Funding Opportunities

Current Funding opportunities

Active Aging/Healthy Communities
The EPA seeks applications for Excellence in Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging. This award recognizes communities for their outstanding comprehensive approaches to implementing principles of smart growth, as well as strategies that support active aging. This award will be presented to communities with the best and most inclusive overall approach to implementing smart growth and active aging on a variety of fronts, at the neighborhood, tribe, city, county, and/or regional level. The deadline for application is Sept. 12. (http://www.epa.gov/aging/bhc/awards/)

The National Institutes of Health Seek Award Applications for Research on Fatigue in Aging (Deadline: May 8, 2011)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks submissions for its program announcements on "Transdisciplinary Research on Fatigue and Fatigability in Aging." These funding opportunities use the R01 and R21 funding mechanisms. The purpose of these program announcements is to promote research studies employing transdisciplinary approaches that could lead to increased understanding of mechanisms contributing to, assessment of, or potential interventions for, increased fatigue or fatigability in older persons. Direct cost requests for R21 applications are limited to $275,000 over 2 years and $200,000 in any single year. Direct cost requests for R01 applications are discussed in the text of the announcement. Eligible organizations/institutions include for-profit organizations, small businesses, city or township governments, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, private institutions of higher education and more. Closing date for applications: May 8, 2011. Applications must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov.

Searching for Grants?

One-stop shopping for grant searches and applications: Grants.gov is the new clearinghouse web site for all federal grant programs. Grants.gov was launched in December 2003 with application packages from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy and Justice. More agencies are expected to post their programs in coming months.

For more information, go to http://www.grants.gov.

Web Sites:

Active for Life:  http://www.activeforlife.info/resources/funding_opportunities.html

Grants.gov:  http://www.grants.gov.