U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is now accepting applications for their Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Solid Organ Donation grant program. The overall goal of this grant program is to reduce the gap between the demand for organ transplants and the supply of organs from deceased donors by identifying successful strategies that can serve as model interventions to increase deceased organ donation registration or family consent. Accordingly, this program will support sound applied research efforts to test the effectiveness of strategies that target any of the three program objectives. The specific objectives of this grant program are to increase and improve understanding of how to increase:

1. Individual commitment to be a deceased organ donor and documentation of that commitment
2. Consent of family (or others authorized to consent) for organ donation for a deceased relative
3. Commitment of parents/legal guardians to authorize organ donation for a minor child in the event of the child’s death.

Due to a disproportionately high need for kidney transplants in minority populations and the greater likelihood of finding a donor of similar blood type within the same ethnic or racial group, applications focusing on minority populations are strongly encouraged.

• Eligibility: Eligible applicants include federally designated organ procurement organizations (OPO) and other public or nonprofit private entities eligible to receive funds under section 377A(b) of the PHS Act, (42 U.S.C. 274f-1(b)). Eligible applicants may include state and local governments, Indian Tribal Governments, institutions of higher education, other nonprofit organizations such as faith-based and community-based organizations, and Tribal organizations.

• Funding: $1,250,000

• Deadline: November 20, 2013

• Contact: Rita Maldonado, MPH
  Project Officer
  Organ, Tissue and Blood Stem Cell Donation Branch
  Phone: (301) 443-3622
  Email: rmaldonado@hrsa.gov
  Website: https://grants3.hrsa.gov/2010/Web2External/Interface/FundingCycle/ExternalView.aspx?&fCycleID=d5fad8df-8941-4063-b103-36fd63f69893&txtAction=View+Details&submitAction=Go&ViewMode=EU

IMLS Museums for America

IMLS Museums for America (MFA) has announced its funding opportunity to support projects that strengthen the ability of an individual museum to serve its public. MFA grants support activities that strengthen museums as active resources for lifelong learning; as important institutions in the establishment of livable communities; and as good stewards of the nation’s collections. MFA grants can fund both new and ongoing museum activities and programs. Examples include planning, managing and conserving collections; improving public access; training; conducting programmatic research; school and public programming; producing exhibitions; and integrating new or upgraded technologies into operations.

• Eligibility: Eligible museums must be either a unit of state or local government or a private non-profit organization that has tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code, be located in the United States, and qualify as one of the following:

  1. A museum that, using professional staff, is organized on a permanent basis for essentially educational or aesthetic purposes; owns or uses tangible objects, either animate or inanimate; cares for these objects; and exhibits these objects to the general public on a regular basis through facilities that it owns or operates.

  2. A public or private non-profit agency which is responsible for the operation of a museum may apply on behalf of the museum.

• Funding: $5,000 to $150,000 per grant

• Deadline: December 2, 2013

• Contact: Helen Wechsler
  Supervisory Grants Management Specialist
  Learning Experiences
  Phone: (202) 653-4779
  Email: hwechsler@imls.gov

  Connie Bodner
  Supervisory Grants Management Specialist
  Community Anchors and Collections Stewardship
  Phone: (202) 653-4636
  Email: cbodner@imls.gov
  Website: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=11

Parks & Trails New York

Parks & Trails New York is offering a new round of Growing the Grassroots Capacity Building Grants to enhance the long-term sustainability of park and trail not-for-profit organizations by helping them better fulfill their missions; improve their reach, effectiveness, and impact; leverage resources; and increase community support for, and involvement in, park and trail planning, development and/or stewardship.

Tribeca Film Institute

The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) Documentary Fund furthers the development of exceptional character-driven, non-fiction works that spotlight contemporary themes with an original focus and bold, creative filmmaking. This fund allows TFI to fund many audience-grabbing genres that fall under the documentary umbrella including arts, sports, hybrid and experimental projects. Grants of at least $10,000 will be awarded in 2014. Grantees will be announced in early 2014. For its second year, the TFI/ESPN PRIZE will award one annual grant of $30,000 to a feature-length documentary work-in-progress (in development or production stage) that captures the human element of the sports world – and brings the dramatic stakes of competitiveness to vivid life. In short, the TFI/ESPN Prize-winning project will strive to change the way people perceive sports.

Stephen J. Brady STOP Hunger Scholarships

Sodexo Foundation is now accepting applications for its Stephen J. Brady STOP Hunger Scholarship program. Through scholarship awards, Sodexo Foundation recognizes and rewards students who are driving awareness and mobilizing youth to be catalysts for innovative models and solutions to eliminate hunger across the country. The scholarship recipients each receive $5,000 for their education as well as a matching grant for the hunger-related charity of their choice.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago invite outstanding doctoral students to apply for the Doris Duke Fellowships for the Promotion of Child Well-Being. These fellowships are designed to identify and develop a new generation of leaders interested in and capable of creating practice and policy initiatives that will enhance child development and improve the nation’s ability to prevent all forms of child maltreatment. Because the prevention of child maltreatment requires knowledge and collaboration from diverse fields, the fellowships are multidisciplinary in scope and approach. Fellows are selected from a range of academic disciplines, including - but not limited to - child development, social work, public health, epidemiology, nursing, psychology, education, anthropology, and medicine. Fellows work on a variety of issues to improve the efficacy of child abuse prevention such as: designing programs that attract and retain the most vulnerable families; creating strategies that better connect public and private efforts; or applying empirical evidence to improve practice and policy.

Grant-seeking Basics: November 15
Attendees will learn how the Center’s resources help make them more effective grantseekers. For beginners, this introduction to the library provides instruction in foundation research and identification of potential funders. A tour of the library will follow.

Introduction to Finding Funders: November 15
This class provides a hands-on introduction on how to use the center’s comprehensive online database – The Foundation Directory Online – to research and identify potential funders. The Foundation Directory Online contains over 100,000 profiles of grant-making institutions.

Proposal Writing Basics: November 2, 26
Attendees will learn about the basics of writing a proposal for their nonprofit organization.

Proposal Budgeting Basics:November 2, 26
Attendees will learn how to prepare and present a budget in a grant proposal. This session is geared toward novice grantseekers.

In addition:

Classes are held at The Foundation Center, located at:

New York Library
79 Fifth Ave. 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003

Space is limited, so register as soon as possible.

For additional training opportunities, to register, or for more information, call 212-620-4230 or visit www.foundationcenter.org.

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