Grants | Scholarships
Eating Smart From The Start Mini Grant
Posted: 7/08/2010 3:57 PM
Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline is proud to present Eating Smart from the Start, a hands-on, cooking-based education program for child care providers serving low-income preschool children. This professional training program is specially designed to empower providers to plan, prepare, and serve healthy meals and create a healthy food environment for the kids in their care. Each of its five modules offer child care providers hands-on practice in the kitchen, interactive discussions on ways to make healthy choices about food served to kids, and strategies to promote positive attitudes about food among kids.

Eating Smart from the Start is currently offered only through Opera ... (Read More)

Reducing Health Disparities Among Men of Color
Posted: 12/22/2009 11:33 AM
Please notify any partners or organizations that you think may be appropriate to apply for a new RFR that the DPH Bureau of Community Health Access and Promotion has posted on Comm-PASS titled "Reducing Health Disparities Among Men of Color."

Men suffer from more preventable chronic diseases including, heart disease and stroke, diabetes, and asthma and engage in more unhealthy behaviors than women, resulting in poor health and shorter life expectancy for men. The situation is even worse among men of color (defined as Blacks, Hispanics or Latinos, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans. Although men of color the proportion of their disease burden is substantially greater t ... (Read More)

Behavioral Sciences Research in HIV Infection
Posted: 10/20/2009 10:51 AM
Our program is a postdoctoral research training program that provides intensive training in human sexuality research as applied to HIV prevention and HIV-related health interventions. The major components of our program are academic course work, the development of research and professional skills, and the conduct of independent research. ... (Read More)
Scholarships
Kohl's Kids Who Care Scholarship Program
Posted: 3/04/2010 12:46 PM
The Kohl's Kids Who Care ® Scholarship Program recognizes and rewards young volunteers (ages 6-18) whose efforts have made a positive impact on their communities.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Kohl's Kids Who Care Scholarship Program. We are pleased to say that to date we have recognized more than 11,000 kids and awarded more than $2.2 million in scholarships and prizes.

And this year, Kohl's plans to recognize an additional 2,100 kids with prizes ranging from $50 Kohl's Gift Cards to $1,000 or $10,000 scholarships. ... (Read More)

Post-doctoral fellowship opportunity: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Posted: 5/28/2009 10:22 AM
We want to inform you about post-doctoral research fellowship opportunities within the newly-organized Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at the Albert Einstein Cancer Center. Our training program emphasizes innovation in rigorous community-based participatory research methods, with a major emphasis on overcoming health disparities experienced by lower income, minority and disenfranchised populations. The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program brings together faculty across many of the College’s academic and clinical departments with projects underway in six thematic areas: enhanced support for cancer patients, survivors and family members; tobacco cessation, cancer preve ... (Read More)