In this issue of Health Funding Watch, the Foundation Center's newsletter devoted to health-related topics, you'll read about a nine-figure grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to a leading biotech nonprofit. 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.

UPenn Receives $25 Million to Create Cancer Center

Recent Health News from Philanthropy News Digest

Marcus Foundation Gives $20 Million to Create Comprehensive Heart Valve Center
The gift will be used to establish the first comprehensive center in the nation for heart valve care, training, and research, regardless of the valve in which the damage occurs or the reason for the damage....
Posted: 5/14/12

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Forecasts Additional $1.6 Billion in Funding
The forecast is the result of strategic decisions made by the Global Fund's board, which has adopted a plan to transform the organization that includes boosting the number of staff working in grants management....
Posted: 5/14/12

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation Awards $5.25 Million to Health Clinic Association
The South Carolina Free Clinic Association will use the three-year grant to implement centralized support systems for the organization and its forty-two member clinics, which provide free health care across the state....
Posted: 5/13/12

Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards $5 Million for Marfan Syndrome Research
The five-year grant will enable the National Marfan Foundation to fund research for its expanded grant program, sustain support for critical research resources, convene symposia, plan a critical trial network, and continue developing partnerships....
Posted: 5/09/12

Melanoma Research Alliance Awards $4.9 Million in Grants
The grants will help support twenty-two researchers at leading academic institutions working to improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of deadly skin cancers....
Posted: 5/08/12

Starr Foundation Awards $10 Million to Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute
The grant will support ISCI in broadening its preclinical and clinical research on stem cells and help accelerate its pipeline of translational research and programs for debilitating conditions, including cardiac disease, cancer, and stroke....
Posted: 5/07/12

UNC Receives $10 Million Commitment for Art Museum, Heart Disease Research
Alumnus Chip McAllister has pledged to donate art valued at $5.5 million to the Ackland Art Museum and committed the proceeds from the sale of other pieces to an endowment that supports the UNC McAllister Heart Institute....
Posted: 4/26/12

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Funding Opportunities

Lupus Research Institute Offers Funding for Novel Approaches to Lupus
Awards of up to $100,000 a year for up to three years will be awarded for novel idea-driven research projects relevant to basic, translational, or clinical investigations in lupus....
Deadline: 5/31/12

Kendal Charitable Funds Offers Grants for Innovative New Programs to Improve the Lives of Older Adults
Grants of up to $25,000 are available to nonprofit organizations for projects that enhance the lives of older adults through services, research, and/or developing new understandings of the potential for aging well....
Deadline: 6/15/12 (Letters of Intent)

Lupus Research Funding Proposals Invited From Junior Investigators in New York City and Los Angeles
Awards of up to $150,000 over three years will be awarded for innovative lupus prevention, treatment, and cure research by scientists affiliated with institutions of higher learning in the New York City metropolitan area and Los Angeles County....
Deadline: 8/01/12

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces Calls for Proposals for Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
A total of $1.9 million in grants will be awarded to nonprofits and government agencies conducting environmental and policy research with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children, especially in lower-income and minority populations....
Deadline: 8/09/12 (concept papers) and October 4, 2012 (full proposals)

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Have you visited GrantSpace, the Foundation Center's learning community for the social sector? The Health area of GrantSpace offers free access to education-themed videos and podcasts, sample grant proposals, the latest education-related reports from PubHub, funding facts and figures, an FAQ, a Twitter feed featuring the tweets of health funders, and more. Stop by and join the conversation!

Dating Abuse

Psychological, physical, and electronic dating abuse can begin as early as seventh grade, with potentially serious consequences for individual growth, academic performance, and long-term health outcomes, a report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds. Prevention in Middle School Matters: A Summary of Findings on Teen Dating Violence Behaviors and Associated Risk Factors Among 7th-Grade Students found that 37 percent of seventh-grade students had witnessed boys or girls being physically violent to those they were dating, 15 percent had been a victim of physical dating violence, and 31 percent had been a victim of electronic dating aggression. Funded by RWJF and the Blue Shield of California Foundation, the report highlights the importance of good parent-child communication in reducing the risk of dating abuse. Download the report.

Vaccine Innovation Award

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is accepting nominations for the second annual Gates Vaccine Innovation Award. As it did last year, the foundation is looking for ideas big and small with the potential to drive tangible improvements in vaccine coverage in developing countries and will recognize the winning innovation with a $250,000 prize. Any individual or team from any discipline, including academic institutions, governments, healthcare facilities, research institutions, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit companies, may apply. Learn more.

Job Opportunities

Communications Officer
Center for Health Care Strategies
Hamilton, New Jersey
Posted: 5/12/12

Program Coordinator, Research/Education
Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network
Bethesda, Maryland
Posted: 5/11/12

Program Assistant, Federal and State Health Policy
Commonwealth Fund
Washington, D.C.
Posted: 5/11/12

Associate Director, Research Partnerships
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
New York, New York
Posted: 5/09/12

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