Sponsored Research

Private Foundations:

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

Kresge Foundation

Environmental conservation – sustainable building practices, environmental stewardship and sound land-use planning – is a core value of The Kresge Foundation. Our Green Building Initiative advances environmental conservation by awarding planning grants for sustainable design .  The foundation awards planning grants ranging from $50,000 to $100,000. Planning grants cover the following costs:

- Professional services to facilitate the design planning meetings or charrettes during the pre-design period: These meetings,   which involve stakeholders and all members of the design team, are highly collaborative and structured to focus on specific   outcomes.
- Energy analysis and modeling
- Water use analysis and modeling
- Ecological site planning
- Commissioning expenses associated with the planning process
- Initial documentation and LEED registration with the U.S. Green Building Council

Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Health Care Grants

Since 1981, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations have focused grants in health care on caring attitudes. Trustees have been concerned that advances in technology and continuing changes in the health care system have diminished the humane aspects of patient care. Patients and their families often feel that their emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs are not adequately met when confronting illness. The program in caring attitudes will concentrate on leveraging improvement in specific areas of need. These include the following:

1. Medical Education: Of interest are initiatives that advance caring attitudes in physicians during all aspects of education, including medical school, residency training, and in practice. Programs leading to organizational and transformational change in medical education, addressing the hidden curriculum, and designed to integrate caring attitudes throughout the curriculum will be considered. Faculty development initiatives are encouraged, including role modeling and mentoring.
   
   
2. Other Health Care Professionals: Also of interest are innovative programs that seek to train other health care providers in caring attitudes such as nurses and hospital chaplains. Systemic approaches to ensuring sensitive and compassionate care of patients and their families will be given priority. Recent grants under this program range from $100,000 to $200,000.  The Deadline is Continuous. Grant applications may be submitted at any time of the year.  For more information, please go to: http://www.avdfdn.org/programs-healthcare.htm.

Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Public Television Grants

The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations are interested in public television as an educational medium. Grants primarily provide partial support for major series with lasting educational value that are assured of national airing by PBS. Consideration is given on occasion to single stand-alone programs of exceptional merit. Preference is given to programs of enduring value on subjects such as history and science. Programs whose primary purpose is advocacy, topical news coverage or entertainment are unlikely to be competitive. The contribution to teaching in grades K-12, higher education, and continuing education is a consideration in evaluating proposals. Children's series are of particular interest. Consideration also will be given to innovative uses of public television (including online efforts) that enhance educational outreach in schools and communities.  Recent capstone production grants have ranged from $100,000 to $400,000.  The Deadline is Continuous. Grant applications may be submitted at any time of the year. For more information, please go to: http://www.avdfdn.org/programs-publictelevision.htm.

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.