Funding Opportunities

William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program
Deadline: July 6, 2011
The William T. Grant Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the 2011-2012 William T. Grant Scholars Program Brochure. The Scholars Program supports the professional development of early-career researchers from diverse disciplines, who have demonstrated success in conducting high-quality research and are seeking to expand their skills and expertise. Studies from William T. Grant Scholars contribute to theory, policy, and practice on the settings of youth ages 8 to 25. The new Brochure contains a description of the program, application guidelines, and a list of current William T. Grant Scholars. The Foundation is particularly interested in reaching applicants of color. The brochure can be accessed here.

Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships
Deadline: March 1, 2011
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is interested in funding multiple projects in support of criminal justice researcher-practitioner partnerships, as well as capturing, in detail, relevant accounts of these collaborations. Such partnerships have frequently been encouraged in solicitations for research. However, this solicitation specifically aims to support activities that capture and build on these efforts and that provide opportunities for creating, enhancing, and sustaining criminal justice researcher-practitioner partnerships that will lead to better criminal justice policy, practice, and research. Projects that address issues and agencies in the juvenile justice system are also eligible. Click here for more information.

Program for Extramural/Intramural Alcohol Research Collaborations (U01)
Deadline: April 6, 2011
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to encourage collaboration between alcohol researchers in the extramural community and those within the NIAAA intramural research program.The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to bring together the research expertise that, as a functioning collaborative unit, will address key alcohol-based research questions that would not otherwise be possible by the same individuals working towards similar goals in isolation.The goal of the research proposed by the collaborating investigators should address questions that advance the alcohol research field with respect to issues surrounding alcohol use disorders including dependence, and the effects of alcohol on health. Click here for more information.

Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity (Round 6)
Deadline: March 10, 2011
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. Click here for more information.

SOPHE/ATSDR Student Fellowship in Environmental Health Promotion

Deadline: July 31, 2011

This fellowship from the Society for Public Health Education is designed to recognize, assist and train students working on research or practice-based projects in environmental health education/health promotion or environmental justice from the perspective of health education or the behavioral sciences. Applicants must be enrolled as a full time student in a masters or doctoral degree program in health education, health promotion, behavioral sciences, environmental health or a related field. Click here for more information.

RGK Center Summer Fellowship Program on Nonprofit Sector
Deadline: February 28, 2011
The RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the University of Texas at Austin is inviting graduate students from around the United States to apply to the center's Summer Fellowship Program. Fellows participate in an intensive four-week seminar (June 1-24, 2011) that culminates in the completion of papers for the RGK Center's working papers series. Over the course of the seminar, fellows will critically examine issues in the nonprofit sector and will work on their own research projects in nonprofit management, volunteerism, international civil society, social entrepreneurship, and philanthropic studies. Students are expected to submit a draft research paper that they would like to refine and prepare for academic publication during the summer program. Click here for more information.

CRF FAMILY RESEARCH METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES AWARD
Deadline: February 28, 2011
The Center for Research on Families (CRF) will fund three graduate or doctoral students who wish to attend CRF's summer Methodology Workshops at UMass Amherst. These workshops will vary in content, but all will introduce innovative research methods and analytical models/tools. Click here for more information.

CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report

United States, 2011

(From the Rural Assistance Center Health Update)

Since 1946, CDC has monitored and responded to challenges in the nation's health, with particular focus on reducing gaps between the least and most vulnerable U.S. residents in illness, injury, risk behaviors, use of preventive health services, exposure to environmental hazards, and premature death. We continue that commitment to socioeconomic justice and shared responsibility with the release of CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities in the United States - 2011, the first in a periodic series of reports examining disparities in selected social and health indicators. Health disparities are differences in health outcomes between groups that reflect social inequalities. Since the 1980s, our nation has made substantial progress in improving residents' health and reducing health disparities, but ongoing racial/ethnic, economic, and other social disparities in health are both unacceptable and correctable. Click here for the full report.

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN)
National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS): Child File 2009
The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) Child File dataset consists of child-specific data of all investigated reports of maltreatment to State child protective service agencies. The NCANDS is a federally-sponsored annual national data collection effort created for the purpose of tracking the volume and nature of child maltreatment reporting. The Child File is the case-level component of the NCANDS. There is also an NCANDS State-level component, known as the Agency File, but those data are not part of this collection. States participate on a voluntary basis and submit their data after going through a process in which the state's administrative system is mapped to the NCANDS data structure. Submitted data consist of all investigations or assessments of alleged child maltreatment that received a disposition in the reporting year. Records are provided at the level of each child on a report, also known as the report-child pair. Data elements include the demographics of children and their perpetrators, types of maltreatment, investigation or assessment dispositions, risk factors, and services provided as a result of the investigation or assessment. Click here to access this information.