Funding Opportunities

Surviving And Moving Forward: the SAMFund for Young Adult Survivors of Cancer
The SAMFund is pleased to announce that their Letter of Intent (LOI) for 2008-9 grants and scholarships is now available! Applicants must be between 17 and 35, finished with active treatment and residents of the United States. The LOI is available by clicking here. Please note that the due date for all LOIs is Wednesday, July 23rd, by 11:59 p.m. EST. For more information on what they will fund, please click here. For any technical questions about the online process, please contact proposalCENTRAL at 1-800-875-2562 or via email at pcsupport@altum.com. For eligibility questions, please contact us at grants@thesamfund.org.

SUCCEED Grants for Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina
The Southeastern US Collaborative Center for the Elimination of Disparities (SUCCEED) at Morehouse School of Medicine will offer "Legacy Grants" of $20,000 per year for two years to conduct evidence-based interventions to increase screening for breast and cervical cancer in African-American women. Eligibility is limited to Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Small Innovative Grants Program to Reduce Tobacco Use
American Legacy Foundation
Through the Small Innovative Grants Program, the American Legacy Foundation (http://www.americanlegacy.org/) supports projects that advance creative, promising solutions based on sound principles of tobacco control to remedy the harm caused by tobacco use in America. Legacy created the Small Innovative Grants Program to seed new projects or enable an organization to pilot a new idea or approach. Twice a year, Legacy supports a limited number of grants under this program. Legacy issues renewable grants for up to $100,000 each for the first year of funding. Upon invitation, grantees may apply for a second year of funding for up to 50 percent of the amount awarded in the first year. Grantees must provide a 1:1 cash match for second-year funding. A match is encouraged but not required for the first year of funding. All applicants must submit a Letter of Intent. Legacy will invite a select number of applicants to submit a full proposal based on the Letter of Intent. Visit the American Legacy Web site for complete program information and application procedures.
For additional RFPs in Substance Abuse, visit: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_substance_abuse.jhtml

2008 Aetna Foundation Regional Community Health Grants Program
Aetna and the Aetna Foundation will award up to $4 million for philanthropic initiatives focused on the following health care issues:
- Community-based initiatives that increase access to quality health care and improve overall wellness in the following areas: Depression, including early treatment and diagnosis to help minimize the incidence of disabilities due to mental health issues; Obesity, including diabetes and other disease management. Proposals must incorporate and/or demonstrate impact on one or more of the following: Expansion of primary caregiver role; Community care delivery (e.g., promotoras, visiting nurse, mobile clinics, etc.), with special emphasis on elder populations; School-based implementation; Integrated care delivery (e.g., medical with behavioral and/or oral); Enhancing access to health information; Delivery of culturally sensitive care; Increasing racial and ethnic health equality.
- Health professions training and support programs to address one or more of the following challenges within the U.S. health care delivery system: Growing shortage of skilled nurses; Representation of racially and ethnically diverse health care professionals across the continuum (doctors, dentists, nurses, social workers, community health workers and allied health professionals); Health care professionals' cultural competency (e.g., ability to communicate effectively with diverse populations).
Guidelines are available on the Program web site. Deadline dates vary, see Program web site for details: http://www.aetna.com/foundation/grants_reg/