Sponsored Research

Private Foundations:

For further information on private foundations, please go to: http:fdcenter.org/.

Educational Foundation of America (EFA)

The Educational Foundation of America (EFA) makes grants to qualifying non-profit organizations that have tax-exempt status and those that are not private foundations as defined in the Internal Revenue Code.  EFA provides grants for specific projects.  It does not provide funds for endowment or endowed faculty chairs, building/capital programs, religious purposes, grants to individuals, annual fund-raising campaigns, indirect costs, overhead or general support.  The Foundation prefers not to fund projects located outside the United States.  Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the environment, reproductive freedom, theatre, education, medicine, drug policy reform, democracy, peace & national security issues and human services.  Important characteristics considered by EFA are an organization's record of achievement, intended broad impact, sound financial practices, increasing independence, and correspondence with EFA objectives.  Unfortunately, many worthy requests are denied because needs exceed the Foundation's resources or a given project does not fall within a current area of focus. The deadline date is continuous and letters of inquiry are accepted year-round.  For more information, please go to: http://www.efaw.org/Inquiry%20Guidelines.htm.


Grants for Integrating and Improving Health-Related Services for Elders

The Foundations supports efforts in selected academic medical centers and other health settings to strengthen the geriatric training of America’s physicians, nurses and social workers.  In order to maximize the Foundations impact on the health and the well-being of the nation’s elders, grants are made in two priority areas; Academic Geriatrics and Training, and Integrating and Improving Services.  The foundation supports a limited number of sustainable efforts to improve and integrate the system of services needed by elders and their effectiveness.  The emphasis is on nationally replicable models.  For more information, please go to: http://www.jhartfound.org/.  The deadline is considered continuous. Letters of inquiry may be submitted at anytime. Initial inquiries should be made at least six months before funding is needed.


Health Care (Caring Attitudes) Grant

This program supports efforts to encourage caring attitudes in the delivery of patient care, in the hospital, and in the convalescing period. Projects should have potential for practical application and should be of interest to other groups. New ideas are encouraged, especially if they facilitate communications with patients by doctors, nurses, and other caregivers; ameliorate patient anxieties; and foster caring attitudes. Other programs that comfort patients and families dealing with serious illness are of interest, such as programs supporting accredited clinical pastoral education and professional hospital chaplaincies and those which strengthen the hospice movement nationally. All proposals must have potential for wide application and not merely local improvement of requesting institutions. The deadline for this grant is continuous. Grant applications may be submitted at any time of the year. For more information please visit: http://www.avdfdn.org/programs-healthcare.htm.

Projects of Special Merit

The Projects of Special Merit program is intended to advance geophysics today and inspire geoscientists for tomorrow by providing critical funding for projects that further the professional development, student support, and youth outreach goals of the Society of Exploration Geophysicsts (SEG) Foundation. Proposals should address issues, problems, or opportunities related to the foundation's mission, which is to encourage and support scientific, educational, and charitable activities of benefit to the general public, to geophysicists, and to the geophysical corporate community. They should also be aligned with SEG's strategic plan. The deadline date is January 2, 2008. For more information please visit: http://foundation.seg.org/projects/.