Balance Bar Community Physical Activity Grants
Balance Bar will provide grant monies for up to $25,000 for physical activity-based community projects. Go to http://www.balance.com/grants/GrantTemplate.aspx?type=2&entryid=2&m=modules/regulations for more information.
Improving the Quality of Life of Older Americans
The Retirement Research Foundation is committed to supporting programs that improve the quality of life for older Americans, and has invested more than $115 million to help build a network of innovative and skilled individuals and institutions addressing aging and retirement issues.
Deadlines for receipt of requests are May 1 and August 1, 2006. Decisions are usually made four to six months after each deadline. For more information, go to the Retirement Research Foundation at http://www.rrf.org///forapplicants/programguide.html. Proposals should be sent to the Retirement Research Foundation, 8765 West Higgins Road, Suite 430, Chicago, IL 60631-4170.
Active Living Research Grants
Active Living Research's current Call for Proposals includes the following three priority topics: young people's use of parks (Topic 1), physical activity in and around buildings (Topic 2), and physical activity in rural areas (Topic 4). Evaluations of community interventions that are part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living by Design program also will be supported (Topic 3). Research Topic and Dissertation Grants will be available, and the proposal deadline is Wednesday, May 10, at 1 p.m.
Go to http://www.activelivingresearch.org/index.php/Round_6_Funding/370 for more information and to link to the RWJF Grantmaking Online system. For additional questions about the proposal submission process, contact Amanda Wilson, Research Coordinator, at awilson@projects.sdsu.edu or 619-260-5538.
Information Technologies and the Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R21) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant award mechanism
This funding opportunity encourages study of the use of technology to disseminate health-related information, including how information technology impacts the packaging, transmission, and reception of information, or how technology impacts how interventions are designed and delivered.
Go to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-224.html for further information, and http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm for information on submission dates.
