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January 21, 2010

In this issue of Health Funding Watch, the Foundation Center's newsletter devoted to health-related topics, you'll read about a new initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support community-based strategies that combat childhood obesity and promote healthy communities. And you'll learn about a new area of the Center's site where you can track the philanthropic response to the humanitarian crisis in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. You'll also find links to other health-related news, resources, funding opportunities for individuals and organizations, and job listings. Health Funding Watch is available exclusively to visitors who register at the Foundation Center's Web site.

RWJF Awards Grants to Ten Organizations to Promote Healthy Communities

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has announced grants of up to $250,000 to ten organizations as part of a new $15 million initiative to plan and implement community-based strategies that build and sustain healthy neighborhoods. An important component of the foundation's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States, the Communities Creating Healthy Environments initiative will help community-based organizations engage local residents in the policy-making process while they work to develop effective interventions that address root causes of childhood obesity in their communities. "CCHE builds on what we have learned from more than thirty years of community-based work," said CCHE project director Makani Themba-Nixon. "The answers are right in our own neighborhoods with our community leaders, with young organizers, and in our local organizations. The work on the ground is truly amazing. It was extremely difficult to choose only ten groups." Read the article»

Recent Health News from Philanthropy News Digest

NCB Capital Impact Receives $5 Million Social Investment Loan From MetLife
The loan from MetLife will kick off a three-year, $75 million initiative to finance community health centers serving vulnerable communities and maintain healthcare services for low-income and uninsured patients....
Posted: 1/19/10

Brandeis University Announces $1 Million Award From Keck Foundation
The grant will enable the university to conduct research on the behaviors of active matter, applying an interdisciplinary approach to research at the intersection of biology and physics....
Posted: 1/18/10

City of Hope's Beckman Research Institute Receives $2.5 Million Endowment Gift
The gift to City of Hope from longtime supporters Morgan and Helen Chu will establish an endowed chair for the director of the research institute....
Posted: 1/17/10

Sammons Dallas Foundation Awards $100 Million to Area Organizations
The six beneficiaries were chosen by Charles Sammons prior to his death in 1988; they include the Methodist Health System Foundation, which received $20 million, and the Salvation Army of Dallas County, which received $15 million....
Posted: 1/15/10

Post-Katrina Safety-Net Clinic Patients Report Better Health Care Than Most U.S. Adults, Report Finds
Results of a recent survey by the Commonwealth Fund found that safety-net clinic patients in New Orleans reported having fewer problems affording health care and fewer instances of medical debt than most U.S. adults....
Posted: 1/15/10

More health news»

Funding Opportunities

Mary Kay Foundation Invites Applications for Cancer Research Grants
At least eight grants of up to $100,000 will be awarded to investigators for their research in ovarian, uterine, breast, or cervical cancer....
Deadline: 2/12/10

Ashoka and Engender Health Announce Changemakers Competition in Global Maternal Health
Maternal health organizations and young people between the ages of 18 and 35 will receive financial support for developing projects or programs that work to strengthen maternal health care systems worldwide....
Deadline: 3/03/10

NARSAD: The Mental Health Research Association Announces Deadline for 2010 Independent Investigator Award Program
Two-year awards of up to $50,000 per year will be given to scientists at the associate professor level or equivalent conducting research on schizophrenia, major affective disorders, and other serious mental illnesses....
Deadline: 3/05/10

American Psychological Foundation Accepting Applications for Visionary and Weiss Grants
One-year grants of up to $20,000 will be awarded for projects that use psychology to solve social problems, including discussing the connection between mental and physical health and addressing the needs of communities in the aftermath of disaster....
Deadline: 3/15/10

MAC AIDS Fund Announces 2010 U.S. Community Grants Program
Grants of up to $50,000 will be awarded to nonprofits providing direct-services to programs that work to feed and house poverty-stricken individuals living with HIV and AIDS....
Deadline: 3/15/10 and 6/15/10

More requests for proposals»

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Haiti Relief and Recovery

Last week's catastrophic earthquake in Haiti has been judged one of the worst natural disasters in a century, even as the death toll continues to rise. To learn more about the philanthropic response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the Western hemisphere's poorest country, visit the
new Focus on Haiti: Earthquake Relief
and Recovery area
of the Foundation
Center's Web site.

Partners In Health

Co-founded by MacArthur Foundation "genius award" recipient Paul Farmer in 1987 to deliver health care to residents of Haiti's mountainous Central Plateau, PIH works to provide services to needy patients and their families, treatment for general medical conditions and for more complex diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis, and access to financial support in Haiti and nine other countries. Building on its affiliations with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health, PIH also performs research on how epidemic disease affects communities, how the distribution of wealth and power shapes the distribution and outcome of infectious disease, and how health and healthcare are related to human rights. Click here to learn more.

Primary Care Providers

A new report from the Colorado Health Professions Workforce Policy Collaborative finds that by 2025 the state will need an additional 2,200 primary care providers beyond the anticipated supply. The report, Addressing Colorado's Primary Care Provider Shortage (23 pages, PDF), argues that without an expansion of its primary care provider workforce, the state will suffer adverse effects in local economies as well as in the overall health of its residents and their access to health care.

Job Opportunities

Receptionist
Commonwealth Fund
New York, New York
Posted: 1/21/10

Senior Development Director
National Jewish Health
New York, New York
Posted: 1/21/10

Research Analyst
Hilltop Institute
Baltimore, Maryland
Posted: 1/21/10

Director of Federal Relations and Managing Attorney
National Health Law Program
Washington, DC
Posted: 1/21/10

Director of Development
Firelight Foundation
Santa Cruz, California
Posted: 1/14/10

Campaign Coordinator
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York
Posted: 1/14/10

More job opportunities»

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