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July 21, 2010

In this issue of Health Funding Watch, the Foundation Center's newsletter devoted to health-related topics, you'll read about a call by the two Bills, Gates and Clinton, for more — and more efficient use of — AIDS funding. You'll also find links to other health-related news, resources, funding opportunities for individuals and organizations, and job listings. Health Funding Watch is available exclusively to visitors who register at the Foundation Center's Web site.

Gates, Clinton Call for More Efficient Use of AIDS Funding

Addressing twenty thousand AIDS scientists, health workers, and activists at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna this week, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair Bill Gates and former U.S. President Bill Clinton urged AIDS activists to get the most out of every dollar given to fight HIV/AIDS, saying efficiency savings are vital in delivering HIV/AIDS prevention services and treatment in the countries hardest hit and at highest risk. Gates outlined several key opportunities for AIDS investments to be more cost-effective and have greater impact, including rapid scale up of cost-effective prevention tools, better use of data to make prevention decisions, reductions in the cost of delivering treatment, and greater investments in vaccines and other breakthrough tools.
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Recent Health News from Philanthropy News Digest

Norton Healthcare Foundation Receives $8 Million Gift
The gift from retired physician Elizabeth Pahk Cressman will be used to establish the Cressman Parkinson's Center at the Norton Neuroscience Institute and the Cressman Critical Care Center at Norton Suburban Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky....
Posted: 7/20/10

Questions Raised About Beneficiaries of San Francisco
AIDS Walk
In 2008, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation raised $4.4 million during its annual AIDS walk and awarded $1.7 million in grants, with about $1 million of that supporting efforts in Cambodia, China, Ukraine, and five African countries....
Posted: 7/19/10

Michael J. Fox Foundation Commits $12 Million Through 2011 Pipeline Programs
Comprising the Therapeutics Development Initiative and the three Edmond J. Safra Core Programs for PD Research, the 2011 Pipeline Programs will support research focused on critical points along the translational pathway to new therapies for PD....
Posted: 7/19/10

St. Baldrick's Foundation Awards $12.8 Million to Support Pediatric Oncology Research
St. Baldrick's awarded pediatric oncology and supportive care research grants, career development awards, fellowships, and summer fellowships to research institutions and individual researchers in forty-seven states....
Posted: 7/15/10

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Funding Opportunities

ViiV Healthcare Launches U.S. Southern Initiative to Support Programs Serving HIV/AIDS Patients
Two-year grants of $50,000 will be awarded to nonprofits working to improve HIV/AIDS care for African American and Latino residents of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi....
Deadline: 7/30/10 (Letters of Interest)

SQ Foundation Announces Better Health for Living Request for Proposals
Grants of up to $7,000 will be awarded to nonprofits working to provide prescription medication to group homes, assisted living communities, and federally qualified health centers in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Tennessee....
Deadline: 7/31/10

New York Stem Cell Foundation Launches Innovator Awards Program for Early Career Investigators
Grants of up to $1.5 million over a period of five years will be awarded to early career investigators working in translational stem cell research....
Deadline: 8/27/10

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Invites Applications for Health & Society Scholars Program
Postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers will receive a two-year stipend of $89,000 per year to support research on the connections among biological, genetic, behavioral, environmental, economic, and social determinants of health....
Deadline: 10/01/10

California HealthCare Foundation Invites Applications for Expanding Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Clinic Program
New clinics serving a high volume of diabetic patients will receive funding for retinopathy screening equipment, software, and consultation from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Optometry....
Deadline: 10/01/10

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XVIII International AIDS Conference

The International AIDS Society and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation are making available, via the Kaiser Foundation's Global Health Gateway, a variety of online resources related to the XVIII International AIDS Conference, July 18-23, in Vienna, Austria. The resources include more than fifty webcasts of conference sessions, live webcasts of the conference's opening and closing sessions, daily video recaps of conference developments with Science magazine's Jon Cohen, and an expanded version of Kaiser's Daily Global Health Policy Report.

PKD Foundation

Founded by Joseph H. Bruening and Dr. Jared J. Grantham in 1982, the PKD Foundation funds research to find a treatment and cure for polycystic kidney disease while also advocating for people suffering from the disease, which causes fluid-filled cysts to form on the kidneys, diminishing their ability to filter toxins from the blood. Visitors to the organization's Web site can access information about PKD; find a local PKD chapter; explore the latest science, health, and lifestyle news; and watch videos and webinars on a range of topics related to the disease.

Clinical Research Grants

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced more than $13 million in grants through its Medical Research Program to support the career development of clinical researchers and increase the foundation's commitment to innovative research on sickle cell disease. As of December 31, 2009, the program — which in keeping with the wishes of Doris Duke does not fund research that utilizes animals — had approved more than 365 grants totaling approximately $229 million. Click here for a complete list of grants awarded in 2009.

Job Opportunities

Finance Director
California Center for Public Health Advocacy
Davis, California
Posted: 7/17/10

Grant Writer
S.A.A.V.E.D., Inc.
Fort Worth, Texas
Posted: 7/17/10

Director of Development
Puget Sound Blood Center
Seattle, Washington
Posted: 7/15/10

Program Associate
Community Health Foundation of Western, Central NY
Syracuse, New York
Posted: 7/14/10

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