Capacity Building Grants

Additional Information:
http://nb3foundation.org/capacity-building-grants.html


Description:

The purpose of the Native Strong: Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures Capacity Building Grant is to support:

1)    Community Health Assessments (new or ongoing): to better understand the root causes of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes which will result in strategies and an action plan to address this health issue; or 

2)    Community Planning and Capacity Building: to create a community-driven action plan to address childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes (i.e. host stakeholder convenings, coalition building and collaboration efforts)

Grants will be awarded up to $20,000 each.  Applications will be accepted from throughout the U.S. However preference will be given to grantees from three specific regions – the Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona), the Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin) and the Southern Plains (Oklahoma, Texas).

Washington University Bear Cub Fund

Additional Information:
http://research.wustl.edu/Offices_Committees/OTM/faculty/Pages/TranslationalResearch.aspx#bear_cub

Description:
The Bear Cub Fund was initiated by the Vice Chancellor for Research to support faculty in translational studies not normally supported by federal grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and other sources.

Bear Cub Fund awards are designed to support translational research activities that will generate results to improve commercial licensing opportunities and/or investment potential. Such proof-of-concept studies are increasingly required by potential licensees to provide additional confidence that a technology will work in an applied setting.

The individual awards of $20,000 to $75,000 are intended to support research projects of one year or less.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 30, 2013