Community Health Funding Report

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(RURAL HEALTH) $7.2M to Fund 15 Black Lung Clinic Projects

HRSA's Office of Rural Health Policy offers Black Lung Clinics Program (BLCP) funding for existing grantees (with project periods ending in FY 2010) or for those proposing to serve the same area or population an existing program is now serving.

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(HIV/AIDS) Magic Johnson Funds Programs in Select Cities

The Magic Johnson Foundation makes $5,000-$25,000 grants to community-based HIV/AIDS programs that have a broad impact on underserved urban neighborhoods in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Cleveland, OH, Houston, TX, Northern & Southern CA and Washington DC.

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(NUTRITION) New IL Law Creates Farm Fresh School Fund

The program will emphasize the purchase of foods from farms as a way to improve child nutrition, increase nutritional awareness, reduce obesity and help children develop healthy eating habits.

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MENTAL HEALTH: Cancer Support Groups in IL Eligible for Funds

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is accepting applications for Survivor Circle grants, which are awarded to non-disease site specific cancer support organizations located in the state that ASTRO holds its Annual Meeting, which takes place this year in Chicago, IL.

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More Websites Help Citizens Participate in Stimulus Process

States continue to develop new websites and update existing ones to enable citizens to be more interactive in stimulus law (PL 111-5) developments.

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New $15M RWJF Initiative Will Help States with Medicaid/SCHIP Enrollment

RWJF's Maximizing Enrollment for Kids, a four-year initiative, will provide funding and technical support to eight states--AL, IL, LA, MA, NY, UT, VA and WI.

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Congress Ramping Up to Pass $800 Billion Stimulus Package

 Congressional aides are working overtime to categorize differences between the House and Senate economic stimulus packages even before the Senate makes a final vote on their version of the measure meant to jump start the economy. Congressional leaders made an ambitious promise to deliver leg...

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HEALTH CARE: Blowitz-Ridgeway Provides Grants in IL

The foundation provides program and capital grants to organizations in support of but not limited to the following purposes: medical, psychiatric, psychological and/or residential care, and research programs in medicine, psychology, social science and education.

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$78M Now Available for Health Disparities

Agency: Health & Human Services Dept. (Nat'l Institutes of Health (NIH), Nat'l Cancer Institute (NCI), Nat'l Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute (NHLBI); Program: NIH-Supported Centers for Population Health & Health Disparities (CPHHD) (P50) (RFA-CA-09-001); Eligibility: Nonprofits with or ...

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$20K Seed Grants Available From American Psychological Foundation

One-year grants are available in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 each -- deadline, Mar. 15. . The American Psychological Foundation's Visionary and Weiss grants are designed to seed innovation through supporting research, education, and intervention projects and programs that use psycholo...

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