[Faculty] FW: [GIFTCenterNews] GIFT Alert 04.05.16

Wed Apr 6 11:05:09 MST 2016

Please see the GIFT Center Alert below featuring available grants.

Thank you,
CALS Development, Alumni & Advocacy

GIFT Center Alert  |  April 5, 2016

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After reviewing specific grant opportunity guidelines, contact the GIFT Center with any further questions, GIFTCenter at uafoundation.org<mailto:GIFTCenter at uafoundation.org>. If a good fit is determined and you are interested in submitting a charitable grant request, please also contact your unit’s development office. Note that appropriate routing for some opportunities may be UA Sponsored Projects Services and/or the VP of the Office of Research & Discovery, and in cases of limited submission, selection via the Senior VP for Research & Discovery. If routing is most appropriate through the GIFT Center please remember that the GIFT Center requires three days prior to the mailing deadline to review a charitable grant proposal; electronic proposals and those with signature requirements require a week. To initiate review before your submission, send a draft proposal and funder guidelines to your GIFT Center contact (if applicable) and to GIFTCenter at uafoundation.org<mailto:GIFTCenter at uafoundation.org>.

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INTERNAL

UA Health Sciences – Clinical Research Pilot Program Awards<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=1e518f4c70&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: April 29th, 2016
The Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences invites proposals from full-time faculty in the UAHS Colleges, Centers and Institutes for clinical research studies. The proposed clinical research should emphasize one or more of the four UAHS theme-based areas of excellence: 1) Health Disparities, 2) Population Health and Health Outcomes, 3) Precision Health, and 4) Neuroscience. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is targeted at research projects that utilize patient populations, Electronic Health Records/clinical data warehouse data and biospecimens. Health services research studies are not eligible for this award.

Eller Economic and Business Research Center – Call for White Paper Proposals<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=262511c740&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: May 2nd, 2016
The Economic and Business Research Center in the UA Eller College of Management is pleased to announce a call for proposals for Making Action Possible (MAP) Dashboard White Paper grants. The funding will be $7,500 per grant. Proposals are welcome from all University of Arizona faculty. The Making Action Possible Dashboard originated from a partnership between the University of Arizona, the Southern Arizona Leadership Council, and the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona. The Dashboard website is intended to provide the Southern Arizona community with a trusted source of information on 36 social and economic indicators that the community can use to measure progress and inspire action.

Functional Genomics Core – Small Grant Awards<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=1373f20c7d&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: June 30th, 2016
In order to catalyze research activities on campus, help investigators collect preliminary data for grant applications, and support efforts to adapt or develop protocols to use the Functional Genomics Core's (FGC) instruments, the FGC will be awarding small grants to cover the instrument time costs in the FGC. The Functional Genomics Core’s mission is to provide researchers at the University of Arizona with the capacity to run high-throughput compound, RNAi, and deletion library based screens for the purpose of network analysis, drug and/or target discovery. This program is open to faculty, post-doctoral researchers, research staff and graduate students.

Office of Research and Discovery Shared Equipment Enhancement Fund<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=356bf820b7&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: September 1st, 2016
Shared Equipment Enhancement grants are available to augment scientific capacity through the acquisition of equipment for use by multiple investigators. Proposed equipment total cost not to exceed $150,000. Equipment must be located in a core facility or in a shared, accessible space, and must have multiple committed users from at least two departments and preferably from at least two different colleges. Equipment must not simply replace existing stock; it must add new capacity to enable competitiveness for an identified funding opportunity.

GRANTS

LGBT&S Alliance Fund – Grant Opportunity<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=3013470d64&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: April 27th, 2016
The mission of the Fund is to foster charitable giving in support of innovative programs and initiatives that benefit the LGBT community in Southern Arizona. The LGBT&S Alliance Fund will consider applications for programs that fall into at least one or more of the following areas of interest. Special consideration will be given to programs that: incorporate collaboration between two or more organizations; clearly articulate measurable outcomes; can provide a clear description of plans to sustain the project beyond the grant year. The areas of interest include: LGBTQ Community Building and Collaborations, Transgender Issues, plus Youth and Elder Issues.

Alternative Research and Development Grant Program<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=e624fe57ec&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: May 2nd, 2016
The mission of the Alternatives Research & Development Foundation is to fund and promote the development, validation, and adoption of non-animal methods in biomedical research, product testing, and education. To advance this mission, the foundation is soliciting proposals for its 2016 Alternatives Research Grant Program. Grants will be awarded to support research related to alternatives to the use of laboratory animals in research, testing, and education. Priority will be given projects that use pathway-based approaches as exemplified by the 2007 National Academy of Sciences report, Toxicity Testing in the Twenty-First Century: A Vision and a Strategy. Universities and research institutions are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to institutions based in the United States.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Global Grand Challenges<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=1d23fbf288&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: May 11th, 2016
Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions, is accepting grant proposals until May 11, 2016, 11:30 A.M. US Pacific Day Light Time. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations, and for-profit companies. Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.

Arizona Humanities- Project Grants<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=f8c1710cef&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: May 19, 2016
Arizona Humanities supports innovative, community-based projects that use humanities disciplines to connect Arizonans to the cultures, peoples, and histories of the state and beyond. We welcome proposals from a wide range of nonprofit organizations and encourage projects that are innovative in their approach toward the humanities and public programming. Project Grants are competitive grants supporting public programming across Arizona using the humanities to provide context, depth, and perspective to the Arizona experience and explore issues of significance to Arizonans. Organizations may request up to $10,000 to support their program implementation.

Russel Sage Foundation – Program on the Future of Work<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=a07a2fbdcc&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: June 15th, 2016
The Russell Sage Foundation's program on the Future of Work supports innovative research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for less- and moderately-skilled workers and their families. The foundation seeks investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on the employment, earnings, and the quality of jobs of workers. They are especially interested in proposals that address important questions about the interplay of market and non-market forces in shaping the well being of workers, today and in the future.

Russell Sage Foundation – Program on Social Inequality<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=c04abccf87&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: June 15th, 2016
The foundation's program on Social Inequality supports research on the social, economic, political, and labor market consequences of rising economic inequality in the United States. The program seeks Letters of Inquiry for investigator-initiated research projects with the potential to broaden current understanding of the causes and consequences of rising economic inequality. Priority will be given to projects that use innovative data or methodologies to address important questions about inequality. Examples of the kinds of topics that are of interest include but are not limited to economic well-being, equality of opportunity, and inter-generational mobility; the political process and resulting policies; psychological and/or cultural change; education; labor markets; child development and child outcomes; neighborhoods and communities; families, family structure, and family formation; and other forms of inequality.

The Blue Economy Challenge – Launching a Blue Revolution for Aquaculture<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=77c853139e&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: June 30th, 2016
Aquaculture, the farming of fish and other seafood, has great potential to contribute to food security, nutrition, and economic growth for the developing world. It is currently the fastest growing animal food producing sector, and an increasing source of protein for human consumption. Most aquaculture occurs within the developing world. Despite its increasing importance, current aquaculture methods are neither sustainable nor scalable. The Blue Economy Challenge seeks to find ways to rethink aquaculture inputs, design, and products in way that meets human sustainability and development through long-term ecological sustainability.

CurePSP – Grant Program<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=126bb6f55b&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: July 15th, 2016
CurePSP works to increase awareness of progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, and other atypical Parkinsonian disorders; funds research toward treatment, cure, and prevention; educates healthcare professionals; and provides support, information, and hope for affected persons and their families. To that end, CurePSP is accepting proposals for investigator-initiated research projects. Grants of up to $100,000 will be awarded to projects with the potential to advance understanding, treatment, and prevention of progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam and/or Guadeloupean tauopathy, and other atypical Parkinsonian disorders.

American Heart Association – Innovative Research Grant<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=2aa22951ba&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: July 26, 2016
The American Heart Association is accepting proposals in support of innovative, high-risk, high-reward research projects that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and stroke research. Because AHA's Innovative Research Grant program is designed to promote new ideas, proposals need not include preliminary data.  However, a solid rationale for the work must be provided. Research deemed innovative may introduce a new paradigm, challenge current paradigms, look at existing problems from new perspectives, or exhibit other uniquely creative qualities. Research must be broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease and stroke, or to related clinical, basic science, bio-engineering or biotechnology, and/or public health problems, including multidisciplinary efforts.

Group Foundation – Advancing Mental Health Research Grant Application<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=73dbb40bab&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: November 1st, 2016
Dedicated to changing lives through therapeutic group work, the Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health works to advance the most effective and innovative approaches to group therapy education, training, research, and community outreach. To that end, the foundation is seeking applications for research focused on the effectiveness of group psychotherapy. Grants ranging from $2,500 to $15,000 will be awarded, depending on the importance of the research to the field, the seniority of the investigators, and the number of research applications received.Grant funds can be used to support the basic costs of research (e.g., supplies, research equipment, photocopying, postage, computer services, statistical consultation and research assistant salaries; equipment purchased for use during the project must be donated to an institution upon completion of the project). Investigator salaries and travel expenses will not be funded.

FELLOWSHIPS
The Atlantic Philanthropies - Applications for Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=77cded6e59&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: April 15th, 2016
The year-long Health and Aging Policy Fellows program offers fellows the opportunity to participate in a residential track or a non-residential track. The residential track allows fellows to participate in the policy making process on either the Federal or state level as legislative assistants in Congress, professional staff members in executive branch agencies or policy organizations. The non-residential track allows fellows to remain at their home institution but work on a policy project that involves brief placement(s) throughout the year at relevant sites. Core program components focused on career development and professional enrichment are provided for fellows in both tracks.

International Foundation for Ethical (non-animal) Research Fellowship Program<http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=34935375be&e=00fae15e95>
Deadline: April 29, 2016
The purpose of IFER’s Fellowship Program is to provide financial incentives to graduate students in science that encourage them at the earliest stages of their career to integrate innovation and discovery with ethics and respect for animals. Fellowships are awarded to those candidates whose program of study shows the greatest potential to replace the use of animals in science. Graduate Fellowships to develop alternatives to the use of animals in research, testing and education are open to students enrolled in Master’s and Ph.D. programs in the sciences, and human or veterinary medicine. Fellowships will also be considered for graduate students in other fields, such as education, psychology, humanities, journalism, and the law, for projects that show promise to increase public awareness or to promote changes in the legal system or public policy regarding the use of animals in research, testing, and education.

Contact the GIFT Center

GIFTCenter at uafoundation.org<mailto:GIFTCenter at uafoundation.org>
520-621-3763

GIFT Center
University of Arizona Foundation
PO Box 210109
Tucson AZ 85724-5115

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