Funding-Gates
Foundation -- Grant opportunities from the Gates Foundation and its partners;
October 31, 2013
The Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation and its funding partners in the Grand Challenges family
of grant programs are inviting innovators to apply for four new grant
opportunities:
1) Grand Challenges
Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global
health and development solutions, is now accepting grant proposals for its
latest application round. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any
discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities,
government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and
for-profit companies.
Proposals are being
accepted online until November 12, 2013 on the following
topics:
• Innovations in
Feedback & Accountability Systems for Agricultural Development
• Inciting Healthy
Behaviors: nudge, leapfrog, disrupt, reach
• Novel Enabling
Tools and Models Supporting the Development of Interventions for Severe Diarrhea
and Enteric Dysfunction
• Develop the Next
Generation of Condom
• The "One Health"
Concept: Bringing Together Human and Animal Health
Initial grants will
be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to
receive additional funding of up to US $1 million. Full descriptions of the new
topics and application instructions are available at: www.grandchallenges.org/explorations.
2) Achieving Healthy
Growth through Agriculture and Nutrition, the first program launched through the
Grand Challenges India partnership, is now accepting applications. This program
joins others within the Grand Challenges family of grant programs supported by
the Gates Foundation and its partners. It seeks a comprehensive set of
approaches - spanning innovation in nutrition and agriculture and
social innovation - to 1) reduce the high incidence of low birth weight, early
stunting, and wasting in Indian children less than 2 years of age and 2) prevent
undernutrition in women of reproductive age and in
children from 0-2 years of age.
The application
deadline is October 31, 2013. Details on how to apply for a grant can be found
at http://www.grandchallenges.org/GrantOpportunities/Pages/GCIndia_healthygrowth.aspx.
3) The Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation has launched Records for Life:
A Design Contest that can Save Lives. This new grant opportunity seeks
individuals or teams to re-examine the current child health record and design
new ways to accurately track vaccine doses, increase ease of interpretation and
use, and incite behavior change to make the record a valued asset for health
professionals and families alike.
The application
deadline is October 31, 2013. Details on how to apply for a grant can be found
at http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Grant-Opportunities/Records-for-Life-RFP.
4) This October
researchers are invited to attend Advancing Vaccines in the Genomic Era, a
meeting held as part of the Keystone Symposia Global Health Series supported by
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The meeting will be held October 31 -
November 4, 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More information can be found at http://www.keystonesymposia.org/13T1.
We are looking
forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world and from all
disciplines. If you have a great idea, please apply. If you know someone else
who may have a great idea, please forward this message.
Thank you for your
commitment to solving the world's greatest health and development
challenges.
The Grand Challenges
Team
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