Grant and Funding Opportunity Announcements
Conference Grants
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
AHRQ Grant Program for Large Conference Support (R13) and (U13)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces its continued interest in supporting conferences through its Grant Program for Large Conference Support. AHRQ seeks to support conferences that help to further its mission to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. The types of conferences eligible for support include: 1) Research development - conferences where issues or challenges in the delivery of health services are defined and a research agenda or strategy for studying them is developed; 2) Design and methodology - conferences where methodological and technical issues of major importance in the field of health services research are addressed or new designs and methodologies are developed; 3) Dissemination conferences - where research findings are summarized and communicated broadly to organizations and individuals that have the capability to use the information to improve the outcomes, quality, access to, and cost and utilization of health care services; and/or, 4) Research training, infrastructure and career development conferences where research faculty and students are brought together with users of research to develop, share and disseminate research products, experiences, curricula, syllabi, approaches or core competencies required to train individuals from multi- and interdisciplinary backgrounds or prepare developing or emerging research institutions to conduct and translate research related to fostering improvements in health care delivery in the U.S.
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- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Small Grant Program for Conference Support (R13) [deadline extended to 10/21/09]
Application Deadline: 10/21/2009
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), announces its continued interest in supporting conferences through its Small Grant Program for Conference Support. AHRQ seeks to support conferences that help to further its mission to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. The types of conferences eligible for support include: 1) Research development - conferences where issues or challenges in the delivery of health services are defined and a research agenda or strategy for studying them is developed; 2) Design and methodology - conferences where methodological and technical issues of major importance in the field of health services research are addressed or new designs and methodologies are developed; 3) Dissemination conferences - where research findings are summarized and communicated broadly to organizations and individuals that have the capability to use the information to improve the outcomes, quality, access to, and cost and utilization of health care services; and/or, 4) Research Training, Infrastructure and Career Development-conferences where research faculty and students are brought together with users of research to develop, share and disseminate research products, experiences, curricula, syllabi, approaches or core competencies required to train individuals from multi- and interdisciplinary backgrounds or prepare developing or emerging research institutions to conduct and translate research related to fostering improvements in health care delivery in the US.
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Funding Agencies:
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
East European Studies Conference Grants
Application Deadline: 1/30/2009
Pending confirmation of funding, grants up to $25,000 will be offered to support formal research conferences to be held before December 31, 2010, which intend to produce significant new research on Eastern Europe publishable in a conference volume. (Please note that no publication support is anticipated.)
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- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society
Application Deadline: 11/12/2008
With funding by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, ACLS offers a program of support for conferences and publications on New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. This program is intended to support projects in the humanities and related social sciences that bridge disciplinary or geographic boundaries, engage new kinds of information, develop fresh approaches to traditional materials and issues, or otherwise bring innovative perspectives to the study of Chinese culture and society. Proposals are expected to be empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically explicit. The Program especially encourages proposals concerning pre-modern China.
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Funding Agencies:
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
American Psychological Association (APA)
APA Scientific Conference Grants
The Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association (APA) is seeking proposals for research conferences in psychology. The purpose of this program is to promote the exchange of important new contributions and approaches in scientific psychology.
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Funding Agencies:
- American Psychological Association (APA)
Association for Asian Studies
AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Japan Studies Grants
The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (NEAC), in conjunction with the Japan-US Friendship Commission, supports a variety of grant programs in Japanese studies designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Japan into the major academic disciplines.
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Funding Agencies:
- Association for Asian Studies
AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Korean Studies Grants
The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (NEAC), in conjunction with the Korea Foundation, offers a grant program in Korean studies designed to assist the research of individual scholars based in North America to improve the quality of teaching about Korea on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Korea into the major academic disciplines.
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Funding Agencies:
- Association for Asian Studies
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
Conference/Seminar/Workshop Grants
The Foundation's grants provide support for research on Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences. The Foundation will consider applications from institutions for grants to hold conferences, workshops, or seminars on specific subjects related to the Foundation's goals and objectives.
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Funding Agencies:
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society
Application Deadline: 11/12/2008
With funding by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, ACLS offers a program of support for conferences and publications on New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. This program is intended to support projects in the humanities and related social sciences that bridge disciplinary or geographic boundaries, engage new kinds of information, develop fresh approaches to traditional materials and issues, or otherwise bring innovative perspectives to the study of Chinese culture and society. Proposals are expected to be empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically explicit. The Program especially encourages proposals concerning pre-modern China.
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Funding Agencies:
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
NIOSH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13)
The purpose of the NIOSH Research Conference Grant Program (R13) is to support high quality conferences/scientific meetings that are relevant to its scientific mission and to the public health. A conference/scientific meeting is defined as a gathering, symposium, seminar, scientific meeting, workshop or any other organized, formal meeting where persons assemble to coordinate, exchange, and disseminate information or to explore or clarify a defined subject, problem, or area of knowledge.
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Funding Agencies:
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13/U13)
The purpose of the NIH Research Conference Grant Program (R13 and U13) is to support high quality conferences/scientific meetings that are relevant to the scientific mission of the NIH and to the public health. A conference/scientific meeting is defined as a gathering, symposium, seminar, scientific meeting, workshop or any other organized, formal meeting where persons assemble to coordinate, exchange, and disseminate information or to explore or clarify a defined subject, problem, or area of knowledge. Each NIH Institute and Center (IC) has a scientific purview and different program goals and initiatives that evolve over time.
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Funding Agencies:
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announces SAMHSAs Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants program (also referred to as SAMHSA Conference Grants). The purpose of the Conference Grant program is to disseminate knowledge about practices within the mental health services and substance abuse prevention and treatment fields and to integrate that knowledge into real-world practice as effectively and efficiently as possible.
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Funding Agencies:
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Broad Agency Announcement for Conferences, Workshops, and/or Meetings
Application Deadline: 12/9/2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) soliciting applications from eligible applicants for the planning, arranging, administering and/or conducting of conferences, workshops, and/or meetings (hereinafter referred to as conferences ) that focus on research to protect human health and safeguard the environment. Specifically, EPA is interested in supporting scientific and technical research conferences that address the following research program areas: (1) human health; (2) ecosystems; water and security; (3) economics and sustainability; (4) air and global climate change; and (5) technology.
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Funding Agencies:
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Wenner-Gren Foundation For Anthropological Research, Inc.
Conference and Workshop Grants
Conference and Workshop Grants are for amounts up to $15,000. In accordance with the mission of the Foundation, priority is given to events that foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology and advance significant and innovative anthropological research.
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Funding Agencies:
- Wenner-Gren Foundation For Anthropological Research, Inc.
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