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The Do Something Awards, formerly the Brick Awards, are designed to provide recognition and funding for young community volunteers.
Do Something Award Winners receive a community grant, participation in a special award ceremony, media coverage, and continued support from Do Something. In the 2009 program, five winners will receive a minimum of $10,000 in community grants and scholarships. (Only winners who are age 18 and under are eligible for a scholarship of $5,000 and a $5,000 community grant; winners age 19-25 receive their entire award in the form of a community grant.) Of the five winners, one will be selected as the grand prize winner, and will receive a total of $100,000 in community grants, paid directly to the nonprofit of his or her choice.
Do Something Award applications go through two stages. First, the Do Something Award Academy (comprised of former winners) reads through all of the applications and selects the finalists.
Finalists are flown to New York City for interviews with representatives from the Do Something Award Selection Committee.
The five Do Something Award winners are announced shortly thereafter in Spring 2009. The grand prize winner will be announced in Summer 2009.
Visit the Do Something Web site for complete program guidelines.
Link to Complete RFP
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NIH announcement
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-075.html
R01,
Community Participation Research Targeting the Medically Underserved
(including disability).
The ultimate goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) with a special review issued by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), National Institutes of Health (NIH) is to solicit Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose research on health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities that is jointly conducted by communities and researchers and targets medically underserved areas (MUAs) and medically underserved populations (MUPs) as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). |
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The monthly issue of DOCBI Funding Announcement has now been posted at
http://www.aap.org/commpeds/funding.html.
Some highlights in the February 2009 announcement include:
Hager Sharp, Inc
Deadline: February 20, 2009 (LOI)
Hager Sharp, Inc. is pleased to announce a Letter of Intent Request for three community coalitions to plan, implement and evaluate pilot programs designed to increase the number of adolescent girls and their families who engage in bone-healthy behaviors through the modified BodyWorks program and community education activities of the coalition's choosing.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Deadline: February 26, 2009 (Brief Proposals)
Communities Creating Healthy Environments is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that aims to prevent childhood obesity by increasing access to healthy foods and safe places to play in communities of color. The program will advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015 by supporting diverse, community-based organizations and federally chartered tribal nations in the development and implementation of effective, culturally competent policy initiatives that address childhood obesity at the local level. Through this call for proposals, RWJF will award grants for policy advocacy designed to improve food and recreation environments in up to ten communities at high risk for obesity.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Deadline: March 3, 2009
Funding is available for specific events and activities designed to reduce health disparities in women and girls in the U.S. |
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The purpose of planning grants is to demonstrate the need for health services in the community from public or non-profit organizations seeking a grant to plan for the development of a comprehensive primary care health center under the Health Center Program authorized under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. The purpose of the Health Center Program is to extend comprehensive primary and preventive health services (including mental health, substance abuse and oral health services) and supplemental services to populations currently without access to such services, and to improve their health status. The program includes: 1) Community Health Centers, section 330(e); 2) Migrant Health Centers, section 330(g); 3) Health Care for the Homeless program, section 330(h); and 4) Public Housing Primary Care, section 330(i). The populations served by these programs include: 1) medically underserved populations in urban and rural areas; 2) migratory and seasonal agricultural workers and their families; 3) homeless people, including children and families; and 4) residents of publicly subsidized housing. |
