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Available Grants and Scholarships The NAPNAP Foundation, Inc., private foundations and several government-funded agencies provide funding opportunities that may be of interest to you. Please see the following and note deadline information. For more information click here. Grants and Scholarships offered through the NAPNAP Foundation NAPNAP Foundation Nursing Research Grant
The NAPNAP Foundation awards up to two grants of $2,500.00 annually. Proposals are reviewed by the NAPNAP Foundation Board of Directors, selection of grants is made on a competitive basis, and the decision of the Board is final. For more information click here. Graduate Student Research Grant
The NAPNAP Foundation is pleased to offer a one-year grant of $1,000 to support research by graduate students currently enrolled in a pediatric nurse practitioner program. This grant is intended to encourage graduate students, who are current NAPNAP members, to participate in the research process and to stimulate interest in research regarding children and their families. The deadline for applications is April 1 of each year. For more information click here. McNeil Grant-in-Aid
Through the generosity of grants from the McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division of McNeil-PPC, Inc., NAPNAP Foundation offers up to $5,000 for members and one student to attend the annual conference. For more information, click here. Innovative Health Care Small Grant
Through an annual contribution from NAPNAP, the NAPNAP Foundation is pleased to offer the Innovative Health Care Small Grant, as part of a national effort to improve health care for infants through young adults. Annually, a $4,000 grant will be awarded to a NAPNAP member or chapter. To keep grant activities consistent with the goals of NAPNAP and the NAPNAP Foundation, grant applications should focus on improving health care in any area of pediatric clinical practice such as acute, specialty, chronic or primary care. The postmark deadline for this grant is September 15, 2008. For more information click here. Shourd Parks Immunization Project Small Grant
The NAPNAP Foundation’s Shourd Parks Immunization Project Small Grant is designed to encourage NAPNAP members and/or chapters to develop a project to improve immunization practices. For more information click here. Wyeth Pediatric Immunization Grant
Childhood immunization rates in the United States remain unacceptably low. Infants, children and adolescents from diverse socioeconomic and geographic areas are at risk for illnesses that could be prevented. Two organizations committed to improving the health of children and adolescents are the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Partnering their respective resources, NAPNAP and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals offer three grants, one for $7,500 and two for $2,500,to the local level Pediatric Nurse Practitioner provider to improve immunization rates. The deadline for applications is December 15, 2008. For more information click here. Scholarships Available: Rural & Underserved Scholarship
Through the generous support of McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division of McNeil-PPC, Inc., NAPNAP members can now apply for the McNeil Rural & Underserved Scholarship. This scholarship of up to $10,000 will cover a full academic year for a PNP student who will provide primary care to children and families in rural areas after graduating. The deadline for applications is June 15, 2009. For more information click here. McNeil PNP Scholarship
Through the generosity of grants from the McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division of McNeil-PPC, Inc., NAPNAP will award two annual scholarships of $1,500 to students enrolled in pediatric nurse practitioner programs. The deadline for applications is April 30, 2009. For more information click here. Elaine Gelman Scholarship
Students who are legislatively active are encouraged to apply for this scholarship award of up to $1,000 in honor of Elaine Gelman. It is awarded annually. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2009. For more information click here. Reckitt Benckiser Student Scholarship
Through the generosity of a grant from Reckitt Benckiser Inc., the NAPNAP Foundation will award two grants of $1600 to Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Students to allow for attendance at the NAPNAP Annual Meeting in March 2009. The postmark deadline for applications is November 2, 2008. For more information click here. GRANT RECIPIENTS
2001-02 to 2007-08
| FOUNDATION RESEARCH GRANT | | 2006-07 | Michelle Beauchesne: Improving Emergent Literacy through Group Mentoring ($2,500) | | 2005-06 | Virginia Biddle: Student Assistance program Outcomes of Suicidal Students ($2,000)
Amy Becker Manion: Differences in Quality of Life and Health Outcomes in Obese and Non-Obese Inner City Children with Asthma ($2,000) | | 2004-05 | Judith O’Haver: Professionalism in Pediatric and Family Nurse Practitioner ($2,471)
Tracy Magee: Irritable Infant Syndrome: Using a Bi-Directional, Multi-Sensory Intervention for Families ($2,105) | | 2003-04 | Marcia Gardner: Mothering and Care-Giving in First Time Mothers of Medically Fragile Young Infants ($2,000)
Jill Kilanowski: Health Disparities Among Children of Itinerant Carnival and Migrant Farm Workers ($2,000) | | 2002-03 | Theresa Skybo: Stress and Coping Responses to Proficiency Testing in Fourth Grade Students ($2,500)
Martha Swartz: The Relationship Between Family Functioning and Health Related Quality of Life in Children with Asthma ($2,100) | | 2001-02 | Elizabeth LeCuyer-Maus: Mother-Toddler Interaction: Socialization and Limit-Setting ($1,500)
Leigh Small: Predictors of Child Outcomes After PICU Hospitalization ($1,510) |
| GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT | | 2006-07 | Cathy Woodward: Routine Chest Radiographs Post Chest Tube Removal in Children ($1,000) | | 2003-04 | Sheri Vlam: ADHD Assessment Methods Used by APRNs ($500) | | 2002-03 | Jacqueline Rychnovsky: A Pediatric Perspective of Maternal Fatigue Across the First Ten Weeks Postpartum ($1,000) |
| NEW AVENUES TO HEALTH CARE SMALL GRANT | | 2005-06 | Karen Rance: H.O.P.E. Classes The Heart of Parent Education ($1,500)
Martha Strong: Increase accessibility to quality healthcare to low income children in southern Collin and northern Dallas counties in Texas ($1,500) | | 2004-05 | Jody Church: To provide comprehensive high quality and safe health care services to the medically underserved and low-income population ($1,500)
Kathleen Hahn: Accessing pediatric health care for many low-income Vallejo families ($1,500) | | 2003-04 | Marcia Buckminster: A Nurse Managed Health Clinic for the Uninsured Students in the Framingham Public Schools ($1,500)
Mary Cahill: Identifying the Nurse Practitioner to the Spanish Speaking Client ($1,500) | | 2002-03 | Annamarie Brown: A Collaborative Effort to Improve Accessibility of Health Services in a Community ($1,500) | | 2001-02 | Sherry Dailey: Outreach Medical Clinics: A Way to Service Elementary Children ($1,500)
Marguerite DiMarco: Access to Care for Homeless Children/Families ($1,500) |
| INNOVATIVE HEALTH CARE SMALL GRANT | | 2007-08 | Marguerite DiMarco: Access to Dental Care for Homeless Children ($4,000) |
| WYETH IMMUNIZATION GRANT | | 2007-08 | Victoria Niederhauser: Searching for Hardship and Obstacles to Shots (SHOTS) Instrument Validation: Phase II Vulnerable Families ($7,500)
Karlen Luthy: Proposal to Increase Immunization Rates ($2,500)
Annamarie Brown: A Creative Way to Provide Community Outreach to Access and Eliminate Barriers to Immunizations ($2,500) | | 2006-07 | Tracy Magee: Implementing the TOTS Program at the Infant Welfare Clinic ($7,500)
Annamarie Brown: 2007 Central Valley Immunization Conference Changes, Challenges, Cultures ($2,500)
Laura Swanson: Improving Infant and Toddler Immunization Rates ($2,500) | | 2005-06 | Myra Cleary: Utilization of a Reward System to Increase Immunization Compliance in an Urban Pediatric Clinic in Nevada ($3,125)
Amy Dunlop: Improving Access to Immunizations for International Children Living in a University Campus Community ($3,125)
Mary Ryder-Larkin: Distribution of Haemophilus Influenzae Type b Vaccine (Hib) to Children Age 3 Years and Younger in Rural Haitian Town ($3,125)
Judith Vessey: Promoting Immunizations in Students with Chronic Conditions ($3,125) | | 2004-05 | Annamarie Brown: Happy Birthday Party: A Community Outreach Endeavor ($3,000) | | 2003-04 | Annamarie Brown: Improving Influenza Rates for the Second Dose of the Young Child ($3,000)
Mary Cahill: Increasing Influenza Immunization Among the Latino Community ($3,000)
Marilyn Lieber: Norfolk Children’s Influenza Immunization Project ($3,000)
Jeanne Weiland: Strategies for Influenza Immunizations of Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Ohio ($3,000) | | 2002-03 | Ann Pron: Improving Immunization Status for Children at Temple Health Connection – a Nurse Managed Health Center in North Philadelphia ($3,000)
Eileen O’Holleran: Immunizing Patients Post Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ($3,000)
Annamarie Brown: Meningococcal Vaccine for the College Bound Student ($3,000) | | 2001-02 | Annamarie Brown: Breaking Barriers to Immunization ($3,000)
Joan Stiggelbout: Tracking Children at Risk ($3,000) | SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
2001-02 to 2007-08
| ELAINE GELMAN SCHOLARSHIP - $500 | | 2006-07 | Jean Digges | | 2005-06 | Amanda Coyle |
| McNEIL PNP SCHOLARSHIP - $2,000 | | 2006-07 | Kathleen Carr
Amy Stillwell | | 2005-06 | Mary Doherty
Lanipua Yeh-Hauer | | 2004-05 | Myna Laughlin
Melissa Young | | 2003-04 | Sheri Vlam
Deborah Wesener | | 2002-03 | Kelly Gettig
Wendy Seto | | 2001-02 | Rose Kreikemeier
Nicole Kastner |
| McNEIL RURAL & UNDERSERVED SCHOLARSHIP - $20,000 | | 2006-07 | Amy Dillon
Annie Imboden | | 2005-06 | Sara Lynn Kraft |
Grants and Scholarships offered through other organizations: (posted 12/4/08) The Division of Community Pediatrics Funding Opportunities Announcement for December 2008 is now available. Please view the attached document or to find continuously updated funding opportunities throughout the month, please visit http://www.aap.org/commpeds/funding.html and click on Monthly Funding Announcement. (posted 5/12/08) Researching Implementation and Change while Improving Quality (R18) - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the Agency’s interest in supporting grants to rigorously study the implementation of quality improvement strategies and provide generalizable scientific findings about the implementation of the quality improvement strategy, related organizational changes, and their impact. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supersedes AHRQ Program Announcement which was released on March 9, 2007. For more information please go to: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-136.html Funding Opportunity Announcement:
Reducing Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Other Co-Occurring Risk Behaviors in the Preconception Period
To access the announcement and application package:
Select www.grants.gov
Select 'Apply for Grants'
Select 'Step 1: Download a Grant Application’
Insert the Funding Announcement Number in the format: RFA-DD-08-003
You can also access it by clicking here
The published FOA is also attached. The application deadline date is May 7, 2008 Jonas Center Releases Request For Proposals: Jonas Nursing Scholars Program
(posted 1/29/08) The Program will provide up to $2.5 million dollars in funding over five years. Academic institutions that offer PhD, DNS or EdD nursing degree granting programs located in New York City, the surrounding metropolitan area (including Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties) and those in other states that link with an academic nursing program in the New York City metropolitan area and that offer PhD, DNS or EdD nursing degree granting programs will be considered through a competitive application process. Funding will start July 1, 2008. Funding will support tuition and living stipends in the form of forgivable loans to five doctoral Jonas Scholars and support career development to serve as nursing faculty in the New York City and surrounding metropolitan area. In addition, the Jonas Center aims to engage other funders and grant-makers in the Nursing Scholars Program in order to bring additional capacity to develop nursing faculty. The Jonas Scholars Program intends to attract additional nurses to academe above the number of doctoral student slots currently available at the funded schools and colleges of nursing. For details on the Jonas Nursing Scholars Program, including submission of Letters of Intent to apply, eligibility, proposal review criteria, guidelines, review process and timetable, please read our RFP: Jonas Nursing Scholars Program 2008-2012. Opportunities for Nurses from the American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society, the largest not-for-profit funding source for cancer research and training, is pleased to invite applications from master's and doctoral students for support of graduate study. They are offering scholarships ranging from $10,000 to $15,000. Please note that the doctoral scholarship application annual deadline is October 15. The master's scholarship's annual deadline is February 1. The Society offers several other research and training grants in addition to the ones described above. For a full description of all American Cancer Society grants, including applications, instructions, and policies, please consult their web site at: www.cancer.org/research
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