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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Please see the attached GIFT Center Alert featuring available grants.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">After reviewing specific grant opportunity guidelines, contact the GIFT Center with any further questions,
<a href="mailto:GIFTCenter@uafoundation.org"><b><span style="color:#023F7E;text-decoration:none">GIFTCenter@uafoundation.org</span></b></a>. 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.
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#CC0033">From Tom Ahern’s latest post: "A woman admitted to me that she loved writing her thank yous because it was the ONLY piece of fundraising writing that didn't
 have to go to her Director, the ED, the Comms people...." reports Jen Love, <em>
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Agents of Good</span></em>. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=252dea5d05&e=00fae15e95" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#CC0033;text-decoration:none">Click
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<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">your</span></em> charity should write thank you letters that make your donor "smile, laugh out loud and read the best parts to her cats, or use that lace handkerchief to wipe a tear from the corner of her eye."</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=5f6f421c93&e=00fae15e95"><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">Confluence Center
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Deadline: January 29, 2016<br>
Faculty Collaboration Grants are intended to be seed grants for creative and interdisciplinary research projects which can be used as examples or pilot projects for external funding. Faculty from the Colleges of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Behavioral
 Sciences can apply for these grants if they have creative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research to pursue. Award amount is up to $15,000.<br>
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</span><strong><u><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">GRANTS</span></u></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
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<a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=7de57ba957&e=00fae15e95"><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">U.S. Bancorp Foundation,
 Inc.</span></i></strong></a><br>
Deadline:  Application not available until January 22, 2016. Application due February 1.The foundation supports programs designed to build audiences for the arts, especially among underserved populations; bring select and limited civic amenities to underserved,
 rural communities; and promote the arts in education. Grants range from $120 to $850,000.<br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=94c7d4b512&e=00fae15e95" target="_blank"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">Lilly
 School Invites Applications for Research on Generosity/Philanthropy</span></a></span></i></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
Deadline: February 12, 2016 <br>
Grants of up to $40,000 will be awarded for research projects on life-course generosity in two distinct areas — innovation within the social sciences and within the arts/humanities. Applicants within any field of study at an accredited university or research
 institution are eligible to apply. However, preference will be given to emerging scholars and innovators.<br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=9967c923e4&e=00fae15e95"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">Mathematical
 Association of America – Tensor Women and Mathematics Grants</span></a></span></i></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
Deadline: February 12, 2016 Award grants are available supporting projects designed to encourage college and university women or high school and middle school girls to study mathematics. Grants will be up to $6,000 and will be made to the college or university
 associated with the project director for a one-year project. An institution is expected to supply matching funds or in-kind support as an indication of commitment to the project.<br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=07a34f04df&e=00fae15e95"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">Whatcom
 Museum - Jacobs Research Funds for Anthropological and Linguistic Research Working with Native American Peoples</span></a></span></i></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
Deadline: February 15, 2016 <br>
Grant funding up to $6,000 is available for projects involving fieldwork with living peoples of North, Central and South America which result in publication or other dissemination of information about the fieldwork. Priority is given to research on endangered
 cultures and languages, and to research on the Pacific Northwest.<br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=671c82e206&e=00fae15e95"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">Macy
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Deadline: February 17, 2016<br>
Grants of up to $200,000 over two years will be awarded to promising educational scholars to implement new educational innovations at their home institutions and participate in career development activities. To be eligible, applicants also must have been a
 doctorally-prepared faculty member for more than five years in a United States accredited nursing school, allopathic medical school, or osteopathic medical school.<br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=74bb78c3bc&e=00fae15e95"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">Graham
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Deadline: February 25, 2016<br>
Grants are available for organizations assisting with the production and presentation of significant programs about architecture and the designed environment in order to promote dialogue, raise awareness, and develop new and wider audiences. Interest lies in
 opportunities which enable the foundation to provide critical support at key points in the development of a project or career.<br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=5b3c96cd35&e=00fae15e95"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">American
 Psychological Foundation – Esther Katz Rosen Fund Grants</span></a></span></i></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
Deadline: March 1, 2016 <br>
Grant awards of Up to $50,000 are being offered for work related to the psychological understanding of gifted children and youth. Support will be provided for research, pilot projects, research-based programs that further the advancement and application of
 knowledge related to identified gifted and talented children and adolescents.<br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=17bc86b890&e=00fae15e95" target="_blank"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">SVS
 Foundation – Vascular Disease Clinical Research Seed Grant Program</span></a></span></i></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
Deadline: March 11, 2016 <br>
Grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to seed patient-oriented clinical research studies in the field of vascular disease. Eligible research projects must be clinical, preferably patient-oriented (i.e., research conducted with human subjects or on material
 of human origin such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive phenomena for which an investigator directly interacts with human subjects). Applications addressing one of the SVS Clinical Research Priorities are particularly encouraged.   <br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=dac648925b&e=00fae15e95"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">Progeria
 Research Foundation – Grants for Research on Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome</span></a></span></i></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
Deadline: March 22, 2016<br>
A variety of awards up to $100,000 per year are being awarded to those who seek to conduct research to find the cause, treatment, or cure for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome. Highest priority will be given to those markers that can be assayed in easily
 obtainable human samples such as blood, urine, and cheek swabs. In addition, proposals that explore biomarker relevance to disease process and /or change in markers with disease treatment are encouraged.<br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=8ecd41ca01&e=00fae15e95"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">The
 Association for Surgical Education – Center for Excellence in Surgical Education, Research, and Training</span></a></span></i></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
Deadline: June 1, 2016<br>
Grant funds of up to $100,000 per grant are available for research projects which addressed the ASE’s and CESERT’s primary areas of interest. Funding is intended to support excellence and innovation in surgical education research. Proposals may be submitted
 for one- to two-year research projects.<br>
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<a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=778dff3f99&e=00fae15e95"><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">Russell Sage
 Foundation – Social, Economic and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act</span></i></strong></a><br>
Deadline: March 30, 2016<br>
Grant awards up to $150,000 are available to support innovative social science research on the social, economic and political effects of the Affordable Care Act. Specific interest is in funding analyses that address important questions about the effects of
 the reform on outcomes such as financial security and family economic well-being, labor supply and demand, participation in other public programs, family and children’s outcomes, and differential effects by age, race, ethnicity, nativity, or disability status.<br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=7aade97162&e=00fae15e95" target="_blank"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">National
 Endowment for the Arts – Challenge America Grants</span></a></span></i></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
Deadline: April 14, 2016<br>
Grants of $10,000 will be awarded to projects designed to extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations. Professional projects must have a $10,000 match from an outside funder. Applicants are encouraged to consider partnerships among organizations,
 both in and outside the arts, as appropriate to their project.<br>
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 Foundation</span></i></strong></a><br>
Deadline: Pre-proposals April 15, 2016,  Full proposal July 15, 2016.<br>
Ben and Jerry’s Foundation supports organizations working to bring about progressive social change by addressing the underlying conditions of societal and environmental problems. Grassroots, constituent-led organizing is among the most effective means to create
 social change. We define organizing as collective action from the bottom up that challenges the status quo, demands changes in policy and practice, educates communities about root causes, and advocates and agitates for systemic and just solutions.
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 Morgan Chase</span></a>-<a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=0970387b1b&e=00fae15e95" target="_blank"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none"> Workforce Readiness grants</span></a></span></i></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
Deadline: None <br>
Core to our business is raising the capital and providing the credit that enables economic development. As vital as that role is, we view it only as part of our responsibility. JPMorgan Chase believes that addressing the skills gap can be one of the most powerful
 tools for reducing unemployment and expanding economic opportunity. In 2013, we launched
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 skills training so that workers and industries have the skills to compete and prosper in a global economy. We know that helping people gain the skills they need is only one part of tackling unemployment, but it is an area where we can make a contribution today
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=03cd4f5797&e=00fae15e95"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">Woods
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Deadline: January 5, 2016<br>
Postdoctoral Scholar awards are offered annually to recipients of new or recent doctorates in the fields of chemistry, engineering, geology, geophysics, mathematics, meteorology, physics, and biology as well as oceanography. The competitive awards are designed
 to further the education and training of the applicant with primary emphasis placed on the individual's research promise. In order to be eligible for one of these awards, applicants must have received their doctoral degree within the past 2-3 years.<br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=29154fb2e1&e=00fae15e95"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">The
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Deadline: January 15, 2016<br>
The Fellowship brings together some of the world’s most creative and motivated young people in their late teens and early twenties, and helps them bring their most ambitious ideas and projects to life. Thiel Fellows are given a no-strings-attached grant of
 $100,000 to focus on their work, their research, and their self-education.<br>
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</span><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><a href="http://uafoundation.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d7da969976ad1054115e901b0&id=419e635a53&e=00fae15e95"><span style="color:#C40D32;text-decoration:none">UA
 Center for Creative Photography – Kenneth J. Botto Research Fellowship</span></a></span></i></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
Deadline: January 15, 2016<br>
Awards of up to $5,000 will be given in support research at the UA Center for Creative Photography by curators, writers, and researchers investigating the life and work of Kenneth J. Botto. Photographers will work to incorporate set-up, collage, and constructed
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Deadline: January 20, 2016<br>
The Fellowship aims to initiate or reinforce collaborations, partnerships or joint projects by encouraging exchange. To that end, the OST supports American students to conduct research in a French laboratory (public or private) for period of 4 to 9 months as
 part of a co-supervised PhD. All STEM and Health disciplines are eligible. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#D41247">Contact the GIFT Center</span></strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
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