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SFP’s own grant opportunities are described in the research section of this site. But SFP members should be aware of these other funding opportunities as well:

Aetna Foundation Grant Program Funding Opportunities
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Grand Challenges Explorations
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS)
Clinical Research Education and Career Development in Minority Institutions
Contextual Approaches to Prevention of Unintended Pregnancy (R21)
Contextual Approaches to Prevention of Unintended Pregnancy (R01)
Contraceptive Development Research Centers Program
Educational Programs for Family Planning and Contraception and Reproductive Research
NIH Career Development Awards
Postdoctoral Research Training for Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R21)
Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R01)
USAID: Girls Empowerment and Innovations in Youth, Reproductive Health, and Family Planning
Other funding opportunities

• Aetna Foundation Grant Program Funding Opportunities. The Aetna Foundation is offering research grants, project grants, and policy grants in each of three focus areas: obesity (addressing the rising rate of obesity among U.S. adults and children), racial and ethnic healthcare equity (conceerning common chronic conditions and infant mortality), and Integrated health care (improving coordination and communication between healthcare professionals and patients). Grant awards can range from small sponsorship awards of $5,000–$10,000 to national grant requests of up to $250,000. There are four grant cycles each year; submission closing dates are February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15.
• Grand Challenges Explorations. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations is a $100 million initiative to encourage bold and unconventional global health solutions. Anyone can apply, regardless of prior experience or institutional affiliation. Previous winners include graduate students, entrepreneurs at start-up companies, and creative thinkers from all fields of research. Initial grants of $100,000 are awarded two times a year. Successful projects have the opportunity to receive a follow-on grant of up to $1 million. The next round will open in March 2012. Watch their website or this space for updates.
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS). Program designed to support physician-scientists during advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented or, translational research. Five-year $700,000 awards are made to degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada on behalf of the awardee. The ideal candidate will be two years away from becoming an independent investigator, have at least two years or more of postdoctoral research experience, and have a significant publication record. Application deadline: October 1, 2012.
• Clinical Research Education and Career Development in Minority Institutions (R25). The purpose of NIH’s Clinical Research Education and Career Development (CRECD) Program provides grant support to minority institutions that offer doctorate degrees in the health professions or in a health-related science. The primary goals are to (1) support development and implementation of curriculum-dependent programs to train selected doctoral and postdoctoral participants in clinical research leading to a Master of Science in Clinical Research or Master of Public Health in a clinically relevant area; (2) develop a diverse group of clinical researchers who have the necessary knowledge and skills to pursue clinical research and can become part of translational and/or patient-oriented research, particularly on diseases that disproportionately impact minority populations. Letters of intent are due October 2, 2012; applications are due November 2, 2012. Projects can run for up to five years and can have budgets up to $500,000. Download application instructions and package.
• Contextual Approaches to Prevention of Unintended Pregnancy (R21). The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites R21 research grant applications that will inform interventions addressing the cultural and structural factors that produce high rates of unintended pregnancy across the reproductive age span, especially in low-income populations in the United States. These interventions can operate at a wide range of levels, from clinical interventions to interventions that influence cultural, economic, social, structural, and/or policy factors contributing to unintended pregnancy. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to strengthen and revitalize scientific research on the prevention of unintended pregnancies in the United States. The application period began on January 5, 2009 and is scheduled to run through January 7, 2012. Read funding announcement; download application instructions and package.
• Contextual Approaches to Prevention of Unintended Pregnancy (R01). Identical to the preceding listing, but categorizied as an investigator-initiated research grant rather than an exploratory/developmental research grant award. It thus has a longer allowable time period (up to five years) and a more flexible budget. Read funding announcement; download application instructions and package.
• Educational Programs for Demography and Population Science, Family Planning and Contraception, and Reproductive Research. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites R25 research grant applications for educational activities related to demography and population science, family planning and contraception, and reproductive research. NICHD encourages applications for educational programs for interdisciplinary training; methodological training; and training in the use and dissemination and use of existing datasets. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to increase the impact and breadth of population and reproductive science by facilitating cost-effective approaches. The application period began on August3, 2011 and is scheduled to run through September 7, 2014. Read funding announcement; download application instructions and package.
• NIH Career Development Awards. There are at least eight different awards that individuals with a research doctorate should consider. Most of these awards support individuals that have accepted or are ready for a faculty position.
  • There is the Career Transition Award (K22) that provides support during the early years of a new faculty position. This award is used differently by the NIH institutes and centers that participate and interested applicants should carefully review the relevant program announcements.
  • New faculty members that need additional supervised research experience because they have had a career hiatus or they are moving to a substantially new area of research should consider the Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01).
  • Scientists who have recently received independent research support might consider the Independent Scientist Award (K02) that protects at least 75 percent of their effort so that they can focus on the development of their research program.
  • Individuals interested in Stem Cell research or Quantitative Methods or Mouse Pathobiology might consider the K18, K25, or K 26.
  • A number of the NIH Institutes offer Midcareer Investigator Awarsd in Patient-Oriented Research (K24).
  • A few of the NIH Institutes offer an award called the Senior Scientist Award (K05) that provides protected time and salary support for more senior, established scientists.
  • Finally there is the Academic Award (K07) that is used to recruit research faculty into areas where there is a growing need for research and instructional capabilities.
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• Postdoctoral Research Training for Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has funds to establish programs of postdoctoral research training in epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical epidemiology and clinical trial methodology for obstetricians and gynecologists. Training is expected to be in collaboration with departments of epidemiology, biostatistics or preventive medicine (or equivalent) in a school of public health or a school of medicine, and should cover skills for translational, clinical and applied research. It is expected that the research carried out by the PIs of the training program will investigate the most pressing reproductive, perinatal, pharmacologic, infectious, surgical, and gynecologic problems, including those for which racial/ethnic disparities are observed, utilizing state of the art and evolving study designs and methods. This research, which can be domestic or international, should identify new and existing subgroups at risk, identify emerging problems and design public health and/or clinical primary and secondary interventions. Letters of intent are due by April 25, 2012 and applications by May 25, 2012.
• Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R21). This cross-program National Institutes of Health program encourages Research Project Grant (R21) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to develop basic and applied projects utilizing systems science methodologies relevant to human behavioral and social sciences and health. The goal is to encourage a broader scope of topics to be addressed with systems science methodologies. Applicable projects are those that are either applied or basic in nature (including methodological development), have a human behavioral and/or social science focus, and feature systems science methodologies. Applications will be accepted in cycles continuing through September 8, 2014: applications are due January 25, May 25 or September 25 in each of the next two days; letters of intent are due 30 days before the application receipt date. The maximum project period is two years; maximum budget is $275,000. Read funding announcement; download application instructions and package.
• Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R01). Identical to the preceding grant, but funded under the R01 mechanism, allowing for a longer project period and a larger budget. The maximum project period is five years; budgets are not limited. Deadlines are March 5, July 5 and November 5; letters of intent are du 30 days before the application receipt date. Read funding announcement; download application instructions and package.
• USAID: Girls Empowerment and Innovations in Youth, Reproductive Health, and Family Planning, and Service Outreach. The goal of this program is to support conditions that will enable girls and women to achieve positive social and economic outcomes through four focus areas: (1) Adolescent, youth and girls' empowerment; (2) Innovations in reproductive health and family planning; (3) Outreach services to increase access to and use of family planning services; and (4) Capacity building for networks, coalitions, and advocacy groups supporting youth, girls' and women's empowerment. Ten awards are expected; awards will range between $40,000 and $14,000,000; total funding is $23,000,000. Applications are due March 31, 2012. Read funding announcement; download application instructions and package.


• Other funders of note:
  • Compton Foundation, Inc.—Phone: (650) 508-1181
  • Ford Foundation—Phone: (212) 573-5000
  • General Service Foundation—Phone: (970) 920-6834
  • Moriah Fund—Phone: (202)783-8488
  • Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund—Phone: (415) 345-6300
  • Robert Sterling Clark Foundation—Phone: (212) 288-8900
  • The David and Lucille Packard Foundation—Phone: (650) 948-7658
  • The Educational Foundation of America—Phone: (203) 226-6498
  • The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation—Phone: (212) 684-6577
  • The John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation—Phone: (312) 726-8000
  • The John Merck Fund—Phone: (617) 556-4120
  • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation—Phone: (650) 234-4500
  • Third Wave—Phone: (212) 228-8311
  • Wallace Global Fund—Phone: (202) 452-1530
  • West Wind Foundation—Phone: (434) 977-5762

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