| Community Health Funding Report Stories posted week of 10/24/09 - 10/30/09 |
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Story of the WeekPelosi's Reform Bill Would Expand Community Health House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) presents her final version of federal health reform legislation for consideration on the House floor, complete with provisions aiming to improve financing for community-based healthcare services. Formally sponsored by Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), The Affordable Health... read more 10/30/2009 2:30 PM |
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| (FUNDRAISING) Visibility a Must in Tough Fundraising Climate High visibility is one of the key essentials to successful fundraising, says Rita Lopienski, regional director of community life for Pathway Senior Living. The general public as well as potential donors need to be kept aware of fundraising efforts being made by an organization, she says. Lopienski... read more 10/29/2009 10:10 AM |
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| (GRANT TIP) Get Help with Health Impact Project Application on Nov. 5 A conference call is coming soon for those interested in applying for the Health Impact Project (HIP), which will award grants for health impact assessments (HIAs). read more 10/30/2009 1:24 PM |
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| (GRANT TIP) Previous Years' Winning Applications are Great Tools Not exactly sure how to go about applying for a federal grant? Curious what others have done to win funding? A great way to clear up any confusion is to get a copy of a previous year's winning application in hand. read more 10/28/2009 3:40 PM |
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| (DISABILITIES) $4M Available to Improve Services, Technology Field Initiatied projects develop methods, procedures and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities. read more 10/30/2009 1:41 PM |
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| (HEALTH RESEARCH) $23M for Minority Cancer Community Networks Applicant teams must be based on established partnerships between academic institutions and targeted community entities/community-serving healthcare organizations. read more 10/27/2009 3:11 PM |
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| (HEALTH RESEARCH) NIH Devotes $25M to Innovative Projects NIH is open to receiving applications from essentially any type of organization and on essentially any area of health-related research, as long as it is highly innovative and transformative. read more 10/26/2009 4:15 PM |
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| (PUBLIC HEALTH) CDC Offers Help for Topic-Focused Conferences Awards provide partial support for specific non-federal conferences in the areas of health promotion, disease prevention and educational programs. read more 10/28/2009 4:54 PM |
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| (PUBLIC HEALTH) Gov'ts Have Access to $2.8M for Birth Defects Surveillance Population-Based Birth Defects Surveillance & Utilization of Surveillance Data by Public Health Programs. read more 10/28/2009 4:48 PM |
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| (SUBSTANCE ABUSE) $400K Grants Boost Local Treatment Capacity The purpose of this program is to expand the community's ability to provide integrated and comprehensive community-based responses to a targeted, well-documented substance abuse treatment capacity problem and/or improve the quality and intensity of services. read more 10/28/2009 4:55 PM |
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| (DISABILITIES) Reform Bill May Also Finance Community Care Congressional staffers tell CHF there's a chance the final federal health reform bill will include provisions designed to provide flexibility in financing home- and community- based long-term care for people with disabilities. House sponsor of the Community Living Assistance Services & Supports... read more 10/27/2009 12:30 PM |
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| (DISABILITIES) Comment on Vocational Rehab Grant Reporting The Education Dept. (DoEd) wants to extend the annual reporting requirements that must be filed by grantees receiving vocational rehabilitation (VR) services program grants. The deadline for comments is Nov. 30. Under federal law, each recipient must submit to the DoEd Office of Special Education &... read more 10/30/2009 10:22 AM |
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| (COMMUNITY HEALTH) Kresge Offers Grants Up to $75K to Reduce Disparities Applicants should propose projects that foster strategic partnerships between community-health centers and one or more anchor institutions, such as a public health system, public health department or school system--all in order to positively affect population health in their communities. read more 10/27/2009 12:50 PM |
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| (HEALTH WORKFORCE) Doris Duke Grants Help Junior Researchers In 2010, the foundation plans to award up to 14 three-year grants of $125,000 per year in direct costs and $10,000 per year in indirect costs to junior faculty level physician-scientists conducting clinical research in any disease area. read more 10/26/2009 4:13 PM |
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| (HEALTHCARE) Regence Offers $50K Awards for Palliative Care in ID, OR, UT & WA Individuals and nonprofits located in Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington are eligible to be nominated for the award. read more 10/26/2009 4:10 PM |
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| Help Us Help You! CD Publications, parent company of Community Health Funding Report, is expanding its library of Successful Grant Applications. We're now in the process of combing through hundreds of federal funding programs in an effort to determine which ones are most important to you, our subscribers. If you're... read more 10/30/2009 12:17 PM |
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| (HEALTH IT) FL Health Web Site Recognized as Best Practice The Nat'l Assn. of Health Data Organizations selects Florida's Agency for Health Care Admin. for its 2009 Innovation in Data Dissemination Award. The recognition provides other state and local governments a best practice example for their own efforts--and one that is likely to draw support from fund... read more 10/29/2009 12:34 PM |
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| (HEALTH WORKFORCE) MO Uses Grant Program to Address Shortage Missouri begins a new grant program called Caring for Missourians, which is designed to help alleviate the shortage of medical professionals in the state by increasing the number of students trained in these professions. Through the program's assistance in expanding capacity at the educational in... read more 10/29/2009 12:33 PM |
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