The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) seeks to stimulate innovative research related to federal food assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP (formerly Food Stamps) and the National School Breakfast/Lunch Program, and to support training of researchers interested in food assistance issues. Click here for more information.

Dimensional Approaches to Research Classification in Psychiatric Disorders (R01)
Deadline: June 27, 2013
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks research grant applications designed to develop innovative ways of understanding mental disorders in clinical studies on the basis of experimental research criteria rather than traditional diagnostic categories. This FOA stems from the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project that is intended to further a long-range goal of contributing to diagnostic systems as informed by research on genetics, neuroscience, and behavior. The purpose of this FOA is to encourage applications to study mechanisms that may cut across multiple traditional diagnostic categories. Applications submitted in response to this FOA should be based upon RDoC criteria. Five organizing domains have been identified in the draft specification. These include Negative Valence Systems (i.e., aversive motivational dimensions), Positive Valence Systems, Cognitive Systems, Social Process Systems, and Arousal/Regulatory Systems. Consensus workshops and guidance documents on Negative Valence Systems, Positive Valence Systems, Cognitive Systems, Working Memory (subsidiary of Cognitive Systems), and Social Processes, are to have been completed by the time applications in response to this FOA are due, and applications must focus on at least one of the constructs that have been defined in these RDoC workshops, as indicated in the workshop proceedings. Click here for more information. 

Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health Sciences (R21)
Deadline: April 1, 2016 (closing date)
(National Institutes of Health)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is intended to support environmental health research in which an unpredictable opportunity has arisen to collect human biosample or exposure data (e.g., following natural or made-made disasters, health care policy changes, etc). The three distinguishing features of an eligible study are: 1) the unforeseeable nature of the opportunity; 2) the clear scientific value and feasibility of the study; and 3) the need for rapid review and funding (substantially shorter than the typical NIH grant review/award cycle) in order for the scientific question to be approached and for the research design to be implemented. Click here for more information. 

Lasker Clinical Research Scholars Program (Si2)
Deadline: June 24, 2013
This FOA solicits applications for the Lasker Clinical Research Scholars Program for the purpose of supporting the research activities during the early stage careers of independent clinical researchers. The program offers the opportunity for a unique bridge between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intramural and extramural research communities and contains two phases.In the first phase, Lasker scholars will receive appointments for up to 5-7 years as tenure-track investigators within the NIH Intramural Research Program with independent research budgets.In the second phase, successful scholars will be eligible to apply for up to 5 years of NIH support for their research at an extramural research facility; or, the scholar can be considered to remain as an investigator within the intramural program. Click here for more information. 

 

Archive Research Fellows Fund
Deadline: open
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
The Indiana University School of Philanthropy is accepting applications for the Archive Research Fellows Fund for research that contributes to the understanding and practice of philanthropy. The program awards grants of up to $4,000 in any discipline for research that requires use of the collections of the Philanthropy Archives Collection of the University Library at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Faculty and graduate students with research priorities in the following areas are eligible to apply: the origins and development of philanthropic traditions across time, cultures, and social groups; the role of philanthropic and nonprofit organizations in shaping communities and civil society; the sources, motivations, and practices involved in generating, allocating, and managing philanthropic resources; the types, scope, and composition of philanthropic resources and their significance for nonprofit organizations; and the governance and management of philanthropic institutions and nonprofit organizations. Click here for more information.