Funding Opportunities

Avon Hello Tomorrow Fund, various deadlines
The Avon Hello Tomorrow Fund is an initiative of Avon Products, Inc. designed to empower women and improve society by providing individuals with cash awards that will enable them to pursue a project to better the lives of women (of all ages) in the United States.

For more information, visit http://shop.avon.com/HelloTomorrowFund/

Limited Competition: Study of Attitudes and Factors Affecting Infant Care, November 25, 2008
The purpose of this grant is to continue to evaluate trends in infant sleep practices and the dissemination and adoption of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ and the Public Health Service’s "Back to Sleep" recommendations to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and to expand on current studies with a new study that examines in greater depth the factors influencing these trends and the racial disparity in dissemination and adoption.

For more information, view grant announcement.

Child Mental Health Initiative, January 15, 2009
The purpose of this program is to support the development of integrated home and community-based services and supports for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances and their families by encouraging the development and expansion of effective and enduring systems of care.

For more information, view grant announcement.

Women’s Mental Health in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period, deadline May 7, 2009
This grant solicits applications on the topic of women's mental health in relation to pregnancy and the postpartum period. Research is encouraged on perinatal mood and other mental disorders in four areas:

1. clinical course, epidemiology and risk factors
2. basic and clinical neuroscience
3. interventions
4. services.

For more information, view grant announcement.