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• The Healthy Aging Initiative aims to improve the health and wellness of Michigan’s older adults and their caregivers, while reducing the cost of care.
• To achieve this aim, the initiative seeks to support projects that will collectively make meaningful progress toward improving the quality of care for older adults in the health care system, coordinating care in the community that will improve health outcomes and lower overall costs, and providing more support at home for formal and informal (family) caregivers
• Across all priority areas, the Health Fund seeks proposals that address disparities and promote health equity.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu.  

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This award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with “high-risk/high-reward” ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer. 

The Innovation Award is specifically designed to provide funding to extraordinary early career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. It is not designed to fund incremental advances. The research supported by the award must be novel, exceptionally creative and, if successful, have the strong potential for high impact in the cancer field. 

Applicants must belong to one of the following categories: 

• Tenure-track Assistant Professors within the first five (5) years of obtaining their initial Assistant Professor position (Cut-off date: July 1, 2018). 
• Clinical Instructors and Senior Clinical Fellows (in the final year of their sub-specialty training) holding an MD/DO who are pursuing a period of independent research before taking a tenure-track faculty position.  Such individuals must have an exceptional record of research accomplishment, dedicated laboratory space and the support of their institution. 
• Distinguished Fellows with an exceptional record of research accomplishment identified by their institution to pursue an independent research program and who have dedicated laboratory space.  These candidates are markedly distinct from traditional postdoctoral fellows. 

Applications will be evaluated based on the following:  

• The applicant’s capacity to conduct bold, exceptionally creative research. 
• The novelty and creativity of the proposed research. Incremental research will not be funded. 
• The potential of the proposed research to lead to advances that will significantly impact the prevention, diagnosis, treatment or basic understanding of cancer. 
• The applicant’s lack of resources to pursue the proposed research. 

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson at ande2476@msu.edu.  

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To address issues and barriers to digital transformation across their enterprises, utilities need to understand what functions and roles will be required moving forward and adapt their workforces and cultures accordingly. They need to implement new procurement strategies/language, management approaches, recruiting and retention strategies, and best-in-class training programs that support digital transformation based on short- and long-term implementation strategies. Project objectives are:

• Introduce new skillsets, training opportunities, processes, procedures, or methodologies that would enable the digital transformation of the water sector and its workforce.
• Develop practical guidance and/or frameworks to help a diverse set of utility sizes (large, medium, and small) with specific business needs navigate the implementation of digital transformation.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu. 

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The Russell Sage Foundation dedicates itself to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences to better understand societal problems and develop informed responses.  The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under all of its core programs and special initiatives, which you should review carefully: 

• Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context
• Future of Work
• Immigration and Immigrant Integration
• Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
• Social, Political, and Economic Inequality

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu. 

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The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. The BYI program funds promising young scientists early in their careers who have not yet received a major award from another organization. 

•Projects should be truly innovative, high-risk, and show promise for contributing to significant advances in chemistry and the life sciences.  

•Projects should represent a departure from current research directions rather than an extension or expansion of existing programs.  

•Proposed research that cuts across traditional boundaries of scientific disciplines is encouraged.  

•Proposals that open new avenues of research in chemistry and life sciences by fostering the invention of methods, instruments and materials will be given additional consideration. 

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson at ande2476@msu.edu.  

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) invites applications for four-year projects in the field of deep tissue imaging. To gain a deeper mechanistic understanding of biological systems, CZI’s Imaging program aims to visualize and measure them across biological scales and in their biological context. This RFA seeks to drive development of imaging technology focused on obtaining cellular resolution readouts within complex living organisms. This grant program will advance the field of deep tissue imaging, which aims to obtain cellular resolution in complex tissue and through skin and bone.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu. 

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The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Award provides support for collaborative exploratory work that opens new ground for comprehensively assessing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health. This program will support both individual scientists and multi-investigator teams. 

Our goal is to prime new discovery in areas that are difficult to reach through discipline-specific, silo-driven approaches. These awards will support research and research coordination to unravel the relationships of climate change and human health. The awards are meant to stimulate development of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to problems with interconnected and potentially cumulative impacts on human health in general, and vulnerable populations, specifically. 

Projects must draw on the basic or applied biomedical sciences—disciplines ranging from biochemistry to population health, including public health research focused on social justice and equity—collaborating with disciplines beyond biomedicine, for example planetary and earth sciences, architecture, engineering, mathematics, law, public policy, other applied social sciences, communications, field ecology, agricultural sciences, or other disciplines appropriate to the research proposed. We view biomedicine as including veterinary medicine and other clinical disciplines, biology, physiology, development of in vitro and/or organismal models and more. Proposals should be driven by broad questions that present significant potential for evidence-based discovery. 

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson at ande2476@msu.edu.  

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• The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research by investigators in United States non-profit institutions proposing research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.
• The Foundation funds projects for a one-year period which will allow establishment of capabilities of new cancer researchers, or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers.
• It is anticipated that this early-stage funding by the Foundation may lead to subsequent and expanded support using government agency funding.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu.  

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The Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation Award Program supports advanced research by postdoctoral scholars within the core areas of fundamental chemistry of the development and build of chemical instrumentation.  

Research must be innovative in method, speed or process, or represent new instrument technology. This fellowship will be a catalyst from "mentored yet independent" postdocs to outstanding, independent researchers in academic or industry/governmental labs. 

The Fellowships will be in two tracks (applicants will choose one): 

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences will allow chemists to pursue advanced research within the core areas of fundamental chemistry, such as chemical physics, chemical engineering, and chemistry of materials research. The fellowship is not intended to fund proposals that are supported by traditional NIH mechanisms in the fields of chemistry, chemical biology, biochemistry. 
• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation will allow researchers in chemistry to conceptualize, develop and build instrumentation suitable to advanced research in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, and chemistry of materials science. Instrumentation projects must be suitable to the two-year fellowship timeframe, be driven by a need in the chemical sciences listed above, be innovative in method speed or process or represent a wholly new instrument for technical advancement in chemistry and may potentially be used for future research in the broader scientific community. 

For more information, please contact Melissa Anderson at ande2476@msu.edu. 

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BrightFocus provides research funds for U.S. domestic as well as international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.  BrightFocus is committed to supporting scientists from diverse backgrounds to foster creativity and innovation in addressing complex scientific challenges. The Foundation strongly encourages applications from individuals who are from groups underrepresented in the field of Alzheimer’s disease research.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu. 

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BrightFocus provides research funds for U.S. and international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of glaucoma.  BrightFocus is committed to supporting scientists from diverse backgrounds to foster creativity and innovation in addressing complex scientific challenges. We strongly encourage applications from individuals who are from groups underrepresented in the field of glaucoma research.

For more information, please contact Larry Wallach at wallach@msu.edu.  

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American public education prepares all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to be active participants in a robust democracy and to be successful in the global economy. Under this program, Carnegie has the following Focus Areas:

1. Leadership and Teaching to Advance Learning. Improving systems of preparing, recruiting, and developing teachers and education leaders to serve the needs of diverse learners;
2. New Designs to Advance Learning. Developing whole-school models that provide more effective learning environments for diverse learners; 
3. Public Understanding. Supporting research on strategies that can drive parent and family engagement in education;
4. Pathways to Postsecondary Success. Improving alignment in student learning expectations between K-12 and postsecondary education; improving postsecondary education;
5. Integration, Learning, and Innovation. Advancing integrated approaches across the Corporation’s portfolios and the field that enable greater collaboration, coherence, and dynamism.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu

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Evidence for Action (E4A) prioritizes research to evaluate specific interventions (e.g., policies, programs, practices) that have the potential to counteract the harms of structural and systemic racism and improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes. Our focus on racial equity means we are concerned both with the direct impacts of structural racism on the health and well-being of people and communities of color (e.g., Black, Latina/o/x, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, and other races and ethnicities), as well as the ways in which racism intersects with other forms of marginalization, such as having low income, being an immigrant, having a disability, or identifying as LGBTQ+ or a gender minority.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu

The mission of the Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, and people of color. Funding program areas include:
 

• Health Care Delivery System Reform
• Health Care Coverage and Access
• Advancing Health Equity
• Controlling Health Care Costs
• Federal and State Health Policy
• International Health Policy and Practice Innovations
• Advancing Medicare
• Tracking Health System Performance
• Medicaid

Within these programs, preference is given to proposals that seek to: clarify the scope of serious and neglected problems; develop, test, and evaluate the impact of practical, innovative models for addressing such problems; disseminate tools and models of care that have been proven to be effective; or analyze the impact of particular policies or trends. To review descriptions of funding priorities and lists of recently approved grants, please click on the programs above.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu.

This funding opportunity seeks proposals primed to impact health equity moving forward. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.

We want to hear from scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, community leaders—anyone, anywhere who has a new or unconventional idea that could alter the trajectory of health and improve health equity and wellbeing for generations to come. The changes we seek require diverse perspectives and cannot be accomplished by any one person, organization, or sector. 

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu

Responsive Grants provide opportunities to build knowledge and increase understanding of East and Southeast Asia through scholarship and exchange, with an emphasis on strengthening capacity in the United States. They typically support research and training, the creation of scholarly and public resources, and intellectual and cultural exchange between Americans and Asians.  These grants are deliberately broad, allowing the Asia Program to respond to new ideas and keep abreast of trends, needs and priorities relevant to Asia-focused work in our three grant making areas (academic work, foreign policy, public education). Most awards are made to colleges, universities, think tanks, museums and other non-profit organizations based in the United States.

Our interests include:

• Asia-focused teaching and research initiatives, typically for multi-year projects whose benefits extend beyond a single institution to advance the broader field of Asian studies. The majority of our funded work is in the humanities and qualitative social sciences, including projects that seek to reexamine the conventional area studies model and explore new approaches to training and research.
• Development and dissemination of library, archival, research and pedagogical resources, including digital resources.
• Policy dialogues and other projects with policy relevance.
• Efforts to educate and inform non-specialist audiences about Asia, through museum exhibitions, journalism and media offerings, and cultural programming.
• Next generation training and leadership development.
• Collaboration, exchange, and border-crossing initiatives, including across geographic, disciplinary, institutional and/or sectoral divides. This may include work that spans the divides of our own grantmaking areas, such as projects that bridge the gap between academic and policy work, or between scholarship and broader public education

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu

Mellon’s Public Knowledge program supports the creation and preservation of the cultural and scholarly record—vast and ever-expanding—that documents society’s complex, intertwined humanity. The program works with archives, presses, and a range of university, public, and other local, national, and global libraries that are foundational to knowledge production and distribution in culture and the humanities. The program’s goal is to increase equitable access to deep knowledge that helps to build an informed, heterogeneous, and civically engaged society. We aspire to cultivate networks and maintainable infrastructure, expand digital inclusion, and ensure that more authentic, reflective, and nuanced stories are revealed, preserved, and told.

For more information, please contact Adam Kingston at kingsto9@msu.edu