In this issue of Health Funding Watch, the Foundation Center's newsletter devoted to health-related topics, you'll read about a new study which suggests that a tax on sugar-sweetened drinks would reduce the incidence of diet-related diseases such as diabetes. 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.

Nationwide Tax on Sugary Drinks Would Reduce Cases of Diet-Related Diseases, Study Finds

Recent Health News from Philanthropy News Digest

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation Announces $2.2 Million in 2011 Grants
During 2011, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation awarded grants in four focus areas — healthy children, healthy neighborhoods, community support, and the Healthy Together immigrant health initiative....
Posted: 1/17/12

Boca Raton Regional Hospital Receives $25 Million Grant From Marcus Foundation
The largest single gift in the hospital's history will support the creation of Marcus Neuroscience Institute, a 52,000-square-foot facility equipped with a neuro intensive care and step-down unit and two dedicated operating rooms, each with intraoperative
Posted: 1/16/12

Global Health Organizations Urge U.S. Government to Focus on Frontline Health Workers
A new coalition of global health organizations that includes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Partners In Health, and Save the Children has issued a report calling for strategic investment in frontline health workers in the developing world....
Posted: 1/12/12

Project Concern International Receives $15 Million From Gates Foundation
The grant will support PCI's Project Parivartan ('transformation' in Hindu) in a region of India that is home to one of India's most marginalized populations, the neglected castes of the Mahadalits....
Posted: 1/12/12

Simmons Family Foundation Awards Collaborative Research Grants
Now in its fourth year, the Simmons Family Foundation Collaborative Research Fund aims to promote novel solutions to difficult medical problems through the combined expertise of Texas Medical Center scientists, engineers, and physicians....
Posted: 1/10/12

Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Awards $5.4 Million in Grants Grants were awarded to teams of experienced investigators, junior faculty with a strong commitment to the field, and promising young postdoctoral and clinical fellows conducting innovative research at a dozen leading U.S. medical institutions....
Posted: 1/04/12

Sloan-Kettering Receives $50 Million From Robertson Foundation
The grant will support construction of a 179,000-square-foot outpatient surgical facility, and be used to launch a program designed to recruit early-career scientists and physicians with some expertise in cancer prevention and treatment....
Posted: 12/27/11

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Funding Opportunities

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation Invites Proposals to Implement and Evaluate Patient Safety Checklists in Medicine and Surgery
Up to ten grants of $50,000 will be awarded to Michigan hospitals working to implement, expand, and evaluate the use of checklists to improve patient care....
Deadline: 2/25/12

Grantmakers In Health Announces Deadline for Phase II of Affordable Care Act State Grant Writing Assistance Fund
Matching grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to grantmaking organizations providing grant writing support to state and county government agencies working to implement the Affordable Care Act....
Deadline: 2/29/12

Sohn Conference Foundation and Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Launch Pediatric Cancer Research Fellowship
The program will provide funding to basic scientists and clinicians for research with the potential to significantly impact the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of one or more pediatric cancers....
Deadline: 3/15/12

AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation's Connections for Cardiovascular Health Accepting Grant Applications
Grants of $150,000 and up will be awarded to U.S.-based nonprofits and similar organizations working to improve cardiovascular health at the community level....
Deadline: 3/15/12

Prostate Cancer Foundation Invites Highly Experienced Investigators Worldwide to Apply for Special Challenge Award Research Program
The program will provide two-year awards totaling $1 million per team for large-scale projects designed to solve significant problems in prostate cancer research....
Deadline: 3/16/12

Taubman Medical Research Institute Establishes New International Translational Science Prize
The new $100,000 annual prize will be awarded to a medical scientist from anywhere in the world working to transform laboratory discoveries into clinical applications for patients suffering from disease....
Deadline: 4/01/12

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GrantSpace

Have you visited GrantSpace, the Foundation Center's new learning community for the social sector? The Health area of GrantSpace offers free access to education-themed videos and podcasts, sample grant proposals, the latest education-related reports from PubHub, funding facts and figures, an FAQ, a Twitter feed featuring the tweets of health funders, and more. Stop by and join the conversation!

Switchboard

Switchboard was launched in 2011 as a spin-off of Africa Aid, a San Francisco-based organization that works to develop solutions to global poverty. Leveraging its experience in design, technology, and social enterprise, the organization works to develop mobile tools that make it easier for health practitioners in Africa to collaborate and share life-saving information. The organization's current programs include MDNET, which enables doctors in Ghana and Liberia to call and text each other for free, access a directory of other doctors, and receive critical alerts from government agencies via the Ensemble Bulk SMS system. The organization recently received a grant from Google.org to expand to Tanzania, which has one of the lowest health worker-to-patient ratios in the world. Learn more.

Back to the Future

The X Prize and Qualcomm foundations have announced the launch of a $10 million competition designed to revolutionize health care. Inspired by the medical Tricorder device made famous on Star Trek, the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize aims to leverage technological innovation in areas such as artificial intelligence and wireless sensing to drive development of devices that give consumers access, in the palm of their hand, to the state of their health. The $10 million top prize in the competition will be awarded to the team that develops a mobile platform that most accurately diagnoses a set of fifteen diseases across thirty consumers in three days. Learn more.

Job Opportunities

Executive Director
HealthRight International
New York, New York
Posted: 1/17/12

Director of Development
Pulmonary Hypertension Association
Silver Spring, Maryland
Posted: 1/13/12

Director of Operations
Center for Comprehensive Care
New York, New York
Posted: 1/12/12

Director of Development
St. Rose Hospital
Hayward, California
Posted: 1/12/12

Program Manager
American Cancer Society
Atlanta, Georgia
Posted: 1/10/12

Executive Director
Montgomery County Health Information Exchange
Houston, Texas
Posted: 1/10/12

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