID/OFDA plans to award up to approximately $15 million to support programs covering a period of up to three years and expects to make as few as 5 or as many as 25 awards under this announcement. The full program announcement can be found here http://www07.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=Ly1Ct2vGl6GyGxyhTR1qVX0g2
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