Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 22:18:19 -0400 From: "David Radune" Subject: Funding Opportunities (06/26/96) June 26, 1996 NEW/UPDATED FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES The Clearinghouse's Funding Databases contain information on more than 800 current and archival funding opportunities. These Databases are primarily intended to serve as a starting point for people seeking support for HIV/AIDS education, prevention, service provision, and information dissemination. The grantmaking agency should be contacted for further information and application procedures. The Clearinghouse makes these databases available to the public through its electronic bulletin board service, NAC ONLINE. Information and assistance about the Clearinghouse and NAC ONLINE can be obtained by calling a Reference Specialist at 1-800-458-5231 or 1800-243-7012 (deaf access/TDD). If you know of opportunities that we do not have in our databases, please contact us at aidsinfo@cdcnac.aspensys.com. The following funding opportunities loaded to the Funding Database last night. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1) National Library of Medicine: AIDS Information Outreach Projects (1996) 2) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Outcome Evaluations of HIV/AIDS Prevention Interventions; Fiscal Year (FY) 1996 2) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Cooperative Agreements for a National System of Integrated Activities To Prevent HIV Infection and Other Serious Health Problems Among Students, Especially Postsecondary Students and Those in High-Risk Situations ----------------------------------------------------------------- ***************FUND INFORMATION*************** FUND ACCESSION NUMBER S 00155-004 FUND TITLE AIDS Information Outreach Projects (1996) DESCRIPTION (FUND) The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1996 funds to support AIDS Information Outreach Projects. The primary purpose of these outreach projects is to design local programs for improving information access for patients and the affected community as well as their care givers. Emphasis is on providing information or access to information in a way meaningful to the target community. NLM is particularly interested in involving the affected community in the development of these new programs. TARGET AUDIENCE Health Professionals, Persons With AIDS, Caregivers SUBJECT AREAS Electronic communications networks, Information resources, Outreach AMOUNT AVAILABLE - TOTAL $360,000 FUND TOTAL NOTE Amounts differ depending on project category. FUND DURATION Eighteen months from date of award. INTENDED AWARD DATE By September 30, 1996. APPLICANTS AND/OR PROJECTS MUST BE LOCATED IN: Location unrestricted. United States. ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS Community Based Organization, Consortia, Resource Center TYPE OF SUPPORT Project grants. Continuation awards. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Projects must involve one or more of the following information access categories: 1) Information Retrieval: To provide or improve access to electronic AIDS- and other health-related information resources by the organization or by the clients they serve; 2) Skills Development: Training to develop skills in accessing or using HIV/AIDS-related information including using online databases and general AIDS information resources in order to improve services and benefits to the community; 3) State-of-the-Art Resources: To implement access to state-of-the-art AIDS-related information tools by the organization and its clients via the Internet; 4) Resource Development: To support an organization to meet the needs of their clients or communities by developing specific educational or informational materials such as culturally or language specific bibliographies or guides; 5) Document Access: Access to HIV/AIDS-related documents and other types of materials. Applications will be accepted in four distinct categories of proposals: Category 1: (5-10 awards) single organization/agency -- new project; Category 2: (5-10 awards) consortium/multiple organizations -- new project; category 3: (1-4 awards) single organization/agency -- extension or expansion of NLM-funded projects; Category 4: (1-4 awards) consortium/multiple organizations -- extension or expansion of NLM-funded projects. Awards in Categories 1 and 3 will have a maximum value of $25,000; awards in Categories 2 and 4 have a maximum value of $35,000. OTHER LIMITATIONS Emphasis will be placed on the following types of organizations or arrangements for developing these programs: 1) community-based organizations (CBO) or patient advocacy groups currently providing AIDS-related services to the affected community. This encompasses both individual groups wishing to enhance their own services, as well as several cooperating for the purpose of this project; 2) public libraries wishing to serve their communities in the provision of AIDS-related information and resources; 3) multi-type consortia of the above listed organizations that may be in existence or formed specifically for this project. This consortium should include at least one of the groups listed above in the management of the project, but may include other types of agencies, such as health science libraries, that may be able to provide expertise and resources for the project. APPLICATION DEADLINE July 22, 1996 APPLICATION PROCEDURE CONTACT PERSON Valerie M. Syed Office of Acquisitions Management National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike Building 38A, Room B1N17 Bethesda, MD 20894 (301) 496-6546 FUNDER NAME US Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine ***************FUND INFORMATION*************** FUND ACCESSION NUMBER S 12184-082 FUND TITLE Outcome Evaluations of HIV/AIDS Prevention Interventions; Fiscal Year (FY) 1996 DESCRIPTION (FUND) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1996 funds for three awards, each intended to evaluate a different intervention strategy in a different high-risk population. The purpose of this program is to support intervention effectiveness studies that assess social, behavioral, programmatic, and policy outcomes of specific innovative HIV prevention interventions. These outcome evaluations should assess prevention interventions that are innovative, have new components or involve the innovative application of interventions that are commonly employed (e.g., HIV counseling and testing) and have potentially broad relevance to the field of HIV prevention. These evaluation studies will use methods common to rigorous outcome evaluation research (e.g., comparison groups, individual baseline data, cohorts, cross-sectional surveys) within the limits of the funding available and appropriately matched to the nature and size of the intervention. Interventions being evaluated should target high-risk populations (e.g., men who have sex with men, injection drug users and their partners, youth in high risk situations). Lastly, this program is to devise practical, yet reasonably rigorous, outcome evaluation methods and designs that integrate both qualitative and quantitative data, possibly from multiple sources, in the analysis and interpretation of the findings. TARGET AUDIENCE Persons Practicing High Risk Behavior SUBJECT AREAS Evaluation programs, HIV prevention AMOUNT AVAILABLE - TOTAL $500,000 FUND TOTAL NOTE Funding estimates may vary and are subject to change. AMOUNT OF FUND - MINIMUM $125,000 AMOUNT OF FUND - MAXIMUM $175,000 AMOUNT OF FUND - AVERAGE $150,000 FUND DURATION 12-month budget period within a 3-year project period. INTENDED AWARD DATE Awards will begin on or about September 30, 1996. APPLICANTS AND/OR PROJECTS MUST BE LOCATED IN: Location unrestricted. United States. ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS Educational Organization, Institution, For Profit, Hospital, Non Profit, Public Health, Social Services Department, Professional Organization, Association, Research Institution, State TYPE OF SUPPORT Program grants. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Before submitting an application, applicant's will need to identify an innovative behavioral or social HIV prevention intervention that is designed to reduce risk behaviors by high-risk persons or within high-risk communities. Fund recipients will be expected to: 1) prepare a detailed evaluation protocol, including a description of the intervention and how it is innovative, the study research questions, proposed methods, including sampling, assessment, and analysis plans, draft measurement instruments, and project timelines; 2) develop measures to evaluate the intervention (new instruments should be field tested); 3) develop procedures to ensure confidentiality and informed consent when appropriate and obtain IRB clearances as needed; 4) recruit study subjects and comparison groups according to the evaluation design; 5) conduct individual baseline and repeat assessments according to the evaluation design; 6) establish data management systems, analyze and interpret the data; 7) prepare a final report for CDC, including submission of a cleaned data set; 8) prepare a paper that summarizes the results and recommends future research and describes programmatic implications; 9) present the findings locally; 10) collaborate with other recipients in presenting the findings at national meetings. OTHER LIMITATIONS The application should demonstrate the applicant's ability to design and implement the evaluation, analyze the data, and disseminate the findings. Applications may be submitted by public and private, nonprofit and for-profit organizations and governments and their agencies. Thus, universities, colleges, research institutes, hospitals, other public and private organizations, State and local health departments or their bona fide agents or instrumentalities, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, Indian tribes or Indian tribal organizations, and small, minority- and/or women-owned businesses are eligible to apply. Organizations described in section 501 (c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that engage in lobbying are not eligible to receive Federal grant/cooperative agreement funds. APPLICATION DEADLINE August 5, 1996 APPLICATION PROCEDURE CONTACT PERSON Van Malone Grants Management Branch Procurement and Grants Office Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 255 East Paces Ferry Road, NE Room 300, Mail Stop E-15 Atlanta, GA 30305 (404) 842-6872 OTHER CONTACT Adrienne Brown (404) 842-6634 FUNDER NAME US Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Procurement and Grants Office ***************FUND INFORMATION*************** FUND ACCESSION NUMBER S 12184-083 FUND TITLE Cooperative Agreements for a National System of Integrated Activities To Prevent HIV Infection and Other Serious Health Problems Among Students, Especially Postsecondary Students and Those in High-Risk Situations DESCRIPTION (FUND) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 1996 funds for cooperative agreements to establish a national system of integrated activities for preventing HIV infection and other serious health problems among the nation's students, especially postsecondary students and those in high-risk situations. Applicants may apply for funding to carry out activities in one or more of the following priority areas: 1) educate and encourage policy and decision-making members of postsecondary institutions across the nation to support HIV prevention programs; 2) build the capacity of postsecondary institutions across the nation to implement comprehensive integrated strategies designed to prevent HIV infection; and 3) provide technical assistance and training to personnel in postsecondary institutions across the nation about the skills that health, education, social service, and other professionals need in order to help young people avoid HIV infection. TARGET AUDIENCE Students, Young Adults SUBJECT AREAS HIV prevention, Schools, Student health programs AMOUNT AVAILABLE - TOTAL $1,000,000 FUND TOTAL NOTE Funding Estimates may vary and are subject to change. AMOUNT OF FUND - MINIMUM $200,000 AMOUNT OF FUND - MAXIMUM $300,000 AMOUNT OF FUND - AVERAGE $250,000 FUND DURATION 12-month budget period within a 4-year project period. INTENDED AWARD DATE Awards begin on or about September 25, 1996. APPLICANTS AND/OR PROJECTS MUST BE LOCATED IN: Location unrestricted. United States. ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS Commercial Organization, Non Profit, Professional Organization, Association TYPE OF SUPPORT Cooperative agreement. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Recipients are required to: 1) collaborate with constituents; other national organizations whose foci are postsecondary institutions; community planning groups, State and local education, health, and social service agencies; and CDC to develop a national system to achieve the purpose of this program; 2) evaluate the projects effectiveness in achieving goals and objectives; 3) disseminate programmatic information to other interested recipients as well as CDC through, for example, computer databases and electronic bulletin boards; and 3) participate with CDC and other appropriate agencies in planning and convening meetings that support the purpose of this program. OTHER LIMITATIONS To be considered eligible for this announcement, applicants must: 1) be a national organization whose focus is education, health, or social service that also is private, nonprofit, professional, or voluntary; 2) perform a substantive role in carrying out the project activities and not merely serve as a conduit for an award to another party or to provide funds to an ineligible party; 3) have affiliate offices, organizations, or constituencies in a minimum of 10 states and territories; 4) possess a documented history of directly serving postsecondary constituencies, institutions, or programs through its offices at the national level for at least 24 months prior to submission of the application to CDC; and 5) have the organizational capacity to help develop ongoing national system of integrated activities to prevent HIV infection. APPLICATION DEADLINE August 9, 1996 APPLICATION PROCEDURE CONTACT PERSON Sharron P. Orum Grants Management Branch Procurement and Grants Office Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 255 East Paces Ferry Road, NE Room 300, Mail Stop E-18 Atlanta, GA 30305 (404) 842-6817 OTHER CONTACT Marsha Driggans (404) 842-6523 FUNDER NAME US Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Procurement and Grants Office