Grant Announcements:

Courtesy  of the Stakeholders Collaboration to Improve Student Health
May 2011 Deadline

• ING Run for Something Better - grants to schools planning to establish or expand a school-based running program - May 1, 2011
• Legacy Projects - CEED @ the University of Illinois at Chicago - proposals for extending the life of or expanding three innovative projects or proposals that reduce type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease among African-Americans and Latinos through policy change - May 2, 2011
• State Implementation Grants for Improving Services for Children and Youth with ASD - U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration - grants to improve access to comprehensive, coordinated health care and services for children and youth with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities - May 9, 2011
• Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships - Centers for Disease Control - funds to establish community-wide initiatives, focusing on 11-14 years olds, to promote respectful, nonviolent dating relationships in high risk urban communities - May 5, 2011
• Carol M. White Physical Education Program - U.S. Department of Education - funding to initiate, expand, and improve physical education programs in schools - May 13, 2011
• Public Health Services and Systems Research - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - funding for governmental public health agencies and nonprofit organizations to examine the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services within a community and the links between the quality and performance of the public health system and population health outcomes - May 24, 2011

June 2011 Deadline

• Gerber Foundation - grants for research projects that enhance the quality of life of infants and young children - June 1, 2011 
• Health Impact Project - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - proposals that demonstrate the effectiveness of health impact assessment (HIA) and promote its use by decision makers - June 1, 2011
• Systems of Care Planning Grant - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - grants to develop a strategic plan for improving and expanding systems of care for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances and their families - June 2, 2011
• Healthy Places - Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC) and the Chicago Department of  Public Health - proposals that support policy, systems, and environmental change related to healthy food and physical activity in neighborhood level interventions - June 6, 2011

July 2011 Deadline

• Active Living Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity - provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this call for proposals supports research to inform policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activty among children and adolescents - July 1, 2011